Chinese AI startup DeepSeek shakes up the market. Trump freezes cyber diplomacy funding and puts a vital U.S.-EU data-sharing agreement at risk. A trojanized RAT targets script kiddies. U.K. telecom giant TalkTalk investigates a data breach. Researchers uncover a critical flaw in Meta’s Llama Stack AI framework. Attackers leverage hidden text salting in emails. The “FlowerStorm” phishing framework targets multiple brands to steal customer credentials. A critical zero-day hits SonicWall VPN appliances. Swedish authorities seized a cargo ship suspected of damaging a key fiber optic cable. Freezing out crypto-kidnappers. Our guest is Jon Miller, CEO and Co-founder from Halcyon, sharing trends in ransomware and insights on Brain Cipher. The British Museum defends its artefacts from IT attacks.

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CyberWire Guest

Our guest today is Jon Miller, CEO and Co-founder from Halcyon, sharing trends in ransomware along with some insights on Brain Cipher. For more detail, check out Halcyon’s Power Rankings: Ransomware Malicious Quartile Q4-2024. 

Selected Reading

A shocking Chinese AI advancement called DeepSeek is sending US stocks plunging (CNN Business)

Politicization of intel oversight board could threaten key US-EU data transfer agreement (The Record)

Cyber diplomacy funding halted as US issues broad freeze on foreign aid (The Record)

Weaponised XWorm RAT builder Attacking script kiddies to Steal Sensitive Data (GB Hackers)

Change Healthcare Breach Almost Doubles in Size to 190 Million Victims (Infosecurity Magazine)

TalkTalk investigating data breach after hacker claims theft of customer data (TechCrunch)

Meta rushes to fix critical Llama Stack AI flaw (Cybernews)

Seasoning email threats with hidden text salting (Cisco Talos)

New Phishing Framework Attacking Multiple Brands To Steal Customer Logins (Cyber Security News)

More than 2,000 SonicWall devices vulnerable to critical zero-day (The Record)

Sweden seizes vessel after another undersea cable damaged (The Register)

Nicolas Bacca: "We have invented a unique organisational model for intervening in cryptocurrency ransom" (The Big Whale) 

British Museum hit by alleged IT attack by ex-worker (BBC News)

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