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Bad Woodcutter is still bad, but not invincible. CactusPete is in Eastern European networks. Exploiting COVID-19. Celebrity endorsements (not).

Published: Aug. 14, 2020, 7:21 p.m.

An update on Fancy Bear and its Drovorub rootkit. Karma Panda, a.k.a. CactusPete, is scouting Eastern European financial and military targets with the latest version of a venerable backdoor. How criminals and terrorists exploit COVID-19, and how law enforcement tracks them down. Caleb Barlow from Cynergistek covers security assessments and HIPAA data. Our guest is Ryan Olson from Palo Alto Networks on the 10th Anniversary of Stuxnet. And those celebrity endorsed investment scams aren\u2019t actually endorsed by celebrities, and they\u2019re not actually good investments.\n For links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news brief:\n https://www.thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/9/158\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices