A cyber carol.

Making cybercrime more difficult.

The FBI lays out its new Cyber Strategy. CISA plans a federal cyber overhaul. Anthropic discloses another unauthorized AI intrusion. Treasury sanctions a Chinese-language cybercrime marketplace. Anoth...

10 Sep 28min

Clear your calendar, it’s Patch Tuesday.

Patch Tuesday is a doozy. The Feds warn China-based AI companies are distilling U.S. AI models. A new ClickFix campaign goes straight for the browser. Smart TVs get nosy. Hackers gift themselves a $47...

9 Sep 30min

Worming its way through WeChat.

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

This call may be monitored. [Special Edition]

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

When hackers control the clock. [T-Minus: Space-Cyber Briefing]

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

RMM-ber this ransomware. [Research Saturday]

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

What the Flock?

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

Who’s watching the AI watchers?

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