Ransomware gangs, paycard skimmers, and Grinchbots. Russia blocks Tor, and the US Senate holds hearings on social media and its arguably malign influence on youth.

Conti continues, undeterred. Magecart skimmers are infesting WooCommerce instances. Users are finding url redirection attacks difficult to detect. A quick look at the workings of the Hive ransomware gang. Russia blocks Tor. The US Senate holds hearings on social media and adolescent mental health. Dinah Davis from Arctic Wolf on assessing your security posture. Our guest Neal Dennis of Cyware discusses Automation And Unification. And Grinchbots are still prowling for presents.  For links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing: https://www.thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/10/235