DragonFly 2.0 in power grids. Cyberespionage in the South China Sea. Russian Facebook ads. "Fake News" survey.

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. Thanks for listening to the CyberWire. One of the ways you can support what we do is by visiting our sponsors. To learn about combining threat intelligence, analytics, and orchestration, check out ThreatConnect’s webinar. If you’d like to learn more about how small nuances in how artificial intelligence and machine learning are used can make a big difference, check out E8’s white paper. JHUISI & partner COMPASS Cyber present Cyber Security Conference for Executives on September 19th in Baltimore. Register for the event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices