Cybersecurity News

Afternoon Cyber Tea

May 6, 2025

Bringing the Cyber Tea to RSA 2025

On this special episode of Afternoon Cyber Tea, Ann brings listeners inside the 2025 RSA Conference to explore the intersection of AI, quantum computing and cyber resiliency with two visionary experts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s ⁠Vinod Vaikuntanathan⁠ and ⁠Dr. Sasha O’Connell⁠ from The Aspen Institute. Vinod shares how quantum computing poses a serious threat to current encryption methods and explains the urgent need for post-quantum cryptography, while Sasha shares her non-technical path into cybersecurity, her work leading Aspen Digital’s global policy efforts and the launch of the new public campaign aimed at making cybersecurity accessible and actionable for everyone.

CSO Perspectives

May 6, 2025

What’s the “correct” path for entering cyber?

Research Saturday

May 3, 2025

When AI gets a to-do list.

This week, we are joined by ⁠⁠Shaked Reiner⁠⁠, Security Principal Security Researcher at ⁠⁠CyberArk⁠⁠, who is discussing their research on"Agents Under Attack: Threat Modeling Agentic AI." Agentic AI empowers LLMs to take autonomous actions, like browsing the web or executing code, making them more useful—but also more dangerous. Threats like prompt injections and stolen API keys can turn agents into attack vectors. Shaked Reiner explains how treating agent outputs like untrusted code and applying traditional security principles can help keep them in check.

CyberWire Daily

May 2, 2025

Wired, but not fired.

RSAC 2025 comes to an end. Canadian power company hit by cyberattack. Ascension Health discloses another breach. UK luxury department store Harrods discloses attempted cyberattack. Microsoft fixes bug flagging Gmail as spam. An unofficial version of the Signal app shared in photo. EU fines TikTok for violating GDPR with China data transfer. US Treasury to cut off Southeast Asian cybercrime key player. Passwordless by default coming your way. Our guest is Kevin Magee, from Microsoft, sharing a medley of interviews he gathered on the show floor of RSAC 2025.

Daily Briefing

May 2, 2025

Canadian power company hit by cyberattack.

UK luxury department store Harrods discloses attempted cyberattack. Ascension Health discloses another breach. California man pleads guilty to stealing Disney data.

The FAIK Files

May 2, 2025

AI's Behavioral Extremes

In this week's episode: We explore the One Million Chessboards project, a massive collaborative web experiment where users can move pieces across a million shared chessboards in real-time. Anthropic's model welfare research program, AI ethics, and the need for interpretability. OpenAI's recent struggle with ChatGPT's personality crisis as they roll back an update that made the AI too sycophantic. Meta's troubling chatbot sex problem: Social Media, LLMS, sex, and Zuckerberg -- what could go wrong?

CyberWire Daily

May 1, 2025

AI on the offensive.

Updates from RSAC 2025. Former NSA cyber chief Rob Joyce warns that AI is rapidly approaching the ability to develop high-level software exploits. An FBI official warns that China is the top threat to U.S. critical infrastructure. Mandiant and Google raise alarms over widespread infiltration of global companies by North Korean IT workers. France accuses Russia’s Fancy Bear of targeting at least a dozen French government and institutional entities. SonicWall has issued an urgent alert about active exploitation of a high-severity vulnerability in its Secure Mobile Access appliances. A China-linked APT group known as “TheWizards” is abusing an IPv6 networking feature. Gremlin Stealer emerges as a serious threat. A 23-year-old Scottish man linked to the Scattered Spider hacking group has been extradited from Spain to the U.S. Senators urge FTC action on consumer neural data. New WordPress malware masquerades as an anti-malware plugin. Our guest is Andy Cao from ProjectDiscovery, the Winner of the 20th Annual RSAC™ Innovation Sandbox Contest. Our intern Kevin returns with some Kevin on the Street interviews from the RSAC floor. Research reveals the risk of juice jacking isn’t entirely imaginary.

Caveat

May 1, 2025

France names Russia in cyberattacks.

Congress passes AI content moderation bill/

Daily Briefing

May 1, 2025

Hundreds of Fortune 500 companies have hired North Korean operatives.

SonicWall warns that VPN flaws are being exploited. France attributes numerous cyberattacks to Russia's APT28.

Threat Vector

May 1, 2025

Confronting China’s Expanding Cyber Threats

In this episode of Threat Vector, host ⁠David Moulton⁠ talks with ⁠Wendi Whitmore⁠, Chief Security Intelligence Officer at Palo Alto Networks, about the increasing scale of China-linked cyber threats and the vulnerabilities in outdated OT environments. Wendi shares critical insights on how nation-state threats have evolved, why AI must be part of modern defense strategies, and the importance of real-time intelligence sharing. They also dive into scenario planning as a key to resilience. If you want to know how cybersecurity leaders are preparing for the next wave of threats, this episode is a must-listen.

Hacking Humans

May 1, 2025

The prince, the pretender, and the PSA.

As Maria is on vacation this week, our hosts ⁠⁠Dave Bittner⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Joe Carrigan⁠⁠, are sharing the latest in social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that are making headlines. Joe and Dave are joined by guest ⁠Rob Allen⁠ from ⁠ThreatLocker⁠ who shares a story on how a spoofed call to the help desk unraveled into a full-blown cyber siege on MGM Resorts. Joe’s story is on a new FBI warning: scammers are impersonating the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), the very site where people go to report online fraud. Dave's got the story of a so-called “Nigerian prince” scammer who turned out to be a 67-year-old man from Louisiana, now facing 269 counts of wire fraud for helping funnel money to co-conspirators in Nigeria. Our catch of the day comes from a scams subreddit, and is on a message received from the Department of Homeland Security reaching out to a user to share that they are a victim of fraud.

CyberWire Daily

Apr 30, 2025

Less CISA, more private sector power?

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem justifies budget cuts in her RSAC keynote. The EFF pens an open letter to Trump backing Chris Krebs. Scattered Spider is credited with the Marks & Spencer cyberattack. Researchers discover a critical flaw in Apple’s AirPlay protocol. The latest CISA advisories. On our Industry Voices segment, we are joined by Neil Gad, Chief Product and Technology Officer at RealVNC, who is discussing a security-first approach in remote access software development. What do you call an AI chatbot that finished at the bottom of its class in med school?

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