The FBI’s hi-tech sting, the day the internet broke

The FBI’s hi-tech sting, the day the internet...

Financial TimesFinancial Times

Up next

Can a Mexican cartel stronghold host the World Cup?

SpaceX will go public next week with the largest retail allocation ever attempted in a megacap IPO, and India’s viral Cockroach Janta Party is challenging Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Plus, the FT’s Ciara Nugent explains the safety concerns swirling around World Cup host city Gu ...  Show more

 . 12min 16sec
Why foreign investors love Boston

Saudi Arabia’s wealth fund is swapping foreign CEOs for local ones and Reed Hastings officially steps down from the board of Netflix. Plus, FT-Nikkei names Boston as the best US city for foreign investment. Mentioned in this podcast:​​Saudi wealth fund replaces foreign CEOs with ...  Show more

 . 10min 59sec

Recommended Episodes

Dangers of data collected in Afghanistan. Another cryptocurrency theft. Hardware backdoors? LockBit dumps airline’s data. CISA opens registration for the President’s Cup. Too much gaming, kids.
CyberWire Daily

Possible consequences of the Taliban’s seizure of Afghanistan’s APPS data. Another DeFi platform sustains a cryptocurrency theft. How would one handle a hardware backdoor? LockBit begins dumping data stolen from Bangkok Airways. Registration for CISA’s President’s Cup is now open ...  Show more

 . 24min 43sec
New Zealand stock exchange sustains DDoS attacks. Flash alert on GoldenSpy. Cyber mercenaries and industrial espionage. Lèse-majesté online. Offering $1 million to a potential co-conspirator?
CyberWire Daily

New Zealand’s stock exchange has sustained two distributed denial-of-service attacks this week. CISA and FBI issue an alert about GoldenSpy. Two cyber mercenary groups are engaged in industrial espionage for hire. Thailand decides to crack down on sites that host content the gove ...  Show more

 . 22min 57sec
How the FBI Ran Its Own Texting App to Catch Criminals
CYBER

It’s basically the FBI’s greatest fantasy come to life: Owning an operating an encrypted communications company exclusively used by some of the world’s most hardened and organized criminals.“Anom” the subscription based network operated by the feds, was used as the ultimate spy t ...  Show more

 . 28min 52sec
The Cl0p gang moves its way into US government systems. It’ll take multiple showers to rinse out Shampoo malware. Hybrid war update. Arrests and indictments.
CyberWire Daily

The US Government discloses exploitations of MOVEit vulnerabilities, and the Department of Energy is targeted by the Cl0p gang. CISA releases an updated advisory for Telerik vulnerabilities affecting Government servers. Shampoo malware emerges with multiple persistence mechanisms ...  Show more

 . 31min 25sec