Security Weekly Podcast Network (Audio)

Twenty-five years since 9/11, and we open by marking it properly — the people who didn't come home, and the survivors and responders still carrying it, physically and mentally, a quarter of a century on.
Then we get to work.
Shift-left didn't fail. The starting line moved. AI coding agents now read the issue, write the code, pick the dependencies and open the pull request — so the earliest trust boundary isn't your first commit any more, it's the moment an agent gets context and authority. Most of us haven't moved our controls with it.
Unit 42 pull the lid off a pay-per-install operation running out of eleven gaming YouTube channels, with over ten thousand loader samples underneath it. Every layer built to look too boring to escalate. When your analyst closes that alert as adware, they may have just closed three separate compromises.
Google's threat tracker: a credential-harvesting campaign built and run in under six hours, with Markdown files as attacker playbooks. And malware carrying prompt-injection text designed to make your LLM scanner refuse to look at it — because a refusal that reads as "clean" is a free pass.
A CVSS 10 in Gemini CLI that never touched the model. No prompt, no injection, no tool call. The attacker just turned up before the sandbox did.
The first ever Take It Down Act sentencing — handled carefully, with what you actually do if someone tells you something, and a proper shout-out to Dale, the Cyber Safety Guy, whose work every parent with a teenager online should have bookmarked.
Two hundred and sixty-three million dollars walks out of a Bitcoin sidechain and then walks back in. Nobody stole the keys. They just convinced the system to sign a lie.
Anthropic's 154-page threat report. And an alignment lead who puts extinction odds above ten percent.
All that, plus Josh Marpet's take, on Security Weekly News #615.
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-615

In the security news this week:
Microsoft patches all the things
Commissary freezers enter cyberwar
Fake AV, real Defender nap
Rowhammer comes for the GPU
BIOS updates are no longer optional
CVSS is not a crystal ball
Kworker, but make it malware
FortiGate gets a post-exploitation RAT
CERN goes Debian underground
UEFI shells strike again
Australia loses the plot, and phones
Cisco routers become covert gateways
MikroTik patches the takeover chain
WeWorm wriggles through mobile
The year of Linux television
Browsers become backdoors
Fake IT calls, real data theft
CVE attribution gets weird
Boston Scientific keeps talking
Security tools misconfigure themselves
AI circuit breakers for rogue agents
Passkeys meet the real world
Vibe coding, vibe vulnerabilities
AI loss of control keeps climbing
AI agents report themselves to Schneier
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-943

AI is all the hype, but we're currently stuck at the bottom of the 'J' curve. Wild enthusiasm has given way to the reality of costs, benefits, and risks. What's next for AI and companies looking to capitalize on the AI trends?
John Willis, author, researcher, and technology industry veteran, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss AI's impact on fundraising. John explores what the history of AI can teach us about the current moment, including how to separate genuine technological transformation from hype and better understand where AI may take us next.
Next, it’s time for Security Money. The Index is exploding upwards as the markets continue to climb. Both the Index and the NASDAQ, hit all time highs. The Business Security Weekly crew breaks down funding, acquisitions, and performance of both the public and private markets.
The Security Weekly 24 Index is made up of the following pure play public security companies:
SAIL Sailpoint Inc PANW Palo Alto Networks Inc CHKP Check Point Software Technologies Ltd RBRK Rubrik Inc GEN Gen Digital Inc FTNT Fortinet Inc AKAM Akamai Technologies Inc FFIV F5 Inc ZS Zscaler Inc OSPN Onespan Inc LDOS Leidos Holdings Inc QLYS Qualys Inc NTSK Netskope Inc TENB Tenable Holdings Inc OKTA Okta Inc S SentinelOne Inc NET Cloudflare Inc CRWD Crowdstrike Holdings Inc NTCT NetScout Systems Inc VRNS Varonis Systems Inc RPD Rapid7 Inc FSLY Fastly Inc RDWR Radware Ltd ATEN A10 Networks Inc
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-464

Cybercabs, Robohobos, BigBear, Nightmare Eclipse, weChat, Flock, ASCII, Aaran Leyland, and More on the Security Weekly News.
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-614

We showcase recordings from this year's Black Hat.
The Hidden Risks of the AI Supply Chain - Black Hat interview with Michael Leland, VP and Field CTO of Island
Agents can independently discover and install tools, but the emerging ecosystem of Skills and MCP servers lacks many of the trust and security controls applied to traditional software. Michael Leland discusses Island's research uncovering thousands of malicious repositories, widespread security flaws across MCP servers, and a new attack technique called “AgentBaiting,” in which attackers manipulate agents into finding and recommending malware to users. The conversation explains how enterprises can govern AI capabilities without slowing adoption.
Segment Resources:
https://www.island.io/blog/agentbaiting-how-800-fake-ai-skills-and-mcp-servers-delivered-malware
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After Mythos: Securing Frontier AI as Attack and Defense Accelerate - Black Hat interview with Sean Murphy, Field CISO - North America of F5
Frontier AI is compressing the time between discovering and exploiting vulnerabilities, forcing enterprises to rethink how they secure modern applications and AI systems. Sean Murphy shares how security teams can prepare for the next generation of AI-powered threats, why known vulnerabilities may become a bigger risk than zero-days, and what it takes to secure AI at scale from shadow AI and governance to agent and API protection.
This segment is sponsored by F5. Visit https://securityweekly.com/f5bh to learn more about them!
The Perfect Storm: When AI Writes the Code and Sharpens the Attacks - Black Hat interview with Idan Plotnik, Co-Founder and CEO of Apiiro
Two storms are converging on how software gets built. The first: AI coding assistants are generating far more code than any security team can review, and with it, far more risk. The second: AI is sharpening the tools attackers use to find and exploit weaknesses faster than ever. Idan Plotnik explains why this convergence has moved the security perimeter to the coding agent itself, and makes the case for a prevention-first model where an AI AppSec agent guards coding agents in real time, governed by the principle that the agent writing the code cannot be the one to secure it.
This segment is sponsored by Apiiro. Visit https://securityweekly.com/apiirobh to learn more about them!
Model, Harness, Gym: Why Novee Owns the Full AI Pentesting Stack - Black Hat interview with Ido Geffen, Founder & CEO of Novee Security
Most AI security tools are thin wrappers around a general-purpose frontier LLM — reasoning capability rented from someone else, applied to a generic scanning workflow. In this interview, Ido Geffen breaks down what it means to own the full AI pentesting stack — the proprietary offensive reasoning model, the harness that coordinates specialized agents, and the training gym where those agents are continuously benchmarked, post-trained on real attacker tradecraft, and promoted into production.
Ido explains why owning each layer matters: it's how Novee's model consistently outperforms frontier LLMs at live browser exploitation, how the platform improves at a rate the customer feels every cycle, how Novee keeps security testing cost-efficient rather than relying on tokenized pricing models, and how new attacker techniques get injected into agent memory the moment Novee's research team observes them in the wild. He then makes the case that owning the model is only half the story. The other half is the Asset Intelligence Model — a living understanding of each customer's environment, workflows, permissions, APIs, and business logic. That's what turns a generalist AI hacker into a bespoke one: not just an attacker that reasons well, but one that reasons well about your specific business. He closes with how this advantage leads to findings that get more targeted every cycle, remediation tailored to an organization's tech stack, and a platform whose ceiling rises as attackers get faster.
This segment is sponsored by Novee Security. Visit https://securityweekly.com/noveebh to learn more about them!
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-399