The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast

J. Michael Daniel, President and CEO of Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA), gives us a peek behind the U.S. Government cybersecurity curtain and how he has helped improve the nation's security through the CTA.
Michael leads the CTA team and oversees the organization's operations. Prior to joining the CTA in February 2017, Michael served from June 2012 to January 2017 as Special Assistant to President Obama and Cybersecurity Coordinator on the National Security Council Staff. In this role, Michael led the development of national cybersecurity strategy and policy, and ensured that the US government effectively partnered with the private sector, non-governmental organizations, and other nations. Learn more at: https://www.cyberthreatalliance.org/
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In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community.
Intercept and control AI agent activity with Viberails by LimaCharlie: viberails.io
APT41, a China-linked threat group is deploying a previously undetected backdoor targeting Linux based cloud workflows.
Fancy bear, also known as APT28 or Forest Blizzard, is a Russian cyber espionage group believed to operate on behalf of the country's military intelligence services, the GRU. Trend Micro research here.
Anthropic’s Model Control Protocol widely used in agentic AI systems to connect AI agents with data sources, contains a design flaw that would enable large-scale supply chain attacks. Report here.
There's a critical vulnerability in nginx-UI, a web-based management interface for Nginx servers, which is being actively exploited and could allow attackers to take full control affected systems.
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Today, Dylan Williams, Co-Founder and Chief Research Officer at Spectrum Security, joins Defender Fridays to dig into that exact problem: self-evaluating agents, trajectory analysis, and what improvement looks like in production.
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Terry Bradley, Founder and President of Mile High Cyber, shares how you can uncover vulnerabilities and strengthen your organization's defenses with expert penetration testing and security assessments.
Terry is a former hacker for the NSA and uses those same skills at Mile High Club, the firm he founded, to help businesses stay one step ahead of cybercriminals. After a lifelong passion for security, starting with his time as a 1990 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Terry has spent his career understanding how attackers exploit weaknesses and helping businesses stay ahead of threats. From penetration testing to enterprise risk management, he's worked with organizations of all sizes to uncover vulnerabilities, enhance security resilience, and protect what matters most. Learn more at https://www.milehighcyber.com/
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In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community.
Federal cybersecurity agencies have issued an urgent warning about Iran-linked cyberattacks targeting operational technology (OT) systems across U.S. critical infrastructure.
A hacker operating under the alias “FlamingChina” claims to have breached a Chinese state-run supercomputing facility and stolen a large dataset that may exceed 10 petabytes of information.
Multiple high-profile maintainers in the Node.js ecosystem report being targeted in a coordinated social-engineering campaign aimed at compromising widely used open-source packages.
Microsoft Threat Intelligence reports that the cybercrime group Storm-1175 is conducting rapid ransomware campaigns deploying the Medusa ransomware family.
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