BioWatch info potentially exposed. Scammers indicted. Ukrainian cryptojacking exposed sensitive data. Social engineering notes. Boo birds and lawsuits. Data use and privacy. Low-earth orbit hack.

BioWatch info exposed. Patched vulnerabilities are weaponized in the wild. Romance and other scam indictments name eighty defendants. Cryptomining and data exposure. Social engineering with a sheen of multi-factor authentication. Suing the boo birds and the people who let them in. The road to unhappiness is paved with mutually exclusive good intentions. And alleged identity theft from low-earth orbit. Craig Williams from Cisco Talos discussing Heaven’s Gate RAT. Guest is Mike Weber from Coalfire on their recently published Penetration Risk Report. For links to all of today's stories check our our CyberWire daily news brief: https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2019/August/CyberWire_2019_08_26.html Support our show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices