The Cyber Resilience Brief: A SafeBreach Podcast

In Episode 33 of The Cyber Resilience Brief, hosts Tova Dvorin and Adrian Culley revisit the BRICKSTORM threat—this time through the lens of the new CISA, NSA, and Canadian Cyber Centre joint advisory. While Episode 24 explored BRICKSTORM’s origin, stealth techniques, and UNC5221’s long-term espionage campaign, this episode focuses on what’s changed, and why BRICKSTORM remains a critical concern for defenders in 2025 and into 2026.

In this episode of The Cyber Resilience Brief, host Tova Dvorin and offensive security expert Adrian Culley expose The Com—the decentralized cybercrime collective behind threat groups like Lapsus$, Scattered Spider (UNC 3944 / Octo Tempest), and ShinyHunters. Together, they break down how this teenage-to-young-adult adversary ecosystem has weaponized vishing, MFA fatigue, SIM-swapping, and cloud exfiltration to breach giants includ...

In this final episode of our November Critical Infrastructure series, The Cyber Resilience Brief host Tova Dvorin and SafeBreach offensive engineer Adrian Culley explore what it truly means to measure resilience — not just talk about it. They break down how the CISA resilience framework (“Know, Assess, Plan, and Continuously Improve”) connects directly to modern validation tools like Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS), Adversary Ex...

As IT and OT environments converge, critical infrastructure faces an evolving threat landscape where cyberattacks can have real-world, physical consequences. In this episode of The Cyber Resilience Brief, host Tova Dvorin and Adrian Culley, Offensive Cybersecurity Engineer at SafeBreach, explore how Continuous Automated Red Teaming (CART) delivers a unified approach to testing and securing IT/OT boundaries. Learn how continuous val...

In this episode of The Cyber Resilience Brief, hosts Tova Dvorin and Adrian Culley explore the domino effect of supply chain vulnerabilities within critical infrastructure. Using real-world examples like SolarWinds, MOVEit, and Log4j, they unpack how a single compromised vendor can ripple across entire sectors—and how Adversary Exposure Validation (AEV) can help break that chain.

Adrian explains how AEV models third-party attack pa...

In this episode of The Cyber Resilience Brief, host Tova Dvorin and SafeBreach offensive security engineer Adrian Culley explore the high-stakes world of critical infrastructure cybersecurity. November marks Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month, and the discussion dives deep into why continuous validation — not periodic testing — is essential for protecting energy, water, finance, and healthcare systems from nation...

The ShinyHunters threat group has transformed from a dark-web data broker into one of the most dangerous alliances in modern cybercrime. In this episode of The Cyber Resilience Brief, host Tova Dvorin and Adrian Culley, Offensive Security Engineer at SafeBreach, break down how the group’s merger with Scattered Spider marks a new era of as-a-service cybercrime — one built on social engineering, AI-powered vishing, and the exploitati...

In the finale of our Cybersecurity Awareness Month series, SafeBreach’s Cyber Resilience Brief delivers its most powerful episode yet — The Cyber Resilience Playbook.

Join hosts Tova Dvorin and Adrian Culley as they connect the dots between Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS), Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV), and Continuous Automated Red Teaming (CART) — revealing how these validation layers work together to create a unified f...

How can security teams stay truly proactive in a world where adversaries never stop? In this episode of The Cyber Resilience Brief, hosts Tova Dvorin and Adrian Culley explore Continuous Automated Red Teaming (CART) — the next evolution in proactive security validation.

They break down how CART extends beyond traditional red teaming and breach simulation, combining automation and intelligence to deliver 24/7, real-time attack valid...

In this episode of The Cyber Resilience Brief, host Tova Dvorin and SafeBreach offensive security expert Adrian Culley unpack BrickStorm — a highly sophisticated espionage operation attributed to China-nexus group UNC5221. With an average dwell time of 393 days, this campaign redefines stealth and persistence in cyber warfare.

Discover how attackers are “living off the blind spot” by exploiting critical infrastructure gaps in VPNs,...

In episode 2 of our special 4-part Cybersecurity Awareness Month series, The Cyber Resilience Brief hosts Tova Dvorin and Adrian Culley dive deep into Adversary Exposure Validation (AEV) — the next evolution of Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) and Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM).

Learn how AEV helps organizations move beyond endless vulnerability lists to validate exposures that real adversaries exploit, prioritize b...

In this urgent episode of The Cyber Resilience Brief, host Tova Dvorin and Adrian Culley, Offensive Security Engineer at SafeBreach, break down the shocking manifesto released by Scattered Spider — also known as Lapsus$ and ShinyHunters — the same threat group now linked to the Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack that’s suspected to have Russian ties.

As geopolitical tensions rise and Russia’s hybrid cyber warfare intensifies, Scattered ...

October may be Cybersecurity Awareness Month, but as SafeBreach experts Tova Dvorin and Adrian Culley reveal, awareness alone doesn’t stop attackers. In this kickoff episode of our special four-part Cyber Month series, we explore why traditional awareness training and annual penetration tests aren’t enough in today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape.

Adrian and Tova break down:

• Why awareness ≠ readiness — and the critical ro...

In this episode of The Cyber Resilience Brief, we expose the tactics of one of today’s most agile and financially motivated threat groups: BianLian. Originally known for double extortion ransomware, BianLian rapidly pivoted to pure data theft and extortion—making them harder to stop and faster to profit.

SafeBreach offensive security engineer Adrian Culley joins host Tova Dvorin to unpack:

• How BianLian evolved from ransomware...

As the US government shutdown begins, critical questions emerge about how funding instability threatens the nation’s cyber defense. In this urgent episode of The Cyber Resilience Brief, Tova and Adrian unpack the “dual threat” facing CISA: the looming expiration of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015, and deep budget cuts that could decimate its operational capacity.

We explore how these pressures risk crippling CISA’...

In this episode of the Cyber Resilience Brief, we dive into detection engineering and one of its most powerful tools: parsers.

SafeBreach experts Jonathan Tillman and Shachaf Raviv share how parsers transform raw logs into actionable insights, enabling organizations to scale detection engineering, customize security validation, and integrate seamlessly across SIEMs and security controls. ---

This episode is also a teaser for our u...

Step inside the hidden world of the dark web with SafeBreach’s Cyber Resilience Brief. In this episode, Senior Sales Engineer Hudney Piquant shares eye-opening stories from his explorations into hacker forums and ransomware recruitment pipelines.

Discover:

• How cybercrime groups like Conti operate more like corporations than chaos-driven collectives.

• Why the psychology of hacking—speed, opportunism, and human exploitation—ma...

In this urgent episode of The Cyber Resilience Brief, host Tova Dvorin and SafeBreach’s Adrian Culley analyze the brand-new CISA AR25-261A report detailing malicious listeners in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM). We break down how attackers are exploiting CVE-2025-4427 and CVE-2025-4428, using sophisticated base64-encoded payload delivery to evade detection and establish persistent backdoors.

Listeners will learn:

• How st...

Scattered Spider — also known as UNC3944, Oktapus, and Muddled Libra — has quickly become one of today’s most notorious cybercriminal groups. From high-profile breaches at MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment to attacks on retailers and airlines, their tactics show that the biggest threat isn’t always malware — it’s social engineering.

In this episode of the Cyber Resilience Brief, co-hosts Tova Dvorin and Adrian Culley explore ho...