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(Presented by TLPBLACK: A cybersecurity intelligence platform focused on sharing curated, high-sensitivity threat insights and research with trusted security professionals.) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 94: We discuss a mysterious, VM-obfuscated backdoor that lived undetected on a single U.K. machine for a year before disappearing, finding clues pointing to an elite-level APT intrusion that still evades broader industry coverage. Plus, connecting the dots across AI-driven vulnerability discovery, Microsoft’s massive Patch Tuesday, Jensen Huang talks cybersecurity, Mythos dangers and Chinese chips, and the quiet erosion of CVE enrichment at NIST. Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu. Timestamps: 0:00 – Intros + AI news whiplash 5:10 – Patch Tuesday breakdown: Microsoft's second-largest CVE release ever 7:32 – AI accelerating vulnerability discovery at record pace 10:00 – Frontier lab cyber models, fine-tuning, guardrail removal & KYC 12:37 – FreeBSD NFS bug: Opus 4.6 was already finding critical vulns 14:26 – Anthropic's infrastructure strain: Is Opus being nerfed? 21:05 – OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber vs. Anthropic's Mythos cabal 28:45 – SharePoint zero-day CVE-2026-32201: The endless Microsoft tax 34:36 – Adobe Acrobat zero-day: A rare, real, Russia-linked exploit in the wild 41:36 – VirusTotal mining: The golden age of threat intel hunting 50:03 – ZionSiphon: Vibe-coded OT malware targeting Israeli water infrastructure 55:04 – Paleontology of threat research: When do you publish? Who do you trust? 1:13:53 – Angry Spark: A one-machine, one-year backdoor raises eyebrows 1:49:25 – Jensen Huang vs. Dwarkesh Patel on Mythos, China and chips 2:14:32 – Chinese AI distillation: 24,000 fake Anthropic accounts, DeepSeek & the catch-up question

(Presented by TLPBLACK: A cybersecurity intelligence platform focused on sharing curated, high-sensitivity threat insights and research with trusted security professionals.) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 93: We discuss Anthropic's release of Claude Mythos Preview (an AI model so capable and dangerous they won't release it publicly) and debate the looming patching crisis, bug bounty extinction, possible US government nationalization of frontier labs, and why the NSA might not be thrilled about all this bug-fixing. Plus, North Korea's six-month Drift Protocol con job, APT28's retro DNS hijacking campaign, and Microsoft's driver signing mess hitting WireGuard and VeraCrypt. Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu. 00:00 — Opening banter 01:36 — Anthropic Mythos Preview + Project Glasswing 06:17 — USG reaction + Wall Street emergency meeting 10:54 — Mythos capabilities vs hype (technical reality check) 13:44 — PR stunt? Skepticism of Anthropic narrative 20:42 — The patching crisis + “defender advantage” 27:41 — Bug bounty model under threat from AI 33:37 — Mythos practical workflows 45:09 — Geopolitics, NSA angle, and nationalization discussion 01:40:18 — Fortinet zero-day + ongoing failures 01:42:39 — Drift Protocol heist ($285M) + long-term social engineering 01:44:07 — Revisiting XZ Utils / Jia Tan attribution 01:54:07 — Crypto security gaps + need for real CTI in blockchain 02:04:22 — APT28 DNS hijacking + router compromise campaign 02:18:57 — Microsoft driver signing meltdown + ecosystem impact

(Presented by TLPBLACK: High-fidelity threat intelligence and research tools for modern security teams. From curated Passive DNS and real-time C2 monitoring to actionable IOC feeds and daily malware samples, we help defenders detect, hunt, and disrupt threats faster, with seamless integration into SIEM and SOAR workflows.) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 92: Costin walks through real-world ransomware incident response while Juanito makes the case for AI-generated operating systems that never run anyone else's code. Plus, debates on whether vulnerability research is cooked, why nobody should pay ransoms, and what the security industry looks like after the massive AI flood. Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu. 0:00 – Introductory banter 2:00 – Costin's ransomware incident response work 3:30 – How attackers break in: Fortinet vulnerabilities everywhere 6:30 – Hunting for ransomware decryption keys 9:00 – Breaking into ransomware C2s and monitoring leak sites 12:00 – The ransom payment debate: should you ever pay? 16:00 – Why "don't pay the ransom" is overgeneralized 21:00 – How ransomware gangs price their demands 24:00 – The AI-pilling of the security industry 28:30 – Nicholas Carlini, Ptacek, and "vulnerability research is cooked" 35:00 – Towards a generative-first operating system 41:00 – Code factories, trusted computing, and killing dependencies 48:00 – Microsoft and Apple's AI positioning 56:00 – Chris St. Myers' "Cognitive Rust Belt" essay 1:18:00 – Choice, The Matrix, and the illusion of control 1:38:00 – Supply chain attacks, North Korea, and dependency sprawl

(Presented by TLPBLACK: High-fidelity threat intelligence and research tools for modern security teams. From curated Passive DNS and real-time C2 monitoring to actionable IOC feeds and daily malware samples, we help defenders detect, hunt, and disrupt threats faster, with seamless integration into SIEM and SOAR workflows.) Security Conversations: Jeremy Bannon, founder/CEO of The Cyber Health Company, joins Ryan Naraine to discuss why executive personal cybersecurity is a growing blind spot for organizations, and real-world incidents where personal compromises became corporate crises. Plus, why CISOs struggle to secure the C-suite's personal lives, and how a healthcare-inspired model (complete with risk scores, care plans, and concierge support) can help companies close the gap. 0:00 — Introduction to The Cyber Health Company 1:00 — Why personal security is a blind spot for organizations 2:00 — Real examples: Disney hack, Instagram compromise, productivity loss 6:50 — Executives circumventing IT policy and Shadow-AI 8:43 — Digital immunity: resilience and incident response readiness 10:25 — The healthcare model for cybersecurity communication 12:14 — How the Cyber Health Score and risk coefficient work 15:34 — OSINT intake: why your social security number isn't private 17:26 — The state of executive security hygiene and the concierge model 35:00 — AI, deepfakes, and the scaling of commodity attacks

(Presented by TLPBLACK: High-fidelity threat intelligence and research tools for modern security teams. From curated Passive DNS and real-time C2 monitoring to actionable IOC feeds and daily malware samples, we help defenders detect, hunt, and disrupt threats faster, with seamless integration into SIEM and SOAR workflows.) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 91: This week we dig into Google's new cyber threat disruption unit announced at RSAC, Kaspersky confirming Coruna is a direct evolution of Operation Triangulation, and a cascading supply chain compromise that chained through LiteLLM, Trivy, and Checkmarx into thousands of software pipelines. Plus, VCs and the breathless AI hype, Apple's iOS 26.4 and silent patches, the FCC's ban on foreign-made routers, and Symantec catching an APT looking for Chinese military data. Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu. 0:00 Intro & Pre-Show Banter 3:08 JAGS in San Francisco: RSAC week recap 6:05 Google Launches Cyber Disruption Unit — What's Actually New? 13:43 Why Separate Disruption Units Matter: ROI & Budget Justification 29:11 Haroon Meer's RSA Reality Check: The AI Hype Machine 32:37 The VC Ponzi Cycle & How Easy Money Hollowed Out Cybersecurity 47:32 ENT.ai & Tenex AI Hackathon at RSAC 53:08 Kaspersky Links Corona Exploit Kit to Operation Triangulation 1:08:09 Trenchant Cleanup & Lessons from Equation Group Burns 1:19:31 Apple iOS Patches, Hong Kong Device Passcode Law 1:27:53 Handala Hacks FBI Director Kash Patel's Personal Gmail 1:37:32 LeakBase Admin "Chucky" Arrested in Russia — FSB Gets the Data 1:45:38 Supply Chain Attacks: TeamPCP Hits LiteLLM & Trivy 2:04:34 FCC Bans Foreign-Made Routers — But What Do We Buy?

(Presented by Thinkst Canary: Most Companies find out way too late that they’ve been breached. Thinkst Canary changes this. Deploy Canaries and Canarytokens in minutes and then forget about them. Attackers tip their hand by touching ’em giving you the one alert, when it matters. With zero admin overhead and almost no false-positives, Canaries are deployed (and loved) on all 7 continents.) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 90: We remember GReAT teammate Sergey Mineev, the legendary malware hunter behind discoveries like Equation Group and Project Sauron (Remsec), including stories about his methods and why he was the best to ever do it. Plus, another in-the-wild iOS exploit kit discovery and a long overdue conversation about Apple's responsibility to hundreds of millions of users on older iOS versions; the ProPublica Microsoft/FedRAMP bombshell, Interlock ransomware sitting on a Cisco zero-day, the White House AI policy framework, and Supermicro co-founder $2.5 billion AI chip smuggling bust. Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu.

(Presented by TLPBLACK: High-fidelity threat intelligence and research tools for modern security teams. From curated Passive DNS and real-time C2 monitoring to actionable IOC feeds and daily malware samples, we help defenders detect, hunt, and disrupt threats faster, with seamless integration into SIEM and SOAR workflows.) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 89: We discuss Iran hacktivist group 'Handala' wiper attacks against US medical device maker Stryker, Microsoft Intune MDM tool abuse, and whether Iran's cyber retaliation is as scary as the headlines suggest. Plus, ESET's discovery that Russia's APT28 original implant developers are back after years of silence, Dutch intelligence warnings on Russian campaigns targeting Signal and WhatsApp accounts, Apple finally patching Coruna exploit kit vulnerabilities for older iPhones, and Google sharing Coruna samples that raise new questions about the exploit kit's proliferation chain. Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu.

(Presented by Thinkst Canary: Most Companies find out way too late that they’ve been breached. Thinkst Canary changes this. Deploy Canaries and Canarytokens in minutes and then forget about them. Attackers tip their hand by touching ’em giving you the one alert, when it matters. With zero admin overhead and almost no false-positives, Canaries are deployed (and loved) on all 7 continents.) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 88: We unpack the fallout from public documentation of the Coruna iOS exploit kit, the likely connection to the Peter Williams/Trenchant exploit sale to Russians, how it slipped from government hands into criminal use, and the widening use of zero-days by surveillance vendors and cybercriminals. Plus, fresh signs of cyber-warfare activity tied to Iran and Israel, the FBI’s disclosure of a breach affecting internal surveillance systems, and the latest debate over AI, security tooling, and Anthropic’s public stumbles. Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu.

(Presented by TLPBLACK: High-fidelity threat intelligence and research tools for modern security teams. From curated Passive DNS and real-time C2 monitoring to actionable IOC feeds and daily malware samples, we help defenders detect, hunt, and disrupt threats faster, with seamless integration into SIEM and SOAR workflows.) Matthias Frielingsdorf (co-founder and VP of Research at iVerify) joins the show to discuss the mysterious US government connection to 'Coruna', an iOS exploit kit fitted with 23 exploits across five full chains targeting iPhones iOS 13 through 17.2.1. We talk about a "gut feeling" connecting this to the L3 Trenchant/Peter Williams exploit sale scandal, how a nation-state-grade exploit kit ended up in the hands of a Chinese cybercrime group chasing crypto wallets, and what it means that criminal organizations are now deploying iPhone zero-days at scale. Matthias walks through what iVerify can and can't do on Apple's locked-down platform, why he thinks Apple needs to give defenders more access, the Lockdown Mode debate, the thorny issue of sample sharing in the research community, and practical advice for everyday iPhone users facing a threat landscape that just got a lot more complicated.

(Presented by TLPBLACK: High-fidelity threat intelligence and research tools for modern security teams. From curated Passive DNS and real-time C2 monitoring to actionable IOC feeds and daily malware samples, we help defenders detect, hunt, and disrupt threats faster, with seamless integration into SIEM and SOAR workflows.) Huntress threat intelligence analyst Greg Linares shares insights on the modern ransomware ecosystem, including how crews operate like businesses and why Akira, Medusa, RansomHub, and Qilin cause so much damage. Plus, signs of overlap between ransomware and nation-state activity, what “time to ransom” really means for defenders, and why techniques like ClickFix and credential theft keep working at scale. The conversation also covers the surge in RMM tool abuse, how “living off the land” attacks can unfold without traditional malware, and the basic defenses smaller organizations can prioritize.

(Presented by Thinkst Canary: Most Companies find out way too late that they’ve been breached. Thinkst Canary changes this. Deploy Canaries and Canarytokens in minutes and then forget about them. Attackers tip their hand by touching ’em giving you the one alert, when it matters. With zero admin overhead and almost no false-positives, Canaries are deployed (and loved) on all 7 continents.) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 87: We wake up to news of U.S./Israel military action against Iran and the expected fallout, including Tehran’s cyber capabilities and proxy risks. Plus: Anthropic’s clash with the Pentagon over AI use in warfare, market shockwaves from AI-driven security tools, mass layoffs tied to automation, Trenchant exec sentencing and sanctions in the exploit trade, and fresh questions around Cisco’s SD-WAN breach and supply-chain trust. Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu.

(Presented by TLPBLACK: High-fidelity threat intelligence and research tools for modern security teams. From curated Passive DNS and real-time C2 monitoring to actionable IOC feeds and daily malware samples, we help defenders detect, hunt, and disrupt threats faster, with seamless integration into SIEM and SOAR workflows.) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 86: We dig into GitLab’s explosive look at North Korea’s “Contagious Interview” APT operation, the scale of fake IT worker infiltration, and what it means for companies chasing cheap talent. Plus, a fresh batch of already-exploited Ivanti and Dell zero-days, the return of Apple’s shutdown logs, and thoughts on addictive AI coding agents affecting human purpose. Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu.

(Presented by Thinkst Canary: Most Companies find out way too late that they’ve been breached. Thinkst Canary changes this. Deploy Canaries and Canarytokens in minutes and then forget about them. Attackers tip their hand by touching ’em giving you the one alert, when it matters. With zero admin overhead and almost no false-positives, Canaries are deployed (and loved) on all 7 continents.) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 85: Top stories this week include drone incursions over El Paso and the murky line between cartel activity, anti-drone tech testing, and full-blown hybrid warfare; updates on the Notepad++ supply chain fallout; Microsoft’s zero-day treadmill and AI-enabled attack surfaces; and Apple’s “extremely sophisticated” iOS exploits. Plus, Europe’s growing appetite for offensive cyber, Palo Alto and the uncomfortable politics of cyber attribution, Singapore on telco intrusions, and the economics of end-of-life infrastructure. Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu.

(Presented by Thinkst Canary: Most Companies find out way too late that they’ve been breached. Thinkst Canary changes this. Deploy Canaries and Canarytokens in minutes and then forget about them. Attackers tip their hand by touching ’em giving you the one alert, when it matters. With zero admin overhead and almost no false-positives, Canaries are deployed (and loved) on all 7 continents.) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 84: We process the cybersecurity fallout from the latest Epstein document dump, focusing on why redactions fail in the AI era and how quickly modern tools can unravel them. The conversation moves from sloppy redaction practices and exploit mythology to harder questions about ethics, accountability, and silence within the infosec community. Plus, inside the Notepad++ supply-chain compromise attributed to a known Chinese APT, Microsoft’s security executive changes, Anthropic's AI-driven vulnerability discovery, China-linked network implants, and Lockdown Mode thwarting FBI investigators. Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu.

(Presented by Material Security: We protect your company’s most valuable materials -- the emails, files, and accounts that live in your Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 cloud offices.) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 83: Poland's CERT documents a rare, explicit wiper attack on civilians in a NATO country, including detailed attribution of a Russian government op targeting the electric grid in the heart of winter. We examine why this crosses a long-avoided threshold, why attribution suddenly matters again, and what it says about pre-positioned access, vendor insecurity, and the shrinking gap between cyber operations and acts of war. Plus, another Fortinet fiasco, a new batch of Ivanti zero-days under attack, an emergency patch from Microsoft and the return of the mysterious KasperSekrets account. Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu.