Moscow HUMINT drought? Spying on the Patriarch. Ottoman hacktivism. Iranian information operations. ISIS in cyberspace. RtPOS malware discovered.

In today's podcast, we discuss reports that suggest US HUMINT collection in Russia has dried up. Russian intelligence services are showing an interest in disrupting a grant of autonomy to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church by the Ecumenical Patriarch. Turkish hacktivism shows up in the US, as journalists' social media accounts are hijacked. A look at Iranian information operations. ISIS limps back into cyberspace. A new point-of-sale malware family is discovered. David Dufour from Webroot on the role of engineers in securing an organization. For links to all of today's stories check our our CyberWire daily news brief: https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2018/August/CyberWire_2018_08_27.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices