Defensive Security Podcast - Malware, Hacking, Cyber Security & Infosec

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1. ShinyHunters breaks into Clop’s leak site and starts extorting the extortionists
https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/shinyhunters-hacked-clop-what-about-clops-victims

2. CrowdSec kept a leaver’s GitHub access open and lost 170 private repositories
https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/crowdsec-says-tanstack-npm-attack-led.html

3. Anthropic’s Glasswing found 225 CVEs, and attackers have exploited exactly one
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/21/anthropic-linked-cves-pile-up-attackers-mostly-shrug/5298018

4. One infected laptop at a meter vendor held logins for 167 utility tenants
https://cyberscoop.com/spycloud-study-water-utilities-infostealer-exposure/

5. A fake LastPass installer kills 145 security products with a Microsoft-signed driver
https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/fake-lastpass-authenticator-installer.html

6. Australia says an OpenAI agent hacked a Medicare portal whose own code let it in
https://therecord.media/openai-australia-breach-cyber

7. CISA wants decoys back in your network to catch attackers who log in normally
https://www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/deception-by-design-cisa-s-guide-to-tricking-cybercriminals

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1. AI agents broke into 395 organisations, including ones their operator ruled out https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/11/ai-agents-papercut-ng-mf-attack-campaign/

2. A nuclear agency lost reactor data to an ownCloud bug patched two years earlier https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/old-unpatched-flaws-attackers-philippines-nuclear-agency

3. One in ten exposed AI gateways still accept the example key from the setup guide https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/nearly-1-in-10-exposed-litellm-gateways.html

4. Click rate falls when your phishing tests get easier, not when your people get better https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/11/pistachio-employee-phishing-risk-report/

5. Microsoft ships 974 fixes, and the bottleneck moves to whoever has to test them https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/microsoft-plugs-nearly-1000-security-holes/

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1. CISA Red Team Compromised Two Critical Infrastructure Orgs, One Detected Nothing https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/cisa-red-team-compromised-two-critical.html

2. CISA: Most exploited vulnerabilities should have been eradicated decades ago https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/28/cisa-most-exploited-vulnerabilities-should-have-been-eradicated-decades-ago/5293194

3. North Korean Fake Employees Move Into Sales, Marketing and Healthcare Roles https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/28/north-korean-remote-workers-jobs-sales-and-marketing/

4. Unit 42 says one attacker chained 50 vulns and attack paths in 10 hours https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/frontier-ai-tipping-scales-cyber-adversaries/829088/

5. AI Bug Report Flood Is Cratering Bounty Prices and Triage Queues https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/vulnpocalypse-repricing-bug-bounty-economy

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Stories:

Weak IAM affects up to 98% of cloud environments
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/14/intruder-cloud-misconfiguration-trends-report/
China-Linked Storm-1175 Debuts New StormEncryptor Ransomware via N-central Flaw
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/china-linked-hackers-deploy-new.html
‘City-Forum’ Campaign Quietly Mines Salesforce/ServiceNow Guest Access Since March 2025
https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/long-running-data-theft-campaign-salesforce-servicenow
LiteLLM ‘Supply Chain Attack’ Was Mostly Fallout From Trivy Compromise Days Earlier
https://www.securityweek.com/trivy-not-litellm-behind-the-2500-org-compromise/
ChainDrop Worm Spreads Through npm, Slips Past Standard Security Tooling
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/15/chaindrop-worm-crawls-into-npm-supply-chain-evades-standard-defenses/5287958

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Stories:

• https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/anthropic-claude-ai-hacking-test/826708
• https://thecybersecguru.com/news/openai-ai-agent-containment-escapes-hugging-face-investigation/
• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/after-the-break-in-what-attackers-do-once-theyre-already-inside/
• https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint-security/why-resetting-passwords-no-longer-stop-attacks
• https://cybersecuritynews.com/adform-advertising-platform-compromised/

https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/21/sonicwall-sma-zero-days-exploited-cve-2026-15409-cve-2026-15410/
https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/qilin-ransomware-attackers-exploit-pan.html
https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/worlds-largest-ai-model-repository.html
https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/
https://www.darkreading.com/identity-access-management-security/identity-attacks-overtake-exploits-top-ransomware-cause
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/21/estee-lauder-data-breach-oracle-ebs/

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Stories:

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/07/enterprise-ai-still-smarting-from-leaping-before-looking/5267353

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/07/github-ai-agent-leaks-private-repos-when-asked-nicely/5267924

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-it-support-calls-on-microsoft-teams-push-etherrat-malware/

https://databreaches.net/2026/07/04/adapthealth-says-attackers-sweet-talked-their-way-into-cloud-systems-and-stole-patient-data

https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/ai-agent-exploits-langflow-rce-to.html

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Links to stories:

https://www.securityweek.com/massive-password-spray-campaign-targeting-azure-cli/

https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/2026-cybersecurity-assessment-gap.html

https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/klue-investigating-supply-chain-attack-salesforce-integrations/823532/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-900-oracle-e-business-instances-exposed-to-ongoing-attacks

https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/third-party-breaches-teaches-education-lesson-vendor-risk

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This week’s stories:

https://www.securityweek.com/npm-12-will-change-script-execution-behavior-to-prevent-supply-chain-attacks/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/openclaw-ai-agent-found-falling-for-phishing-attacks-spills-user-data/

https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-vulnerability-remediation-prioritization-directive/822504/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chinese-hackers-hijack-auth-flow-spy-on-isolated-network-for-a-decade/

https://doublepulsar.com/an-update-on-fortibleed-whats-happening-with-victim-orgs-c0671a50e7f4

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Links to this week’s stories:

https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/06/05/if-you-dont-fall-for-these-extortionists-calls-theyll-show-up-with-usb-sticks/5251891

https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/only-10-of-socs-say-theyre-getting.html?m=1

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/dashlane-explains-how-attackers-managed-to-download-encrypted-password-vaults/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-hijack-thousands-of-sites-for-clickfix-and-fakeupdate-attacks/

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/06/hackers-used-metas-ai-support-bot-to-seize-instagram-accounts/

https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/ai-cybersecurity-hype-reality-check-gartner/821867/0:0

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Links to this week’s stories:

• https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/ai-assisted-exploit-development-scanner-detection
• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/california-ag-sues-23andme-over-2023-breach-exposing-health-data/
• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/palo-alto-globalprotect-vpn-auth-bypass-flaw-now-exploited-in-attacks/
• https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/29/microsoft-under-fire-for-threatening-security-researcher-with-criminal-investigation/
• https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/megalodon-malware-infects-thousands-github-repos

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Links to this week’s stories:

• https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/claude-mythos-ai-finds-10000-high.html
• https://www.tenable.com/blog/key-findings-from-the-verizon-dbir-2026
• https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/cisa-admin-leaked-aws-govcloud-keys-on-github/
• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/grafana-breach-caused-by-missed-token-rotation-after-tanstack-attack/
• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-links-repo-breach-to-tanstack-npm-supply-chain-attack/
• https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/npm-adds-2fa-gated-publishing-and.html

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Links to this week’s stories:

• https://www.securityweek.com/openai-hit-by-tanstack-supply-chain-attack/
• https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/developer-workstations-are-now-part-of.html
• https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/ivanti-fortinet-sap-vmware-n8n-patch.html
• https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/05/14/security-pros-doubt-canvas-attackers-really-deleted-stolen-student-data/5240799

https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/05/14/security-pros-doubt-canvas-attackers-really-deleted-stolen-student-data/5240799

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Links to this week’s stories:

• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/instructure-reaches-agreement-with-shinyhunters-to-stop-data-leak/
• https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/06/1-in-8-workers-say-selling-company-logins-is-justifiable/5231104
• https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/02/ai-digs-up-decades-of-code-debt-patch-up/5219734
• https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/11/anthropics-bug-hunting-mythos-was-greatest-marketing-stunt-ever-says-curl-creator/5238111
• https://www.securityweek.com/cyber-insurance-data-gives-cisos-new-ammo-for-budget-talks/

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Links to this week’s stories:

• https://www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/csa-cisos-prepare-post-mythos-exploit-storm
• https://www.csoonline.com/article/4159292/insurance-carriers-quietly-back-away-from-covering-ai-outputs.html
• https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/hackers-used-ai-to-steal-hundreds-of-millions-of-mexican-government-and-private-citizen-records-in-one-of-the-largest-cybersecurity-breaches-ever
• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/payouts-king-ransomware-uses-qemu-vms-to-bypass-endpoint-security/
• https://cybermagazine.com/news/how-cybercriminals-breached-gta-maker-rockstar

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Links to this week’s stories:

• https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/axios-attack-complex-social-engineering-industrialized
• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-venom-phishing-attacks-steal-senior-executives-microsoft-logins/
• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-new-unc6783-hackers-steal-corporate-zendesk-support-tickets/
• https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/bluehammer-windows-exploit-microsoft-bug-disclosure-issues
• https://www.businessinsider.com/mercor-lawsuits-data-breach-2026-4

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Links to stories:

• https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366640648/Emergency-Microsoft-Oracle-patches-point-to-wider-cyber-issues
• https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/27/security_boffins_harvest_bumper_crop/
• https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/the-hidden-cost-of-cybersecurity.html?m=1
• https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/24/trivy_compromise_litellm/
• https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/axios-supply-chain-attack-pushes-cross.html?m=1

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Here are the links we discuss this week:

• https://www.darkreading.com/identity-access-management-security/more-attackers-logging-in-not-breaking-in
• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/stryker-attack-wiped-tens-of-thousands-of-devices-no-malware-needed/
• https://www.csoonline.com/article/4147833/cisa-urges-it-to-harden-endpoint-management-systems-after-cyberattack-by-pro-iranian-group.html
• https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/03/widely-used-trivy-scanner-compromised-in-ongoing-supply-chain-attack/
• https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/21/delve-accused-of-misleading-customers-with-fake-compliance/

This time it’s not a rerun!

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Here are the links we discuss this week:

• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ransomware-payment-rate-drops-to-record-low-as-attacks-surge/
• https://www.securityweek.com/recent-cisco-catalyst-sd-wan-vulnerability-now-widely-exploited/
• https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/nation-state-actor-ai-malware-assembly-line
• https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/ransomware-identity-ai-cloudflare/813319/
• https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/anthropic-finds-22-firefox.html?m=1

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Here are the links we discuss this week:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/amazon-ai-assisted-hacker-breached-600-fortigate-firewalls-in-5-weeks/

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/open_source_registries_fund_security/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/infostealer-malware-found-stealing-openclaw-secrets-for-first-time/

https://www.securityweek.com/api-threats-grow-in-scale-as-ai-expands-the-blast-radius/

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/19/rmm_rat_trustconnect/