SN 1088: A Nefarious Novel Use for AI - Ransomware Negotiations Go High-Tech
Cybercriminals are harnessing AI not to break in, but to make sense of their stolen loot and increase their leverage in multi-million dollar...
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SN 1087: HalluSquatting, GhostApproval & GitLost - Patch Tuesday Breaks Records
AI is rewriting the rules of cybersecurity, and this week, massive government and private sector moves show just how quickly the stakes are...
SN 1086: The Apex Agentic Adversary - Visual Prompt Injection Strikes
From the sudden retirement of Internet pioneer Vint Cerf to the unstoppable advance of "apex agentic adversaries," get a front-row seat to t...
SN 1085: A SOTA State-Sponsored Campaign - AI's New Superpower: Loop Engineering
AI is now uncovering and fixing thousands of hidden software bugs faster than humans can keep up, but not everyone is playing by the rules....
SN 1084: The Residential Proxy Threat - Malicious Proxies in Your Living Room
A flood of everyday gadgets, from cheap streaming boxes to digital photo frames, are being secretly conscripted into global proxy networks a...
SN 1083: Patch Tuesday à la AI - Arch Linux Repo Under Siege
This episode unpacks the jaw-dropping surge in vulnerabilities unearthed by AI, revealing how Microsoft shattered its own patch records whil...
SN 1082: The Malicious Use of AI - Anthropic's Red Team Report
Discover how Anthropic's secretive red team and the MITRE ATT&CK framework are mapping the chilling rise of malicious AI use, revealing cybe...
SN 1081: AI Captured the Flag - Personal AI: Productivity Superpower or Privacy Threat?
AI vulnerability discovery just upended the legendary Capture the Flag competitions, leaving top hackers sidelined while algorithms dominate...
SN 1080: Vulnerability Debt Repayment - Will Mythos Change Cybersecurity Forever?
Mozilla found 271 unknown Firefox vulnerabilities in days using AI—bugs that millions of automated test runs had missed for years. Steve Gib...
SN 1079: Daybreak and Codename MDASH - Microsoft's Edge Password Blunder
OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google are racing to unleash next-gen AI that hunts for software vulnerabilities and hacks at scale. This episode exp...
SN 1078: DigiCert does it right - Hugging Face Under Fire
DigiCert's latest security mishap triggered not just a scramble behind the scenes, but a cascading crisis that briefly wiped trust from mill...
SN 1077: A Browser AI API? - End of Bug Bounties?
Google is sneaking a massive 4.7GB AI model into Chrome, and Mozilla is fighting back as the future of browsers threatens to turn into an AI...
SN 1076: FAST16.SYS - Unmasking the NSA's Most Diabolical Digital Sabotage
What if your engineering calculations secretly sabotaged your nation's best efforts? This week, we reveal how a newly uncovered 21-year-old...
SN 1075: Yes. Exactly. - The Zero-Day Ticking Clock
Security leaders warn the era of AI-driven bug hunting has arrived, with Mythos uncovering hundreds of overlooked vulnerabilities in code ba...
SN 1074: What Mythos Means - Marketing or Mayhem
We may already be living through the most consequential hundred days in cyber history, and the arrival of AI that can autonomously chain zer...
SN 1073: The FCC Bans New Consumer Routers - LinkedIn's JavaScript Bombshell
The FCC has banned all new consumer routers made outside the US, leaving networks stuck with aging, insecure hardware while blocking innovat...
SN 1072: LiteLLM - Click Fix Attacks Surge
An explosive supply chain hack in Light LLM nearly unleashed catastrophic malware across millions of AI systems, and it took a coder's quick...
SN 1071: Bucketsquatting - Meta and TikTok's Tracking Pixels
When convenience trumps caution, disaster waits in the wings. Join Steve Gibson and Mikah Sargent as they break down the jaw-dropping oversi...
SN 1070: CISA's Free Internet Scanning - Malware Disguised as a VPN
Meta quietly ditches encryption for Instagram chats while TikTok also backpedals on privacy, shaking up assumptions about how much big tech...
SN 1069: You can't hide from LLMs - Was Your Smart TV a Stealth Proxy?
Think your online alias keeps you safe? This episode reveals how advanced language models are making it trivial to de-anonymize users at sca...