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The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast

An accessible but technical podcast about cybersecurity and the people who keep the internet safe. The podcast is built as a series of segments: we will be looking back at the last couple of weeks in cybersecurity news, talking to different people in the industry about areas of their expertise, we"re going to break apart some of the TTPs being used by adversaries, and we will even cover a little bit of hacker history.

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31:40

#242 - Building human & AI synergy with Peter Ruta,...

The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast ·

2025/08/27

On this episode of the Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast we speak with Peter Ruta, Founder / CEO, Arcanna.ai.Peter is a Romanian-born entrepreneur and technology expert with over 13 years of experience in the industry. His interest in technology was sparked after following a military path, and he went on to secure key jobs in prominent tech companies such as Cisco. In 2015, Peter decided to pursue his passion for entrepreneurship and founded Siscale AI INC. He then went on to develop Arcanna AI, a

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36:40

#241 - Intel Chat:Apache ActiveMQ, Elastic EDR...

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2025/08/26

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community.• Attackers are actively exploiting CVE-2023-46604, a remote code execution vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ first disclosed in October 2023, that is used to compromise cloud-hosted Linux servers.• AshES Cybersecurity has publicly disclosed a critical zero-day vulnerability in Elastic’s Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) platform, specifically in the Microsoft-signed kernel

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29:05

#240 - Defender Fridays: Remote Management Tool Abuse...

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2025/08/23

Ezra Woods, Security Engineer at Grand Canyon Education, shares insights on current attack trends and practical defensive strategies you can use to protect your environment with Maxime Lamothe-Brassard, Founder and CEO of LimaCharlie, and the Defender Fridays community.On Defender Fridays we delve into the dynamic world of information security, exploring its defensive side with seasoned professionals from across the industry. Our aim is simple yet ambitious: to foster a collaborative space where

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38:03

#239 - Intel Chat: Scattered Spider or ShinyHunters,...

The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast ·

2025/08/19

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community. • Recent reporting from DataBreaches has added yet another twist to the attribution puzzle between Scattered Spider and ShinyHunters. https://databreaches.net/2025/08/03/are-scattered-spider-and-shinyhunters-one-group-or-two-and-who-did-france-arrest/• A recent disclosure on the oss-security mailing list detailed a set of 11 vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel’s eBPF subsystem,

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31:25

#238 - Defender Fridays: Building trusted ecosystems...

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2025/08/15

Christopher Luft, Co-Founder and CCO of LimaCharlie, and Dr. Mike Saylor, CEO of Blackswan Cybersecurity, sat down with the Defender Fridays community for Black Hat week wrap up and a deep dive building secure environments for IR.Dr. Mike Saylor is an accomplished, outcome-driven and solution-focused business professional and entrepreneur with 30+ years of Consulting, IT Audit & Risk, Cyber Security & Incident Response experience. Uniquely qualified as a leader with a solid knowledge of

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#237 - Intel Chat: Black Hat roundup - Gemini AI,...

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2025/08/11

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community.At Black Hat USA in Las Vegas, three security researchers demonstrated how Google's Gemini AI could be hijacked to take control of smart home devices using a novel form of indirect prompt injection.Two separate security teams - NeuralTrust and SPLX - have conducted red teaming evaluations of the newly released GPT-5, and both report serious deficiencies in the model’s security

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30:15

#236 - Defender Fridays: Explore the Challenges of...

The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast ·

2025/08/08

Maxime Lamothe-Brassard, Founder and CEO of LimaCharlie, and Jeremy Snyder, Founder and CEO of FireTail.ai, sat down with the Defender Fridays community to discuss the hurdles of maintaining secure processes while adding AI to your workflow.Jeremy is the founder and CEO of FireTail.ai. Jeremy was an IT and cybersecurity practitioner for over 10 years before transitioning into product and sales roles in cloud security and cyber. Jeremy once went three days without seeing another human, but saw lots

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39:35

#235 - Intel Chat: SharePoint, SaaS shift, PaperCut...

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2025/08/06

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community.More than 90 state and local government organizations have been targeted in a recent wave of cyberattacks exploiting a vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint, according to the Center for Internet Security (CIS).Traditional cyber attack methodologies - exploiting endpoints, moving laterally, escalating privileges - are increasingly outdated as enterprise IT shifts toward SaaS and

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29:17

#234 - Defender Fridays: Autonomous SOC, AI for...

The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast ·

2025/08/02

Join us every Friday as we delve into the dynamic world of information security, exploring its defensive side with seasoned professionals from across the industry. Our aim is simple yet ambitious: to foster a collaborative space where ideas flow freely, experiences are shared, and knowledge expands.

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37:13

#233 - Intel Chat: SharePoint, ToolShell, UK bans...

The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast ·

2025/07/31

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community.A critical new SharePoint vulnerability is under mass exploitation, with attackers targeting on-premises SharePoint Server deployments to exfiltrate sensitive data, including authentication tokens.And then directly related to the first story, Microsoft has now confirmed that at least three China-linked threat actors—Linen Typhoon, Violet Typhoon, and Storm-2603—were actively

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31:13

#232 - Defender Fridays: AI scarping and internal...

The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast ·

2025/07/25

Join us every Friday as we delve into the dynamic world of information security, exploring its defensive side with seasoned professionals from across the industry. Our aim is simple yet ambitious: to foster a collaborative space where ideas flow freely, experiences are shared, and knowledge expands.

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28:17

#231 - Intel Chat: CISCO CVE 10/10, Matanbuchus,...

The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast ·

2025/07/22

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community.Cisco has disclosed a critical vulnerability—tracked as CVE-2025-20337 with a perfect score of 10—affecting its Identity Services Engine (ISE) and the ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC). A recently updated version of the malware-as-a-service (MaaS) loader Matanbuchus is being deployed in active spear-phishing campaigns that are ultimately aimed at high-value ransomware

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30:56

#230 - Defender Fridays: Cyberphysical protection for...

The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast ·

2025/07/18

Join us every Friday as we delve into the dynamic world of information security, exploring its defensive side with seasoned professionals from across the industry. Our aim is simple yet ambitious: to foster a collaborative space where ideas flow freely, experiences are shared, and knowledge expands.

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35:32

#229 - Intel Chat: IntelBroker, Hunters...

The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast ·

2025/07/17

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community.Kai West, a 25-year-old British national, has been indicted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York for allegedly operating under the online alias “IntelBroker.” Hunters International, a ransomware group that surfaced in 2023 and is believed to have originated from the now-defunct Hive ransomware operation, has announced it is ceasing all

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28:52

#228 - Defender Fridays: Building detection and...

The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast ·

2025/07/11

Join us every Friday as we delve into the dynamic world of information security, exploring its defensive side with seasoned professionals from across the industry. Our aim is simple yet ambitious: to foster a collaborative space where ideas flow freely, experiences are shared, and knowledge expands.Each week, we bring you a different expert guest who will share their invaluable insights on topics ranging from threat hunting and incident response to security operations and detection engineering. What

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31:44

#227 - Intel Chat: Sudo, browser vulns, Medusa &...

The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast ·

2025/07/08

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community.Two critical local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Sudo utility—CVE-2025-32462 and CVE-2025-32463—have been disclosed by the Stratascale Cyber Research Unit.Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox are both facing distinct, serious threats this week—Chrome from a zero-day vulnerability under active exploitation and Firefox from a campaign of malicious browser extensions

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27:22

#226 - Intel Chat: Thai takedown, Salt Typhoon, Iran...

The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast ·

2025/07/01

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community.Thai police conducted a major raid on the Antai Holiday Hotel in central Pattaya late on Monday night, June 16th, uncovering a joint operation involving both ransomware distribution and illegal gambling.Canada’s national cybersecurity agency has confirmed that a Chinese state-sponsored group known as Salt Typhoon successfully targeted a Canadian telecommunications company earlier

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31:00

#225 - Defender Fridays: EDR, DFIR & endpoint triage...

The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast ·

2025/06/27

Join us every Friday as we delve into the dynamic world of information security, exploring its defensive side with seasoned professionals from across the industry. Our aim is simple yet ambitious: to foster a collaborative space where ideas flow freely, experiences are shared, and knowledge expands.Each week, we bring you a different expert guest who will share their invaluable insights on topics ranging from threat hunting and incident response to security operations and detection engineering. What

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31:45

#224 - Intel Chat: Otter cookie, Flodrix, Water Curse...

The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast ·

2025/06/24

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community.A new malware strain known as OtterCookie, developed by the North Korean APT group Lazarus, has been dissected in a detailed technical analysis by offensive security expert Mauro Eldritch. Attackers are currently exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Langflow platform — an open-source Python-based web app used to build AI workflows and agents — to deliver a new botnet called

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30:48

#223 - Defender Fridays: Maintaining the human touch...

The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast ·

2025/06/20

Join us every Friday as we delve into the dynamic world of information security, exploring its defensive side with seasoned professionals from across the industry. Our aim is simple yet ambitious: to foster a collaborative space where ideas flow freely, experiences are shared, and knowledge expands.Each week, we bring you a different expert guest who will share their invaluable insights on topics ranging from threat hunting and incident response to security operations and detection engineering. What

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