The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast

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 H...

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 inc...

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 exploi...

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 Typh...

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 inc...

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...

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 inc...

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community.

• Over an eight-month period beginning in July of last year, China-backed threat actors carried out a coordinated campaign that included attempts to breach cybersecurity vendor SentinelOne.
• CISA has added two newly confirmed exploited vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing ev...

On this episode of the Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast we speak with Filip Stojkovski, Staff Security Engineer at Snyk.

Filip is a cybersecurity professional with over 15 years of experience. He began his career as a SOC analyst and now leads SecOps engineering at Snyk. Filip also advises organizations on SOAR, AI for SOC, and threat intelligence strategies. He holds multiple SANS certifications, including GSTRT, GCTI, and GCFA, and...

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 inc...

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community.

• Microsoft and CrowdStrike have announced a strategic alliance aimed at deconflicting threat actor names across their platforms.
• A new, anonymous figure calling himself GangExposed has surfaced in the cyber threat landscape, publishing a significant set of internal documents that reveal the identities of top lea...

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community.

• Two significant crypto security breaches occurred in close succession this month, affecting both decentralized and centralized platforms. On May 22, Cetus—a decentralized exchange built on the Sui Network—was exploited via a vulnerability in its automated market maker (AMM). Meanwhile, Coinbase confirmed what ...

On this episode of the Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast we speak with Joshua Hoffman, CRO at ControlCase.

Josh brings a unique perspective to the cybersecurity conversation, shaped by years of building revenue strategies in fast-changing, highly regulated environments. At ControlCase, he's helping organizations navigate the growing complexity of compliance standards like CMMC, SOC, and PCI DSS, while driving adoption of tech-forward ...

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community.

• A report from Google on how to defend against UNC3944, better known as Scattered Spider.
• North Korea-backed threat actor TA406 has shifted its focus to targeting Ukrainian government agencies, according to new research from Proofpoint.
• Since October 2024, urlscan.io has been tracking a phishing campaign known as...

On episode 215 of the Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, Hank Thomas, Managing Partner and Founder at Strategic Cyber Ventures, shares his journey from Army intelligence officer to cyber-focused venture capitalist. But the most pressing part of the conversation is his call for a structural overhaul in how the US military handles cyber operations.

Thomas argues that cyber is no longer a niche; it is the starting point for modern confli...

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community.

• Since March 2025, Volexity has tracked an escalation in sophisticated phishing campaigns executed by two suspected Russian threat actors, UTA0352 and UTA0355, targeting the Microsoft 365 accounts of individuals connected to Ukraine and human rights organizations.
• A recent security assessment by watchTowr uncov...

On this episode of the Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast we speak with Jonathan Haas, Product at Vanta, about building cybersecurity products.

Jonathan’s work focuses on making security compliance faster and more accessible, helping teams move from months-long processes to efficient workflows that take just days. Before Vanta, he was the co-founder and CEO of cybersecurity startup ThreatKey, and before that he held key roles at Snapch...

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community.

• During a talk at RSA, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem provided an update on the future direction of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) under the new Trump administration.
• During the panel discussion titled “AI and Cyber Defense: Protecting Critical Infrastructure” which brought together feder...