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RATs and the long game. New ransomware, Learning from other espionage services. Advance-fee scams continue to infest Twitter. Fancy Bear says it cant be sued.

Published: Nov. 15, 2018, 9:32 p.m.

In today\u2019s podcast, we hear that tRAT indicates a criminal shift to a longer game. Chinese industrial espionage copies Russian services\u2019 tricks. Dharma ransomware evolves. Bitcoin\u2019s price may be tanking, but Bitcoin-based advance-fee scams are still all over Twitter, with bogus big brands\u2019 blue checks all over them. Nigeria plans to go after cyber gangs. Fancy Bear says it can\u2019t be sued, even if it did anything. And why a password manager is better than an infernal machine.\xa0Jonathan Katz from UMD describing a side channel attack on mobile device encryption. Guest is Mike McKee from\xa0ObserveIT\xa0on nation state attacks.\n For links to all of today's stories check our our CyberWire daily news brief: https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2018/November/CyberWire_2018_11_15.html\n Support our show\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices