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The InfoSec.Watch Podcast delivers the week’s most important cybersecurity news in a fast, clear, and actionable format. Each episode breaks down major incidents, vulnerabilities, threat-actor activity, and security trends affecting modern organizations — without the noise or hype. The show translates complex cyber topics into practical insights you can use immediately in your job, whether you work in security engineering, cloud security, threat detection, governance, or IT. If you want to stay ahead of emerging threats, sharpen your defensive mindset, and get a reliable summary of what actually matters each week, this is your new essential briefing. Actionable Cybersecurity Insights — Every Week.

  1. 3H AGO

    127 - From Cisco To EV Chargers: Active Exploits And Urgent Patches

    Send a text A wave of edge and control‑plane threats drives urgent patching and smarter validation across Cisco SD‑WAN, EV charging, FileZen, and Serve‑U. We map real exploits, spotlight APT28 tradecraft, unpack Google risk shifts, and share a post‑patch playbook that assumes breach. • Cisco SD‑WAN 10.0 authentication bypass and active exploitation • CISA KEV update for FileZen and patch prioritization • EV charging platform flaws enabling session hijack and station impersonation • APT28 targeting MSHTML and legacy components as modern vectors • One Uptime 10.0 root‑level exploit via traceroute probes • Google localhost WebSocket risk and policy reversals on token proxying • Governance for agentic AI with supervised fine‑tuning and oversight • Quick hits on North Korean air‑gap tools and UNC2814 disruption • Serve‑U critical updates and file transfer exposure • EU CRA impacts on open source supply chains • Post‑patch validation: verify versions, confirm exposure is gone, hunt logs, rotate secrets • Continuous exposure management for control planes and edge systems For more in-depth analysis and links to everything we discussed today, be sure to subscribe to our newsletter at infosec.watch Support the show Thanks for listening to InfoSec.Watch! Subscribe to our newsletter for in-depth analysis: https://infosec.watch Follow us for daily updates: - X (Twitter) - LinkedIn - Facebook - Stay secure out there!

    10 min

  2. FEB 23

    126: Click The CAPTCHA, Adopt Malware, Regret Everything

    Send a text We track a wave of high-impact vulnerabilities and social engineering campaigns that target management planes and edge devices, then lay out a concrete four-step validation playbook. The theme is simple: initial access is cheap, but control plane compromise multiplies damage. • Windows Admin Center privilege escalation and urgent patching • IceWarp critical flaws enabling total takeover paths • Fake CAPTCHA campaigns delivering Letrodyctus, Supers, and new RATs • BeyondTrust RCE exploited in the wild with VShell and SparkRat • Grandstream VoIP unauthenticated buffer overflow and asset hygiene • Dell RecoverPoint zero day linked to suspected state activity • CISA KEV additions signaling active exploitation and patch deadlines • Fake adversary-built RMM tools and software due diligence • Device code phishing abusing OAuth to bypass MFA • Four-step patch validation and assumed-breach log review • Final theme: protect control planes and edge surfaces Be sure to follow us on X, Facebook, or LinkedIn for daily updates And don't forget to subscribe to our newsletter for all this and more right in your inbox You can find that at infosec.watch Support the show Thanks for listening to InfoSec.Watch! Subscribe to our newsletter for in-depth analysis: https://infosec.watch Follow us for daily updates: - X (Twitter) - LinkedIn - Facebook - Stay secure out there!

    14 min

  3. FEB 16

    InfoSec.Watch Podcast — Episode 125: Vendor choke points, BridgePay fallout, and the KEV patch race

    Send a text This week on the InfoSec.Watch Podcast, we examine a growing risk that many organizations still underestimate: operational choke points. The episode opens with the BridgePay ransomware attack, which forced the payment gateway offline and disrupted credit card processing for multiple municipalities and utilities. The incident highlights a harsh reality—third-party processors are effectively critical infrastructure. When they go down, downstream governments and businesses lose revenue, disrupt services, and erode public trust. The key question: do you have a plan B? Next, the discussion turns to a critical pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability in BeyondTrust Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access (CVE-2026-1731). With exploitation observed almost immediately after disclosure, defenders faced a race against mass internet scanning. The hosts emphasize an “assume-breach” posture for internet-facing control plane appliances and outline why patching alone is not enough—you must hunt for persistence and validate trust after remediation. The episode also revisits Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM), where additional critical vulnerabilities continue to surface. With MDM platforms inherently exposed to the internet by design, attackers increasingly view them as high-leverage entry points. The takeaway is clear: reduce direct exposure wherever possible and treat MDM platforms as Tier-Zero assets. The broader trend? Choke-point targeting. Payment gateways, remote support tools, MDM systems—these services sit between organizations and their users. For ransomware operators and initial access brokers, compromising one appliance can yield access to dozens or hundreds of downstream victims. The conversation then shifts to the KEV-driven patch treadmill, as CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog continues to grow. With time-to-exploitation shrinking to hours in some cases, organizations must implement emergency patch processes for internet-facing appliances instead of waiting for standard change windows. Tool of the Week highlights GreyNoise, a powerful platform for distinguishing background scanning from meaningful exploitation activity—helping security teams prioritize response when new vulnerabilities drop. The episode closes with a practical and high-impact Actionable Defense Move of the Week: identify your top three vendor choke points and document failover steps, key rotation procedures, required log sources, and communications plans before an outage forces your hand. Key themes this week: Third-party services as operational single points of failurePre-auth RCEs in internet-facing control planesKEV-driven emergency patch processesPlanning for vendor compromise and outageAs the hosts conclude: If it sits between you and your users—payments, support, identity, or device control—it is part of your perimeter. Plan for its failure as rigorously as you defend your own firewall. For full coverage and links to everything discussed, subscribe at infosec.watch and follow InfoSec.Watch on X, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Support the show Thanks for listening to InfoSec.Watch! Subscribe to our newsletter for in-depth analysis: https://infosec.watch Follow us for daily updates: - X (Twitter) - LinkedIn - Facebook - Stay secure out there!

    9 min

  4. FEB 10

    InfoSec.Watch Podcast — Episode 124: Edge Devices Under Fire

    Send a text Edges are where attackers thrive—and where many teams see the least. We dive into how identity-adjacent features, single sign-on, and device management planes have become high-impact targets, and why routers, VPNs, and firewalls now sit at the center of modern intrusion campaigns. From unsupported hardware to multi-terabit DDoS events, we break down what matters most and the steps that actually change your risk. We walk through CISA’s directive to remove end-of-life edge devices and translate it into a practical playbook: inventory every public IP, map models and firmware to vendor support, and set non-negotiable retirement deadlines. Then we stress-test DDoS readiness at today’s scale, with concrete checks for always-on scrubbing, runbooks, and confirmed capacity with your CDN, WAF, and upstream providers. On the software side, we examine fresh NPM and PyPI compromises and outline a developer-first defense: dependency pinning, integrity checks, SBOM usage, mirrored registries, and CI/CD policies that block unknown maintainers by default. Urgency ramps up with active exploits added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list. We prioritize SmarterMail, SolarWinds Web Help Desk, and GitLab SSRF with rapid patching, strict segmentation, emergency hardening, token rotation, and egress controls. We also spotlight a trend to watch: adversary-in-the-middle frameworks targeting routers and edge devices to hijack traffic. The counter is clear—treat the edge as a tier-one detection surface with telemetry for config drift, new admins, DNS and NTP anomalies, and require phishing-resistant MFA like FIDO2 or passkeys for all admin access. To help teams move faster, we highlight the KEV catalog’s machine-readable feed and show how to wire it into vulnerability management to auto-open tickets and enforce tight SLAs based on real-world exploitation. We close with an actionable one-week project: enumerate public edges, flag end-of-support gear, and either replace it, shield it behind managed services, or lock its management plane behind VPN with strict allow lists. Subscribe, share with your team, and leave a review with the one control you’ll implement first—what’s your next move to harden the edge? Support the show Thanks for listening to InfoSec.Watch! Subscribe to our newsletter for in-depth analysis: https://infosec.watch Follow us for daily updates: - X (Twitter) - LinkedIn - Facebook - Stay secure out there!

    9 min

  5. FEB 5

    InfoSec.Watch Podcast — Episode 123: Fortinet SSO abuse, Ivanti MDM zero-days, and validating trust after patching

    Send a text This week on the InfoSec.Watch Podcast, we break down a series of actively exploited vulnerabilities targeting some of the most trusted control planes in enterprise environments—firewalls, identity integrations, and mobile device management platforms. The episode opens with active exploitation of Fortinet’s FortiCloud SSO authentication bypass (CVE-2026-24858), impacting FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, and FortiPortal deployments with SSO enabled. With CISA publishing mitigation guidance, the hosts explain why FortiCloud SSO must be treated as an exposure multiplier, and why defenders should assume compromise, hunt for persistence, and validate trust even after patching. Next, the focus shifts to Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM), where a pre-auth remote code execution (CVE-2026-1281)—alongside a second critical path traversal flaw—is being exploited in the wild. Grant and Sloane outline why MDM platforms are Tier-Zero assets, capable of controlling entire mobile fleets, and walk through the post-patch actions required to detect chaining, persistence, and credential theft. The episode also examines a ransomware incident impacting New Britain, Connecticut, highlighting the real-world consequences for local governments when core services go offline. The discussion emphasizes segmentation between public safety and business systems, offline operating procedures, and the importance of tested restores for directory services, VoIP, and line-of-business applications. In the Vulnerability Spotlight, the hosts take a deeper look at how attackers abuse alternate authentication paths, particularly SSO flows and SAML integrations, to bypass perimeter defenses. This leads into the Trend to Watch: identity convenience is becoming the new perimeter, and SSO features increasingly represent cascading failure points across cloud and on-prem infrastructure. The Policy & Regulation Watch covers new FCC guidance on ransomware preparedness, reinforcing the need for offline recovery validation and tabletop exercises focused on restoring critical services under active attack. Tool of the Week highlights CISA’s alert feed and KEV updates, with practical advice on wiring alerts directly into vulnerability triage workflows and enforcing same-day response SLAs for confirmed exploitation. The episode closes with a highly actionable Defense Move of the Week: implementing a repeatable validation loop for Tier-Zero systems—verify versions, confirm exposure removal, review logs, and rotate secrets—to ensure remediation actually worked. Key themes this week: SSO as an alternate intrusion pathMDM and firewalls as Tier-Zero assetsActive exploitation requires validation, not trustPatch fast—but always hunt and verifyFor the full weekly brief and ongoing coverage, subscribe at infosec.watch and follow InfoSec.Watch on X, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Support the show Thanks for listening to InfoSec.Watch! Subscribe to our newsletter for in-depth analysis: https://infosec.watch Follow us for daily updates: - X (Twitter) - LinkedIn - Facebook - Stay secure out there!

    17 min

  6. JAN 26

    InfoSec.Watch Podcast — Episode 122: Cisco UC zero-days, Oracle patch overload, and the new Tier-Zero reality

    Send a text This week on the InfoSec.Watch Podcast, we break down a wave of high-impact security events underscoring a hard truth for defenders: management planes and dependencies are now primary intrusion paths. The episode opens with active exploitation of a Cisco Unified Communications zero-day (CVE-2026-20045), an unauthenticated web-management RCE capable of delivering full root-level compromise across multiple UC platforms. With exploitation confirmed and CISA adding the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list, the hosts explain why UC management interfaces must be treated as Tier-Zero assets, and why assumed-breach reviews are mandatory even after patching. Next, the discussion turns to Oracle’s January Critical Patch Update, delivering more than 300 fixes across its portfolio. Grant and Sloane walk through a practical prioritization strategy—patching by exposure, not product name—and explain how to use Oracle’s own exploitability flags and compensating controls to avoid patch paralysis. The episode also covers Ingram Micro’s ransomware-related data exposure, highlighting the growing risk of third-party concentration. The hosts outline what every organization should have ready before a supplier breach occurs, from notification SLAs and data minimization to pre-staged third-party incident response playbooks. In the Vulnerability Spotlight, the focus shifts to two expanding attack surfaces: Unauthenticated management UI exploitation as a recurring root-compromise patternMalicious code embedded in developer dependencies, including a widely used package now listed in CISA’s KEV catalogThe Trend to Watch ties these threads together: attackers are moving up the stack, blending classic perimeter weaknesses with modern software supply-chain abuse. Management planes, CI/CD pipelines, and automation platforms are increasingly being scanned, scripted, and poisoned at scale. The episode closes with a decisive Actionable Defense Move of the Week—formally defining your Tier-Zero systems and enforcing strict controls around access, exposure, monitoring, and containment—followed by a clear final warning: if a management interface is reachable from the internet, attackers will automate it. For deeper coverage and weekly briefings delivered straight to your inbox, subscribe at infosec.watch and follow InfoSec.Watch on X, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Support the show Thanks for listening to InfoSec.Watch! Subscribe to our newsletter for in-depth analysis: https://infosec.watch Follow us for daily updates: - X (Twitter) - LinkedIn - Facebook - Stay secure out there!

    10 min

  7. JAN 19

    InfoSec.Watch Podcast — Episode 121: Cisco email gateway RCEs, Windows zero-days, and control-plane failure

    Send a text This week on the InfoSec.Watch Podcast, we break down a series of high-impact threats targeting the systems organizations rely on most—email gateways, Windows endpoints, and operational infrastructure that does not fail gracefully. The episode opens with an urgent look at Cisco AsyncOS (CVE-2025-20393), an actively exploited, unauthenticated remote-code-execution flaw affecting Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Secure Email and Web Manager deployments. The hosts explain why email gateways must be treated as Tier-Zero assets, outline post-patch hunting requirements, and discuss the real-world risk of persistence on perimeter infrastructure. Next, the conversation turns to Microsoft’s January Patch Tuesday, including CVE-2026-20805, an actively exploited Windows zero-day now listed in CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. While the vulnerability appears low-severity on paper, Grant and Sloane explain how information-disclosure bugs are routinely chained into full compromise—especially on jump hosts, VDI, and privileged systems. The episode also examines a ransomware attack on the AZ Monica hospital network in Belgium, highlighting the operational and patient-safety consequences when healthcare infrastructure goes offline. The discussion focuses on availability planning, segmentation, paper-mode readiness, and the importance of rehearsed downtime procedures. In the Vulnerability Spotlight, the hosts cover active exploitation of a high-severity flaw in Gogs, a self-hosted Git service, and an unauthenticated denial-of-service condition impacting Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect. Both cases reinforce a central theme: development and remote-access infrastructure must be treated as production-critical systems. The Trend to Watch explores a growing supply-chain risk in workflow automation platforms like n8n, where compromised community plugins can expose stored credentials and API tokens—effectively turning automation tools into high-value credential vaults. The episode closes with a practical Actionable Defense Move of the Week, urging teams to focus on one high-impact service class and validate patching, exposure, logging, and rapid containment capabilities—before the next advisory drops. Key themes this week: Email gateways as Tier-Zero infrastructureActive exploitation outweighs CVSS scoresAvailability is a primary security concernControl planes and automation platforms are high-leverage targetsFor full coverage, subscribe to the newsletter at infosec.watch and follow InfoSec.Watch on X, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Support the show Thanks for listening to InfoSec.Watch! Subscribe to our newsletter for in-depth analysis: https://infosec.watch Follow us for daily updates: - X (Twitter) - LinkedIn - Facebook - Stay secure out there!

    9 min

  8. JAN 13

    InfoSec.Watch Podcast — Episode 120: Control planes are attack planes

    Send a text Welcome back to the InfoSec.Watch Podcast, your weekly briefing on the security threats that matter. In Episode 120, we break down a clear and recurring theme across this week’s incidents: control planes have become prime attack planes. We start with active exploitation of a critical flaw in HPE OneView, underscoring why management-plane software must be treated as Tier Zero infrastructure. From there, we examine unpatchable risk posed by actively exploited, end-of-life D-Link DSL gateways, and a critical unauthenticated RCE (CVSS 9.8) in Trend Micro Apex Central, where compromise could allow attackers to disable security controls at scale. In the Vulnerability Spotlight, we cover: A jsPDF path traversal flaw highlighting real-world software supply chain riskMultiple Veeam Backup & Replication fixes, reinforcing why backup platforms remain high-value ransomware targetsOur Trend to Watch looks at a growing enterprise data-loss vector: prompt-poaching via malicious browser extensions, where entire GenAI conversations — including sensitive code and data — are being exfiltrated from tools like ChatGPT. We also discuss: CISA’s move to formally retire early Emergency Directives in favor of a mature KEV-driven vulnerability processWhy organizations should adopt their own “KEV-style” prioritization modelChainsaw, a high-performance open-source tool for rapid Windows EVTX triageIn this week’s Actionable Defense Move, we walk through a 30-minute management-plane exposure sweep — a fast, high-impact exercise to identify publicly exposed admin interfaces before attackers do. Final takeaway: attackers will always gravitate toward systems where privileges are concentrated. If a control plane must exist, it must be tightly restricted, aggressively patched, and continuously monitored. For a full written breakdown of these stories and more, subscribe to the InfoSec.Watch newsletter at infosec.watch, and follow us on X, Facebook, and LinkedIn for updates throughout the week. Support the show Thanks for listening to InfoSec.Watch! Subscribe to our newsletter for in-depth analysis: https://infosec.watch Follow us for daily updates: - X (Twitter) - LinkedIn - Facebook - Stay secure out there!

    10 min
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The InfoSec.Watch Podcast delivers the week’s most important cybersecurity news in a fast, clear, and actionable format. Each episode breaks down major incidents, vulnerabilities, threat-actor activity, and security trends affecting modern organizations — without the noise or hype. The show translates complex cyber topics into practical insights you can use immediately in your job, whether you work in security engineering, cloud security, threat detection, governance, or IT. If you want to stay ahead of emerging threats, sharpen your defensive mindset, and get a reliable summary of what actually matters each week, this is your new essential briefing. Actionable Cybersecurity Insights — Every Week.

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  • Creator
    Infosec.Watch
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    16
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2026 InfoSec.Watch
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