Cybersecurity Today

AI-Run Ransomware, New Oracle 9.8 Flaw Exploited, NetNut Proxy Network Busted, and Pegasus Hits EU Spyware Investigator
 
This episode covers researchers' report of "Jade Puffer," the first ransomware attack run end-to-end by an autonomous AI agent, which exploited a patched Langflow RCE (CVE-2025-3248) but showed flaws like weak AES-128 ECB encryption and an unusable key.
 
It also warns of active exploitation of a critical Oracle Payments vulnerability (CVE-2026-46817, CVSS 9.8) alongside ongoing fallout from a separate PeopleSoft zero-day (CVE-2026-35273) used by ShinyHunters/UNC6240.
 
A joint operation involving Google disrupted the NetNut residential proxy botnet, affecting millions of hijacked devices.
 
Researchers detail a likely $1M extortion-only payment tied to Union County, Ohio, and Citizen Lab reports EU lawmaker Stelios Kouloglou was hacked with Pegasus during spyware-abuse investigations via a HomeKit zero-day.
 
00:00 Today's Cyber Headlines
00:55 AI Agent Ransomware Debut
03:32 Oracle Payments Under Attack
06:00 NetNut Proxy Network Takedown
08:29 Million Dollar Data Extortion
10:50 Pegasus Hits EU Investigator
12:48 Wrap Up and Sign Off

Teams cracks down on meeting bots, AI guardrails get bypassed, FortiBleed fuels ransomware, and Nissan confirms PeopleSoft breach
 
Microsoft rolls out a new Teams admin policy, "Manage External Bots and Their Access to Meetings," to detect third‑party bots, hold them in the lobby with labels, and require organizer approval, with future allow lists, full blocks, reports, and audit logs planned.
 
Anthropic's Fable 5 returns globally after U.S. export controls are lifted, though higher‑risk requests may be routed to weaker models and Mythos restrictions remain, with Commerce reserving the right to reimpose controls.
 
Researchers describe "Bioshocking," tricking AI browsers into abandoning guardrails via delusional puzzle prompts, while Adversa AI's "Guardfall" shows how Bash text rewriting can bypass command filters in many coding agents.
 
SOC Radar links FortiBleed credential theft to InkRansom and Lynx ransomware activity across hundreds of FortiGate portals. Nissan confirms employee data theft tied to a PeopleSoft zero‑day campaign linked to ShinyHunters.
 
00:00 Today's Cyber Headlines
00:27 Teams Blocks Meeting Bots
01:58 Anthropic Fable Returns
03:22 Bioshocking Browser Attack
05:09 Guardfall Shell Bypass
06:51 FortiBleed Fuels Ransomware
07:59 Nissan PeopleSoft Breach
10:10 Wrap Up And Sign Off

US Puts $10M Bounty on Russian Hackers, Supreme Court Limits Geofence Warrants, New phishing campaign targets hotels, AI Coding Agents Tricked into Malware and Canada's Electronic Spies Go After Ransomware Gangs. 
The episode covers the US State Department's up to $10 million reward for information on Russia-linked hacker groups UNC 5792 and UNC 4221 tied to phishing campaigns that compromise Signal and WhatsApp accounts by stealing Signal backup recovery keys. 
It also explains a US Supreme Court 6–3 ruling limiting geofence warrants by recognizing Fourth Amendment privacy protections for phone location data and requiring probable cause and narrower requests. 
Mozilla ODIN researchers demonstrate a proof of concept where a clean GitHub repo can cause AI coding agents to run an init command that executes attacker-controlled code via DNS and opens a reverse shell.
A hotel-focused phishing campaign using Calendly and Google redirects delivers ZIP files that install the Tonrat implant through PowerShell and a user-space Node.js runtime. 
Finally, Canada's CSE says it disrupted infrastructure used by 10 major ransomware groups and reports incident volumes rising nearly 26% year over year.
00:24 Top Headlines Rundown
00:54 10 Million Bounty Russian Hackers
02:42 Supreme Court Limits Geofence Warrants
03:56 AI Coding Agent Repo Trap
05:31 Listener Thanks And Reviews
05:51 Hotel Front Desk Phishing Attack
08:01 Canada Disrupts Ransomware Gangs
09:45 Closing And Sign Off

US Loosens Anthropic Claude Mythos Access, Unpatchable iPhone Exploit Emerges, and CISO Burnout Drives Fractional Shift
Washington granted a partial reprieve allowing Anthropic's Claude Mythos to be released to more than 100 approved U.S. firms and institutions after export controls paused Mythos and the more restricted Fable 5, with access still limited to vetted American entities; the same day, OpenAI's GPT 5.6 was also restricted to government-approved partners under a Trump executive order requiring review of cyber-capable models. 
The episode also covers Canadian hacktivist Aubrey Cottle's 18-month sentence for the 2021 Texas GOP hack and bail breaches, with possible U.S. charges pending. Researchers disclosed "USBliterate," an unpatchable physical USB exploit in the Secure ROM of older A12/A13 iPhones that aids forensic extraction.
Finally, a survey finds rising CISO burnout, fewer full-time CISOs, growth in fractional CISO roles, and AI—especially shadow AI—overtaking liability as the top stressor.
00:55 AI Export Controls Shift
03:37 Anonymous Hacker Sentenced
05:32 Unpatchable iPhone Boot Exploit
07:30 CISO Burnout And Exodus
09:40 Wrap Up And Sign Off

Cybersecurity Today would like to than Material Security for their support of this podcast. 
On Cybersecurity Today on the Weekend, the host speaks with Jennifer Hutton, a cybersecurity leader in the car dealership sector, about how she entered cybersecurity through increasing cyber insurance requirements and why dealerships are prime targets because they hold bank-level sensitive data and run complex digital and IoT ecosystems. They discuss the rise of cyber-enabled fraud, including impersonation scams, smishing, and synthetic identity fraud, and the need to educate both employees and customers. Hutton describes gaps in industry resources, especially for smaller dealers, and contrasts regulatory pressures such as updated FTC safeguards rules in the U.S. She emphasizes servant leadership, empathy, and communicating risk in business terms, arguing that cyber risk is business risk. The conversation also covers supply chain disruption from the CDK ransomware incident and the importance of incident response, business continuity, and resiliency-focused planning.
00:00 Weekend Show Kickoff
01:14 Jennifer's Cyber Origin
02:53 Why Dealerships Are Targets
04:30 Scams And Synthetic IDs
08:32 Industry Gaps And Sharing
10:42 Regulation And Tech Shift
13:48 Leading With Business Risk
21:29 Servant Leadership And AI
25:21 Empathy In Tech Teams
28:16 CDK Ransomware Lessons
29:53 Resilience Over Prevention
32:08 Advice To Dealership Leaders
34:49 Closing Thanks