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Cybersecurity Today

Cybersecurity Today

By: David Shipley
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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. Daily Politics & Government
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  • Teams battles bots, Bioshocking AI browser guardrails, Fortibleed fuels ransomware

    Teams battles bots, Bioshocking AI browser guardrails, Fortibleed fuels ransomware
    Jul 3 2026
    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
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    11 mins
  • AI-Run Ransomware, New Oracle Critical Flaw, NetNut busted

    AI-Run Ransomware, New Oracle Critical Flaw, NetNut busted
    Jul 6 2026
    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
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    14 mins
  • Scattered Spider squashed, Rogue Agent AI flaw, 16 year-old Linux bug and new phish hunts marketers

    Scattered Spider squashed, Rogue Agent AI flaw, 16 year-old Linux bug and new phish hunts marketers
    Jul 8 2026
    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
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    14 mins
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