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The Senate confirms a new CyberCom and NSA chief, the US will establish an inter-agency cyber unit, the UK’s Online Crime Centre will launch in April, and the Coruna iOS hacking kit was the work of L3Harris.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about why an internet shutdown won’t stop US cyber operations in Iran.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

US federal agencies told to crack down on scams and cybercrime, the White House releases its new Cyber Strategy, suspected Chinese hackers breach the FBI’s wiretap network, and Romania’s largest meat exporter is insolvent after a ransomware attack.

In this Risky Business sponsor interview, Marco Slaviero, CTO of Thinkst, talks to Tom Uren about how the company ensures that it is a learning organisation.

The pair discuss the company’s investment in its Thinkst Labs, how it differs from other security research labs, and how it helps grow products and people.

Iran attempts to hack security cameras to support its missile strikes, Israel bombs Iran’s cyber headquarters, authorities take down LeakBase and Tycoon 2FA, and TikTok says ‘no’ to encrypted private messaging.

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about how cyber operations were used in the first hours of the US-Israeli attack on Iran. They were instrumental in the attack on Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, but they didn’t last long. The Iranian regime implemented an internet blackout within four hours of the first bombs.

They also discuss how threat actors are using AI. It’s not game-changing so far, but it is very much altering the balance between attack and defence.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

The US conducted cyberattacks ahead of strikes on Iran, Russia aims for internet independence by 2028, Google finds a new iOS exploit kit in the wild, and Chrome moves to a two-week release cycle.

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.