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APT41 is back from its Lunar New Year break. Commodity attack tools for states and gangs. Russia takes down a domestic carding crew. Restricting misinformation.

APT41 is back, and throwing its weight around in about twenty verticals. States and gangs swap commodity malware. The FSB--yes, that FSB--takes down a major Russian carding gang. Coronavirus-themed attacks are likely to outlast the pandemic. Facebook Messenger considers limiting mass message forwarding as a way of slowing the spread of COVID-19 misinformation. Joe Carrigan from JHU ISI on stimulus check scams, guest is Rachael Stockton from LogMeIn (LastPass) on the future of business network access security. For links to all of today's stories check our our CyberWire daily news brief: https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2020/March/CyberWire_2020_03_25.html Support our show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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25 Mar 2020

APT41 is back, and throwing its weight around in about twenty verticals. States and gangs swap commodity malware. The FSB--yes, that FSB--takes down a major Russian carding gang. Coronavirus-themed attacks are likely to outlast the pandemic. Facebook Messenger considers limiting mass message forwarding as a way of slowing the spread of COVID-19 misinformation. Joe Carrigan from JHU ISI on stimulus check scams, guest is Rachael Stockton from LogMeIn (LastPass) on the future of business network access security.

For links to all of today's stories check our our CyberWire daily news brief:

https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2020/March/CyberWire_2020_03_25.html

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