Newsletter Controversial Maricopa "Audit" Concludes that Biden Won by More Votes Than Previously Reported What is believed to be a draft report of the controversial "audit" indicates that President Biden actually gained nearly 100 more votes in the recount than previously counted, and Trump lost 261.
Newsletter Former NSA Hacker Describes Being Recruited for UAE Spy Program David Evenden was hired in 2014 to work in Abu Dhabi on a defensive cybersecurity project, only to discover it was actually an offensive spy operation for a United Arab Emirates intelligence service.
Newsletter Hacking Team Customer in Turkey Was Arrested for Spying on Police Colleagues [or: The Spy Story That Spun a Tangled Web] An investigation that weaves a winding tale between police in Ankara who were charged with spying on their own colleagues... and the purchase of Hacking Team's surveillance software.
Newsletter Hackers Leak Surveillance Camera Videos Purportedly Taken From Inside Iran's Evin Prison The reported breach comes weeks after computer systems belonging to Iran's railway system were also hacked. The railway incident has been attributed to Iranian hacktivists.
Newsletter Pegasus Spyware: How It Works and What It Collects An NSO document leaked to the internet reveals how the Pegasus spyware - sold to intelligence and law enforcement agencies around the world - can be used to spy on targeted mobile phones.
Newsletter The NSO “Surveillance List”: What It Is and Isn’t A series of blockbuster stories published this week around a leaked list of 50,000 phone numbers have created confusion about whether the owners of those numbers were targets of surveillance or not.
Newsletter Justice Department Sought Reporter Records from Security Firm Proofpoint, in Bid to Unmask Leak Sources Documents unsealed by a court this week reveal that the Justice Department didn't just go after email providers to obtain reporter records, but also went after the security firm Proofpoint
Newsletter Voting’s Hash Problem: When the System for Verifying the Integrity of Voting Software Lacks Integrity Itself Problems uncovered in the hash-verification process for voting machines made by Election Systems and Software highlight issues with the trustworthiness of voting software and voting machine vendors
Newsletter Negotiating Ransoms: When to Play and When to Fold An interview with the CEO of Coveware, which negotiates payments on behalf of ransomware victims.
Newsletter Checking in It’s been two months this week since I launched this experiment called Zero Day. Now that I’ve had time to see what’s doable on this platform and what’s doable as a writing pace, I wanted to check in with readers to get some feedback. When I
Newsletter Darkside Retreats to the Dark After announcing that its criminal infrastructure has been taken down due to U.S. law enforcement pressure, the Darkside ransomware gang says it's retreating. But is it?
Newsletter Anatomy of a $2 Million Darkside Ransomware Breach Days before the Darkside ransomware creators formally launched their business with a press release last August, a U.S. victim was already preparing to pay them a $2 million ransom.
Newsletter What Happens in Maricopa Won’t Stay in Maricopa How a little-known cybersecurity consulting company is controlling one of the most significant events related to the 2020 presidential election and plans to spread its tactics to other states.
Newsletter US Gov Issues Emergency Order While Colonial Pipeline Is Down The move lets fuel that's backed up in Texas and elsewhere be more quickly transported by trucks while pipeline remains offline. Colonial has not said when its pipelines will be back online.
Newsletter Ransomware Infection on Colonial Pipeline Shows Potential for Worse Gas Disruption Colonial Pipeline says ransomware only infected its business network, not the operations network that controls gas flow. But experts say it had potential to spread to control network and suppliers
Newsletter Recording now Available: Live Chat with Alex Stamos/Chris Krebs on Sidechannel, Friday April 30, 11am PST/2pm EST //// If you missed the live chat today with Alex Stamos and Chris Krebs, I’ve uploaded a recording of it here: //// Hi Everyone, This is just an FYI to let you know that this Friday (April 30) at 11am PST/2pm EST, I’ll be interviewing Alex Stamos and Chris
Newsletter Research Uncovers New Command Servers Used in SolarWinds Campaign Researchers at RiskIQ have discovered 18 additional command servers used in the hacking campaign, which may help identify more victims. They also spotted mysterious server activity in February 2020.
Newsletter Sanctioned Firm Accused of Helping Russian Intelligence Was Part of Microsoft’s Early Vuln Access Program — MAPP A little-seen report issued last month by the Atlantic Council described in detail what a source confirms was the company’s alleged activities on behalf of the Russian government.
Newsletter Introducing Sidechannel, for Zero Day Subscribers Launching a new Discord channel with seven other writers for Zero Day subscribers and others who want to discuss important topics and stories, or just spill the tea
Newsletter Sabotage at Iranian Nuclear Plant Was Likely Meant to Permanently Damage Centrifuges Experts say an electrical blackout on Sunday at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant in Iran wasn't just about halting the centrifuges, but likely was aimed specifically at damaging them.
Newsletter AP Says It Experienced Unprecedented Cyber "Attacks" During 2020 Election These included 10,000 daily phishing attempts and an average of 1.8 million web-based “attacks” per month.
Newsletter Mind the Gap: How the NSA might use SolarWinds campaign to do warrantless spying Officials have said the SolarWinds hacking campaign succeeded in part because of a gap in NSA surveillance power. But what exactly is the gap and how might the gov use it to gain domestic spy power?
Newsletter Delay due to Emergency I wanted to thank all of you who subscribed to the Zero Day newsletter. The response to the launch last Friday has been so positive and unexpected, and I’m looking forward to digging into some great stories for you here. I had planned to publish my second article today,
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