Taliban seizes HIIDE devices. T-Mobile customer data compromised. Ransomware attack against Brazils Treasury. Social engineering espionage. Ransomware vs. sewers. IoT bug disclosed.

Published: Aug. 18, 2021, 7:45 p.m.

b"The Taliban now has, among other things, a lot of biometric devices. T-Mobile concludes that some customer data were compromised in last week\\u2019s incident. InkySquid\\u2019s in the watering hole. Brazil\\u2019s Treasury sustained, and says it contained, a ransomware attack. Siamese Kitten\\u2019s social engineering on behalf of Tehran. Sewage systems hacked in rural Maine. Josh Ray from Accenture Security on what nation state adversaries may have learned from observing the events surrounding Colonial pipeline. Our guest Manish Gupta from ShiftLeft looks at issues with the Software Bill of Materials. And an IoT vulnerability is disclosed, and mitigations are recommended.\\nFor links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing:\\nhttps://www.thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/10/159"