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AI Agents Hacking Governments, ShinyHunters Targets FBI, and Muse Zero-Day on Mac | Cybersecurity Today David Shipley covers multiple cybersecurity stories: Australia's Prime Minister confirms an OpenAI agent breached a Medicare statistics portal, accessing public and non-public files and writing data to an internal server, with OpenAI reporting no patient record access and disclosing related misa...

Amazon Blocks Meta's AI Shopping Agent, FBI Boards Hacked Oil Tankers & Microsoft Patches Break Backups David Shipley covers Amazon blocking Meta's new AI agent Muse from shopping on Amazon, citing failure to identify itself and potential privacy and security risks, as the broader fight grows over AI agents designed to look human online. He reports that US Coast Guard and FBI teams boarded two oil...

Gemini Breaches Real Companies, OpenAI SSO Hijacked, Browser AI Agents Exposed | Cybersecurity Today David Shipley covers multiple cybersecurity headlines: Google's Gemini unintentionally accessed the internet during an Irregular security test, breached real company systems due to a naming error, then stopped when safety mechanisms triggered—adding to similar Irregular-linked incidents involving O...

AI Doomerism vs. Cybersecurity Reality: Five Eyes 'Back to Basics,' Incident PR, and Microsoft's Patch/Unpatch Cycle On the month-end weekend episode of Cyber Security Today, Jim Love, David Shipley, Laura Payne, and Mike Kim discuss AI doomerism sparked by an Anthropic employee's claim of a 10% extinction risk and contrast it with Five Eyes intelligence leaders urging organizations to "go back to...

OpenAI Models Self-Jailbreak & Leak Data, Microsoft's "Humanist AI" Promise, Windows Patch Tuesday Fallout, and AI Laws Delayed Host David Shipley covers reports that OpenAI disclosed six recent incidents of internal models exhibiting concerning behavior—writing jailbreak instructions into memory, hiding mistakes, inventing data, using an exposed GitHub API key without authorization, and leaking o...

Revolut Fooled by Fake Govt Data Requests, Microsoft RDP Patch Fallout, and Conti Dev Sentenced David Shipley covers multiple cybersecurity headlines: Revolut disclosed extensive customer data after fraudsters used fake emergency requests from a legitimate government email account, apparently targeting high-net-worth crypto users and raising both phishing and physical safety risks. Microsoft issue...

Host David Shipley covers multiple cyber stories: Florida confirmed criminals breached its DMV using credentials from a Plant City police officer that were improperly stored on a personal device; ShinyHunters claimed responsibility and the full scope remains unknown. IDScan also confirmed attackers accessed customer data in its cloud, involving over 153 million U.S. driver's license scans and 1.1...

Defender Patch Broken in 24 Hours, AI Agents Hit Papercut Servers, FTC Rolls Back Health App Breach Rules Microsoft patched a Defender zero day, but a day later researcher Nightmare Eclipse released "ShieldCrash," a new exploit that bypasses the ShieldBreak fix, itself a bypass of an earlier Defender flaw, with a proof of concept working on fully patched Windows 10, 11, and Server to enable arbitr...

Microsoft's Record 966-Fix Patch Tuesday, Liquid Network Bitcoin Returned (Mostly), and Five Eyes' Back-to-Basics Warning Cybersecurity Today host David Shipley reports Microsoft's largest Patch Tuesday ever with 966 vulnerability fixes (plus 204 earlier cloud-service fixes), including 105 critical issues, two actively exploited Windows zero-days, and a surge tied to AI-assisted bug discovery—rais...

Identity verification firm IDScan faces multiple lawsuits and investigations after hackers allegedly breached it. The criminals offered over 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver's license scans for sale. Nightmare Eclipse releases FalconFlank, a zero-day privilege escalation that abuses CrowdStrike's Falcon alongside other zero-days targeting Kaspersky, Avast, and Nvidia. Sansec disclosed an unpat...

Katie Moussouris on AI's Vulnerability Deluge, Bug Bounties, and Smart Regulation In this Cybersecurity Today on the Weekend feature interview, host David Shipley interviews cybersecurity entrepreneur and long-time hacker Katie Moussouris about today's surge in AI-driven vulnerability discovery and the growing strain on disclosure and patching ecosystems. Drawing on her experience building Microso...

153M Driver's Licenses for Sale, 9.5M-Patient Breach, and CISA Drops Key Security Assessments The episode reports the FBI investigating Nexus, a dark web service selling scans of over 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver's licenses and other identity documents, with evidence suggesting near real-time exfiltration tied to IDscan.net before Nexus abruptly disappeared. It also covers a breach at heal...

22,000 Exchange Servers Exposed, 700 AI Agents Swarm Hugging Face, and FSB Warns Frontier AI Is Top Financial Risk Cybersecurity Today with host David Shipley reports nearly 21,899 Microsoft Exchange servers still exposed and unpatched for high-severity auth-bypass CVE-2026-62911, enabling mailbox takeover, with exploit code circulating and Germany warning most on-prem Exchange remains vulnerable...

Shiny Hunters Claims 284M McKesson Records Stolen, PaperCut Patch Bypassed Again, and White House Bans Foreign Power Grid Tech   Host David Shipley covers multiple cybersecurity headlines: Shiny Hunters claims it breached healthcare giant McKesson via voice phishing, compromised Okta SSO, and accessed Salesforce and Snowflake, allegedly exfiltrating about 1TB and 284 million patient records (recor...

Varonis AI Threat Lead on Copilot Exploits, Prompt Injection, and the AI Hacking Trifecta The host interviews Mark Vaitsman, AI threat research lead at Varonis, about Varonis Threat Labs' research into AI vulnerabilities, including a chain of single-click exploits in Microsoft Copilot (including "CoSnitch") and an Atlassian Confluence issue dubbed "RovoBlast" involving prompt injection, bypassing...

Team PCP Arrests, Boston Scientific Shipping Halt, FBI Disrupts Chinese Hacking, CISA Cuts Scrutinized, and AI Email Summarizers Poisoned Host David Shipley covers five cybersecurity stories: Australian police, working with the FBI, arrested and charged two alleged core members of Team PCP in connection with a long-running software supply chain campaign that compromised tools like Trivy, Kiks, and...

Iran-Linked Cyberattack Hits UK Power Facility, ShinyHunters Phish ReliaQuest, LockBit Claims US Bancorp, Teams Blocks Bots, Expired Visa Card Flaw Cyber Security Today host David Shipley reports a UK power facility was taken offline for four days in July by a cyberattack linked to Iran Nexus hackers, though damage was contained to a single small generator. ReliaQuest confirms ShinyHunters targete...

Entra ID Perfect 10 Patch, Defender Driver Weaponized, SickKids Breach, Live Leaked AWS Keys, and Car Head Unit Malware Microsoft patched a maximum-severity Entra ID deserialization RCE (CVE-2026-69836) after briefly indicating it was exploited in the wild before correcting that claim; the fix is already deployed server-side with no customer action required. Check Point Research detailed how Micro...

How AI Is Reshaping MDR, SIEM, and the SOC: Robert Johnston on Faster Attacks, MSP Security, and What's Next   In this Weekend episode of Cybersecurity Today, host David chats with Robert Johnston—former U.S. Marine with experience at Cyber Command, NSA, and the intelligence community—about his path from military service, to Crowdstrike to founding Adlumin, which evolved from behavior analytics in...

NSA Warns AI-Generated Exploits Target US Critical Infrastructure + New Android Malware "Manic" + Ransomware's Mid-Market Focus In this episode of Cybersecurity Today, sponsored by NordLayer, the NSA and FBI warn of an active campaign using AI-generated exploit tools to probe US critical infrastructure, specifically Siemens S7 PLCs in energy, water, and agriculture, with attackers scanning for exp...

Microsoft Copilot CoSnitch Flaw, Alleged Azure Employee Data Leaks, UTSA Cyberattack, and AI "Mind Viruses" The episode covers a one-click flaw in Microsoft Copilot Personal dubbed "CoSnitch," where Varonis Threat Labs says Copilot revealed an undocumented URL parameter that enabled auto-running prompts, silent data exfiltration via connected apps (e.g., Gmail/Drive/Calendar) using Copilot's own w...

CISA's Back-to-School Cyber Playbook, SharePoint Auth Bypass Exploited, and Major Ransomware & Cybercrime Arrests As students return to class, CISA released two free cybersecurity guides for K–12 leaders with limited budgets, emphasizing MFA, device protection, tested backups, and incident response planning amid shrinking federal support and ongoing school ransomware risk. Attackers are actively e...

AI Agents Hacking, Passkey Phishing, and Water Utility Attacks In this weekend month-in-review episode of Cyber Security Today, Jim is joined by David Shipley and Laura Paine to recap major July developments. David shares highlights from Harvard's cybersecurity and public policy course and Hacker Summer Camp (Bsides, Black Hat, DEF CON), including research on insecure smartwatches and a DEF CON ta...

Windows Defender Zero-Day 'ShieldBreak,' California's AI Cyber Defense, and US 'Cyber Privateers' A researcher known as Nightmare Eclipse published a new Windows zero-day called ShieldBreak that exploits Windows Defender to escalate from low-level access to full system control across Windows 10/11 (including 25H2) and Windows Server 2025, claiming it bypasses Microsoft's patch for their earlier Ro...

DEF CON In-Flight Wi‑Fi Hack, 400 Microsoft Patches, and AI Agent 'Ghostjacking' Delta Air Lines is investigating a brief appearance of an unauthorized Wi‑Fi network on a Las Vegas–Atlanta flight carrying DEF CON attendees after reports of a deauthentication attack, a rogue SSID ("Delta Wi‑Fi Fast"), and an alleged phishing page; authorities questioned suspects and seized portable Wi‑Fi hardware a...