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In today's podcast, we hear that\xa0no one but\xa0Bloomberg seems to retain much faith in Bloomberg's story about Chinese supply-chain seeding attacks. Twitter blocks bots retailing coordinated Saudi talking points about the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Latvia says it blocked attempts to interfere with its October elections. SEO poisoning exploits interest in key words associated with US midterms.\xa0OceanLotus\xa0shows some new trick. A Connecticut town pays ransom. Ransomware hoods take pity on a grieving father.\xa0We speak with our Johannes Ullrich from the SANS Institute who discusses DNSSEC root key rollover and Mike Horning from Virginia\xa0Tech, shares the results of a study on the implications of regulating social media. For links to all of today's stories, visit\xa0https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2018/October/CyberWire_2018_10_19.html\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices