When spyware backfires.

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🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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A jury orders NSO Group to pay $167 millions dollars to Meta over spyware allegations. CISA warns of hacktivists targeting U.S. ICS and SCADA systems. Researcher Micah Lee documents serious privacy risks in the TM SGNL app used by high level Trump officials. The NSA plans significant workforce cuts. Nations look for alternatives to U.S. cloud providers. A medical device provider discloses a cyberattack disrupting its ability to ship customer orders. The Panda Shop smishing kit impersonates trusted brands. Accenture’s CFO thwarts a deepfake attempt. Our temporary intern Kevin Magee from Microsoft wraps up his reporting from the RSAC show floor. Server room shenanigans, with romance, retaliation, and root access. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our daily intelligence roundup, Daily Briefing, and you’ll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow CyberWire Daily on LinkedIn. CyberWire Guest Wrapping up RSAC 2025, we’re joined by our partner Kevin Magee, Global Director of Cybersecurity Startups at Microsoft for Startups. Kevin brings the energy with a high-octane medley of interviews directly from the show floor, featuring sharp insights and bold ideas from some of cybersecurity’s most influential voices. It’s the perfect, fast-paced finale to our RSAC coverage—check out the show notes for links to all the guests featured! In this segment, you’ll hear from Eoin Wickens, Director of Threat Intelligence of HiddenLayer, Jordan Shaw-Young, Chief of Staff for Security Services at BlueVoyant, Gil Barak, co-founder and CEO of Blink Ops, and Paul St Vil, VP of Field Engineering at Zenity. You can also catch Kevin on our Microsoft for Startups⁠ Spotlight, brought to you by N2K CyberWire and Microsoft, where we shine a light on innovation, ambition, and the tech trailblazers building the future right from the startup trenches. Kevin and Dave talk with startup veteran and Cygenta co-founder FC about making the leap from hacker to entrepreneur, then speak with three Microsoft for Startups members: Matthew Chiodi⁠ of ⁠Cerby⁠, ⁠Travis Howerton⁠ of ⁠RegScale⁠, and ⁠Karl Mattson⁠ of ⁠Endor Labs⁠. Whether you are building your own startup or just love a good innovation story, listen and learn more here. Selected Reading Spyware-maker NSO ordered to pay $167 million for hacking WhatsApp (The Washington Post) CISA Warns of Hackers Attacking ICS/SCADA Systems in Oil and Natural Gas Companies (Cyber Security News) Despite misleading marketing, Israeli company TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs (Micha Flee) NSA to cut up to 2,000 civilian roles as part of intel community downsizing' (The Record) NIST loses key cyber experts in standards and research (Cybersecurity Dive) A coherent European/non-US cloud strategy: building railroads for the cloud economy (Bert Hubert) Medical device giant Masimo says cyberattack is limiting ability to fill customer orders (The Record) New Chinese Smishing Kit Dubbed 'Panda Shop' Steal Google, Apple Pay & Credit Card Details (Cyber Security News) Accenture: What we learned when our CEO got deepfaked (Computing) IT Worker from Computacenter Let Girlfriend Into Deutsche Bank’s Restricted Areas (GB Hackers) Share your feedback. We want to ensure that you are getting the most out of the podcast. Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us by completing our brief listener survey as we continually work to improve the show. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here’s our media kit. Contact us at [email protected] to request more info. The CyberWire is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:09.0	A jury orders NSO group to pay $167 million to meta over spyware allegations.
1:16.5	CISA warns of hacktivist targeting U.S. ICS. and SCADA systems.
1:20.6	Researcher Mika Lee documents serious privacy risks in the TM Signal app used by high-level Trump officials.
1:27.1	The NSA plans significant workforce
1:29.1	cuts. Nations look for alternatives to U.S. cloud providers. A medical device provider discloses
1:35.1	a cyber attack disrupting its ability to ship customer orders. The Panda Shop's mission kit
1:40.6	impersonates trusted brands. Accenture CFO thwarts a deep fake attempt.
1:46.0	Our temporary intern, Kevin McGee
1:47.9	from Microsoft, wraps up his reporting
1:50.2	from the RSAC show floor
1:52.1	and server room
1:53.9	shenanigans with romance,
	...

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