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The EU imposes sanctions after cyberattacks. DHS boosts surveillance spending. AI firms recruit weapons-risk experts. Stryker disruption, no patient impact. LeakNet leans on ClickFix. Sears chatbot data spills. A Chinese security firm leaks a private key. Tech giants team up on scams. Teens sue xAI over alleged AI-generated abuse. On today’s Threat Vector segment, David Moulton and guest Erica L....

Drone strikes hit a key chip supply chain. China-linked hackers target Southeast Asian militaries. Attackers race ahead with AI. ShinyHunters claim a massive Telus breach. Microsoft issues a hotpatch. Malware turns up on Steam. Fileless attacks grow. Airline miles become cybercrime currency. Monday business breakdown. Tim Starks from CyberScoop unpacks the Stryker attack and the nebulous nature of...

Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Christian Lees, CTO at Resecurity, shares his story and insight on coming into the cybersecurity world. He considers himself a late bloomer because he did not go to college until he was 23. He wasn’t sure of what he wanted to do, and a family friend gave him a computer and the rest was history, he says. He fell in love with computers and started working at...

This week, we are joined by Or Eshed, Co-Founder and CEO from LayerX Security, discussing their work on "How We Discovered A Campaign of 16 Malicious Extensions Built to Steal ChatGPT Accounts." Researchers uncovered a coordinated campaign of 16 malicious browser extensions posing as ChatGPT productivity tools while secretly stealing user accounts. The extensions intercept ChatGPT session authenti...

Europol dismantles the SocksEscort proxy service. Cyber operations highlight imbalance in the war in Iran. Google rushes Chrome zero-day patches. Veeam fixes critical backup flaws. A former incident responder faces ransomware charges. Thomson Reuters staff push back on an ICE contract. Attackers abuse backup tools for data theft. CISA flags a critical n8n vulnerability. Maria Varmazis is joined by...

Iran threatens tech firms as hackers strike Stryker. The EU advances efforts toward digital sovereignty. A foreign hacker stumbles upon the FBI’s Epstein files. DOGE used ChatGPT to cull humanities grants. Meta claims increased efforts against scams. A Wisconsin ambulance provider discloses a data breach. CISA shortens the patch deadline for a critical SolarWinds vulnerability. We preview this yea...

In this episode of the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Podcast, host⁠ ⁠⁠Sherrod DeGrippo is joined by Greg Schlomer and Vlad Honyanyy to discuss new research on Jasper Sleet, a North Korean–aligned threat actor incorporating AI into active operations.  The conversation examines how AI is being integrated across the attack lifecycle — from highly tailored phishing lures and fabricated job applicant p...

In this episode of the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Podcast, host⁠ ⁠⁠Sherrod DeGrippo is joined by Greg Schlomer and Vlad H. to discuss new research on Jasper Sleet, a North Korean–aligned threat actor incorporating AI into active operations.  The conversation examines how AI is being integrated across the attack lifecycle — from highly tailored phishing lures and fabricated job applicant persona...

Rudd takes the helm at NSA and Cyber Command. A watchdog probes alleged Social Security data mishandling. Patch Tuesday lands. Governments brace for cyber fallout from Iran. BeatBanker spreads via a fake Starlink app. InstallFix targets developers. ZombieZIP hides malware in archives. And DHS reassigns CBP officials in a FOIA secrecy dispute. Ben Yelin unpacks Anthropic’s lawsuit against the Penta...

Russian hackers target Signal and WhatsApp. Permit scammers impersonate local officials. Anthropic sues over a Pentagon blacklist. The White House moves to restore fraud victims. ShinyHunters target Salesforce data. Ericsson reports a breach. macOS users face ClickFix malware. AWS credentials are phished. And CISA warns of an exploited Ivanti flaw. Our guest is Brian Baskin, Threat Researcher at S...

Israel claims a strike on Iran’s cyber warfare headquarters. The Trump administration releases a new national cyber strategy.  DHS shakes up its IT and cybersecurity leadership. Velvet Tempest uses ClickFix to drop loaders and RATs. Researchers uncover a Linux cryptocurrency clipboard hijacker. The DOJ brings a Ghanaian romance scammer to justice. Online advertising enables government tracking. Mo...

In this special Reporter’s Notebook, Maria Varmazis⁠⁠⁠⁠, host here at N2K CyberWire, takes listeners behind the scenes of our three-part series on Cyber Coalition 2025 in Tallinn, Estonia. After exploring real-time incident response, cross-border coordination, and the broader stakes of collective cyber defense, this episode offers a more personal, behind-the-scenes look at how the reporting came t...

Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Anna Belak, Director of Thought Leadership at Sysdig, shares her story from physics to cyber. Anna explains how she went into college with the thinking of getting a physics degree and then for her PhD decided to switch to material science and engineering. Both were not something she enjoyed and ultimately decided to go into cyber. She shares some advice on...

This week we are joined by Marcelle Lee, cybersecurity consultant and researcher, discussing "CTI tradecraft: Investigating a mobile scareware campaign." She details how a routine click on a Google News story led to a mobile scareware pop-up—and a deeper investigation into a broader campaign. Using free tools like Censys, URLScan, VirusTotal, and CyberChef, she pivoted from two domains to uncover...

Iran’s MuddyWater breaches multiple U.S. organizations. The FBI probes a breach of wiretap management systems. A China-linked threat actor targets South American telecoms. Cisco patches critical firewall flaws. CISA flags actively exploited bugs in Hikvision cameras and Rockwell industrial systems. A House committee advances the controversial KIDS online safety bill. The FBI arrests a suspect accu...

Unit 42 is tracking more than 60 active hacktivist groups and Iran-linked threat actors right now. What are they actually doing, what should you believe, and what should you do about it? In this episode of Threat Vector, David Moulton sits down with Justin Moore, Senior Manager of Threat Intelligence Research at Unit 42, and Andy Piazza, Senior Director of Threat Intelligence at Unit 42, to walk t...

Hacktivist activity surges in the Middle East. Defense tech firms distance themselves from Claude. International law enforcement take down the Leakbase cybercrime forum. A pair of Cisco SD-WAN vulnerabilities are under active exploitation. Google releases an urgent Chrome security update. Age-verification is put under the microscope. TikTok is leaving end-to-end encryption out of your DMs. Our gue...

A suspected U.S. exploit kit shows up in global iOS attacks. Facebook goes down briefly worldwide. A critical help-desk flaw enables remote code execution. Juniper PTX routers face a major bug. LastPass warns of phishing. Telegram becomes a cybercrime marketplace. Healthcare groups fight relaxed IT rules. A stolen Gemini API key runs up massive bills. CISA’s CIO departs. Our guest is Brian Long, C...

GPS jamming hits the Strait of Hormuz. An Iran linked threat actor uses AI to target Iraqi government officials. Hacktivists leak thousands of DHS contract records. A Hawaii cancer center suffers a data breach. Google patches over a hundred Android vulnerabilities. A new report tallies the scale of third party breaches. An MS-Agent AI framework flaw allows full system compromise. On today's Threat...

Cyberwar shadows the US Israel attack on Iran. Hackers hijack Pakistani news broadcasts. President Trump orders all federal agencies to stop using AI technology from Anthropic. The Health Care Cybersecurity and Resiliency Act clears a hurdle. A new RAT streamlines double extortion attacks against Windows systems. CISA updates warnings on a zero-day targeting Ivanti Connect Secure devices. A North...

In the final installment of our three-part series on ⁠Cyber Coalition 2025⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Maria Varmazis⁠⁠⁠, host here at N2K CyberWire, and ⁠⁠⁠Liz Stokes, CyberWire Producer, step back from the cyber range to reflect on what their time in Tallinn really meant. This episode moves beyond the mechanics of the exercise and into the broader stakes of collective cyber defense in an increasingly uncertain geopoli...

Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Larry Cashdollar, Principal Security Intelligence Response Engineer at Akamai Technologies, sits down with Dave Bittner to discuss his life leading up to working at Akamai. He shares his story from his beginnings to now, describing what college life was like as a young computer enthusiast. He says "If you look at my 1986 yearbook, I think it was my sixth g...

This week we are joined by Dr. Renée Burton, Vice President of Infoblox Threat Intel, discussing "Parked Domains and Direct Search: An Underreported Security Risk." Parked domains are no longer harmless ad pages — new research finds that in today’s “direct search” or zero-click parking ecosystem, more than 90% of visits to certain parked lookalike domains lead to scams, malware, or deceptive conte...

CISA’s acting director exits. Trump’s pick to lead the NSA hits Senate headwinds. The Pentagon pressures Anthropic over AI guardrails. A new WiFi attack sidesteps encryption. CISA flags flaws in EV chargers. Juniper patches a critical router bug. ManoMano discloses a massive breach. Europol cracks down on The Com. Greece delivers verdicts in Predatorgate. An alleged carding kingpin lands in U.S. c...

Five Eyes flags active exploitation of Cisco SD-WAN flaws. Ransomware incidents surge, but fewer victims are paying. The FTC eases its stance on COPPA to encourage age verification. Authorities in Poland and Germany charge 11 in a Facebook credential harvesting scheme. Top UK news outlets unite on AI licensing standards, as the UK touts gains in cyber resilience. Researchers say a hacker abused An...