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Updates on the latest cybersecurity threats to businesses, data breach disclosures, and how you can secure your firm in an increasingly risky time.

  1. hace 11 h

    ShareFile shutdown, double-agent ransomware negotiator sentenced, Helix uses vishing

    ShareFile shutdown order, a double-agent ransomware negotiator sentenced, and vishing crews raid SharePoint   Progress Software ordered customers running ShareFile Storage Zone Controllers to shut down the Windows servers immediately amid a credible external threat, offering no CVE, threat details, or restoration timeline while noting cloud-only customers aren't affected.   Former ransomware negotiator Angelo Martino was sentenced to 70 months for feeding BlackCat operators victims' negotiating positions and insurance limits, taking a cut of payments, and helping deploy BlackCat against additional U.S. companies; $10 million has been seized and restitution is set for Sept. 17.   Dutch police say a phone call kickstarted the Odido breach affecting 6.2 million customers and may release the suspected hacker's recorded voice if he doesn't surrender.   ReliaQuest profiled "Helix," an extortion crew using vishing and Microsoft device-code logins to steal SharePoint data via session tokens; defenses include disabling device-code auth and restricting SharePoint.   Assurance America disclosed a breach impacting 6.99 million people, including leaked driver's license data. 00:00 NordLayer Sponsor Message 00:37 Today's Cyber Headlines 01:08 ShareFile Shutdown Alert 03:39 Ransomware Double Agent Sentenced 05:13 Odido Breach Voice Threat 06:24 Helix Vishing SharePoint Extortion 08:00 Assurance America License Leak 08:57 Wrap Up and Conference Note 09:25 NordLayer Sponsor Reminder

    10 min

  2. hace 2 d

    AI Export Controls, FortiBleed, Third-Party Breaches & CISO Burnout | Cybersecurity Today Panel

    Can governments decide who gets access to advanced AI models? Are third-party breaches becoming impossible to control? And why are so many CISOs reaching burnout? In this special Cybersecurity Today Month in Review Panel, host Jim Love is joined by cybersecurity experts Laura Payne, David Shipley, and Mike Kim (Mycroft) to examine the biggest cybersecurity stories and trends from June 2026. The panel explores the controversy over U.S. export controls on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable AI models, what they reveal about digital sovereignty, and whether governments should be able to restrict access to frontier AI. They also discuss the continuing wave of third-party breaches, including Salesforce ecosystem compromises and the Clue breach, and why organizations must move beyond compliance toward practical risk management. The conversation examines FortiBleed, exposed administrator portals, credential reuse, and the difficult balance between software flaws, operational mistakes, and secure-by-default design. The panel also tackles one of cybersecurity's biggest human challenges: CISO burnout, executive accountability, organizational culture, and what separates successful security leaders from those set up to fail. The episode concludes with encouraging developments in international cybercrime enforcement, including Operation Riptide, and why better intelligence sharing and improved operational security are making it harder for cybercriminals to hide. Whether you're a CISO, security practitioner, IT leader, or simply interested in the rapidly changing cybersecurity landscape, this discussion offers practical insight into the trends shaping the industry. Panel Jim Love (Host) Laura Payne David Shipley Mike Kim (Mycroft) Topics covered AI export controls and digital sovereignty Anthropic Mythos and Fable Third-party and supply chain risk Salesforce ecosystem security FortiBleed and Fortinet security Secure-by-default strategies CISO burnout and executive accountability Operation Riptide Cybercrime investigations Security leadership and governance Chapters 00:00 Sponsor NordLayer 00:38 Meet the Panel 02:40 Author Scam Warning 04:51 Emotion Is the Target 08:47 AI Model Export Controls 10:01 Hype vs Real AI Security 15:01 Sovereignty and Dependency 20:35 Governments Push Back 24:14 AI Internal Voice Risks 26:12 Third Party Breach Fatigue 30:05 Compliance Limits on Risk 32:15 Blame Game to Risk Focus 33:18 Standards and Priorities 33:39 When Security Vendors Fail 34:35 FortiBleed Numbers Explained 35:44 Process Failures vs Bugs 37:32 Why Fortinet Gets Heat 39:05 Secure by Default Basics 41:04 Budget Reality and Culture 44:36 CISO Burnout and AI Pressure 46:16 Liability and Shared Ownership 50:12 What Great CISOs Do 53:07 Operation Riptide Wins 56:10 Deterrence and Due Process 58:14 Sharing Intel for ROI 59:09 Hopium and Wrap Up 01:00:46 Sponsor NordLayer Message

    1 h 2 min

  3. hace 3 d

    A questionable breach, bad routers at home and at work and AI gives defenders a win

    This episode covers a hacker's claim of stealing 35GB from Accenture—including source code, Azure personal access tokens, RSA keys, and SSH keys—while Accenture calls it an isolated, remediated matter, leaving uncertainty about potential downstream risk to its Fortune 500-heavy client base.   It also highlights a deepfake image of Senator Mitch McConnell debunked after Google's invisible SynthID watermark identified it as AI-generated, noting watermarking depends on tool participation.   The show warns of an undocumented Tenda router firmware backdoor using an alternate password ("RZadmin") with no patch available, and reports Ubiquiti fixes for seven critical UniFi OS vulnerabilities, including a max-severity command injection in UniFi Connect.   Finally, it describes how Venture Employer Solutions used ML/LLMs to filter low-value logs before SIEM ingestion, cutting firewall log volume 83%, saving about $250K annually, and halving mean time to response.   00:00 Sponsor NordLayer 00:37 Headlines Intro 01:08 Accenture Breach Claim 04:25 Deepfake Watermark Win 05:47 Tenda Router Backdoor 07:22 UniFi Critical Fixes 09:10 AI Cuts Log Noise 11:09 Wrap Up And Thanks 11:41 Sponsor Message

    13 min

  4. hace 5 d

    Scattered Spider squashed, Rogue Agent AI flaw, 16 year-old Linux bug and new phish hunts marketers

    Cybersecurity Today host David Shipley covers how a newly unsealed U.S. complaint tied an alleged Scattered Spider member to a luxury retailer intrusion using a persistent Windows device ID, with prosecutors alleging help-desk social engineering, admin account takeover, data exfiltration, and an $8 million ransom demand; the episode also notes additional Scattered Spider-related guilty pleas in the U.K. and U.S.   The show reports Google patched "Rogue Agent," a Dialogflow CX permission-boundary issue involving Python code blocks in Cloud Run that could enable data theft or credential prompts across agents in a shared project.   It details "Janus Escape" (CVE-2026-53359), a 16-year-old Linux KVM use-after-free enabling guest-to-host escapes in cloud environments, patched in June.   The show explores Apple's shift to out-of-band security updates due to AI-accelerated exploitation, and a multi-platform redirect phishing campaign using fake job interviews and browser-in-browser Google login prompts targeting marketers' Google accounts. 00:00 Sponsor NordLayer 00:36 Headlines Intro 01:03 Scattered Spider Traced 03:16 More Spider Arrests 04:31 Google Rogue Agent 06:24 Linux Janus Escape 08:04 Apple Patching Shift 10:04 Marketer Phish Chain 12:17 Wrap Up Thanks 12:53 Sponsor Message

    14 min

  5. 6 jul

    AI-Run Ransomware, New Oracle Critical Flaw, NetNut busted

    AI-Run Ransomware, New Oracle 9.8 Flaw Exploited, NetNut Proxy Network Busted, and Pegasus Hits EU Spyware Investigator   This episode covers researchers' report of "Jade Puffer," the first ransomware attack run end-to-end by an autonomous AI agent, which exploited a patched Langflow RCE (CVE-2025-3248) but showed flaws like weak AES-128 ECB encryption and an unusable key.   It also warns of active exploitation of a critical Oracle Payments vulnerability (CVE-2026-46817, CVSS 9.8) alongside ongoing fallout from a separate PeopleSoft zero-day (CVE-2026-35273) used by ShinyHunters/UNC6240.   A joint operation involving Google disrupted the NetNut residential proxy botnet, affecting millions of hijacked devices.   Researchers detail a likely $1M extortion-only payment tied to Union County, Ohio, and Citizen Lab reports EU lawmaker Stelios Kouloglou was hacked with Pegasus during spyware-abuse investigations via a HomeKit zero-day.   00:00 Today's Cyber Headlines 00:55 AI Agent Ransomware Debut 03:32 Oracle Payments Under Attack 06:00 NetNut Proxy Network Takedown 08:29 Million Dollar Data Extortion 10:50 Pegasus Hits EU Investigator 12:48 Wrap Up and Sign Off

    14 min

  6. 3 jul

    Teams battles bots, Bioshocking AI browser guardrails, Fortibleed fuels ransomware

    Teams cracks down on meeting bots, AI guardrails get bypassed, FortiBleed fuels ransomware, and Nissan confirms PeopleSoft breach   Microsoft rolls out a new Teams admin policy, "Manage External Bots and Their Access to Meetings," to detect third‑party bots, hold them in the lobby with labels, and require organizer approval, with future allow lists, full blocks, reports, and audit logs planned.   Anthropic's Fable 5 returns globally after U.S. export controls are lifted, though higher‑risk requests may be routed to weaker models and Mythos restrictions remain, with Commerce reserving the right to reimpose controls.   Researchers describe "Bioshocking," tricking AI browsers into abandoning guardrails via delusional puzzle prompts, while Adversa AI's "Guardfall" shows how Bash text rewriting can bypass command filters in many coding agents.   SOC Radar links FortiBleed credential theft to InkRansom and Lynx ransomware activity across hundreds of FortiGate portals. Nissan confirms employee data theft tied to a PeopleSoft zero‑day campaign linked to ShinyHunters.   00:00 Today's Cyber Headlines 00:27 Teams Blocks Meeting Bots 01:58 Anthropic Fable Returns 03:22 Bioshocking Browser Attack 05:09 Guardfall Shell Bypass 06:51 FortiBleed Fuels Ransomware 07:59 Nissan PeopleSoft Breach 10:10 Wrap Up And Sign Off

    11 min

  7. 1 jul

    US puts $10m bounty on Russian hackers, new phish hunts hotels, Supreme Court reins in geofencing

    US Puts $10M Bounty on Russian Hackers, Supreme Court Limits Geofence Warrants, New phishing campaign targets hotels, AI Coding Agents Tricked into Malware and Canada's Electronic Spies Go After Ransomware Gangs.  The episode covers the US State Department's up to $10 million reward for information on Russia-linked hacker groups UNC 5792 and UNC 4221 tied to phishing campaigns that compromise Signal and WhatsApp accounts by stealing Signal backup recovery keys.  It also explains a US Supreme Court 6–3 ruling limiting geofence warrants by recognizing Fourth Amendment privacy protections for phone location data and requiring probable cause and narrower requests.  Mozilla ODIN researchers demonstrate a proof of concept where a clean GitHub repo can cause AI coding agents to run an init command that executes attacker-controlled code via DNS and opens a reverse shell. A hotel-focused phishing campaign using Calendly and Google redirects delivers ZIP files that install the Tonrat implant through PowerShell and a user-space Node.js runtime.  Finally, Canada's CSE says it disrupted infrastructure used by 10 major ransomware groups and reports incident volumes rising nearly 26% year over year. 00:24 Top Headlines Rundown 00:54 10 Million Bounty Russian Hackers 02:42 Supreme Court Limits Geofence Warrants 03:56 AI Coding Agent Repo Trap 05:31 Listener Thanks And Reviews 05:51 Hotel Front Desk Phishing Attack 08:01 Canada Disrupts Ransomware Gangs 09:45 Closing And Sign Off

    11 min

  8. 29 jun

    US Restricts Frontier AI models

    US Loosens Anthropic Claude Mythos Access, Unpatchable iPhone Exploit Emerges, and CISO Burnout Drives Fractional Shift Washington granted a partial reprieve allowing Anthropic's Claude Mythos to be released to more than 100 approved U.S. firms and institutions after export controls paused Mythos and the more restricted Fable 5, with access still limited to vetted American entities; the same day, OpenAI's GPT 5.6 was also restricted to government-approved partners under a Trump executive order requiring review of cyber-capable models.  The episode also covers Canadian hacktivist Aubrey Cottle's 18-month sentence for the 2021 Texas GOP hack and bail breaches, with possible U.S. charges pending. Researchers disclosed "USBliterate," an unpatchable physical USB exploit in the Secure ROM of older A12/A13 iPhones that aids forensic extraction. Finally, a survey finds rising CISO burnout, fewer full-time CISOs, growth in fractional CISO roles, and AI—especially shadow AI—overtaking liability as the top stressor. 00:55 AI Export Controls Shift 03:37 Anonymous Hacker Sentenced 05:32 Unpatchable iPhone Boot Exploit 07:30 CISO Burnout And Exodus 09:40 Wrap Up And Sign Off

    11 min
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Updates on the latest cybersecurity threats to businesses, data breach disclosures, and how you can secure your firm in an increasingly risky time.

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  • Creado por
    Jim Love
  • Años en activo
    2018 - 2026
  • Episodios
    105
  • Clasificación
    Apto
  • Sitio web del podcast
    Cybersecurity Today

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