• 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
    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
    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
  • A questionable breach, bad routers at home and at work and AI gives defenders a win
    Jul 10 2026
    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
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    13 mins
  • AI Export Controls, FortiBleed, Third-Party Breaches & CISO Burnout | Cybersecurity Today Panel
    Jul 11 2026

    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

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • ShareFile shutdown, double-agent ransomware negotiator sentenced, Helix uses vishing
    Jul 13 2026
    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
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    10 mins
  • ShareFile explained, healthcare in critical cyber condition and click fix tops malware charts
    Jul 15 2026

    ShareFile emergency explained, a year of Salesforce breaches examined, healthcare cybersecurity in critical condition and click fix goes number one for malware.

    David Shipley covers Progress Software's emergency ShareFile shutdown, now tied to a previously unknown high-severity path traversal flaw in Storage Zone Controller 5.x/6.x with patches available (5.12.5 and 6.0.2) and no evidence of prior exploitation.

    Microsoft's analysis of a year of ShinyHunters activity compromising corporate Salesforce environments by abusing trust via OAuth (IT-support phone cons, vendor token theft such as Salesloft/Drift, and misconfigured guest access), prompting new monitoring tooling.

    A Fortified Health Security report finding healthcare fixed only 6% of identified risks in H1 2026 amid surging vulnerabilities, third-party risk, and weak identity hygiene.

    ReversingLabs and ReliaQuest research showing ClickFix social-engineering is now a leading malware delivery method; and Telstra's nationwide outage traced to an obsolete time server hit by a GPS rollover bug, disrupting Triple Zero calls and prompting Senate scrutiny.

    00:00 Sponsor NordLayer
    00:37 Headlines Overview
    01:06 ShareFile Patch Explained
    03:25 Salesforce OAuth Break Ins
    06:01 Hospitals Drowning in Risks
    08:24 ClickFix Malware Surge
    11:13 Telstra Time Server Outage
    12:32 Wrap Up and Sign Off

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    14 mins
  • Scattered Spiders sentenced, OpenAI builds an AI that breaks AIs, and Iran leans on ChatGPT
    Jul 17 2026

    Two leading Scattered Spider members, Thaila Jubar and Owen Flowers, were sentenced to five years and six months for the 2024 Transport for London hack that knocked 148 systems offline, forced 27,000 password resets, stole customer data, and cost TfL £29 million, with wider losses estimated far higher; U.S. charges against Dubar remain unproven.

    Investigators also believe Russian hackers were behind last year's crippling Jaguar Land Rover attack that halted production for months and contributed to a £1.5 billion bailout, with Microsoft and multiple agencies assisting.

    OpenAI unveiled GPT-Red, an automated red-teaming AI for prompt injection, alongside a NIST-backed argument that finite guardrails can't be universally robust.

    The episode also covers ClickLock, a macOS stealer that kills apps until a password is entered, and Recorded Future's report on Iran-linked groups using ChatGPT for malware, phishing, and reconnaissance.

    00:00 Headlines Kickoff
    01:08 Scattered Spider Sentencing
    02:57 US Charges Loom
    03:29 Jaguar Land Rover Hack
    04:35 GPT-Red AI Red Team
    05:40 Why Guardrails Fail
    06:36 ClickLock Mac Stealer
    06:53 How ClickLock Spreads
    07:59 Defense and Cleanup Tips
    08:37 Iran Uses AI for Ops
    10:30 Wrap Up and Next Show

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    12 mins