{"podcast":{"title":"Research Saturday","slug":"research-saturday-1377435","podcast_index_feed_id":1377435,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/cyberwire-research-saturday","website_url":"https://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/research-saturday","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/720fb496-dcfb-11ea-a475-bbdae30535a9/image/8f3cd4038c81bba2a8ea4ca89f3e23c4.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"N2K Networks Inc.","episode_count":458,"summary":"Every Saturday, we sit down with cybersecurity researchers to talk shop about the latest threats, vulnerabilities, and technical discoveries.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-26T04:20:01.844149+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/research-saturday-1377435"},"episode":{"title":"Cold lures, hot targets.","slug":"cold-lures-hot-targets","published_at":"2026-07-25T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/research-saturday-1377435/cold-lures-hot-targets","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/research-saturday-1377435","url":"https://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/research-saturday/434/notes","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/pdrl.fm/6ec23a/traffic.megaphone.fm/CYBW5315369653.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/research-saturday-1377435/episodes/cold-lures-hot-targets/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/research-saturday-1377435/cold-lures-hot-targets.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}