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Adversary Universe Podcast

Modern adversaries are relentless. Today’s threat actors target organizations around the world with sophisticated cyberattacks. Who are they? What are they after? And most importantly, how can you defend against them? Welcome to the Adversary Universe podcast, where CrowdStrike answers all of these questions — and more. Join our hosts, a pioneer in adversary intelligence and a specialist in cybersecurity technology, as they unmask the threat actors targeting your organization.

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32:51

Unpacking the CrowdStrike 2026 Threat Hunting Report...

Adversary Universe Podcast ·

2026/08/03

The CrowdStrike 2026 Threat Hunting Report is now live! The report sheds light on how our threat hunters and analysts hunt and defend against the world’s most sophisticated adversaries. It’s packed with stories from the front lines and trends that define the modern threat landscape.Joining Adam to dig into its findings is Katie Blankenship, Sr. Manager of the Global Threat Analysis Cell for the CrowdStrike Counter Adversary Operations team. Katie, who leads the charge for our major intelligence

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36:38

SaaS Security Threats to Worry About, with...

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2026/07/09

Kelly McCracken, SVP of the Cyber Security Operations Center at Salesforce, leads one of the most complex and high-scale cyber operation environments on the planet. Today, she joins Adam and Cristian to discuss how adversaries are targeting SaaS vendors, the most underappreciated SaaS misconfigurations, and what the future of the shared responsibility model looks like.SaaS is a continuously growing target, but who is taking aim? eCrime adversaries such as SNARKY SPIDER and CORDIAL SPIDER are ones

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38:45

Examining the Glassworm Takeover with Tillmann "Bot...

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2026/06/25

He’s back, and he’s ready to talk botnet takeovers. Tillmann Werner, VP of Intelligence Production at CrowdStrike, returns to the podcast to discuss CrowdStrike’s coordinated takeover of the Glassworm botnet. Glassworm was a global threat targeting software developers through the open-source supply chain. This infection vector stood out — open-source ecosystems are based on trust, and adversaries are learning they can reach a vast pool of victims by compromising the supply chain. Some open-source

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43:08

China Targets Technology to Steal AI Capabilities It...

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2026/06/09

The technology sector is the most targeted in the world by eCrime and state-sponsored threat actors. Between April 1, 2025, and March 31, 2026, China-nexus adversaries drove more than 58% of state-sponsored interactive intrusions against the sector, creating the greatest intelligence collection threat to tech companies.These threat actors are escalating espionage against tech businesses to steal the AI capabilities and intellectual property they can’t build fast enough on their own. Adversaries

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29:04

The "Vuln-pocalypse" Looms: Are We Cooked?

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2026/04/23

Many cybersecurity conversations of late are discussing the impending “vuln-pocalypse” — a term used to describe a scenario in which AI-powered tools are used to discover and exploit vulnerabilities faster than defenders can patch them.It’s a valid concern. Even without advanced AI algorithms, researchers can build tools to automate the vulnerability discovery process. Now, the rise of increasingly sophisticated AI models is rapidly expanding the volume of vulnerabilities defenders will need to

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26:18

Hunting Supply Chain Attacks with Jared Myers,...

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2026/04/09

Supply chain attacks targeting AI have recently been making headlines — and keeping the CrowdStrike OverWatch team busy. Jared Myers, director of CrowdStrike OverWatch, joins Adam in this episode to discuss his team’s approach to detecting and responding to these attacks.When a supply chain attack uses a zero-day vulnerability to breach a target, it’s often the CVE that grabs attention. But the zero-day isn’t what CrowdStrike OverWatch is after, Jared says. It’s the follow-on tradecraft once the

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47:31

Breaking Down the New National Cybersecurity Strategy

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2026/03/10

The Trump administration has released a national cybersecurity strategy that commits to strengthening defenses through six core pillars: employing more offensive cyber operations, streamlining regulations, modernizing and protecting federal networks, securing critical infrastructure, leading in new technologies, and developing talent.In this episode, Rob Sheldon, Sr. Director of Public Policy and Strategy at CrowdStrike, joins Adam and Cristian for a deep dive into three of the pillars that are top

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39:49

Interview with a Threat Hunter: Brody Nisbet, Sr....

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2026/02/12

Threat hunting is hard to define, but Brody Nisbet, Sr. Director of CrowdStrike OverWatch, breaks down the basics in an episode that starts with the CrowdStrike OverWatch mission and dives into his stories from the front lines of threat hunting.This team detects adversaries in customer environments before they can achieve their nefarious goals. “Our mission is to outcompete your adversary,” Brody says. His team notifies customers of adversary activity and provides them with the actionable

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48:46

Taking Down Cybercriminals with Shawn Henry, Former...

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2026/01/15

How do you take down a cybercriminal? Last month, we explored that question through the lens of Operation Endgame. Today, we ask Shawn Henry, former Executive Assistant Director of the FBI and current Executive Advisor to the Founder and CEO of CrowdStrike.In some ways, it’s similar to taking down criminals in the physical world. But the speed and scale of cybercrime operations exacerbate the challenge of stopping them. While infrastructure can be dismantled, the impact is now short-lived as

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37:09

Prompted to Fail: The Security Risks Lurking in...

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2025/11/20

CrowdStrike research into AI coding assistants reveals a new, subtle vulnerability surface: When DeepSeek-R1 receives prompts the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) likely considers politically sensitive, the likelihood of it producing code with severe security flaws increases by up to 50%.Stefan Stein, manager of the CrowdStrike Counter Adversary Operations Data Science team, joined Adam and Cristian for a live recording at Fal.Con 2025 to discuss how this project got started, the methodology behind

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27:00

Extortion Rises and Nation-State Activity...

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2025/11/06

Europe is a prime target for global adversaries. There is a strong emphasis on eCrime across the region as well as a rise in hacktivism and espionage stemming from ongoing conflicts.The CrowdStrike 2025 European Threat Landscape Report breaks down these trends. In this episode, Adam and Cristian cover the highlights. They start with cybercrime, a major theme of the report. The five most targeted European nations were the U.K., Germany, Italy, France, and Spain, which also represent the region’s

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19:52

Thriving Marketplaces and Regional Threats: The...

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2025/10/23

In the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region, a burgeoning set of threat actors is emerging with a different language set, distinct tools, and an ecosystem where they interact with adversaries across the threat landscape.The CrowdStrike 2025 APJ eCrime Landscape Report explores the trends and issues facing organizations operating in this part of the world. For example, criminal groups in APJ are focused on opportunistic big game hunting and primarily target organizations in manufacturing,

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17:33

Tech Sector Targeting, Innovation Race, Fal.Con...

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2025/09/12

This week’s episode arrives as Adam and Cristian are gearing up for Fal.Con, CrowdStrike’s annual event taking place next week in Las Vegas. They’ll be recording a live episode on some fascinating LLM research presented at the show, so stay tuned for that in a couple of weeks.Amid their prep, they took the time to sit down for a conversation starting with a simple prompt: What are today’s security leaders and practitioners talking about? Their discussion sheds light on the industries hardest hit

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36:02

Cloud Intrusions Rise, eCrime Thrives, Governments...

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2025/08/04

In the first half of 2025 alone, cloud intrusions were up 136% compared to all of 2024. China was a big driver — CrowdStrike saw a 40% year-over-year surge in intrusions from suspected cloud-conscious China-nexus threat actors. In the government sector, interactive intrusions increased 71%, and targeted intrusion activity jumped 185%.The CrowdStrike OverWatch threat hunting team has a firsthand look at how adversaries are changing their techniques. In the CrowdStrike 2025 Threat Hunting Report,

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25:24

When the Adversary Shows Up in Person

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2025/06/19

Physical security and IT security have gone hand in hand for a long time. While cybersecurity teams are rightfully focused on protecting their virtual environments, they should also have an eye on whether an adversary is walking through the front door.“Anytime there’s a physical boundary, an adversary is going to look to cross over that — whether it be in person or using some technology to get over that boundary,” Adam says in this episode on physical security threats. Not too long ago, it was

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28:53

Catching Up on Cloud Attack Paths with Cloud Threat...

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2025/05/28

Today’s adversaries are increasingly operating in the cloud — and Sebastian Walla, Deputy Manager of Emerging Threats at CrowdStrike, is watching them. In this episode, he joins Adam and Cristian to dive into the latest cloud attack techniques and the adversaries behind them.So, who are they? SCATTERED SPIDER and LABYRINTH CHOLLIMA are two of the threat actors targeting and navigating cloud environments, but they have distinct methods of doing so. This conversation explores the different ways they

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20:49

Inside the CrowdStrike 2025 Latin America Threat...

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2025/05/08

Latin America has become a hotspot for cyber activity. Threat actors around the world, particularly eCriminals, are targeting organizations operating in Central and South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Latin America-based cybercriminals are emerging as well.The CrowdStrike 2025 Latin America Threat Landscape Report provides key insights into this activity. In its pages, the CrowdStrike Counter Adversary Operations team details the eCrime, targeted intrusions, hacktivist disruptions, and

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34:26

Putting a Spotlight on Energy Sector Threats with...

Adversary Universe Podcast ·

2025/02/06

Cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure have made more headlines in recent years, sparking concern about how these systems are protected. Adversaries are taking aim at older technologies that are both essential to everyday life and difficult to secure.Our guest for this episode is Greg Bell, chief strategy officer at Corelight. Before he co-founded the network security firm, Greg spent most of his career working in the National Laboratory system, part of the U.S. Department of Energy. He

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35:24

Small But Mighty: The Kernel’s Essential Role in...

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2024/10/01

The kernel is the brain of the operating system. It controls everything that happens on a computer and has full access to the hardware and all system resources. Though it has a small code base, the kernel plays a critical role in how systems and applications operate, interact and stay secure.Due to the current architecture and design of Windows systems, cybersecurity products running in the platform — particularly those involved in endpoint protection — require kernel access to provide the highest

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31:17

Hunting the Rogue Insiders Operating for FAMOUS CHOLLIMA

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2024/08/21

FAMOUS CHOLLIMA, a new adversary CrowdStrike is tracking, has recently made headlines for its insider threat activity. In April 2024, CrowdStrike Services responded to the first of several incidents in which FAMOUS CHOLLIMA threat actors targeted 30+ US-based companies. The insiders claimed to be US residents and were hired for remote IT positions, which granted them access they exploited to attempt data exfiltration, install malware and conduct other malicious activity. CrowdStrike has now informed

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