DragonFly 2.0 is up to some very bad things in several nations' power grids. China ramps up cyberespionage against South China Sea rivals. Facebook finds that a Russian front company bought more than $100,000 in influence-ops ads on its service over the last two years. US info ops stumble over a dog. Jonathan Katz on encryption bit depth. Kyle Wilhoit from Domain Tools with the results of a Black Hat survey on "fake news." And a Japanese 13-year-old is in hot water for trying to sell malware.
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