Andromeda takedown (with an arrest in Belarus). Mirai is back; Reaper still threatens. PayPal phishing. Tech support scam evolves. Cryptowars notes. SEC goes after an ICO.

Published: Dec. 5, 2017, 8:59 p.m.

b"In today's podcast, we hear how an international police operation\\xa0took\\xa0down Andromeda, and possibly the criminal mastermind known as Ar3s. Mirai is back, and so are warnings about Reaper. There's a\\xa0PayPal phishing expedition in progress (don't let yourself be a wild-caught sucker). A new variant of the familiar tech support scam features a bogus blue screen of death. Germany's Interior Minister considers backdooring the IoT. The US Securities and Exchange Commission is going after dodgy ICOs.\\xa0Justin Harvey from Accenture on cyber ranges.\\xa0Adam Meyers from\\xa0CrowdStrike\\xa0on supply chain\\xa0attacks.\\xa0And\\xa0we're not going to talk about the Internet of Those Kinds of Things. (Don't act so innocent\\u2014you know who you are.)"