The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast

Saurabh Shintre, Founder and CEO of Realm Labs, is on Defender Fridays today to discuss securing AI from within.

Saurabh previously led the AI security research at Splunk and Symantec. He has been at the forefront of AI security research for nearly a decade with multiple publications and patents and regularly features on public forums on issues regarding security and AI. Saurabh holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon. Learn more at https:...

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

• GitLab’s Threat Intelligence Team published detailed findings on North Korean activity associated with the Contagious Interview campaign and broader IT worker operations.
• A financially motivated, Russian-speaking threat actor used generative AI tools to compromise more than 600 Fortinet FortiGate firewall insta...

John V, AI risk, safety, and security at the Institute for Security and Technology (IST), joins Defender Fridays today.

John's work spans AI red teaming, adversarial machine learning, AI evals and validation, and AI risk assessment, including policy work at the intersection of AGI and nuclear strategic stability. Learn more at https://securityandtechnology.org/

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On this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we speak with Chris Cochran, Field CISO & Vice President of AI Security at SANS Institute, about how to navigate the future of AI risk and security strategy

Chris works at the intersection of cyber defense, AI safety, and emerging risk, where the threats are converging and the playbooks are still being written. His career has taken him from the Marine Corps to NSA, U.S. Cyb...

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

• A financially motivated threat actor known as GS7 is conducting a large-scale phishing campaign called Operation DoppelBrand, targeting Fortune 500 companies by impersonating their corporate login portals.
• Kaspersky researchers have analyzed a newly identified Android malware strain named Keenadu that provides ...

This week on Defender Fridays, Farshad Abasi, Founder and CEO of Forward Security and Eureka DevSecOps, discusses how AI can help us set a new standard in app and cloud security.

Farshad brings over 27 years of industry experience to the forefront of cybersecurity innovation. His professional journey includes key technical roles at Intel and Motorola, evolving into senior security positions as the Principal Security Architect for H...

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

• Russian cyber operations have maintained a consistent focus on exploiting both tactical and strategic targets within the defense industrial base, particularly in the context of the war in Ukraine.
• Sygnia has disclosed a large-scale, AI-driven scam operation involving over 150 cloned websites impersonating law f...

This week Brandon Min, Founder and CEO of Herd Security, joins Defender Fridays to discuss how human risk management needs to rebrand with empathy.

Brandon is the co-founder and CEO of Herd Security, where they help security teams drive employee engagement in security, making a more resilient organization. Humans have been the #1 target of organizational cyber attacks; however, security teams, organizations, vendors, and leaders hav...

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

• OpenClaw, an open source AI agent formerly known as MoltBot and ClawdBot, has rapidly become the fastest-growing project on GitHub, amassing over 113,000 stars in under a week.
• A critical vulnerability in the React Native Community CLI NPM package, tracked as CVE-2025-11953 with a CVSS score of 9.8, has been ac...

Most orgs have a major blind spot: the browser.

This week on Defender Fridays, we're joined by Cody Pierce, Co-Founder and CEO at Neon Cyber, to discuss why browser security remains a critical gap, from sophisticated phishing campaigns that bypass traditional controls to shadow AI tools operating outside your security perimeter.

Cody began his career in the computer security industry twenty-five years ago. The first half of his journ...

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

• Researchers at Trend Micro have uncovered continued activity from China-aligned threat actors leveraging a cross-platform JavaScript-based command-and-control framework known as "PeckBirdy".
• Silent Push has identified an extensive phishing campaign targeting over 100 organizations, attributed to the threat acto...

Join us for a special Defender Fridays Office Hours session where the LimaCharlie team demonstrates the new Agentic SecOps Workspace (ASW) and explores what's possible when AI agents operate security infrastructure directly.

At 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 colla...

In this special episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, a panel of cybersecurity experts discuss the irreversible changes AI has brought to the industry. This panel originally aired on January 20th, 2026.

The panel attendees include:

• Christopher Luft (host) - Co-Founder / CCO, LimaCharlie
• Maxime Lamothe-Brassard - Founder / CEO, LimaCharlie
• Eric Capuano - Co-Founder, Digital Defense Institute
• Joshua Neil - Co-Founder, Alpha ...

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

• North Korean threat actors are targeting macOS software developers in a new malware campaign that abuses Visual Studio Code (VS Code) confi gurations to deliver JavaScript-based backdoors, according to research from Jamf.
• Sinkholes are usually seen as the end of a malicious campaign - the point where domains ar...

This week on Defender Fridays, John Hubbard, SANS Institute Cyber Defense Curriculum Lead, discusses the future of security operations and what it means for SOC leaders today.

We'll be talking about:

• Building continuous improvement into SOC leadership
• Current vendor and product trends shaping security operations
• AI's real impact on SOC jobs and operations

Few instructors combine real-world security operations center (SOC) lead...

In this special episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, Mike Privette hosts a keynote discussion with LimaCharlie Founder and CEO, Maxime Lamothe-Brassard.

LimaCharlie has watched the AI SOC conversation unfold and stayed quiet. Until now.

Security vendors are racing to attach chatbots to legacy platforms and call it innovation. AI SOC startups have raised hundreds of millions to build better alert triage. Both approaches so...

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

• Security researchers at Check Point have uncovered a previously unknown Linux malware framework named VoidLink, which stands out for its complexity and modular design.
• Researchers at Trend Micro have identified a new phishing campaign that combines legitimate services and open-source tools to distribute AsyncRA...

This week on Defender Fridays, Tom Cross, Head of Threat Research at GetReal Security, joins us to talk hiring fraud and deepfakes on our first Defender Fridays session of 2026!

At 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 ideas flow freely, experie...

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

• A newly disclosed vulnerability in the workflow automation platform n8n, tracked as CVE-2026-21858 and rated CVSS 10.0, allows unauthenticated remote attackers to fully compromise exposed instances.
• Two malicious Chrome extensions impersonating a legitimate product from AITOPIA were found exfiltrating sensitive...