Rebekah Brown and John Scott-Railton on Distilling Cyber Policy podcast

The podcast episode reviews Citizen Lab’s investigation into sophisticated targeted phishing operations attributed to COLDRIVER (STAR BLIZZARD) and a related group dubbed COLDWASTREL, describing how attackers use highly tailored messages and technical validation steps to ensure human targets click malicious links and to evade email platform defenses; the discussion also notes recent disruptions, including U.S. DOJ domain seizures.