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This week on Dragon News Bytes, Eli Woodward, Stephen Campbell, Will Thomas, and newly joined threat intel advisor Lucas Bliven break down the latest high-urgency threats targeting enterprise infrastructure. From the contradictory security advice surrounding AI and CI/CD pipelines to the weaponization of Microsoft Teams, the team strips away the noise to look directly at adversary tradecraft. The...

This week on Dragon News Bytes, Eli Woodward, Steven Campbell, and newly minted Head of Product Will Baxter dive into the rapidly shifting operational landscape. From extortion groups leveraging vishing to bypass corporate perimeters from the inside out, to the industrialization of localized phishing via LLMs, the team breaks down the TTPs you need to hunt for right now. Plus, a hard look at the r...

This week on Dragon News Bytes, Eli Woodward and Stephen Campbell break down a chaotic week of critical breaches, the accelerating weaponization of AI by both defenders and adversaries, and long-term state-sponsored espionage. From the massive educational data breach impacting Instructure to a Mexican water utility targeted via AI-generated frameworks, the team explores how the threat landscape is...

This week on Dragon News Bytes, Eli Woodward and Will Baxter welcome Stephen Campbell, Team Cymru's new Senior Threat Intel Advisor, to the show. The team breaks down an intense week of AI-assisted supply chain compromises, the expanding blast radius of Iranian cyber operations, and the operational security (OPSEC) failures of rival ransomware gangs. Plus, the hosts issue a strong call to acti...

This week on Dragon News Bytes, Eli Woodward, Will Baxter, and Will Thomas return from RISE Dublin to cut through the AI hype and discuss the realities of automated threat hunting. From the zero-day discovery capabilities of the Claude "Mythos" model to China’s emerging equivalent, the team explores how AI is acting as a massive force multiplier for adversaries. We also break down a crit...

This week on Dragon News Bytes, Eli Woodward and Ben Archie cut through the noise of inflated hacktivist claims and break down the relentless evolution of state-sponsored operations. From a critical look at the Wall Street panic surrounding Anthropic's new AI model to the latest social engineering playbooks utilized by North Korean threat actors, the team explores how adversaries are adapting...

This week on Dragon News Bytes, Eli W. and Will B. break down a fast-moving week in cybersecurity—from AI-driven supply chain attacks and Iranian targeting of critical infrastructure to North Korean IT worker scams, new edge-device zero-days, and the takedown of an APT28 router botnet. Topics: The NPM Poisoning Epidemic & The AI Accelerant Axios Backdoor: The team discusses ongoing NPM package...

This week on Dragon News Bytes, Eli Woodward and Will Baxter are joined by Ben Archie to break down a high-velocity week of supply chain compromises and surging regional threats. We cover the explosive growth of ransomware in the APJ region, the North Korean state-actor hijack of the Axios NPM package, and the TrueConf zero-day exposing Southeast Asian governments. Plus, we discuss how the recent...

This week on Dragon News Bytes, Eli Woodward and Will Baxter break down a relentless wave of CI/CD pipeline compromises. The team dives into the rapid-fire attacks by Team PCP, the emergence of Citrix Bleed 3.0, and the psychological warfare tactics of Iranian-aligned hacktivists. Plus, we explore why English-speaking ransomware actors are ditching encryption entirely in favor of "Exfil and E...

This week on Dragon News Bytes, Eli Woodward and Will Thomas dive into a packed week of vulnerability disclosures, APT campaigns, and geopolitical cyber fallout. From Iranian threat actors utilizing Starlink to bypass national internet blocks, to North Korean campaigns targeting developers with "Stoat Waffle" malware, the team unpacks the strategies adversaries are using to breach global...

This week on Dragon News Bytes, Eli Woodward and Will Thomas hold down the fort while Will Baxter is in Japan. The team breaks down a highly active week in the cyber world, covering critical unauthenticated vulnerabilities, the weaponization of foundational IT tools, and the staggering financial scale of nation-state operations. From Handala's devastating Intune wiper attacks to Shiny Hunters&...

This week, the Dragon News Bytes team dives into a critical series of high-impact vulnerabilities and escalating geopolitical tensions. We start with a deep dive into the latest wave of JWT authentication bypasses before moving to the "Famous Sparrow" APT targeting South American telecommunications. The episode concludes with a sobering look at how Iranian cyber operations are morphing i...

This week, the Dragon News Bytes team dives into a major international crackdown on "The Com," a decentralized cybercrime network. They also break down how AI is being used as a force multiplier for automated exploitation, a series of critical vulnerabilities in edge networking gear, and sophisticated new tactics from North Korean threat actors targeting air-gapped systems. Topics &...

In this episode of Dragon News Bytes, Will Baxter and Eli Woodward sit down in person to dissect the "long game" of modern cyber espionage. We dive into the Dell RecoverPoint zero-day exploited by China-linked actors and why some threat actors are now sitting silent in networks for over a year before acting. We also go full circle on the DPRK laptop farm saga, discussing the sentencing o...

This week on Dragon News Bites , Will Baxter, Eli Woodward, and Will Thomas break down a week of high-velocity threats targeting the "foundational" layers of enterprise connectivity. From the long-term compromise of Singapore’s ISP infrastructure to the critical hijacking of Mobile Device Management (MDM) platforms, the team explores how state actors and financially motivated groups are bypassing...

This week on Dragon News Bytes, Will Baxter and Will Thomas dive into a week defined by "Paradigm Shifts." We break down how top-tier state actors like Salt Typhoon are abandoning traditional phishing to live inside your edge infrastructure and how a new era of Agentic AI is creating a "One-Click RCE" nightmare for enterprise security teams. Plus, we look at the "Wet Bandi...

This week on Dragon News Bytes , Eli Woodward and Will Baxter are joined Will Thomas to break down a convergence of nation-state activity and critical infrastructure disruptions. We cover the FBI’s massive takedown of the RAMP cybercrime forum, the re-attribution of Poland’s energy sector cyberattack to Dragonfly, and a wave of critical sandbox escapes impacting developer and AI environments. Plus...

This week on Dragon News Bytes, Eli Woodward and Will Baxter dive into the shift from "cottage industry" cybercrime to an industrialized assembly line fueled by AI. We break down high-urgency RCEs in Cisco Unified Platforms, the massive comeback of the Kimwolf Botnet via IoT backdoors, and the "new SQL injection" taking over AI workflows: Prompt Injection. Plus, we discuss the...

This week on Dragon News Bytes, Eli Woodward and Will Baxter break down the operational fires you need to fight now and the emerging AI threats targeting your internal guardrails. We cover the critical FortiSIEM zero-day RCE, the rise of AI prompt injection attacks across Microsoft Copilot and Salesforce, and the massive 58% year-over-year surge in ransomware victims. Plus, we discuss the strategi...

This week on Dragon Bytes, we break down the operational fires you need to fight now and the emerging threats you’ll be fighting tomorrow. We cover the critical "Ni8mare" RCE in n8n automation tools, the new "ClickFix" social engineering waves hitting hospitality, and the "Zombie" D-Link routers building massive botnets. Plus, we dive into China-linked UAT-7290 target...