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Defensive Security Podcast Episode 317

Want to support our show? Want to get access to episodes a week before everyone else? Become a patreon sponsor here: https://www.patreon.com/defensivesec If you’re in Atlanta on August 20, you can join us for a LIVE episode at Mission 25. Register here: MCS Mission: Security’25 Our new merch store is live: DefSec Store We’ve added a lot of new items and will continue to do so over time. On to the show.   Here are the links for this week’s episode: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/spikes-in-malicious-activity-precede-new-cves-in-80-percent-of-cases/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-plant-4g-raspberry-pi-on-bank-network-in-failed-atm-heist/ https://nerds.xyz/2025/07/ai-security-flaws-veracode-2025/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/tea-app-leak-worsens-with-second-database-exposing-user-chats/ https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/research-llms-attacks-without-humans/754203/

Defensive Security Podcast Episode 316

Want to support our show? Want to get access to episodes a week before everyone else? Become a patreon sponsor here: https://www.patreon.com/defensivesec If you’re in Atlanta on August 20, you can join us for a LIVE episode at Mission 25. Register here: MCS Mission: Security’25 Our new merch store is live: DefSec Store We’ve added a lot of new items and will continue to do so over time. On to the show. Here are the links for this week’s episode: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/26/microsoft_sharepoint_attacks_leak/ https://mashable.com/article/google-gemini-deletes-users-code https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/open-source-repositories-are-seeing-a-rash-of-supply-chain-attacks/ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/23/lawsuit_clorox_vs_cognizant/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/allianz-life-confirms-data-breach-impacts-majority-of-14-million-customers/

Defensive Security Podcast Episode 315

  If you’re in Atlanta on August 20, you can join us for a LIVE episode at Mission 25. Register here: MCS Mission: Security’25 Our new merch store is live(ish): DefSec Store – We’ll be adding more items as time goes on. This is managed through Printify, which has a quite expansive range of products to logo up. Also, some of you may know that Jerry is into photography and contemplating creating a calendar with images he’s taken. Let us know if that sounds interesting. Possible themes are: beach sunsets, flowers, or jet fighters, because that’s about all he’s good at taking pictures of.     On to the show. Here are the links for this week’s episode: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lamehug-malware-uses-ai-llm-to-craft-windows-data-theft-commands-in-real-time/ https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/hackers-exploit-a-blind-spot-by-hiding-malware-inside-dns-records/ https://www.darkreading.com/remote-workforce/fully-patched-sonicwall-gear-zero-day-attack https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-crushftp-zero-day-exploited-in-attacks-to-hijack-servers/ (for patreon listeners only) https://thehackernews.com/2025/07/malware-injected-into-6-npm-packages.html?m=1(for patreon listeners only)  

Defensive Security Podcast Episode 314.5

Episode 315 is available for our patreon donors and will be posted for everyone else on Monday, July 28. Going forward, episodes will be released to our patreon donors shortly after recording and will be released to everyone else a week later. If you want to become a patreon donor, you can do so here: https://www.patreon.com/defensivesec Also, our new merch store is live and available here: https://store.defensivesecurity.org It’s a work in progress and please let me know if you have any issued with it. Thank you all and we’ll talk on Monday!  

Defensive Security Podcast Episode 314

Want to support us? Want even MORE DefSec? Starting this week, we are providing more DefSec for our Patreon donors. Sign up to be a Patreon donor today: https://www.patreon.com/defensivesec Links: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/10/cisa_citrixbleed_kev/ https://www.axios.com/2025/07/08/scattered-spider-cybercrime-hackers https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/employee-gets-920-for-credentials-used-in-140-million-bank-heist/ Additional links for Patreon donors: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/13/fake_it_worker_problem/ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/09/chatgpt_jailbreak_windows_keys/