185. BECeize the Day
Episode 185 of Breaking Badness is here! This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss Brian Krebs’ article on thread hijacking along with the latest alert from CISA that affects XZ Utils.

Episode 185 of Breaking Badness is here! This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss Brian Krebs’ article on thread hijacking along with the latest alert from CISA that affects XZ Utils.
This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Austin Northcutt discuss threat actors using DDP sites for phishing, credential harvesting, and more along with Wired’s reporting of how researchers discovered how to open 3 million hotel keycard locks
Episode 183 of Breaking Badness is here! This week Kali Fencl, Ian Campbell, and Austin Northcutt do a deep dive on the AlphV/BlackCat ransomware gang.
Episode 182 of Breaking Badness is here! This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss Palo Alto’s latest findings on Bifrost along with the rise of laid off tech workers turning to cybercrime.
Episode 181 of Breaking Badness is here! This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss CISA’s caution against a hacked VPN getaway along with Guardio Security’s discovery of a large subdomain hacking campaign.
This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss China’s involvement with I-Soon along with DNSSEC and the #KeyTrap vulnerability
Episode 179 of Breaking Badness is here! This week Kali Fencl, Kelly Molloy, and Ian Campbell discuss Cory Doctorow’s recent blog post about his experience getting scammed along with the decade-long issue of email sent to .ml addresses rather than .mil ones.
Episode 178 of Breaking Badness is here! This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss the US disabling of Volt Typhoon along with AnyDesk’s recent cyberattack.
In the latest episode of Breaking Badness, Kali Fencl, Austin Northcutt, and Yelisey Bohuslavskiy discuss a string of mortgage brokers who have been hit with ransomware over the past several months. What are the targeting patterns? Who are the victims?
This week on the Breaking Badness podcast, Allan Liska and Jon DiMaggio join Kali Fencl to discuss Jon’s book, The Art of Cyberwarfare, along with other favorite cybersecurity picks!
This week it’s all about targeting expansions! Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss threat actors COLDRIVER expanding their targeting along with Mint Sandstorm.
We’re coming back with another iteration of our Book Club on the Breaking Badness podcast! Kali Fencl, Ian Campbell, and Daniel Schwalbe discuss their top cybersecurity book picks along with books outside the industry.
This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss a new method of hacking compromising Google accounts along with findings from Operation Triangulation.
This week we're taking a look back at 2023! We're reminiscing about the guests we spoke with and counting down to the top episode...and the top puns!
It’s been a big year in infosec/cybersecurity, but we could say that almost every year. We did a similar discussion last year if you’d like to check that out, and we wanted to follow up on those predictions along with sharing some new ones for 2024.
Episode 175 of Breaking Badness is here! This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Ian Campbell discuss bad actors using shell companies in Wyoming for global attacks along with BazarCall attacks leveraging Google Forms.
A special Phishmas episode of Breaking Badness is here! We’re talking with @nullcookies about the recent phishing attacks targeting the United States Postal Service, its implications, and possible mitigations. Listen here:
This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss a recent attack on a municipal water authority along with Timo Longin and SEC Consult’s latest research on DNS cache poisoning
Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, Taylor Wilkes-Pierce, and Sean McNee discuss their favorite #cybersecurity books! Listen and learn what we’ve enjoyed and what we’ve found helpful in our careers along with non-industry books we’re currently enjoying.
We're taking this opportunity to share how grateful we are for the guests and discussions we've had this past year on Breaking Badness. One of which is our conversation with Champ Clark III and Steven Drenning-Blalock from Quadrant Security on how they thwarted the Black Basta ransomware gang. If you didn't have a chance to listen when we initially released this episode, now's a great time to catch up!
This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss a private industry notification from the FBI along with Mandiant’s findings from a #Sandworm attack targeting Ukraine.
This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss the SEC charges against SolarWinds and its CISO along with the 0-day exploitation impacting NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances.
This week on Breaking Badness, Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss the latest accusations against Fancy Bear along with a look at 404 Media’s findings about the SIM Swapper group known as The Comm.
We like to MOVEit MOVEit on Breaking Badness. This week on the pod, Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss Cisco’s zero-day vulnerability along with the latest from the Clop ransomware gang and the MOVEit file transfer software.
This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss curl 8.4.0 along with one of the biggest DDoSes of all time.
This week on Breaking Badness, Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Sean McNee speak with Sean Gallagher from Sophos X-Ops on the latest iteration in pig butchering schemes along with how AI could change the game.
This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss a previously unknown compression side channel in GPUs along with the Johnson Controls #ransomware attack.
This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Ian Campbell discuss the ransom attacks against MGM and Caesars Entertainment along with Cisco’s acquisition of Splunk.
In this special episode of Breaking Badness, Kali Fencl and Tim Helming speak with Tony Robinson, Senior Security Researcher with the Emerging Threats team at Proofpoint. We talk about his path to #infosec, #InformationStealers, and more!
This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss Group-IB’s findings on the hidden phishing ecosystem driving BEC attacks along with Microsoft’s follow-up on Storm-0558