US Cyberattacks on Venezuela - 2026-01-05

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 🔗 Register for FREE webcasts, summits, and workshops - In this episode, we break down the growing debate around U.S. cyber operations against Venezuela—and what it means for modern cyber warfare, critical infrastructure security, and geopolitics. The conversation explores how nation-state attacks can target a country’s power grid, the challenges of attributing cyberattacks, and why industrial control systems (ICS/SCADA) remain a high-impact battleground. We also discuss the strategic value (and risks) of disrupting energy infrastructure, how these campaigns compare to other real-world incidents, and what defenders can learn to better protect utilities and national systems. Chapters (00:00) - PreShow Banter™ — Undisclosed Closets (09:07) - US Cyberattacks on Venezuela - 2026-01-05 (10:16) - Story # 1:Trump suggests US used cyberattacks to turn off lights in Venezuela during strikes (11:14) - Story # 1b: There Were BGP Anomalies During The Venezuela Blackout (21:06) - Story # 1c: Pizza index of war: Late-night traffic near Pentagon surges again as US strikes Venezuela (32:40) - Story # 2: Finland seizes ship suspected of damaging subsea cable in Baltic Sea (35:11) - Story # 3: US cybersecurity experts plead guilty to BlackCat ransomware attacks (35:46) - Story # 4: MongoDB Vulnerability CVE-2025-14847 Under Active Exploitation Worldwide (39:06) - Story # 5: Hackers claim to hack Resecurity, firm says it was a honeypot (42:06) - Story # 6: NordVPN denies breach claims, says attackers have "dummy data" (42:35) - Story # 7: Hackers say they have stolen 40 million Condé Nast Records - here's how to stay safe (43:43) - Story # 8: Hacker Dressed As Pink Power Ranger Dismantles Racist Websites Live on Stage (47:13) - Story # 9: NYC mayoral inauguration bans Flipper Zero, Raspberry Pi devices (52:18) - Story # 10: Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline (55:15) - Story # 11: Ben Jordan Exposes Severe Security Vulnerabilities in Flock Surveillance Cameras (57:26) - Story # 11b: We Tracked Ourselves with Exposed Flock Cameras Links Story # 1: Trump suggests US used cyberattacks to turn off lights in Venezuela during strikes Story # 1b: There Were BGP Anomalies During The Venezuela Blackout Story # 1c: Pizza index of war: Late-night traffic near Pentagon surges again as US strikes Venezuela Story # 2: Finland seizes ship suspected of damaging subsea cable in Baltic Sea Story # 3: US cybersecurity experts plead guilty to BlackCat ransomware attacks Story # 4: MongoDB Vulnerability CVE-2025-14847 Under Active Exploitation Worldwide Story # 5: Hackers claim to hack Resecurity, firm says it was a honeypot Story # 6: NordVPN denies breach claims, says attackers have “dummy data” Story # 7: Hackers say they have stolen 40 million Condé Nast Records - here’s how to stay safe Story # 8: Hacker Dressed As Pink Power Ranger Dismantles Racist Websites Live on Stage Story # 9: NYC mayoral inauguration bans Flipper Zero, Raspberry Pi devices Story # 10: Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline Story # 11: Ben Jordan Exposes Severe Security Vulnerabilities in Flock Surveillance Cameras Story # 11b: We Tracked Ourselves with Exposed Flock Cameras Brought to you by: Black Hills Information Security Antisyphon Training Active Countermeasures Wild West Hackin Fest

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This episode was published on Jan 9, 2026.

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