Ransomware deletes dupes. Exodus scandal grows in Italy. Election reports from Ukraine and Israel.

In today’s podcast, we hear that a ransomware strain deletes duplicates. But you know that just keeping a duplicate on the same drive wasn’t a secure backup, right? Right? Exodus spyware, now ejected from Google Play, is becoming a significant scandal in Italy. Influence operations meet campaigning in India and Israel--fair or unfair seems to be in the eye of the campaigner. In Ukraine, they’re just so much disinformation. OpIsrael hacktivists are expected back this weekend. More on below-the-belt selfies. Prof. Awais Rashid from University of Bristol on training people to work with cyber security complexity at scale. Guest is Hank Thomas from Strategic Cyber Ventures on the current environment for VC funding in cyber security. For links to all of today's stories check our our CyberWire daily news brief: https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2019/April/CyberWire_2019_04_02.html Support our show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices