Podcasts News Tech News CyberWire Daily DDoS attack on ProtonMail. Rancor cyberespionage campaign. PythonBot serves ads and a cryptominer. EU joint cyber response unit forming. Arrests in BEC campaign. Reality Winner's plea.

DDoS attack on ProtonMail. Rancor cyberespionage campaign. PythonBot serves ads and a cryptominer. EU joint cyber response unit forming. Arrests in BEC campaign. Reality Winner's plea.

Published: June 27, 2018, 8:02 p.m.

In today's podcast, we hear that\xa0ProtonMail\xa0was\xa0hit\xa0this morning\xa0by\xa0an\xa0Apophis Squad DDoS\xa0attack. Rancor cyberespionage campaign observed in Southeast Asia.\xa0PythonBot\xa0serves up adware and\xa0cryptojacking.\xa0WannaCry-themed protection racket is all bark and no bite. EU organizing a joint cyber incident response force. FBI and international partners make arrests in an Africa-based business email compromise racket. Reality Winner's guilty plea.\xa0Emily Wilson from Terbium labs with a story of a six-year-old dealing with identity theft. Guest is Paul Aubin from Varonis on the protection of federal systems.\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices