Nothing but the spoof.

14 hours ago

Nothing but the spoof.

This week, hosts of N2K CyberWire ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Maria Varmazis⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Dave Bittner⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ alongside ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Joe Carrigan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ are discussing the latest in social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that are making headlines. We start with some follow-up on Joe's chicken coop project. Dave covers a new FBI warning about scammers impersonating FBI agents and the IC3 to target fraud victims a second time with convincing deepfakes, fake websites, and recovery scams. Joe shares the story of a retired man who lost £1,800 after two scammers worked together to convince him they were protecting his Amazon account from fraud. Maria breaks down a new UN report revealing that scam networks stole up to $114 billion across Asia-Pacific in 2025 and are evolving into global criminal enterprises powered by specialization and AI. Our Catch of the Day comes from a listener who blames being left unsupervised for one of the funniest scam-baiting exchanges we've seen yet.

Hacking Humans

Nothing but the spoof.

14 hours ago

Nothing but the spoof.

This week, hosts of N2K CyberWire ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Maria Varmazis⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Dave Bittner⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ alongside ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Joe Carrigan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ are discussing the latest in social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that are making headlines. We start with some follow-up on Joe's chicken coop project. Dave covers a new FBI warning about scammers impersonating FBI agents and the IC3 to target fraud victims a second time with convincing deepfakes, fake websites, and recovery scams. Joe shares the story of a retired man who lost £1,800 after two scammers worked together to convince him they were protecting his Amazon account from fraud. Maria breaks down a new UN report revealing that scam networks stole up to $114 billion across Asia-Pacific in 2025 and are evolving into global criminal enterprises powered by specialization and AI. Our Catch of the Day comes from a listener who blames being left unsupervised for one of the funniest scam-baiting exchanges we've seen yet.

Hacking Humans

Cybersecurity News

Daily Briefing

2 hours ago

China lists open AI models as national security concern.

Cyberattack on Minnesota water systems more extensive than original estimates.

Caveat

14 hours ago

AI’s latest security wake-up call.

This week, Dave and Ben discuss two major stories. The first story assess the recent incident where a rogue OpenAI agent escaped its environment and successfully targeted Hugging Face. Additionally, the two also look at an incident where a man was targeted after he reportedly wiped his phone using GrapheneOS. Afterwards, Dave sits down with ⁠Asha Palmer⁠, SVP of Compliance Solutions at ⁠Skillsoft⁠, to look at the lack of any federal AI law in the US.

AI Security Brief

14 hours ago

Is AI security actually a physical problem?

While AI might seem abstract, something that lives in "the cloud" is concrete. The AI applications we use every day run on GPUs in physical buildings, and Mark Houpt secures them. As Chief Information Security Officer at DataBank, he's watched those data centers go from anonymous warehouses to national security targets almost overnight. Mark joins hosts Johnny Hand and Dustin Childs to make the case that the AI era is, at its core, a physical security problem, and why the security fundamentals you already know still work, even when applied to threats that didn't exist two years ago.

CyberWire Daily

22 hours ago

More than meets the AI.

The Senate confirms Jay Clayton to lead ODNI. A new CISA framework highlights critical infrastructure isolation capabilities. OpenAI’s rogue agent breached more than just Hugging Face. The average cost of a data breach continues to rise. Indirect prompt injection proves irresistible to cyber criminals. Broadcom patches multiple VMware products. ShinyHunters claims responsibility for Ernst & Young’s recent breach. Our guest is Sean Zadig, CISO at Yahoo, discussing the impact of AI on the defense side. These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.

Business

23 hours ago

ThreatLocker secures $190 million in a Series F round led by Elephant

Act Security emerged from stealth with $60 million in total fundraising to create an action-centric cloud security platform. Cyera acquires Oasis Security in a $1 billion deal.

Daily Briefing

Jul 29, 2026

Senate confirms Clayton to head ODNI.

OpenAI's rogue agent targeted Model Lab's customer.

Microsoft Threat Intelligence

Jul 29, 2026

A Farewell from Sherrod: New Season Coming Soon

As we close out season three of the podcast, Sherrod offers her farewell message as she takes on a new threat intelligence leadership role outside of Microsoft. Our executive producer also joins to briefly share our plans for season four, with new faces and voices joining future episodes.

Marketing

Jul 29, 2026

What a CISO and Marketing Partnership Actually Looks Like with Jason Rebholz of Evoke Security

Jason Rebholz read a blog post about MCPs and saw the whole trajectory of AI security play out in front of him. Twenty years of incident response experience told him we were about to make the same mistakes…just faster. He started Evoke Security the same way he has approached every problem since: get ahead of the issues before the damage is done! He joins Gianna to talk about what a real CISO and marketing partnership looks like, how he built a threat research publication program at Corvus Insurance that helped brokers sell policies and kept policyholders safer, and what he has carried over from that into building Evoke Security.

CyberWire Daily

Jul 28, 2026

You've been disconnected.

A senator targets legacy VPNs. Minnesota water systems come under cyberattack. A 20-year-old flaw exposes 24,000 servers. Microsoft debuts its first cybersecurity AI model. A critical VeloCloud bug is under active attack. The Dysphoria botnet tops 200,000 devices. Apple faces a lawsuit over a fake crypto wallet. Denmark builds a cyber-resilient banking backup. Google gives threat actors yet another set of names. Our guest is John Chiappetta, Chief Revenue Officer of Xona Systems, discussing the Aviation Cybersecurity GAO report that highlights gaps in FAA network security. Hacking the admissions system in search of a fair chance.

Daily Briefing

Jul 28, 2026

A senator looks to eliminate legacy VPNs from federal government.

Decades-old vulnerability exposes 24,000 servers.

Inside the Media Minds

Jul 28, 2026

Inside the Media Mind of Bree Fowler: Special Black Hat Episode!

On this episode of #IMM, Christine and Madison sit down with freelance journalist Bree Fowler to discuss all things Black Hat Conference.

SpyCast

Jul 28, 2026

Murder in Mexico City: The Assassination of Leon Trotsky

For those of you who have visited the International Spy Museum, you may be familiar with one of our most prized artifacts, the ice ax used to assassinate Leon Trotsky in 1940. Trotsky was the operational mastermind of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and when Vladimir Lenin died, many assumed Trotsky would succeed him as the central figure of the revolution. Joseph Stalin had other plans. What followed was a bitter rivalry that ended in Trotsky's demise. Our guest today, H. Keith Melton, not only tracked down the murder weapon but, alongside his colleague Nigel West, wrote the most comprehensive account of the plot and the assassination to date. Keith and Nigel join guest host Dr. Mark Jacobson to discuss their book, The Assassination of Leon Trotsky: Espionage, Scandal, and the Crime of the Century, ahead of their live program coming up on August 6, here at the International Spy Museum.

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