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Thank you. Hello everyone and welcome to the CyberWires Research Saturday.

I'm Dave Bittner, and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts

tracking down the threats and vulnerabilities, solving some of the hard problems

and protecting ourselves in a rapidly evolving cyberspace.

Thanks for joining us.

So we're continually researching on the internet and some of the agents that we have deployed

out in the field.

We're detecting all sorts of anomalies and vulnerabilities out there.

And so this is how we sort of look at weird things that are happening on endpoints and

say, hey, that's a bit unusual.

And then when we dig deeper, we tend to find out what's really going on.

And then sometimes we discover entirely new systems like this example here.

That's Dr. Darren Williams, founder and CEO of Black Fog.

The research we're discussing today is titled Steel Light Rat enables double extortion attacks from a single panel.

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