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The guardrails go to court.

AI companies sign a voluntary accord aimed at addressing safety concerns. Cybercriminals abuse the CustomGPT feature as part of a ClickFix campaign. The FBI is urging members of ShinyHunters to come forward. A fraud campaign turns stolen credentials into job scams. Maria Varmazis joins us for her space cyber story. The WaterISAC confronts persistent weaknesses. AI gives SOC teams more time at the expense of training. Two U.S. Air Force members get federal prison time over a business email compromise scheme. Our guest is Dan Ohlemeier, Senior Solutions Architect for Ready1 at Semperis, discussing crisis orchestration. That is one big pile of technical debt.

Story

1 hour ago

Crisis Orchestration: The Unsung Hero of Successful Cyber Incident Response with Dan Ohlemeier from Semperis

Dan Ohlemeier, Principal Solutions Architect at Semperis, joins Dave Bittner on the CyberWire Daily podcast for a sponsored Industry Voices conversation about crisis orchestration and the often-overlooked challenges of executing an incident response plan during a real cyber crisis. Dan explains why organizations need to prepare for communication, coordination, and documentation when normal systems are unavailable or untrusted, how more realistic tabletop exercises can expose gaps before an incident, and why effective cyber resilience depends on aligning people, processes, and technology.

Business

1 hour ago

Island raises $400 million in a Series F round.

Israeli cloud security company Upwind is acquiring AI cybersecurity startup Aegis.

Daily Briefing

5 hours ago

FBI tells ShinyHunters members to turn themselves in.

AI companies sign a voluntary accord aimed at addressing safety concerns. Business news: Island raises $400 million in Series F funding.

Microsoft Threat Intelligence

14 hours ago

From Identity Compromise to AI Defense: Inside Modern Incident Response

This week we are taking you back to Black Hat USA 2026 and exploring two sides of the security landscape. First, Microsoft incident response experts Adrian Hill and Terry Mee break down identity-based attacks, from compromised credentials and MFA bypasses to containment, logging, access controls, and the growing risks surrounding AI agents. Then, members of Microsoft’s Defender Purple Team discuss how they recreate full attack chains, including emerging AI-driven techniques, to identify detection gaps, strengthen defenses, and use AI to accelerate security research while keeping human expertise in the loop.

Marketing

16 hours ago

How Lenin Alevski Built a Cybersecurity Survival Game in a Week and Got 12,000 Players

Lenin Alevski is an AI Security Engineer at Google who spent a week building a text-based cybersecurity survival game in his spare time. ⁠Accidental CISO⁠ puts you in the seat of the first security hire at a company where everything is on fire, and every fraught and heart-pounding decision leads to one of eight endings. He sat down with Gianna to talk about how the game came together, why spec-driven development matters more than vibe coding alone, and what 12,000 players and zero marketing budget taught him about building indie cyber games.

CyberWire Daily

Sep 29, 2026

Astra, la vista, baby.

OpenAI holds back its newest model over safety concerns. Kiteworks lifts its precautionary shutdown. Apple patches an exploited zero-day. Japanese rail operators disclose cyberattacks. An Anthropic authentication flaw opens the door to account takeover. Thousands of Supabase databases leak data. NeedyMantis targets telecoms and governments. A Vietnamese national faces charges in a multimillion-dollar crypto laundering scheme. James Winebrenner, CEO of Elisity, is sharing barriers to compliance and challenges for manufacturers as the EU Cyber Resilience Act is implemented. If you’re hoping for credit, be careful what you share.

Daily Briefing

Sep 29, 2026

OpenAI cancels release of GPT-6.1 Astra over safety concerns.

Kiteworks lifts its precautionary shutdown. Former US Army soldier sentenced for hacking and extortion campaign.

SpyCast

Sep 29, 2026

Inside Sweden's Cold War Stay-Behind Operation

It was preparation for an invasion that might never come, and never did. Across Cold War Europe, stay-behind networks were established on the premise that Soviet forces might successfully invade and occupy sovereign territory. These clandestine organizations consisted of carefully vetted soldiers, intelligence officers, and everyday citizens tasked with remaining behind enemy lines to gather intelligence, conduct sabotage, and support resistance movements if their country were overrun. In neutral Sweden, the prime minister secretly authorized one such covert network in 1949 to mount guerrilla warfare against a potential Red Army occupation. Guest host Dr. Mark Jacobson speaks with Johan Wennström, author of The Stay Behinds: Sweden's Cold War Guardians, about this long-classified operation.

CyberWire Daily

Sep 28, 2026

The AI hotline.

The U.S. and China agree on an AI safety channel. Some states say CISA’s election security plan comes too late. Citrix patches critical zero-days under active exploitation. AI agents probed government websites in unexpected and concerning ways. ShinyHunters launches a new campaign against Oracle PeopleSoft customers. A New Mexico jury finds Meta misled state residents. Business briefing. Tim Starks from CyberScoop shares insights on multiple issues facing CISA. Who’s ready for algorithmic holiday shopping?

Daily Briefing

Sep 28, 2026

OpenAI pauses frontier model training until additional safeguards are in place.

US and China establish an AI safety channel. ShinyHunters launches a new attack campaign exploiting an Oracle PeopleSoft flaw.

Special Editions

Sep 27, 2026

The Insider You Built with author Camille Stewart Gloster.

On this special edition podcast, N2K CyberWire's Dave Bittner spoke with ⁠Camille Stewart Gloster⁠⁠. Camille is the author of The Insider You Built: How Organizations Stay in Control of Autonomous AI Agents, and founder of⁠⁠ CAS Strategies⁠⁠. Dave and Camille discuss her new book and the broader questions it raises about AI agents.

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