{"podcast":{"title":"CyberWire Daily","slug":"cyberwire-daily-454880","podcast_index_feed_id":454880,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/cyberwire-daily-podcast","website_url":"https://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/daily-podcast","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/58ab7ae0-def8-11ea-b34c-b35b208b0539/image/8676ed612d7a335a98a9173d70cb11be.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"N2K Networks, Inc.","episode_count":3765,"summary":"The daily cybersecurity news and analysis industry leaders depend on. Published each weekday, the program also includes interviews with a wide spectrum of experts from industry, academia, and research organizations all over the world.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-23T20:18:19.501651+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cyberwire-daily-454880"},"episode":{"title":"Cold lures, hot targets. [Research Saturday]","slug":"cold-lures-hot-targets-research-saturday","published_at":"2026-07-25T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cyberwire-daily-454880/cold-lures-hot-targets-research-saturday","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cyberwire-daily-454880","url":"https://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/research-saturday/434/notes","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/pdrl.fm/85df76/traffic.megaphone.fm/CYBW8901898338.mp3?updated=1743778764","summary":"This week, we are joined by Ondrej Kubovič, Security Awareness Specialist from ESET, discussing their work on \"FrostyNeighbor: Fresh mischief and digital shenanigans.\" Ondrej walks us through ESET's latest research into FrostyNeighbor, a long-running Belarus-aligned cyberespionage group that has continued to target Ukrainian government organizations with increasingly sophisticated spearphishing campaigns. We discuss how the group uses malicious PDF lures, server-side victim validation, and an updated JavaScript-based malware chain to selectively deploy espionage tools, demonstrating its ongoing efforts to evade detection while compromising high-value targets across Eastern Europe. The research and executive brief can be found here: ⁠FrostyNeighbor: Fresh mischief and digital shenanigans","meta_description":"This week, we are joined by Ondrej Kubovič, Security Awareness Specialist from ESET, discussing their work on \"FrostyNeighbor: Fresh mischief and digital…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1023,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/cyberwire-daily-454880/episodes/cold-lures-hot-targets-research-saturday/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cyberwire-daily-454880/cold-lures-hot-targets-research-saturday.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}