CyberWire Daily

CyberWire Daily

The daily cybersecurity news and analysis industry leaders depend on. Published each weekday, the program also includes interviews with a wide spectrum of experts from industry, academia, and research organizations all over the world.

Episodes

October 31, 2025 3 mins
Happy Halloween from the team at N2K Networks! We hope you share in our Halloween tradition of listening to the Malware Mash. You can check out our video ⁠here⁠. Lyrics I was coding in the lab late one night when my eyes beheld an eerie sight  for my malware threat score began to rise  and suddenly to my surprise... It did the Mash  It did the Malware Mash  The Malware Mash  It was a botnet smash  It did the Mash ...
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A Texas telecom confirms a nation-state attack. A global outage disrupts Azure and Microsoft 365 services.  Malicious npm packages steal sensitive data from Windows, Linux, and macOS systems.  Hacktivists have breached multiple critical infrastructure systems across Canada. Major chipmakers spill the TEE. TP-Link home routers fall under federal scrutiny. Cloud Atlas targets Russia’s agricultural sector. Israel’s cloud computing dea...
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October 29, 2025 28 mins
Explosions rock a shuttered Myanmar cybercrime hub. The Aisuru botnet shifts from DDoS to residential proxies. Dentsu confirms data theft at Merkle. Boston bans biometrics. Proton restores journalists’ email accounts after backlash. Memento labs admits Dante spyware is theirs. Australia accuses Microsoft of improperly forcing users into AI upgrades. CISA warns of active exploitation targeting manufacturing management software. A co...
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October 28, 2025 24 mins
WSUS attacks escalate as emergency patch fails to fully contain exploited flaw. Schneider Electric and Emerson are listed among victims in the Oracle EBS cyberattack. Google debunks reports of a massive GMail breach. A new banking trojan mimics human behavior for stealth. Sweden’s power grid operator confirms a cyberattack. Italian spyware targets Russian and Belarusian organizations. The U.S. declines to sign the new UN cyber trea...
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Privacy is one of the most universally valued rights. Yet, despite its importance, data breaches exposing millions of people's sensitive information have become routine. Many have come to assume that their personal data has already been, or inevitably will be, compromised. Despite this reality, prioritizing privacy is more important than ever. In this episode of CISO Perspectives, host ⁠Kim Jones⁠ sits down with Kristy Westphal, ...
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The UN launches the world’s first global treaty to combat cybercrime. A House Democrats’ job portal left security clearance data exposed online. A new data leak exposes 183 million email addresses and passwords. Threat actors target Discord users with an open-source red-team toolkit. A new campaign targets unpatched WordPress plugins. The City of Gloversville, New York, suffers a ransomware attack. Jen Easterly hopes AI could elimi...
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Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Chief Security Strategist and VP of Global Threat Intelligence at FortiGuard Labs, Derek Manky, shares his story from programmer to cybersecurity and how it all came together. Derek started his career teaching programming because he had such a passion for it. When he joined Fortinet, Derek said putting where it "really started putting the rubber to the road and connecting my previous exper...
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Noam Moshe, Claroty’s Vulnerability Research Team Lead, joins Dave to discuss Team 82's work on "Turning Camera Surveillance on its Axis." Team82 disclosed four vulnerabilities in Axis.Remoting—deserialization, a MiTM “pass-the-challenge” NTLMSSP flaw, and an unauthenticated fallback HTTP endpoint—that enable pre-auth remote code execution against Axis Device Manager and Axis Camera Station. They found more than 6,500 Axis.Remoting...
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October 24, 2025 28 mins
A former defense contractor is charged with attempting to sell trade secrets to Russia. Researchers uncover critical vulnerabilities in TP-Link routers. Microsoft patches a critical Windows Server Update Service flaw. CISA issues eight new ICS advisories. “Shadow Escape” targets LLMs database connections. Halloween-themed scams spike. Our guest is Chris Inglis, first National Cyber Director, speaking on cybercrime and the upcoming ...
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October 23, 2025 28 mins
CISA Layoffs threaten U.S. cyber coordination with states, businesses, and foreign partners. Google issues its second emergency Chrome update in a week, and puts Privacy Sandbox out of its misery. OpenAI’s new browser proves vulnerable to indirect prompt injection. SpaceX disables Starlink devices used by scam compounds. Reddit sues alleged data scrapers. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana suffers a data breach. A new Android infost...
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October 22, 2025 23 mins
A foreign threat actor breached a key U.S. nuclear weapons manufacturing site. The cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover is the most financially damaging cyber incident in UK history. A new report from Microsoft’ warns that AI is reshaping cybersecurity at an unprecedented pace. The ToolShell vulnerability fuels Chinese cyber operations across four continents. Fake browser updates are spreading RansomHub, LockBit, and data-stealing malw...
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October 21, 2025 28 mins
CISA warns a Windows SMB privilege escalation flaw is under Active exploitation. Microsoft issues an out of band fix for a WinRE USB input failure. Nation state hackers had long term access to F5. Envoy Air confirms it was hit by the zero-day in Oracle’s E-Business Suite. A nonprofit hospital system in Massachusetts suffers a cyberattack. Russian’s COLDRiver group rapidly retools its malware arsenal. GlassWorm malware hides malicio...
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On this episode, host Kim Jones is joined by Ethan Cook, N2K’s lead analyst and editor, for a deeper, more reflective conversation on cybersecurity regulation, privacy, and the future of policy. This episode steps back from the news cycle to connect the dots and explore where the regulatory landscape is heading — and why it matters. Ethan, who will join the show regularly this season to provide big-picture analysis after major pol...
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October 20, 2025 31 mins
An AWS outage sparks speculation. An F5 exposure and breach raise patching and supply-chain concerns. Salt Typhoon breaches a European telecom via a Netscaler flaw. A judge bans NSO Group from Whatsapp. China alleges “irrefutable evidence” of NSA hacking. Connectwise patches adversary in the middle risks. A Dolby decoder flaw enables zero-click remote code execution on Android. A Cyber M&A and funding surge signals a busy consolida...
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Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Cybersecurity Associate Consultant at BARR Advisory, Kristin Strand, shares her journey from the military to teaching and now to cybersecurity. Kristin shares how she'd wanted to be a teacher since she was young. She joined the Army to help pay for college and throughout her career has taken advantage of programs to help her move on to her next challenge. From teaching, Kristin decided to...
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October 18, 2025 28 mins
Eclypsium researchers Jesse Michael and Mickey Shkatov to share their work on "BadCam - Now Weaponizing Linux Webcams." Eclypsium researchers disclosed “BadCam,” a set of vulnerabilities in certain Lenovo USB webcams that run Linux and do not validate firmware signatures, allowing attackers to reflash the devices and turn them into BadUSB-style tools. An adversary who supplies a backdoored camera or who gains remote code executio...
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October 17, 2025 26 mins
Prosper data breach reportedly affected more than 17 million accounts. Microsoft revokes certificates used in Rhysida ransomware operation. Threat actors exploit Cisco flaw to deploy Linux rootkits. Europol disrupts cybercrime-as-a-service operation. BeaverTail and OtterCookie merge and display new functionality. Singapore cracks down on social media. On our Industry Voices segment, we are joined by Danny Jenkins who is talking abo...
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October 16, 2025 26 mins
F5 discloses long-term breach tied to nation-state actors. PowerSchool hacker receives a four-year prison sentence. Senator scrutinizes Cisco critical firewall vulnerabilities. Phishing campaign impersonates LastPass and Bitwarden. Credential phishing with Google Careers. Reduce effort, reuse past breaches, recycle into new breach. Qilin announces new victims. Manoj Nair, from Snyk, joins us to explore the future of AI security and...
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October 15, 2025 31 mins
A record-breaking Bitcoin seizure. Patch Tuesday notes. Capita fined for unlawful access to personal data. Unity site skimmed by malicious script. Vietnam Airlines breached potentially exposing 20 million passengers. An automotive giant experiences a third-party breach. Tim Starks from CyberScoop is discussing how Sen. Peters tries another approach to extend expired cyber threat information-sharing. In our latest Threat Vector, Dav...
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October 14, 2025 26 mins
Fortra confirms an exploitation of the maximum-severity GoAnywhere flaw. Harvard investigates a claim of a breach. Banking Trojan targets Brazilian WhatsApp users. Reduction-in-force hits CISA. SimonMed says 1.2 million hit by Medusa ransomware. Netherlands invokes the Goods Availability Act against a Chinese company. We have our Business Breakdown. On today’s Industry Voices, we are joined by Mickey Bresman sharing insights on hyb...
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