Podcasts

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq how the use of cyber operations in the war in Ukraine has evolved over time.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

LLMs can deanonymize internet users based on their comments, CISA gets a new acting director, hackers steal 15 million records from the French Ministry of Health, and Google takes down an ad fraud botnet.

In this sponsored interview Casey Ellis chats to Harish Peri, SVP and general manager for AI security at Okta, a cloud-based identity and access management company. The pair chat about the fact that AI is forcing enterprises to relearn the basics around identity security, and how Okta for AI Agents can help.

In this podcast James Wilson chats with Brad Arkin about North Korea’s sprawling fake IT worker ecosystem. From fake interviews, to stolen identities, basement laptop farms and IP-KVM tricks, the North Koreans are operating a whole employment fraud industry.

Brad and James discuss how the scheme works in practice and the technical detection challenges defenders now face, like dealing with stolen or borrowed identities, bribed verification checks and multi-person operational chains. They also dig into why enterprises are largely on the back foot, and why there’s no single product you can buy to solve this.

As the former CISO of Adobe, Cisco and Salesforce, Brad has some firsthand experience dealing with this stuff!

A Russian man prosecuted for extorting the Conti ransomware group, Google takes down a Chinese cyber-espionage operation, Anthropic tells Department of War to pound sand over AI restrictions, and a Cisco zero-day was exploited in the wild for three years.

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about the argy-bargy between the Pentagon and AI company Anthropic. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is demanding that all safeguards are lifted from Claude, while Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is insisting on protections against mass surveillance of Americans and use in lethal autonomous weapons.

They also discuss the return of Volt Typhoon, the Chinese hacker group prepositioning in critical infrastructure for sabotage in the event of a conflict over Taiwan. The group is still around, even though the US government declared victory against it last July.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James WIlson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:

• Low skill actors compromise 600 Fortinets with AI-generated playbooks
• Anthropic calls out Chinese AI firms over model distillation
• Meta’s director of AI safety tells her ClawdBot not to delete her mail… so of course it does
• Peter Williams cops 7 years in jail for selling L3 Harris Trenchant’s exploits to Russia
• Ivanti got hacked in 2021 via… bugs in Ivanti

This episode is sponsored by line-rate network capture system Corelight. CEO Brian Dye joins to discuss what AI can do for defenders, and what it can’t.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Russia launches a criminal probe into Telegram’s founder, two teenagers arrested for a South Korean bike share hack, Anthropic accuses Chinese AI firms of distillation attacks, and the US Treasury sanctions a Russian exploit broker.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about how ‘professional’ Five Eyes cyber espionage agencies like NSA will use AI. These agencies place a premium on stealth and won’t yolo AI.

This episode is available on Youtube.

An AI-driven hacking campaign breached 600 Fortinet devices, Ivanti was hacked via its own product, Wikipedia bans Archive-dot-Today for DDoS attacks, and Chinese hackers breached Italy’s police force.