The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast

Christopher Luft, Co-Founder and CCO of LimaCharlie, and Dr. Mike Saylor, CEO of Blackswan Cybersecurity, sat down with the Defender Fridays community for Black Hat week wrap up and a deep dive building secure environments for IR. Dr. Mike Saylor is an accomplished, outcome-driven and solution-focused business professional and entrepreneur with 30+ years of Consulting, IT Audit & Risk, Cyber S...

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community . At Black Hat USA in Las Vegas, three security researchers demonstrated how Google's Gemini AI could be hijacked to take control of smart home devices using a novel form of indirect prompt injection . Two separate security teams - NeuralTrust and SPLX - have conducted red teamin...

Maxime Lamothe-Brassard, Founder and CEO of LimaCharlie, and Jeremy Snyder, Founder and CEO of FireTail.ai , sat down with the Defender Fridays community to discuss the hurdles of maintaining secure processes while adding AI to your workflow. Jeremy is the founder and CEO of FireTail.ai. Jeremy was an IT and cybersecurity practitioner for over 10 years before transitioning into product and sales r...

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community . More than 90 state and local government organizations have been targeted in a recent wave of cyberattacks exploiting a vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint, according to the Center for Internet Security (CIS) . Traditional cyber attack methodologies - exploiting endpoints, mov...

Join us every Friday as we delve into the dynamic world of information security, exploring its defensive side with seasoned professionals from across the industry. Our aim is simple yet ambitious: to foster a collaborative space where ideas flow freely, experiences are shared, and knowledge expands.

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community . A critical new SharePoint vulnerability is under mass exploitation, with attackers targeting on-premises SharePoint Server deployments to exfiltrate sensitive data, including authentication tokens . And then directly related to the first story, Microsoft has now confirmed that...

Join us every Friday as we delve into the dynamic world of information security, exploring its defensive side with seasoned professionals from across the industry. Our aim is simple yet ambitious: to foster a collaborative space where ideas flow freely, experiences are shared, and knowledge expands.

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community . Cisco has disclosed a critical vulnerability—tracked as CVE-2025-20337 with a perfect score of 10—affecting its Identity Services Engine (ISE) and the ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC). A recently updated version of the malware-as-a-service (MaaS) loader Matanbuchus is b...

Join us every Friday as we delve into the dynamic world of information security, exploring its defensive side with seasoned professionals from across the industry. Our aim is simple yet ambitious: to foster a collaborative space where ideas flow freely, experiences are shared, and knowledge expands.

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community . Kai West, a 25-year-old British national, has been indicted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York for allegedly operating under the online alias “ IntelBroker .” Hunters International, a ransomware group that surfaced in 2023 and is believed to hav...

Join us every Friday as we delve into the dynamic world of information security, exploring its defensive side with seasoned professionals from across the industry. Our aim is simple yet ambitious: to foster a collaborative space where ideas flow freely, experiences are shared, and knowledge expands. Each week, we bring you a different expert guest who will share their invaluable insights on topics...

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community . Two critical local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Sudo utility—CVE-2025-32462 and CVE-2025-32463—have been disclosed by the Stratascale Cyber Research Unit . Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox are both facing distinct, serious threats this week—Chrome from a zero-da...

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community . Thai police conducted a major raid on the Antai Holiday Hotel in central Pattaya late on Monday night, June 16th, uncovering a joint operation involving both ransomware distribution and illegal gambling. Canada’s national cybersecurity agency has confirmed that a Chinese state-...

Join us every Friday as we delve into the dynamic world of information security, exploring its defensive side with seasoned professionals from across the industry. Our aim is simple yet ambitious: to foster a collaborative space where ideas flow freely, experiences are shared, and knowledge expands. Each week, we bring you a different expert guest who will share their invaluable insights on topics...

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community . A new malware strain known as OtterCookie, developed by the North Korean APT group Lazarus, has been dissected in a detailed technical analysis by offensive security expert Mauro Eldritch . Attackers are currently exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Langflow platform — a...

Join us every Friday as we delve into the dynamic world of information security, exploring its defensive side with seasoned professionals from across the industry. Our aim is simple yet ambitious: to foster a collaborative space where ideas flow freely, experiences are shared, and knowledge expands. Each week, we bring you a different expert guest who will share their invaluable insights on topics...

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community . Over an eight-month period beginning in July of last year, China-backed threat actors carried out a coordinated campaign that included attempts to breach cybersecurity vendor SentinelOne . CISA has added two newly confirmed exploited vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulne...

On this episode of the Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast we speak with Filip Stojkovski, Staff Security Engineer at Snyk . Filip is a cybersecurity professional with over 15 years of experience. He began his career as a SOC analyst and now leads SecOps engineering at Snyk. Filip also advises organizations on SOAR, AI for SOC, and threat intelligence strategies. He holds multiple SANS certifications,...

Join us every Friday as we delve into the dynamic world of information security, exploring its defensive side with seasoned professionals from across the industry. Our aim is simple yet ambitious: to foster a collaborative space where ideas flow freely, experiences are shared, and knowledge expands. Each week, we bring you a different expert guest who will share their invaluable insights on topics...

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community . Microsoft and CrowdStrike have announced a strategic alliance aimed at deconflicting threat actor names across their platforms . A new, anonymous figure calling himself GangExposed has surfaced in the cyber threat landscape, publishing a significant set of internal documents th...

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community . Two significant crypto security breaches occurred in close succession this month, affecting both decentralized and centralized platforms. On May 22, Cetus—a decentralized exchange built on the Sui Network—was exploited via a vulnerability in its automated market maker (AMM) . M...

On this episode of the Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast we speak with Joshua Hoffman, CRO at ControlCase . Josh brings a unique perspective to the cybersecurity conversation, shaped by years of building revenue strategies in fast-changing, highly regulated environments. At ControlCase, he's helping organizations navigate the growing complexity of compliance standards like CMMC, SOC, and PCI DSS, wh...

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community . A report from Google on how to defend against UNC3944, better known as Scattered Spider . North Korea-backed threat actor TA406 has shifted its focus to targeting Ukrainian government agencies, according to new research from Proofpoint . Since October 2024, urlscan.io has been...

On episode 215 of the Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, Hank Thomas, Managing Partner and Founder at Strategic Cyber Ventures , shares his journey from Army intelligence officer to cyber-focused venture capitalist. But the most pressing part of the conversation is his call for a structural overhaul in how the US military handles cyber operations. Thomas argues that cyber is no longer a niche; it is...

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community . Since March 2025, Volexity has tracked an escalation in sophisticated phishing campaigns executed by two suspected Russian threat actors, UTA0352 and UTA0355, targeting the Microsoft 365 accounts of individuals connected to Ukraine and human rights organizations . A recent secu...