Podcast profile
By N2K Networks
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.
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28 min
Topics
Current threats, breaches, vulnerabilities, security developments, and defensive implications.
Threat actors, campaigns, malware, indicators, adversary behavior, and intelligence analysis.
Detection, monitoring, triage, SOC operations, and day-to-day defensive security.
Formats
Concise summaries of current developments and essential context.
Audience level
Assumes basic technology literacy and familiarity with common products, roles, and terminology.
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ShinyHunters claims to have breached FBI systems. CLOSEDQUORUM malware delegates command-and-control decisions to commercial LLMs. An IT error erases 11 years of hospital maternity data. F5 patches a critical BIG-IP APM zero-day. Ransomware activity remains high. Microsoft disrupts the EvilTokens cybercrime platform.
CISA rides out a Cyber Storm. The EU struggles to share cyber threat information. Nightmare Eclipse drops another Defender zero-day. TASK#STOMP steals business documents. North Korean operatives fake their way through job interviews. A genetics lab pays $700,000 over a phishing breach.
Google confirms unauthorized access by Gemini. AI’s growing power outpaces its defenses. Hackers target Colorado water utilities. Georgia weighs voting-system security. ShinyHunters hijacks Clop’s leak site. FamousSparrow spies across Latin America. CrowdSec loses source code.
Space infrastructure has become an increasingly important part of everyday life, which has also made it an increasingly attractive target for exploitation.
In this Special Edition episode, Maria Varmazis and Dave Bittner from N2K Cyberwire get back together to reflect on the past decade of critical infrastructure attacks, evolving threats, and lessons learned from incidents like the Ukraine power grid attack and Colonial Pipeline ransomware.
Today we are joined by Dr. Renée Burton, VP of Threat Intelligence at Infoblox, discussing their work on Lurking Lizard, "Fake Installers, Fake Reviews, Fake Services – Real Proxies, Real."
Cisco patches a maximum-severity vulnerability in its Identity Services Engine. Court documents describe AI as “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.” Researchers chain vulnerabilities to take over employee ChatGPT accounts. Microsoft and Check Point patch vulnerabilities.
AI goes to war. Iranian strikes leave AWS data unrecoverable. OpenAI discloses more model misbehavior. Researchers uncover 16 Wireshark vulnerabilities. TrustSink turns Entra authentication into a password trap. RatHat raids Android credentials. The FBI takes down a DDoS-for-hire service.
Officials investigate suspected cyberattacks on U.S.-bound oil tankers. Iranian operators deploy Chosen Brick surveillance malware. Ukraine cracks down on scam call centers. Researchers uncover two TP-Link camera zero-days. Maria Varmazis looks at weapons in space. CenterPoint Energy reports a data breach.
The President pushes back on calls to slow AI. Microsoft lays out potential AI safety rules. Lawmakers consider the crypto Clarity Act. Florida’s Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles and Japan’s Digital Agency suffer data breaches.