Podcast: Cyber Security News Byte Podcast

A weekly podcast that covers the cyber security news stories that you need to know for the week, to help protect your organization or yourself.

Episode 88: Firmware, Fraud, and Federal Fumbles

Links https://www.wral.com/news/education/threat-actor-claims-to-have-nc-student-data-may-2025 https://www.wral.com/story/a-hacker-s-ransom-inside-the-cyberattack-that-compromised-nc-student-and-teacher-records/21989281 https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/breaking-7000-device-proxy-botnet-using.html https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/magento-supply-chain-attack-compromises-hundreds-of-e-stores https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/06/signal-archive-cybersecurity-waltz-wyden https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/01/waltz-signal-app-photo-cabinet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_government_group_chat_leaks PowerSchool Breach: When ‘Delete’ Doesn’t Mean Gone When Your Toaster Joins a Cybercrime Ring The Phantom Backdoor: Six Years of Silent Sabotage The TeleMessage Debacle in Government Communications Develop an incident response plan to address security breaches swiftly. This includes identifying the breach, containing it, notifying affected…

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Episode 87: Phish, RATs, and Rogue Routers: This Week’s Cyber Soap Opera

Links https://ismailtasdelen.medium.com/commvaults-azure-breach-a-zero-day-tale-of-webshells-and-nation-state-hackers-%EF%B8%8F-%EF%B8%8F-4d23a46467d6 https://gbhackers.com/commvault-confirms-zero-day-attack https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/commvault-confirms-hackers-exploited.html https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2025-3928 https://www.commvault.com/blogs/security-advisory-march-7-2025 https://cybersecuritynews.com/harrods-store-hit-by-cyber-attack https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/harrods-cyberattack-marks-and-spencer-coop-mj7vjkdkv https://cybersecuritynews.com/nebulous-mantis-hackers-actively-deploying-romcom-rat https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/nebulous-mantis-targets-nato-linked.html https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-abuse-ipv6-networking-feature-to-hijack-software-updates https://cybersecuritynews.com/hackers-abuse-ipv6-stateless-address-for-aitm-attack https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/chinese-hackers-abuse-ipv6-slaac-for.html Commvault’s Zero-Day Drama Harrods Joins the Cyber Hit List The Malware Love Story You Didn’t Swipe Right On When Your Router Turns Against You Employee Training: Educate staff about the risks associated with IPv6 and the importance of network security hygiene.

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Episode 86: Stolen Cookies, Lazarus Strikes, and the TikTok Breach Drama

Links https://cybersecuritynews.com/cookie-bite-attack https://cybersecuritynews.com/lazarus-apt-attacking-organizations https://cybersecuritynews.com/hackers-abuse-cloudflare-tunnel-infrastructure https://cybersecuritynews.com/hackers-allegedly-breach-tiktok Cookie-Bite Attacks: Emerging Threat to Cloud and MFA Security Lazarus Strikes Before You Update Hackers Exploit Cloudflare Tunnels to Infiltrate Systems R00TK1T’s TikTok Takedown

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