Has LockBit 3.0 been reverse engineered? A COVID lure contains a Punisher hook. A Chinese cyberespionage campaign uses compromised USB drives. Lilac Wolverine exploits personal connections for BEC. Killnet claims to have counted coup against the White House. Tim Starks from the Washington Post has the FCC’s Huawei restrictions and ponders what congress might get done before the year end. Our guest is Tom Eston from Bishop Fox with a look Inside the Minds & Methods of Modern Adversaries. And, of course, scams, hacks, and other badness surrounding the World Cup. For links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing: https://thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/11/228 Selected reading. LockBit 3.0 ‘Black’ attacks and leaks reveal wormable capabilities and tooling (Sophos News) Punisher Ransomware Spreading Through Fake COVID Site (Cyble) Always Another Secret: Lifting the Haze on China-nexus Espionage in Southeast Asia (Mandiant) BEC Group Compromises Personal Accounts and Pulls Heartstrings to Launch Mass Gift Card Attacks (Abnormal Security) Killnet Claims Attacks Against Starlink, Whitehouse.gov, and United Kingdom Websites (Trustwave) Scammers on the pitch: Group-IB identifies online threats to fans at FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar (Group-IB) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Has LockBit 3.0 been reverse engineered? A COVID lure contains a Punisher hook. A Chinese cyberespionage campaign uses compromised USB drives. Lilac Wolverine exploits personal connections for BEC. Killnet claims to have counted coup against the White House. Tim Starks from the Washington Post has the FCC’s Huawei restrictions and ponders what congress might get done before the year end. Our guest is Tom Eston from Bishop Fox with a look Inside the Minds & Methods of Modern Adversaries. And, of course, scams, hacks, and other badness surrounding the World Cup. For links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing: https://thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/11/228 Selected reading. LockBit 3.0 ‘Black’ attacks and leaks reveal wormable capabilities and tooling (Sophos News) Punisher Ransomware Spreading Through Fake COVID Site (Cyble) Always Another Secret: Lifting the Haze on China-nexus Espionage in Southeast Asia (Mandiant) BEC Group Compromises Personal Accounts and Pulls Heartstrings to Launch Mass Gift Card Attacks (Abnormal Security) Killnet Claims Attacks Against Starlink, Whitehouse.gov, and United Kingdom Websites (Trustwave) Scammers on the pitch: Group-IB identifies online threats to fans at FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar (Group-IB) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices