CyberWire Daily

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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Maj 25min

The era of AI-powered attacks is here.

Google says AI-powered cybercrime has gone industrial scale. Two new Windows zero-days emerge. Signal threatens to leave Canada over lawful access legislation. Pentagon-linked influence operations shi...

14 Maj 27min