This episode covers a hacker’s claim of stealing 35GB from Accenture—including source code, Azure personal access tokens, RSA keys, and SSH keys—while Accenture calls it an isolated, remediated matter, leaving uncertainty about potential downstream risk to its Fortune 500-heavy client…
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Scattered Spider squashed, Rogue Agent AI flaw, 16 year-old Linux bug and new phish hunts marketers
Cybersecurity Today host David Shipley covers how a newly unsealed U.S. complaint tied an alleged Scattered Spider member to a luxury retailer intrusion using a persistent Windows device ID, with prosecutors alleging help-desk social engineering, admin account takeover, data exfiltration,…
AI-Run Ransomware, New Oracle Critical Flaw, NetNut busted
AI-Run Ransomware, New Oracle 9.8 Flaw Exploited, NetNut Proxy Network Busted, and Pegasus Hits EU Spyware Investigator This episode covers researchers’ report of “Jade Puffer,” the first ransomware attack run end-to-end by an autonomous AI agent, which exploited a…
Teams battles bots, Bioshocking AI browser guardrails, Fortibleed fuels ransomware
Teams cracks down on meeting bots, AI guardrails get bypassed, FortiBleed fuels ransomware, and Nissan confirms PeopleSoft breach Microsoft rolls out a new Teams admin policy, “Manage External Bots and Their Access to Meetings,” to detect third‑party bots, hold…
US puts $10m bounty on Russian hackers, new phish hunts hotels, Supreme Court reins in geofencing
US Puts $10M Bounty on Russian Hackers, Supreme Court Limits Geofence Warrants, New phishing campaign targets hotels, AI Coding Agents Tricked into Malware and Canada’s Electronic Spies Go After Ransomware Gangs. The episode covers the US State Department’s up to…
US Restricts Frontier AI models
US Loosens Anthropic Claude Mythos Access, Unpatchable iPhone Exploit Emerges, and CISO Burnout Drives Fractional Shift Washington granted a partial reprieve allowing Anthropic’s Claude Mythos to be released to more than 100 approved U.S. firms and institutions after export controls…
Why Car Dealerships Are Prime Cyber Targets: Fraud, Resilience, and Security Leadership with Jennifer Hutton
Cybersecurity Today would like to than Material Security for their support of this podcast. On Cybersecurity Today on the Weekend, the host speaks with Jennifer Hutton, a cybersecurity leader in the car dealership sector, about how she entered cybersecurity through…
Malware gaslights AI
Mac Malware Gaslights AI, Major Info-Stealer Takedown, OpenAI’s Patch the Planet, and FortiBleed Fallout Mac malware called “Gaslight,” attributed to North Korea-aligned actors, plants fake system messages designed to derail AI-based analysis while stealing data and exfiltrating it via a…
FortiBleed: Fortinet Says It’s Not a Bug
Fortinet finally weighs in on FortiBleed – it’s not a bug. Plus a healthcare AI firm loses 1.4 million people’s data to a single phishing email, a trading bot built to prey on others gets played for $15 million, and…
Stolen OAuth Tokens Hit Security Firms, AryStinger Router Botnet Emerges, AI Deepfake Cyberstalking
A breach at market intelligence platform Klue allowed attackers to steal OAuth tokens linking Clue to customers’ Salesforce environments, enabling quiet API-driven data extraction from firms including Huntress, Recorded Future, Tanium, and Jamf; Clue revoked tokens, removed the legacy integration…
5 People You Meet In Cybersecurity – David Shipley Interviews Amy Lee
In this special Cybersecurity Today weekend interview, host David Shipley speaks with Amy Yee about leadership, resilience, and the human side of cybersecurity. Amy shares her remarkable journey from electrical engineering and venture capital to becoming the inaugural Chief Digital…
FortiBleed Emergency: 74,000 Fortinet Logins Exposed
A special crossover episode of Cybersecurity Today and Hashtag Trending for June 19, 2026. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an urgent warning after security researchers uncovered the FortiBleed dataset, exposing credentials tied to approximately 74,000…
Scam Losses Surge – Cybersecurity Today
Cybersecurity Today host David Shipley reports that the FTC says Americans lost $3.5 billion to imposter scams in 2025—nearly triple 2020—with social media tied to $2.1 billion in losses and total fraud reaching about $16 billion, while the FBI estimates…
Anthropic Models Blocked, FBI Takes Down $1.9B Phishing Network, Critical Splunk Flaw, and more
The U.S. government orders Anthropic to shut down foreign access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models after the Pentagon labels the company a supply-chain risk. David Shipley examines what may be behind the decision and what it…
CyberTitan Champions: Inside Canada’s National High School Cybersecurity Competition (and CyberPatriot)
Cybersecurity Today on the Weekend interviews the winning Canadian CyberTitan team (“S-ores”/a regex-based name) along with coach Phil, educator Tim, and CyberTitan manager Sheena to explain how CyberTitan (run by ICTC) connects to the international CyberPatriot program. They describe the…
Anthropic Warns AI Risks Are Real, RoguePlanet Zero-Day Drops, Crypto Laundering Takedown
Anthropic is calling for governments to have the authority to stop deployment of advanced AI systems that pose unacceptable risks. CEO Dario Amodei points to the company’s Mythos cybersecurity model as proof that AI has become a matter of national…
AI Worms, Hacks, and Insurance Shifts
Instagram AI Support Hack Hits 20,225 Accounts; AI Worm ‘Hades’ Lies to Security Tools; Chrome Zero-Day Patch Host David Shipley reports Meta says 20,225 Instagram accounts were hijacked after an AI support tool was tricked into sending reset links to…
Claude Outage Data Leak, Microsoft GitHub Worm, IBM Hack, M Instagram Takeovers, Canada’s Bill C-8
TClaude Outage Data Leak Fears, Microsoft GitHub Worm, IBM Hack Allegations, Meta AI Instagram Takeovers, and Canada’s Bill C-8 David Shipley reports that Anthropic’s Claude suffered a roughly two-hour outage affecting models including Opus, during which a user alleged receiving…
Cybersecurity Today Month in Review: Microsoft Zero-Days, AI Deregulation
Host Jim Love and panelists David Shipley, Laura Payne, and Jeff Williams discuss a researcher (“Chaotic/Nightmare Eclipse”) publicly disclosing multiple Windows zero-days affecting components including Defender and BitLocker, frustration with Microsoft’s vulnerability disclosure process, and backlash to Microsoft’s initially threatening…
New HTTP/2 Bomb Attack, Trump’s AI Security Reviews, Android Zero-Day & The Patching Crisis
A newly disclosed attack called HTTP/2 Bomb can crash major web servers in seconds using a single computer and a modest internet connection. Researchers say the attack combines two known techniques into a powerful memory-exhaustion exploit affecting widely used platforms…