Security This Week

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By: Carl Franklin

Enterprise security topics are discussed through the lens of current events, which catapult us into a discussion about hacking methods, security measures, and outcomes. Your hosts are Carl Franklin, Patrick Hynds, and Duane LaFlotte

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What's up with Fortinet?
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Today at 2:27 AM

FortiBleed campaign exposes 75,000 Fortinet firewalls worldwide


Aesop is Rolling in his Grave
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06/12/2026

Anthropic rolls out Claude Fable 5, but it's available for a limited time


Book: The Cat's Revenge by Claude Balls.
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06/05/2026

Claude Code’s GitHub Actions Vulnerability Lets Attackers Compromise Any Repository


Beware of the Landshark!
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05/30/2026

FBI warns of in-person data theft attacks from extortion gang


Et Tu, M5??
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05/24/2026

First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5


Ding Dong! Linux Again!
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05/21/2026

New Linux 'Dirty Frag' zero-day gives root on all major distros


Every Linux System at Risk!
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05/09/2026

Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distribution.


Mythos: the Good and the Bad
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04/25/2026

Anthropic investigates unauthorized Mythos access by Discord group


Shall We Play a Game?
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04/19/2026

AI chatbots used tactical nuclear weapons in 95% of AI war games, launched strategic strikes three times!


Who's the Domain Master?
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04/17/2026

$10 Domain Could Have Handed Hackers 25k Endpoints, Including in OT and Gov Networks


Anthropic Gets Mythical
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04/10/2026

Anthropic's Claude Mythos Finds Thousands of Zero-Day Flaws Across Major Systems


Worse Than Log4J?
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04/04/2026

Axios NPM Package Compromised: Supply Chain Attack Hits JavaScript HTTP Client with 100M+ Weekly Downloads


Your Router is Banned!
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03/28/2026

FCC bans foreign routers, putting enterprise network risk in focus


iSpy
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03/21/2026

Researchers uncover iPhone spyware capable of penetrating millions of devices.


SQL Server on Fire! Film at 11.
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03/14/2026

Microsoft SQL Server Zero-Day Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Escalate Privileges


Claude Balls
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02/28/2026

Anthropic ditches its core safety promise in the middle of an AI red line fight with the Pentagon


Is Your Password Manager Safe?
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02/21/2026

Exploitable Flaws Found in Cloud-Based Password Managers


Patrick Was Right!
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02/14/2026

iPhone Lockdown Mode is so good even the FBI can’t crack it


Is Your Pet AI Molting?
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02/07/2026

Hacking Moltbook: The AI Social Network Any Human Can Control


The Sound of Doom!
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01/31/2026

How to get Doom running on a pair of earbuds


GPT, the Uber Hacker
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01/24/2026

New Study Shows GPT-5.2 Can Reliably Develop Zero-Day Exploits at Scale


Get Off Of My Cloud!
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01/17/2026

New China Linked VoidLink Linux Malware Targets Major Cloud Providers


Here. Try This!
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01/10/2026

ConsentFix: Analysing a browser-native ClickFix-style attack that hijacks OAuth consent grants


Is This Your Mongo?
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01/03/2026

MongoDB warns admins to patch severe vulnerability immediately


Watch What You Watch!
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12/20/2025

PornHub extorted after hackers steal Premium member activity data


Over Reacting?
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12/12/2025

Attackers hit React defect as researchers quibble over proof


iScam?
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12/06/2025

An ingenious Apple Service hoax is convincing users their account is under attack


Did Claude Go Rogue?
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11/22/2025

Anthropic claims of Claude AI-automated cyberattacks met with doubt


Should You Disable Hyper-V? Da!
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11/15/2025

Hackers Weaponize Windows Hyper-V to Hide Linux VM and Evade EDR Detection


Patrick was Right!
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11/08/2025

No one pays ransomware demands anymore - so attackers have a new goal. Also: Ransomware Surge in Europe: Cybercriminals Exploit GDPR Penalties, Target Key Sectors


AWS Story Put To Bed
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11/01/2025

AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright


Terminate This!
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10/18/2025

Skynet-1A: Military Spacecraft Launched 56 Years Ago Has Been Moved By Persons Unknown


Live in Orlando!
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10/11/2025

Carl, Duane, and Patrick recorded this week's episode in front of a live audience at CyberSecurity Intersection, a cyber conference held at Universal Studio in Orlando, FL the week of October 5.


No! Not the Beer!!
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10/03/2025

Japan's beer giant Asahi Group cannot resume production after cyberattack


Secret Service FTW!
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09/27/2025

U.S. Secret Service dismantles imminent telecommunications threat in New York tristate area


Read Your Own Damn Email!
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09/20/2025

New attack on ChatGPT research agent pilfers secrets from Gmail inboxes


The Largest Supply Chain Attack in History!
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09/13/2025

Hackers left empty-handed after massive NPM supply-chain attack


The End of Privacy?
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09/05/2025

Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American'


AI-Powered Ransomware: Uh Oh.
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08/29/2025

Someone Created the First AI-Powered Ransomware Using OpenAI's gpt-oss:20b Model


What would you do for nuggets?
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08/22/2025

Security researcher driven by free nuggets unearths McDonald's security flaw — changing 'login' to 'register' in URL prompted site to issue plain text password for a new account