Disinformation and cyberattacks in Russias hybrid war against Ukraine. DDoS attack hits Israeli telcos. Captured tools are old news. Recent trends in cybercrime.

Published: March 15, 2022, 8:15 p.m.

b"Biowar disinformation. A new wiper is discovered in Ukrainian systems. Cyber criminals look for letters of marque from both sides (and some of them are looking like hacktivists). Ukrainian cybersecurity firms and intelligence services mobilize against Russia. Ben Yelin evaluates cyber engagements in the crisis. A protester crashes a Russian news broadcast. DDoS attack takes down Israeli sites. China claims to have \\u201ccaptured\\u201d NSA hacking tools. Our guest is Ben Brook CEO of Transcend with a look at data privacy. Recent trends in cybercrime.\\n\\nFor links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing:\\nhttps://thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/11/50\\n\\nSelected reading.\\nResearchers find new destructive wiper malware in Ukraine (The Verge)\\xa0\\nCloud Native Technologies Used in Russia-Ukraine Cyber Attacks (Aqua Security)\\xa0\\nFinancially motivated threat actors willing to go after Russian targets (Help Net Security)\\xa0\\nKyiv\\u2019s hackers seize their wartime moment (POLITICO)\\xa0\\nGlobal Incident Report: Threat Actors Divide Along Ideological Lines over the Russia-Ukraine Conflict on Underground Forums (Accenture)\\nPolitical fallout in cybercrime circles upping the threat to Western targets (CyberScoop)\\nA protester storms a live broadcast on Russia\\u2019s most-watched news show, yelling, \\u2018Stop the war!\\u2019 (New York Times)\\nDenial-of-service attack knocked Israeli government sites offline (CyberScoop)\\xa0\\nChina claims it captured NSA spy tool that already leaked (Register)\\xa0\\nRansomware Variants Q4 2021 (Intel471.com)\\xa0\\nCequence Security Releases Report Revealing Top 3 Attack Trends in API Security (Cequence)"