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Taking the cloud out of the sky.
French supermarkets lose their cool in a refrigeration cyberattack. Anthropic pulls the plug on AI agents behaving badly. A Canadian ransomware negotiator is arrested in the FBI’s ShinyHunters investigation. XWorm expands its surveillance capabilities. A Dutch grocery giant suffers a cyberattack. Leaked files reveal Luna Moth’s playbook. Monday business brief. Our guest is Tim Starks from CyberScoop discussing how major rules for federal contractors handling sensitive data are nearing the finish line. Six digits sink Danish security.
TranscriptThe Flax Typhoon gets a cold front.
An international coalition disrupts Chinese state-backed hacking operations. Officials dismantle cybercrime centers in Ghana. Anthropic launches initiatives aimed at quicker remediation. A maximum-severity SonicWall vulnerability is under active exploitation. The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act remains in legislative limbo. Ransomware spikes. Attackers exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities in AhsayCBS backup software. Midnight Mimosa targets cheap Android device firmware. Prosecutors saddle a money mule. Maria Varmazis joins me to continue our CyberWire’s 10th anniversary celebration with a conversation about public-private partnerships. Open AI does the math.
TranscriptYou can’t secure what you can’t see.
An OT cyber coalition urges CISA to establish baseline security requirements. Another OpenAI safety worker resigns. Maryland lawmakers seek funding for Cyber Command’s mental health initiatives. Hackers compromised country-code domain registries for TLS certs. The FBI and French authorities shut down alleged CSAM AI deepfake websites. Ransomware recovery firm CEO indicted for secretly paying attackers. MATCHBOIL keeps simmering. Apollo software pioneer Margaret Hamilton dies. On today’s Industry Voices Sanjay Jeyakumar, Co-Founder of Abnormal AI, discusses why AI agents are challenging traditional security models. And how do I hack thee? Let me count the ways.
TranscriptSonicWall issues emergency patches. European wind and solar sites are exposed online. South Korea warns of AI-powered attacks on banks. Maria Varmazis unpacks the EU’s new Space Threat Response Architecture. Google patches dozens of high-severity Chrome flaws. Researchers uncover an SSRF vulnerability in Harbor. AI reshapes vulnerability management. Wikimedia says OpenAI agents repeatedly broke its rules. Pwn2Own kicks off in Ireland. Our guest is Derek Holt, CEO of Digital.ai, who says AI has killed the cybersecurity response window. VIN there, done that.
TranscriptMilitary cyber personnel face pay cuts. A critical RCE threatens banking and government authentication systems. Dell patches a critical update flaw. A missed patch costs Accenture an FBI contract. Hackers hijack a fashion retailer’s push notifications. Insurers brace for rogue AI claims. Hackers breach a supertanker’s propulsion system. Denmark suffers a massive population data breach. And Japan extradites a suspected Qilin ransomware operator. Our guest is Steve Ryan, Founder and CEO of Trinity Cyber, on surviving first contact from a Frontier AI-enabled cyber threat. There’s no honor among Gentlemen.
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