The CyberWire

Ill-received pranks. SFO breach. Silicon Valley cooperates on contact tracking. COVID-19 disinformation and scams. Notes on ransomware and booter services.

Alexa, are you actually self-aware? (And, does it matter?)

Profiling an audacious Nigerian cybercriminal.

That odd and bogus 5G meme. Malvertising. Data breach hits Pakistani mobile users. xHelper update. Data privacy and data utility. COVID-19 and cybersecurity.

Operation Pinball. Implausibly spoofed, not really official, COVID-19 emails. CISA updates US Federal telework guidance. ICO defers some big GDPR fines. Zoom agonistes. Fleeceware in Apple’s store.

Joint UK-US warning on COVID-19-themed cyber threats. Disinformation in the subcontinent. Public and private apps with privacy issues. A new IoT botnet. APT notes. Frontiers in biometrics.

Trends in COVID-19-themed cybercrime. Social media seek to inhibit the misinformation pandemic. Corp[dot] off the market. BEC in cloud services. Investment notes. Big big fraud.

COVID-19 updates: crime, propaganda, and craziness. (Also telework.) BGP hijacking. DarkHotel sighting. Apps behaving badly. And a risk of sim-swapping.

Your Security Stack is Moving: SASE is Coming.

A rough year ahead for ransomware attacks - and how to stop them.

Cybersecurity notes during the pandemic emergency. Twitter bots. Ransomware attack on a biotech firm. WHO updates. And how are the cyber gangs doing these days?

WHO email accounts prospected. Mandrake versus Android users. Vollgar versus MS-SQL servers. Ransomware and hospitals. Notes on the effects of COVID-19, and a disinformation campaign.

More data breaches. DPRK spearphishing. DoJ IG sees problems in FISA warrant processes. Houseparty updates. Huawei sanctions. And notes about the pandemic.

Supply chain attack warning. CFAA clarified. COVID-19 and its economic squalls.

Updates on the cyber ramifications of the coronavirus pandemic. Saudi surveillance program. Ransomware developments. Lost USB attacks are in progress.