Patcher ransomware. Locky, Cryptowall, and Cerber are still active; so is old-fashioned blackmail. NSA keeps the VEP. Reactions to New York State's cyber regs for banks. Observations of BugDrop, and thoughts on cyber war and attribution.

Researchers build a self-propagating attack against WeChat. Threat actors move toward multi-agent AI frameworks. N-able issues an emergency patch for a maximum-severity bug under active exploitation. ...

8 Sep 30min

In this Special Episode, Maria Varmazis and Dave Bittner are joined by friend of the show, Brandon Karpf, to unpack a new bipartisan congressional investigation into the lingering presence of Chinese ...

7 Sep 38min

The accurate timing data from spacecraft has become an invaluable tool for nearly every critical infrastructure sector and a greater target for malicious actors. Host Maria Varmazis and ⁠Andy Davis⁠,...

6 Sep 23min

Ismael Valenzuela, Vice President of Labs, Threat Research and Intelligence at Arctic Wolf, sits down with Dave to discuss their work tracking Anubis. Arctic Wolf Labs details a series of 2026 Anubis ...

5 Sep 19min

The G7 and CISA prepare for the quantum threat. Nightmare Eclipse drops a CrowdStrike zero-day. The White House’s offensive hacking plan raises legal questions. CISA offers a playbook for communicatin...

4 Sep 31min

A watchdog challenges the Trump administration’s secret frontier AI reviews. METR discloses two cyberattacks. Leaked documents reveal a Russian cyber training pipeline. Rogue ScreenConnect clients spr...

3 Sep 24min

Nexus sells driver’s license scans on the dark web. OpenAI says its models have reached a “Critical” capability threshold. International law enforcement disrupts a decades-old botnet. AI hallucination...

2 Sep 30min

Nightmare Eclipse drops a Kaspersky zero-day. The Financial Stability Board warns frontier AI could threaten the global financial system. Anthropic says it has tightened security. CISA adopts a risk-b...

1 Sep 27min