Cyberespionage and influence operations. Big botnet assembled in less than a day. Monetizing stolen paycards through online games. Amazon nudges developers. Report on Huawei. Phishing notes.

In today's podcast we hear that the US Intelligence Community remains convinced the Bears are up to no good. Finland experienced elevated rates of cyberattack during the Helsinki summit, mostly Chinese espionage. The hacker "Anarchy" assembled an 18,000-member botnet in less than a day, using known vulnerabilities. Crooks monetize stolen credit cards through online games. Amazon works to induce better AWS configurations. Annual UK report on Huawei is out. Phishing campaign notes. Zulfikar Ranzan from RSA on cyber risk quantification. Guest is Mark Peters II, author of the book Cashing in on Cyber Power. For links to all of today's stories, check out our CyberWire daily news brief. https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2018/July/CyberWire_2018_07_20.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices