CyberWire Daily

Too many cooks in the algorithm.

Trump hits pause on an AI executive order. Lawmakers sound alarms over CISA cuts. A sophisticated scareware campaign traps users in fake tech support scams. Ubiquiti patches critical UniFi flaws. The ...

22 Touko 25min

That shield has cracks in it.

Microsoft confirms active exploitation of two Defender flaws. Europol dismantles a VPN service tied to ransomware gangs. A nine-year-old Linux kernel bug exposes SSH keys and password hashes. Cisco pa...

21 Touko 28min

The cost of trusting the extension ecosystem.

GitHub confirms a breach tied to a malicious VS Code extension. Anthropic fights a Pentagon blacklist as the White House weighs new AI security rules. Drupal scrambles to patch a critical flaw. Cisco ...

20 Touko 27min

CISA secrets left sitting on GitHub.

A CISA contractor leaks GovCloud credentials on GitHub. INTERPOL cracks down on phishing infrastructure across the Middle East and North Africa. Microsoft patches a critical Authenticator flaw, while ...

19 Touko 26min

The M5 just met its memory problem.

Researchers crack Apple’s M5 memory protections with a kernel exploit. An IBM Security executive emerges as a possible CISA pick. Researchers uncover four malicious npm packages. AI-generated “slop” ...

18 Touko 32min

From cyberspace to space-cyber. [T-Minus: Space-Cyber Briefing]

For years, in-space internet capabilities were rarely worth the hassle. Now, that’s changing. In today’s episode, Maria Varmazis and Ethan Cook sit down to discuss how internet data moves through spa...

17 Touko 32min

Scam papers served. [Research Saturday]

⁠⁠⁠Thomas Elkins⁠⁠⁠, SOC L3 Analyst from ⁠⁠⁠BlueVoyant⁠⁠⁠, is discussing "Unpacking Augmented Marauder’s Multi-Pronged Casbaneiro Campaigns." BlueVoyant researchers uncovered a large-scale phishing ca...

16 Touko 26min

One email could be all it takes.

Microsoft sounds the alarm on a critical Exchange zero-day, OpenAI and Mistral AI deal with fallout from a widening supply-chain attack campaign, and researchers uncover a thriving underground market ...

15 Touko 25min