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MS and CrowdStrike partner, Qualcomm bugs exploited, new CISA cut details

Microsoft and CrowdStrike partner to link threat actor names Qualcomm sees Adreno bugs under active exploitation New details on proposed CISA cuts Huge thanks to our sponsor, Conveyor Does trying to get the security questionnaire done and back to your customer ever feel like you're herding cats? It's not answering questions - most of you have automation software for that. It's all of the manual back and forth that becomes a slog like communicating between teams, tracking people down to get their...

Jun 03, 20258 min

Cisco IOS XE exploit, Senators' CSRB request, Australia ransomware law

Exploit for maximum severity Cisco IOS XE flaw now public Senators as for reinstatement of cyber review board to work on Salt Typhoon investigation Australian ransomware victims now must report their payments Huge thanks to our sponsor, Conveyor Conveyor launched the first AI Agent for Customer Trust. So wtf does that mean? It means the AI agent goes beyond just sharing NDA-gated documents like a SOC 2 with customers or answering security questionnaires. Conveyor's AI Agent, Sue, handles the ent...

Jun 02, 20258 min

Week in Review: Chrome password replacer, Luna Moth exploits, ChatGPT declines shutdown command

Link to episode page This week's Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with guest Steve Knight , former CISO, Hyundai Capital America Thanks to our show sponsor, ThreatLocker ThreatLocker ® is a global leader in Zero Trust endpoint security, offering cybersecurity controls to protect businesses from zero-day attacks and ransomware. ThreatLocker operates with a default deny approach to reduce the attack surface and mitigate potential cyber vulnerabilities. To lea...

May 30, 202526 min

Windows startup failures, Victoria's Secret cyberattack, stolen cookie threat

Windows 11 might fail to start after installing KB5058405, says Microsoft Victoria's Secret website goes offline following cyberattack Billions of stolen cookies available, worrying security experts Huge thanks to our sponsor, ThreatLocker ThreatLocker® is a global leader in Zero Trust endpoint security, offering cybersecurity controls to protect businesses from zero-day attacks and ransomware. ThreatLocker operates with a default deny approach to reduce the attack surface and mitigate potential...

May 30, 20257 min

Microsoft updates Update, LexisNexis leak, cyber insurance premiums

Microsoft wants to update all the things LexisNexis breach impacts 364,000 people Cyber insurance premium volume expected to double Huge thanks to our sponsor, ThreatLocker ThreatLocker® is a global leader in Zero Trust endpoint security, offering cybersecurity controls to protect businesses from zero-day attacks and ransomware. ThreatLocker operates with a default deny approach to reduce the attack surface and mitigate potential cyber vulnerabilities. To learn more and start your free trial, vi...

May 29, 20258 min

MathWorks confirms ransomware attack, Adidas has data breach, Dutch intelligence warns of cyberattack

MathWorks, Creator of MATLAB, Confirms Ransomware Attack Adidas warns of data breach after customer service provider hack Dutch Intelligence Agencies Say Russian Hackers Stole Police Data in Cyberattack Huge thanks to our sponsor, ThreatLocker ThreatLocker® is a global leader in Zero Trust endpoint security, offering cybersecurity controls to protect businesses from zero-day attacks and ransomware. ThreatLocker operates with a default deny approach to reduce the attack surface and mitigate poten...

May 28, 20257 min

Malicious npm codes, Nova Scotia cyberattack, ChatGPT refuses shutdown command

Malicious npm and VS Code packages stealing data Nova Scotia Power confirms ransomware attack Researchers claim ChatGPT o3 bypassed shutdown in controlled test Huge thanks to our sponsor, ThreatLocker ThreatLocker® is a global leader in Zero Trust endpoint security, offering cybersecurity controls to protect businesses from zero-day attacks and ransomware. ThreatLocker operates with a default deny approach to reduce the attack surface and mitigate potential cyber vulnerabilities. To learn more a...

May 27, 20257 min

CISA's Commvault warning, updated Killnet returns, fake VPN malware

CISA warns Commvault clients of campaign targeting cloud applications Russian hacker group Killnet returns with slightly adjusted mandate Fake VPN and browser NSIS installers used to deliver Winos 4.0 malware Huge thanks to our sponsor, ThreatLocker ThreatLocker® is a global leader in Zero Trust endpoint security, offering cybersecurity controls to protect businesses from zero-day attacks and ransomware. ThreatLocker operates with a default deny approach to reduce the attack surface and mitigate...

May 26, 20259 min

Week in Review: Disabling Microsoft Defender, corrupted power inverters, bipartisan training bill

Link to episode page This week's Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with guest George Finney , CISO, The University of Texas System – check out George's new book plus all his other achievements at his website, WellAwareSecurity . Thanks to our show sponsor, Conveyor Still spending hours maintaining a massive spreadsheet of Q&A pairs or using RFP tools to answer security questionnaires? Conveyor's AI doesn't need hand-holding and gets you accurate answers ...

May 23, 202525 min

Signal shutters Recall, Windows Server vulnerability, pathology lab breach

Signal adds Recall blocker Critical Windows Server 2025 dMSA vulnerability warning Pathology lab suffers data breach Huge thanks to our sponsor, Conveyor Still spending hours maintaining a massive spreadsheet of Q&A pairs or using RFP tools to answer security questionnaires? Conveyor's AI doesn't need hand-holding and gets you accurate answers every time with limited knowledge base maintenance. It reads directly from your connected sources—documents, wikis, websites, Confluence, Google drive...

May 23, 20259 min

Kettering Health outage, Lumma disrupted, Opexus "major lapse"

Ransomware attack knocks out Kettering Health Lumma malware operation disrupted Federal agencies impacted by "major lapse" at Opexus Huge thanks to our sponsor, Conveyor Half-baked AI answers to security questionnaires are worse than no answer at all. Conveyor's AI gets it right the first time—with market-leading accuracy rates and full citations for every response. Because "good enough" doesn't cut it when you're filling in questionnaires daily. Accuracy isn't just a feature—it's the foundation...

May 22, 20257 min

DOJ investigates Coinbase attack, Dutch cyber-espionage law passes, VanHelsing ransomeware leaked

US DOJ opens investigation into Coinbase's recent cyberattack Dutch government passes law to criminalize cyber-espionage Ransomware attack on food distributor spells more pain for UK supermarkets Huge thanks to our sponsor, Conveyor What if your sales team could answer security questions themselves—without blowing up your Slack or email every 10 minutes? With Conveyor , they can. Conveyor is the trust center and security questionnaire automation tool your infosec friends love to use. Whether thr...

May 21, 20257 min

Legal Aid breached, patients at risk from cyberattacks, 23andMe buyer

UK's Legal Aid Agency breached NHS patients put at risk from cyberattacks 23andMe has a buyer Huge thanks to our sponsor, Conveyor Ever spent an hour in a clunky portal questionnaire with UI from 1999 just to lose your work because it timed out? Conveyor's got you. Our browser extension completes questionnaires in the most tedious portals for you by auto-importing all the questions and generating AI answers. For popular portals, it can go full autopilot and fill in reviewed answers into the port...

May 20, 20257 min

UK retailer update, Microsoft Defender disabler, deepfakes target officials

Scattered Spider facilitates UK retail hacks and is moving to the U.S. Defendnot tool can disable Microsoft Defender FBI warns government officials about new waves of deepfakes Huge thanks to our sponsor, Conveyor Are you dealing with security questionnaire chaos this week? If so, get Conveyor's AI to knock them out for you. Connect Conveyor to any source, easily upload any format of questionnaire or use the browser extension for portals and their AI handles the rest—from parsing the questions t...

May 19, 20258 min

Week in Review: Hackers pump stocks, Microsoft stops screenshots, AI encrypts cybersecurity

Link to episode page This week's Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with guest Nick Espinosa , host, The Deep Dive Radio Show . Here's where you can find him: Daily Podcast on SoundCloud | YouTube | Forbes | Twitter/X | Facebook | BlueSky | Mastodon Thanks to our show sponsor, Vanta Do you know the status of your compliance controls right now? Like…right now? We know that real-time visibility is critical for security, but when it comes to our GRC programs…we ...

May 16, 202529 min

Coinbase hackers bribe staff, Windows 11 hacked at Pwn2Own, Telegram purges black market group

Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data and are demanding $20 million ransom Windows 11 and Red Hat Linux hacked on first day of Pwn2Own The Internet's biggest-ever black market just shut down amid a Telegram purge Huge thanks to our sponsor, Vanta Do you know the status of your compliance controls right now? Like...right now? We know that real-time visibility is critical for security, but when it comes to our GRC programs…we rely on point-in-time checks. But more than 9,000 co...

May 16, 20258 min

Attack on steel producer, EUVD online, CISA advisory overhaul

Steel producer disrupted by cyberattack European Vulnerability Database (EUVD) is online CISA pauses advisory overhaul Huge thanks to our sponsor, Vanta Do you know the status of your compliance controls right now? Like...right now? We know that real-time visibility is critical for security, but when it comes to our GRC programs…we rely on point-in-time checks. But more than 9,000 companies have continuous visibility into their controls with Vanta . Vanta brings automation to evidence collection...

May 15, 20258 min

Radware clarifies patch, retailer data stolen, Alabama suffers cyberattack

Radware says recently WAF bypasses were patched in 2023 Marks & Spencer confirms data stolen in ransomware attack Alabama suffers cybersecurity event Huge thanks to our sponsor, Vanta Do you know the status of your compliance controls right now? Like...right now? We know that real-time visibility is critical for security, but when it comes to our GRC programs…we rely on point-in-time checks. But more than 9,000 companies have continuous visibility into their controls with Vanta . Vanta bring...

May 14, 20259 min

GlobalX breach, Google settles lawsuits, UK software security guidelines

Global Crossing Airlines Group confirms cyberattack Google settles privacy lawsuits UK launches software security guidelines Huge thanks to our sponsor, Vanta Do you know the status of your compliance controls right now? Like...right now? We know that real-time visibility is critical for security, but when it comes to our GRC programs…we rely on point-in-time checks. But more than 9,000 companies have continuous visibility into their controls with Vanta . Vanta brings automation to evidence coll...

May 13, 20258 min

Japan finance hacks, Pearson suffers cyberattack, Teams blocks screen captures

Hackers hijack Japanese financial accounts to conduct billions in trades Education giant Pearson hit by cyberattack exposing customer data Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings Huge thanks to our sponsor, Vanta Do you know the status of your compliance controls right now? Like...right now? We know that real-time visibility is critical for security, but when it comes to our GRC programs…we rely on point-in-time checks. But more than 9,000 companies have continuous visibil...

May 12, 20258 min

Week in Review: Agriculture ransomware increase, Congress challenges CISA cuts, Disney's slacker hacker

Link to episode page This week's Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with guest Dan Holden , CISO, BigCommerce Thanks to our show sponsor, ThreatLocker ThreatLocker ® is a global leader in Zero Trust endpoint security, offering cybersecurity controls to protect businesses from zero-day attacks and ransomware. ThreatLocker operates with a default deny approach to reduce the attack surface and mitigate potential cyber vulnerabilities. To learn more and start you...

May 09, 202530 min

Cisco IOS XE vulnerability, Pentagon CIO nomination, new SonicWall vulnerability

Cisco patches a level 10 vulnerability in IOS XE President nominates former Unilever CISO to be Pentagon CIO SonicWall patches a new zero-day vulnerability Thanks to today's episode sponsor, ThreatLocker ThreatLocker ® is a global leader in Zero Trust endpoint security, offering cybersecurity controls to protect businesses from zero-day attacks and ransomware. ThreatLocker operates with a default deny approach to reduce the attack surface and mitigate potential cyber vulnerabilities. To learn mo...

May 09, 20259 min

Europol shuts down DDoS-for-hire services, CrowdStrike lays off 500 workers, GOV.UK embraces passkeys

Europol shuts down six DDoS-for-hire services used in global attacks CrowdStrike says it will lay off 500 workers Passkeys set to protect GOV.UK accounts against cyber-attacks Thanks to today's episode sponsor, ThreatLocker ThreatLocker ® is a global leader in Zero Trust endpoint security, offering cybersecurity controls to protect businesses from zero-day attacks and ransomware. ThreatLocker operates with a default deny approach to reduce the attack surface and mitigate potential cyber vulnerab...

May 08, 20257 min

Congress challenges CISA cuts, Texas school breached, NSO pays WhatsApp

Congress challenges Noem over proposed CISA cuts Texas school district breach impacts over 47,000 people NSO Group to pay WhatsApp $167 million in damages Thanks to today's episode sponsor, ThreatLocker ThreatLocker ® is a global leader in Zero Trust endpoint security, offering cybersecurity controls to protect businesses from zero-day attacks and ransomware. ThreatLocker operates with a default deny approach to reduce the attack surface and mitigate potential cyber vulnerabilities. To learn mor...

May 07, 20259 min

Signal clones, easyjson warning, UK retail hacker

Signal clone gets hacked Sounding the alarm on easyjson Ransomware group takes credit for UK retail attacks Thanks to today's episode sponsor, ThreatLocker ThreatLocker ® is a global leader in Zero Trust endpoint security, offering cybersecurity controls to protect businesses from zero-day attacks and ransomware. ThreatLocker operates with a default deny approach to reduce the attack surface and mitigate potential cyber vulnerabilities. To learn more and start your free trial, visit ThreatLocker...

May 06, 20258 min

Microsoft Authenticator passkeys, StealC malware upgraded, CISA budget slashed

Microsoft ends Authenticator password autofill in favor of Edge StealC malware enhanced with stealth upgrades and data theft White House proposes cutting $491M from CISA budget Thanks to today's episode sponsor, ThreatLocker ThreatLocker ® is a global leader in Zero Trust endpoint security, offering cybersecurity controls to protect businesses from zero-day attacks and ransomware. ThreatLocker operates with a default deny approach to reduce the attack surface and mitigate potential cyber vulnera...

May 05, 20258 min

Week in Review: Cybersecurity CEO busted, Cloudflare's DDoS increase, FBI's help request

Link to episode page This week's Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with guest DJ Schleen , Head of Security, Boats Group Thanks to our show sponsor, ThreatLocker ThreatLocker ® is a global leader in Zero Trust endpoint security, offering cybersecurity controls to protect businesses from zero-day attacks and ransomware. ThreatLocker operates with a default deny approach to reduce the attack surface and mitigate potential cyber vulnerabilities. To learn more a...

May 02, 202532 min

UK's Co-op cyberattack, LabHost domains released, NSO WhatsApp damages

UK retailer Co-Op suffers cyberattack FBI shares list of 42,000 LabHost phishing domains NSO group looking at hefty damages in WhatsApp case Thanks to today's episode sponsor, ThreatLocker ThreatLocker ® is a global leader in Zero Trust endpoint security, offering cybersecurity controls to protect businesses from zero-day attacks and ransomware. ThreatLocker operates with a default deny approach to reduce the attack surface and mitigate potential cyber vulnerabilities. To learn more and start yo...

May 02, 20258 min

Scattered Spider extradition, Telecom hack warnings, Impersonation scammer takedown

Alleged 'Scattered Spider' member extradited to U.S. Experts see little progress after major Chinese telecom hack Polish police take down impersonation scammers Thanks to today's episode sponsor, ThreatLocker ThreatLocker ® is a global leader in Zero Trust endpoint security, offering cybersecurity controls to protect businesses from zero-day attacks and ransomware. ThreatLocker operates with a default deny approach to reduce the attack surface and mitigate potential cyber vulnerabilities. To lea...

May 01, 20259 min

Apple Airplay-Enabled Devices Can Be Hacked, Google tracked 75 zero days, France ties Russian APT28 hackers to 12 cyberattacks

Millions of Apple Airplay-Enabled Devices Can Be Hacked via Wi-Fi Google tracked 75 zero days exploited in the wild in 2024 France ties Russian APT28 hackers to 12 cyberattacks on French orgs Thanks to today's episode sponsor, ThreatLocker ThreatLocker ® is a global leader in Zero Trust endpoint security, offering cybersecurity controls to protect businesses from zero-day attacks and ransomware. ThreatLocker operates with a default deny approach to reduce the attack surface and mitigate potentia...

Apr 30, 20258 min
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