CyberWire Daily

Christian Lees: It's not always textbook. [CTO] [Career Notes]

Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Christian Lees, CTO at Resecurity, shares his story and insight on coming into the cybersecurity world. He considers himself a late bloomer because he did n...

15 Mar 9min

Your AI sidekick might be a spy. [Research Saturday]

This week, we are joined by Or Eshed, Co-Founder and CEO from LayerX Security, discussing their work on "How We Discovered A Campaign of 16 Malicious Extensions Built to Steal ChatGPT Accounts." Resea...

14 Mar 22min

Socks pulled, patches pushed.

Europol dismantles the SocksEscort proxy service. Cyber operations highlight imbalance in the war in Iran. Google rushes Chrome zero-day patches. Veeam fixes critical backup flaws. A former incident r...

13 Mar 30min

Oops, those were the FBI files.

Iran threatens tech firms as hackers strike Stryker. The EU advances efforts toward digital sovereignty. A foreign hacker stumbles upon the FBI’s Epstein files. DOGE used ChatGPT to cull humanities gr...

12 Mar 28min

AI as Tradecraft: How Threat Actors Are Operationalizing AI [Microsoft Threat Intelligence Podcast]

In this episode of the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Podcast, host⁠ ⁠⁠Sherrod DeGrippo is joined by Greg Schlomer and Vlad Honyanyy to discuss new research on Jasper Sleet, a North Korean–aligned thre...

12 Mar 21min

AI as Tradecraft: How Threat Actors Are Operationalizing AI [Microsoft Threat Intelligence Podcast]

In this episode of the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Podcast, host⁠ ⁠⁠Sherrod DeGrippo is joined by Greg Schlomer and Vlad H. to discuss new research on Jasper Sleet, a North Korean–aligned threat act...

12 Mar 21min

New command amid mounting cyber risks.

Rudd takes the helm at NSA and Cyber Command. A watchdog probes alleged Social Security data mishandling. Patch Tuesday lands. Governments brace for cyber fallout from Iran. BeatBanker spreads via a f...

11 Mar 25min

Signals, scams, and a Salesforce snatch.

Russian hackers target Signal and WhatsApp. Permit scammers impersonate local officials. Anthropic sues over a Pentagon blacklist. The White House moves to restore fraud victims. ShinyHunters target S...

10 Mar 24min