NASA Gets Phished by Chinese - 2026-04-27

This episode dives into the economics and competitive dynamics of the AI industry, including discussions on profitability, pricing strategies, monopolization, and the rise of open and distilled models—particularly concerns around Chinese AI competition. The hosts also cover a reported long-running phishing campaign linked to Chinese actors targeting NASA-affiliated researchers and engineers, highlighting how social engineering was used to extract sensitive aerospace information. Join us LIVE on Mondays, 4:30pm EST. A weekly Podcast with BHIS and Friends. We discuss notable Infosec, and infosec-adjacent news stories gathered by our community news team. Chat with us on Discord! - 🔴live-chat Chapters (00:00) - PreShow Banter™ — Making More Money than OpenAI (04:58) - NASA Gets Phished by Chinese - 2026-04-27 (07:22) - Story # 1: ‘Scattered Spider’ Member ‘Tylerb’ Pleads Guilty (13:07) - Story # 2: A Mexican surveillance giant you’ve never heard of is now watching the U.S. border (19:59) - Story # 3: Scam messages offering ships safe transit through Hormuz, security firm warns (24:24) - Story # 4: Apple fixes bug that let the FBI recover deleted Signal messages (27:49) - Story # 5: Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain Campaign (30:28) - Story # 6: cDc communications | CULT OF THE DEAD COW | The Hacktivismo Declaration: Rebooted 2026-04-21 (34:07) - Story # 7: NASA Employees Duped in Chinese Phishing Scheme Targeting U.S. Defense Software (36:29) - Story # 8: How UNC6692 Employed Social Engineering to Deploy a Custom Malware Suite (41:34) - Story # 9: Discord group says it accessed Claude Mythos by guessing location (44:19) - Story # 10: Introducing GPT‑5.5 (46:46) - Story # 11: CERT-In Advisory CIAD-2026-0020 (50:47) - Story # 12: pro j e c t d e a l Links Story # 1: ‘Scattered Spider’ Member ‘Tylerb’ Pleads Guilty Story # 2: A Mexican surveillance giant you’ve never heard of is now watching the U.S. border Story # 3: Scam messages offering ships safe transit through Hormuz, security firm warns Story # 4: Apple fixes bug that let the FBI recover deleted Signal messages Story # 5: Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain Campaign Story # 6: cDc communications | CULT OF THE DEAD COW | The Hacktivismo Declaration: Rebooted 2026-04-21 Story # 7: NASA Employees Duped in Chinese Phishing Scheme Targeting U.S. Defense Software Story # 8: How UNC6692 Employed Social Engineering to Deploy a Custom Malware Suite Story # 9: Discord group says it accessed Claude Mythos by guessing location Story # 10: Introducing GPT‑5.5 Story # 11: CERT-In Advisory CIAD-2026-0020 Story # 12: pro j e c t d e a l Creators & Guests Aisling nic Lynne "siriciryel" - Guest Corey Ham - Host John Strand - Host Ralph May - Host Hayden Covington - Host Wade Wells - Host Ryan Poirier - Producer Click here to watch this episode on YouTube. Click here to view the episode transcript. 🔗 Register for FREE Infosec Webcasts, Anti-casts & Summits Brought to you by: Black Hills Information Security Antisyphon Training Active Countermeasures Wild West Hackin Fest

You can listen to NASA Gets Phished by Chinese - 2026-04-27 online on Radio and Podcast. Open the player on this page to stream the available audio.

NASA Gets Phished by Chinese - 2026-04-27 is an episode from Black Hills Information Security by Black Hills Information Security.

This episode is 70:38 long.

This episode was published on Apr 28, 2026.

Yes. Use the heart button on the episode page to add it to your favorite episodes list.

Yes. This page shows related episodes from Black Hills Information Security when more episodes are available from the podcast feed.