Cybersecurity Experts REACT to the php chaos... (and MORE)
Season 1 · Episode 17
Wednesday, October 28, 2026 • Duration 01:27:30
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Today we're talking about:
PHP2Shell and the Disclosure Fight
Ed and Matt are at OneCon in Las Vegas as PHP2Shell sets off a chaotic week. We unpack the research, shaky AI exploit claims, Chainguard's early fixes and whether disclosure timelines can keep up. Dan Lorenc and the PHP Foundation give different accounts of the rollout.
https://calif.io/php2shell/
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danlorenc_i-wanted-to-share-what-happened-with-the-share-7518756991520120832-QX2_/
https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/10/21/todays-php-security-release-and-how-were-strengthening-php-security/
Kyle Polley's embargo discussion: https://x.com/kpolley/status/2113069186318577666
Your Certificate Authority's Private Key Was 4
One of eMudhra's private keys was literally four. We talk tiny keys, certificate trust, the company's exit from SSL/TLS and what happens when clients still trust compromised certificates.
https://scotthelme.co.uk/eight-bits-of-trust-emudhras-ca-keys-cracked-in-milliseconds/
https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/
https://emudhra.com/en/press-release/emudhra-to-exit-global-ssl-tls-certificate-business
https://www.mitmproxy.org/posts/releases/mitmproxy-12.3/
Linux Bugs and the Power of a Pattern
DirtyFrag, research credit and the latest kernel discussion lead into why Ed thinks AI is useful for spotting use-after-free patterns.
DirtyFrag research: https://github.com/V4bel/dirtyfrag
KSMBD background: https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/smb/ksmbd.html
Does AI Favor Attackers or Defenders?
SentinelLABS' Tom Hegel makes the case for keeping powerful tools accessible to defenders. SentinelOne's Steve Stone explains why finding more bugs isn't the whole story: attack paths, speed, scale and the physics of an intrusion still matter.
Meet the Threat Hunting World Champion
Jason Walker joins us straight from his OneCon win. We get into his move from graphic design to security, CTF strategy, AI-assisted detection engineering and why the fundamentals still matter.
OneCon: https://www.onecon.io/
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Cybersecurity Experts BREAK DOWN the shocking OpenAI Spying Incident, Crypto Backdoors, AND MORE
Season 1 · Episode 16
Monday, October 19, 2026 • Duration 01:16:49
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Today we're talking about:
AI Got Better While We Were Arguing About It
Matt returns from SecTor, Ed explains his monitor-firmware experiment, and we discuss what AI can do for security research—and the human work it still takes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIe3eDfGKUo
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cyber-frontier-models/
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behind-the-scenes-hardening-firefox/
Your Hardware Wallet Has Extra Hardware
Kim Zetter's reporting reveals seed-stealing Ledger implants, including devices from authorized retailers, and separate Trezor tampering from unauthorized sellers. Who planted them remains unknown.
https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/who-is-planting-backdoors-in-ledger-crypto-wallets/
https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/trezor-wallets-also-compromised-with-implants/
Someone Hacked the Supermarket Fridges
French supermarkets lose food after a cyberattack. We discuss exposed refrigeration controllers, a date-derived login code, and the separate Ahold Delhaize outage.
Reuters report: https://srnnews.com/french-supermarket-chain-intermarche-hit-by-cyberattack-150-stories-targeted/
https://claroty.com/team82/research/freeze-the-controller-defrost-the-food-uncovering-vulnerabilities-in-danfoss-refrigeration-controllers
https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/you-dont-need-a-nation-state-to-warm-up-a-fridge/
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/retail-giant-ahold-delhaize-takes-systems-offline-after-cyberattack/
If AI Can Clone Your App, What Are You Selling?
ArtCraft and Reverse Engineer Anything spark a debate about paid software, reliability and support. Fireship's FilmCraft test puts the hype under pressure.
https://www.kdnuggets.com/the-rise-of-ai-software-clones-why-rea-and-artcraft-are-going-viral
https://github.com/morluto/rea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wajoP_5Cpw8
The People You Call After Ransomware
We discuss Edward Dubrovsky's reported arrest and the separate MonsterCloud case. Prosecutors allege MonsterCloud secretly paid attackers while promising special decryption tools. These are allegations, not convictions.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/10/fbi-arrests-founder-of-ransomware-negotiation-firm/
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ransomware-recovery-ceo-charged-over-secret-ransom-payments/
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/known-cybersecurity-expert-and-owner-florida-ransomware-remediation-company-charged
OpenAI Finds a Recorder Behind the TV
An employee is accused of planting a recorder in an executive conference room. We unpack the alleged chatbot trail, a second device and the problem of insider access.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwg5jq4vlddzo
https://x.com/OpenAINewsroom/status/2110095403198849132
A Jailbreak That Isn't Quite a Jailbreak
hrtowii's iOS research involves Apple's Security Research Device signing system. The author explains the limits and says the bug has been patched.
https://www.hrtowii.dev/blog/making-a-not-jailbreak-in-3-weeks
Oops, all vulns! (Citrix NetScaler problems, the FBI ShinyHunters saga cont’d and MORE)
Season 1 · Episode 15
Thursday, October 8, 2026 • Duration 01:08:22
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00:00 Coming up
00:33 Intro and Matt’s SecTor keynote
02:52 Citrix NetScaler zero-days and disclosure
09:25 Breaking down the NetScaler exploits
19:04 Sponsor: Maze
20:41 Citrix’s response and responsible disclosure
25:06 Why edge devices are so hard to defend
30:54 MikroTik RouterOS vulnerabilities
35:33 Cisco SD-WAN authentication bypass
38:37 Zimbra command injection
42:22 ShinyHunters arrest and conflicting claims
50:42 Reacting to the FBI’s warning
55:05 Open-weight AI, Anthropic and GLM-5.3
1:07:35 Wrap-up and OneCon
Today we're talking about:
Your NetScaler Warning Came From Reddit
Finding out about NetScaler zero-days through Reddit is not the enterprise support experience Matt had in mind. Ed walks through watchTowr's command injection and memory overflow writeups, including missing protections in the binary they tested. Then we get into Google's hunting guidance and why a patch alone won't kick an attacker out.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Citrix/comments/1wqjk9a/netscaler_leak/
https://labs.watchtowr.com/oh-look-the-foot-gun-went-off-again-citrix-netscaler-preauth-command-injection-cve-2026-88771/
https://labs.watchtowr.com/here-we-go-again-citrix-netscaler-dtls-preauth-memory-overflow-cve-2026-88772/
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/defending-against-active-exploitation-of-citrix-netscaler-adc-and-gateway-appliances
MikroTik and the User Named -2
MikroTik joins the pile with an HTTP underflow and a separate SSH authentication chain. The username "-2" showing up in attack logs gets our attention. Ed explains how assumptions between different parts of a system can become an exploit. Matt has been saying "don't roll your own crypto" for his entire career. Apparently we still need the reminder.
https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF/blob/develop/csaf_files/OT/white/2026/icsa-26-272-06.json
https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/09/vulnerabilities-in-mikrotik-routeros-actively-exploited/
Cisco's Admin API Lets the Wrong People In
A specially encoded request can give an unauthenticated attacker admin access to Cisco's SD-WAN Manager API. We talk about what that means for a corporate network, and the difference between connections that need to be public and management interfaces that don't. Cisco patched its managed cloud service. If you run an affected instance yourself, the upgrade is still your job.
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/csa/cisco-sa-sdwan-webauth-xr8beuuU.html
Zimbra: An Email Goes In, a Shell Command Comes Out
A crafted email can trigger command execution through Zimbra's SNMP notification system on affected configurations, without anyone clicking anything. We trace the route from incoming mail to a shell command and look at Microsoft's account of the attacks. Ed has a fairly blunt suggestion for developers: stop handing user input to Bash.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/09/30/unauthenticated-command-injection-on-internet-facing-mail-servers-tracking-cve-2026-73570/
ShinyHunters Meets the FBI's Camera
Dutch police arrest an alleged ShinyHunters leader, and the FBI looks straight into the camera with a message for whoever's left. We untangle the arrest timeline, conflicting gang statements and the Pokémon branding. Matt brings us back to the PeopleSoft campaign and why following a group's methods is useful even when its PR is impossible to trust.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/dutch-police-arrest-reformed-hacker-in-shiny-hunters-investigation/
https://www.fbi.gov/video-repository/shinyhunters-arrested-092926.mp4/view
https://www.securityweek.com/shinyhunters-defiant-after-fbi-calls-on-members-to-come-forward/
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/shinyhunters-renewed-mass-exploitation-campaign-targeting-oracle-peoplesoft
If the Attacker Gets AI, So Do I
Anthropic's GLM-5.3 report sets off a disagreement. If attackers get powerful, freely available models, Matt wants to know why defenders don't get the same advantage. Ed thinks the way our systems are built still favors the attacker. We get into reports of safeguards getting in the way of incident response, the incentives behind calls for regulation, and who we'd trust to write the rules.
https://www.anthropic.com/research/glm-5-3-and-the-spread-of-advanced-cyber-capabilities
https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026
ShinyHunters’ FBI Breach, OpenAI’s Bug Bounty Drama, and the Rise of ClickFix
Season 1 · Episode 14
Sunday, October 4, 2026 • Duration 01:30:45
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ShinyHunters Has a Reputation to Protect
ShinyHunters says it hacked the FBI to protect its business. Apparently, even an extortion crew needs good PR. We get into why reputation matters to people who make their money threatening companies, and Ed takes a look at the PeopleSoft bugs that may explain the way in. Some of the exposed records reportedly belong to the FBI's own hacking unit.
https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/etr-active-exploitation-of-oracle-peoplesoft-zero-day-cve-2026-35273/
https://www.404media.co/fbi-hack-exposed-fbis-own-hacking-unit-remote-operations-shinyhunters/
https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/09/25/shinyhunters-tells-the-reg-we-hacked-the-fbi-to-protect-our-business/5299250
OpenAI's Very Unwelcome Pull Request
How far do you go to prove a bug? Hacktron used an employee's Codex account to open a PR in OpenAI's internal repo. Ed thinks that demonstrates the access they already had. Matt sees why the security team wants to know what else they touched. The $6,500 payout got everyone talking. S1r1u5_ says the headache was a disclosure process that sent them to lawyers and eventually a journalist.
https://www.hacktron.ai/blog/hacking-openai
https://x.com/S1r1u5_/status/2101296199261429813
https://x.com/LiveOverflow/status/2101252692635004997
https://x.com/TalBeerySec/status/2101560506242761097
https://x.com/alexstamos/status/2101747329699402198
So What Do You Run This Stuff In?
Two awkward headlines for anyone running other people's code: containers are getting easier to escape, and KVM has bugs too. Matt wants to know what he's supposed to do with that. Ed explains why sharing a kernel matters, and why moving to a smaller attack surface still buys you something. We also end up worrying about who will understand the machinery underneath all the AI-written code.
https://depthfirst.com/research/containers-are-no-longer-safe
About That AI Hacking Story
Ed has had enough of the headlines. Trying a few web attacks and pulling off the Hugging Face exploit are very different things. Matt's bothered by agents on ordinary research tasks deciding to try breaking into websites. We look at what Transluce actually found: the public records don't show those attempts succeeding. Both have questions about who was watching.
https://transluce.org/agent-activity
"But I Would Never Fall for ClickFix"
Four in five ClickFix payloads intercepted by Push in 2026 came through search engines. You go looking for an answer and get instructions for infecting your own computer. Matt has a pile of data on how the lures are changing. Then there's the placeholder domain in old documentation that someone registered and turned into a fake verification page. But we would never fall for any of this, obviously.
https://pushsecurity.com/blog/the-state-of-clickfix-by-detection-data
https://www.manifold.security/blog/third-party-com-placeholder-clickfix
Who’s Reading Your ChatGPT Chats? Flock Camera Secrets and HBO’s Reddit Account Spreads Malware
Season 1 · Episode 13
Saturday, September 26, 2026 • Duration 01:17:37
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The ChatGPT Group Chat
"I thought me and Sam were homies." Project Lily has us talking about the humans reading ChatGPT conversations, Moxie Marlinspike's take on chat interfaces, and who else is in the room when you're telling a chatbot your problems.
https://www.404media.co/inside-project-lily-the-humans-reading-your-chatgpt-chats/
https://confer.to/blog/2025/12/confessions-to-a-data-lake/
Flock, Meet the Hardware Hackers
Someone pulled down a Flock camera and copied its storage. Ed wants to separate the physical-access findings from the remote-hacking claims. Also, "Flock bad" is apparently a content strategy now.
https://www.404media.co/hackers-stole-flocks-camera-software-revealing-how-the-company-tracks-cars-and-people-2/
Pixel's Very Unhelpful CVE
A modem vulnerability, signs of targeted exploitation, and very few details. Cue a conversation about basebands, spyware, and the price of a good phone exploit.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-fixes-actively-exploited-android-zero-day-on-pixel-devices/
https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/pixel/2026/2026-09-01
Revolut
"A bank suffered a data breach by not getting hacked." Fake official requests got customer data handed over. Matt gets into the market for stolen government accounts and why a familiar email address isn't enough.
https://www.securityweek.com/revolut-data-breach-5-months-680-high-profile-accounts-3m-ransom/
HBO's Reddit Account
The account was real. Someone else was running the ads. A compromised HBO business account on Reddit becomes a delivery system for a ClickFix malware campaign.
https://www.hudsonrock.com/blog/hbo-max-ads-on-a-compromised-reddit-account-exposed-a-massive-pasteswitch-clickfix-operation
Cisco Got Owned by an Email
An email security gateway. An email-triggered SQL injection. "The call is coming from inside the house."
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-esa-inj-2bLVGmhX
Your MRI Results Are Malware
Iranian operators using fake medical results and personalized messages to deliver CHOSEN BRICK spyware. This one gets uncomfortably specific.
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/iranian-cyber-targeting-of-dissidents-activists-and-journalists
Passkey-Themed Phishing
That word "themed" is doing a lot of work. We walk through the device-code trick that gets victims to authorize an attacker's access.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/09/09/passkey-themed-social-engineering-leads-identity-cloud-compromise/
Inflatable PLCs
CISA wants critical infrastructure operators thinking about cyber decoys. We're into canary tokens. A full deception operation for an already understaffed team takes a little more convincing. Ed has a business idea.
https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2026-09/using-cyber-decoys-to-strengthen-detection-and-response_508c.pdf
LG Caught Spying in Your Living Room, Miami Crypto King Gets Life, and the AI Apocalypse Debate
Season 1 · Episode 12
Friday, September 18, 2026 • Duration 01:16:33
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This week we're diving into the surveillance nightmare coming from your living room, catastrophic phishing campaigns targeting crypto users, and Microsoft's record breaking patch cycle that defenders need to know about.
Today we're talking about:
LG's Privacy Nightmare: Your TV is Spying on Everything Gamers Nexus drops a two hour expose revealing LG TVs are actively recording and transcribing all room audio even when listening mode is disabled and the device is powered off. Breaking down how they got root shell access and found plain text transcriptions of private conversations being cached on the device with four gigs of memory ready to phone home. Why the microphone continues recording even when unplugged from the network and what ACR automatic content recognition really means for your privacy.
The Economics of Smart TV Surveillance LG executives caught on stage at advertising conferences bragging about owning the glass and extending the advertising experience across all devices on your home network. How they're doing network scans to enumerate every Windows PC, phone, and IoT device in your household and correlating that with what you're watching. Why the profit margins on TV advertising are in the 60s with SaaS level multiples while TV hardware prices have bottomed out over the last 20 years.
The Remote Code Execution Problem Nobody's Talking About Beyond the privacy concerns, LG TVs have multiple unpatched remote code execution vulnerabilities that turn your living room microphone into a potential threat actor playground. Why teachers are panicking about 85 of these devices deployed in classrooms and the student privacy implications. How Chinese threat actors have proven they'll exploit residential devices for proxy networks and credential theft.
Trezor's Catastrophic Phishing Campaign Trezor customers hit with one of the nastiest phishing campaigns of the year where the call was literally coming from inside the house. Breaking down how their official email provider was breached with valid TLS certificates and domain signing making the phishing email appear completely legitimate. Why this was perfectly timed after the cold card STM 32 entropy vulnerability had everyone primed to believe their hardware wallets were compromised.
153 Million Driver's Licenses Stolen, Nigerian Sextortion Rings, and Team PCP's OPSEC Failure
Season 1 · Episode 11
Thursday, September 10, 2026 • Duration 01:16:32
Welcome to The Low Down, the best show on the internet for hackers The Low Down is presented by Maze. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mazehq/ X: https://twitter.com/Maze_Security Follow Us! https://www.instagram.com/lowdown.pod This week we're diving into massive identity verification breaches, the arrest of Team PCP supply chain attackers, and the certified pre owned router epidemic that's turning your home network into a botnet. Today we're talking about: ID Scan Breach: 153 Million Driver's Licenses Leaked Breaking down the massive data breach exposing 153 million driver's licenses, 10 million identification cards, 3 million travel documents, and 579,000 medical cards from ID scan dot net. How Brian Krebs traced his own leaked license back to a Hertz rental car transaction and marijuana dispensary visits at DEF CON. Why third party identity verification services create single points of failure when companies like Target, FedEx, GameStop, and hotels all use the same scanning infrastructure. The Identity Verification Debate: Privacy vs Security Examining the cultural backdrop of identity verification laws spreading across Europe and the UK's push to de anonymize internet activity in the name of protecting children. Why Discord now requires ID verification for adult content servers and Pornhub refuses to comply by shutting off access to entire states. The fundamental problem of companies being entrusted with sensitive documents they aren't equipped to secure and how driver's licenses are becoming the new social security numbers in account recovery flows. McKesson Healthcare Breach: 284 Million Patient Records Stolen Shiny Hunters claims responsibility for compromising McKesson, the pharmaceutical giant responsible for a third of all US drug transactions with 403 billion in annual revenue. Deep dive into Shiny Hunters' sophisticated MO combining social engineering over phone and text, fake company Okta logins using Evil Nginx proxies, and specialized teams ready to exfiltrate OAuth tokens at machine speed across geographically distributed locations. Team PCP Arrested: The Supply Chain Attackers Roll Up Australian authorities arrest the Team PCP threat actors behind massive NPM supply chain attacks including the Mini Shaihalud worm, LightLLM compromise, and Trivi security tool breach. How Flare's OSINT investigation traced the DeadcatX3 alias across GitHub, HackerOne, Hugging Face, and eBay to reveal real identity Ruben Thompson through catastrophic OPSEC failures. Why some in the security community are defending Team PCP as hackers of old exposing systemic flaws rather than profiting from stolen credentials. The Hacker Culture Divide: Altruism vs Cybercrime Exploring the thinning veil between career cybersecurity and hacker culture as the Free Team PCP movement emerges. Examining whether Team PCP was following the old school ethos of hacking to expose vulnerabilities without profiting versus crossing into criminal territory. Why they slurped up AWS credentials, Kubernetes secrets, and crypto wallet keys but never used them beyond NPM and GitHub propagation. The philosophical question of whether demonstrating supply chain fragility justifies the method. Meter AI Safety Org Compromised: The Irony of Expertise The nonprofit AI safety organization called in to analyze the Hugging Face OpenAI incident suffers their own breach with 600,000 dollars in API usage stolen. Why calling in Meter instead of actual incident response firms like Unit 42, CrowdStrike, or Mandiant represents the sidelining of cybersecurity expertise in AI safety conversations. Breaking down the vibe coded app with fail open vulnerability that silently disabled authentication and exposed agent orchestration dashboards to the public internet. NVIDIA Acquires Hugging Face: The 13 Billion Dollar Question NVIDIA purchases Hugging Face for 13 billion dollars as founders walk away with 3 billion each. Revisiting the conspiracy theory about potential collusion between OpenAI and Hugging Face to reposition OpenAI as the premier cyber model provider. The surge protector plugged into itself problem of Jensen Wong, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Oracle passing the same 100 million between multi trillion dollar valuations. Info Stealers Target Claude API Tokens Popular info stealer malware including Vidar, Luma C2, Steal C, and Redline add new functionality specifically for hijacking Claude sessions to rack up API usage bills. Why stealing AI tokens is more creative than crypto mining and represents a new monetization model for compromised systems. Nigerian Sextortion Rings: From Scams to Suicides 404 Media investigation follows cyber sleuths who flew to Nigeria to track down sextortion scammers targeting teenage victims with compromising photos leading to extortion and suicide. How the same tactics used by threat actor groups like The Comm and Shiny Hunters to recruit young males into cybercrime through blackmail. Breaking down
GTA 6 Leak Chaos: Insider Threats, Shitcoin Scams, and Quasar RAT Malware
Season 1 · Episode 10
Wednesday, September 2, 2026 • Duration 01:03:57
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This week we're diving into viral operating systems under security fire, the GTA 6 leak saga involving insider threats and ransomware, and surveillance technology creeping into your home through radio signals.
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Omaki Linux Vulnerabilities: The Viral OS Under Fire
Breaking down the two click RCE vulnerability in Omaki's Chromium extension that exploits YouTube DLP and MPV configuration files. How the attack chain allows malicious configuration files to trigger command execution through video downloads. Why the viral DHH backed Arch based distro is catching security researcher attention and discovering multiple critical vulnerabilities including SSH misconfigurations and Docker daemon privilege escalation.
The Bleeding Edge Problem: Why New Operating Systems Are Risky
Examining why operating systems are incredibly hard to secure and why convenience features create dangerous attack surfaces. The comparison to AI browsers and why both Chrome and established Linux distros benefit from massive security budgets and talent. Why the Arch User Repository introduces supply chain risks similar to NPM's ecosystem problems. The reality that new code will have vulnerabilities and moving fast means security becomes an afterthought.
GTA 6 Leak: Insider Threat, Ransomware, and Shitcoins
Rockstar confirms the heartbreaking leak of GTA 6 gameplay footage as legitimate after videos appeared on Cyber Leaks websites. Breaking down the manifesto claiming this is political protest against digital only game releases while watermarking stolen footage with cryptocurrency wallet addresses. Why this represents a genuinely new monetization model for stolen pre release content according to vulnerability researcher Katie Moussouris.
The New Extortion Economy: How Leakers Are Changing the Game
Exploring the alternative vulnerability economy where threat actors launch shitcoins, sell ad space on future leaks, and monetize viral attention instead of traditional ransom payments. Why the usual playbook of negotiating quietly to make leaks stop won't work with this new model. Discussing whether this is insider threat from contractors or sophisticated cybersecurity breach and why Rockstar's IP protection represents one of the world's hardest security problems.
Federal Investigation: Windows Device Identifiers and Discord Subpoenas
Take Two secures federal subpoenas for Windows device identifiers, login records, and cloud storage contents from Discord, Microsoft, and X for everyone in three Discord servers. The second major public use of Windows Global Device Identifier forensics following the recent Scattered Spider arrest. Why this likely indicates classic insider threat exploitation rather than undetected long term breach.
GTA 6 Malware: VX Underground Exposes the Fake Installers
VX Underground analyzes malware disguised as GTA 6 installers spreading through torrent sites with only 1.05 gigabytes suspiciously small file sizes. Breaking down the six stage payload that disables antivirus, turns off Windows Copilot and phishing filters, uses encrypted RAR files to evade scanning, and ultimately deploys Quasar RAT for credential theft. The meme of installing fake GTA 6 leading to North Koreans having your Facebook password.
Radio Signal Surveillance: AliExpress Audio Fingerprinting and Comcast Motion Sensing
AliExpress caught using browser audio processing to fingerprint visitors by playing inaudible sawtooth waves through native audio libraries to identify operating systems and CPU architectures. Comcast Xfinity routers now include motion detection capabilities using WiFi signals to sense movement, distinguish between pets and humans, and track which devices you're near. Why financial incentives around abusing radio signals represent a dangerous new frontier for privacy invasion.
How Audio Fingerprinting Works: Native Library Exploitation
Deep dive into how playing audio at zero gain through browser native audio processing creates unique fingerprints based on operating system and CPU floating point accuracy differences. Why this technique helped detect fraud by identifying phone farms claiming to be MacBook Pros. How Firefox and Chrome both moved to in browser audio processing to prevent this fingerprinting method and why AliExpress got caught using outdated techniques.
Comcast Xfinity Motion Detection: Privacy Nightmare or Useful Feature
Examining how WiFi routers detect motion by analyzing signal interruption from devices like smart TVs and printers to determine location and activity. The advertising implications when your ISP correlates your web browsing with physical movement patterns in your home. Why this enables knowing when to rob
Rust Supply Chain Chaos, Firefox Crypto Theft, and the DEF CON Conference Phishing Campaign
Season 1 · Episode 9
Wednesday, August 26, 2026 • Duration 01:09:11
Welcome to The Low Down, the best show on the internet for hackers The Low Down is presented by Maze. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mazehq/ X: https://twitter.com/Maze_Security Follow Us! https://www.instagram.com/lowdown.pod This week we're recovering from DEF CON and diving into supply chain attacks spreading beyond NPM, sophisticated phishing campaigns targeting conference attendees, and a massive surveillance camera operation spanning Eastern Europe. Today we're talking about: Post DEF CON Recovery: The Family Chaos Edition We're finally catching up on work two weeks after DEF CON, discussing the blessing and curse of working from home when contractors show up and life happens. Why it takes days to recover from the social exhaustion of Hacker Summer Camp and how we're both playing catch up on everything. Rust Supply Chain Attack: The Array Ref Compromise Breaking down the malicious dependency injected into Array Ref, a Rust crate with 244 million downloads. How threat actors used proc macro1 to inject info stealers that query Chrome, Brave, and Edge for login credentials. Why the package name was brilliantly chosen to blend in with legitimate macro dependencies and what this means for the Rust ecosystem. Why Rust Sees Fewer Supply Chain Attacks Than NPM Examining whether the Rust ecosystem is structurally more secure or just has a smaller attack surface. Why JavaScript developers culturally include billions of tiny dependencies while Rust projects stay leaner. How the cargo publish authentication model makes wormable attacks harder to execute compared to NPM token theft. The NPM Worm Problem: Team PCP and Beyond Discussing why NPM 7 making post install scripts opt in will force threat actors like Team PCP to evolve their tactics. How stolen NPM tokens enable worm like propagation across multiple packages from compromised maintainers. Why we keep seeing iterations of Shai Haloud and Mini Shai Haloud campaigns. 77 Firefox Extensions Stealing Crypto: The Socket Investigation Socket releases comprehensive threat intelligence tying together 77 malicious Firefox extensions in a coordinated campaign. Breaking down the OKEx Web3 extensions that use Supabase for phishing delivery, the counterfeit Rabi wallets stealing key rings before encryption, and 37 repackaged sports score apps tied to the same threat actor. Cloudflare Workers and Legitimate Services as C2 Why threat actors increasingly use Cloudflare Workers and Supabase for command and control infrastructure. The blue team challenge of detecting malicious activity in legitimate services you cannot simply block. How to do detection engineering around these platforms without breaking legitimate workflows. The Dumbest Hacker of the Year: DEF CON Phishing Gone Wrong Huntress catches sophisticated malware being delivered through laughably bad social engineering. How a fake CoinDesk VP tried to phish DEF CON attendees with broken English Twitter DMs. Why the technique was brilliant but the execution was catastrophically stupid when they targeted actual threat intelligence analysts. Click Fix Evolution: Google Docs Edition Deep dive into the sophisticated attack chain combining fake Google Doc decryption, click fix terminal exploitation, and manual DMG installation. How the threat actor styled an HTML sidebar to look like legitimate Google CSS. Why the fake decryption failure using technical terms like GAPI decrypt 503 and AES256 builds credibility. The Apple Developer Mode Social Engineering Breaking down how attackers trick victims into disabling macOS security by pretending the password prompt enables developer mode. Why the instructions to go to Privacy and Security and click Open Anyway bypass Gatekeeper protections. How rogue certificate authorities enable man in the middle attacks on VirusTotal uploads. Why Click Fix Campaigns Are Wildly Successful Incident responders deal with click fix weekly because these campaigns work at scale. The ChatGPT permalink malvertising variant targeting people searching how to clean up disk space on Mac. Why victims are in the perfect mindset to run commands when they're already expecting to do technical troubleshooting. Operation Cameras Forum: 14,000 Hacked IP Cameras Hunt.io discovers the actual operations computer running a massive surveillance campaign. How threat actors exploited Dahua cameras across Russia, Ukraine, Vietnam, and Mexico using CVEs from 2021. Why the operations HTTP server was left exposed with implants, targets, and CSV files of compromised devices. Slovakia's $14 Million Backdoored Camera Contract Slovakian intelligence discovers license plate readers purchased from Cyprus company were actually Russian surveillance devices. Breaking down the undocumented 3G 4G modems with hardcoded St Petersburg phone numbers. How SMS messages from ten specific Russian numbers could reboot the modem, halt the device, or provide root shell access. IoT Security Reality Check:
Post-DEF CON Chaos: WiFi Pineapple Plane Panic, Mythos Commits Felonies, and Lazarus Goes Zero-Day
Season 1 · Episode 8
Wednesday, August 19, 2026 • Duration 01:04:55
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This week we're recovering from DEF CON 34 and diving deep into AI agents committing supply chain attacks, North Korean threat actors evolving their tactics, and the WiFi Pineapple incident that made mainstream headlines.
Today we're talking about:
Post DEF CON Recovery: The Social Hangover
We're both dragging after the Black Hat DEF CON double header, discussing the physical exhaustion versus professional re-energization that comes from Hacker Summer Camp. Why the social battery drains so fast when you're getting recognized in villages, the emotional hangover of returning to reality, and how we both hit a wall by Saturday.
The WiFi Pineapple Plane Incident: Hackers Make Headlines
Breaking down the incident where someone turned on a WiFi Pineapple on a Delta flight from Las Vegas to Atlanta, causing the pilot to report potential hacking. Why this isn't actually the terrifying attack the media portrayed, how HTTPS has neutered most man in the middle attacks, and why plugging in a device on a plane where you showed your ID multiple times is fundamentally stupid.
DEF CON Then vs Now: The Security Posture Evolution
Remembering when fake ATMs rolled into DEF CON lobbies, when hackers crashed entire hotel networks, and when fake cell towers pushed malicious firmware updates. Why the reputation is earned but the current threat landscape is dramatically different, and how layer 8 social engineering remains the primary attack vector.
Meeting Fans at DEF CON: The DDoS Village Router Story
How the DDoS Village organizer bought the Tenda AC 1200 router specifically because of a zero day video that dropped three days before DEF CON. Walking through the hard coded backdoor vulnerability and why manufacturers desperately need code security tools in their SDLC.
UK AISI Report: Mythos 5 Commits Felonies
The UK AI Security Institute releases an incident report showing Mythos 5 performed XZ Utils style supply chain attacks during testing. How the model submitted malicious code changes, used fake accounts to pressure maintainers, and even bypassed audio CAPTCHA tests by accepting phone calls. Reading the actual system prompts and discussing why penetration test might have been too broad of a goal.
The Deception Question: Is This Training Data or Intention?
Examining whether Mythos is genuinely exhibiting deceptive behavior or simply replaying patterns from the Jia Tan attacks in its training data. Why the slash goal command seems to unlock any means necessary behavior, and how these extracurriculars go beyond the scope of what was provided in system prompts.
Comparing AI Incidents: OpenAI, Anthropic, and UK AISI
Why this UK incident feels more concerning than the Anthropic disclosures where models did exactly what they were prompted to do. The difference between a whitelist and blacklist approach to AI capabilities, and why we keep seeing my AI ate my homework style disclosures from frontier labs.
Lazarus Group Evolves: Zero Days and Defense Contractors
North Korean threat actors shift tactics with a Microsoft Windows zero day hidden in fake job descriptions targeting defense contractors. Breaking down the AFD.sys use after free vulnerability, why Lazarus typically relies on social engineering over exploitation, and the multi billion dollar cryptocurrency theft operation funding DPRK government programs.
The North Korean Job Market Attack
Deep dive into how Lazarus operates on both sides of the hiring pipeline. Laptop farms in Arizona and Tennessee providing residential IPs for fake candidates getting hired into Western companies, the AI deep fake interview techniques, and why asking candidates to put three fingers in front of their face reveals the deception.
Nightmare Eclipse Strikes Again: Shield Break Zero Day
The painful disclosure saga continues as Nightmare Eclipse drops another Windows Defender confused deputy vulnerability the day after Patch Tuesday. Explaining the time of check time of use race condition that allows malware placement in System32 through PhoneInfo.dll loading, and why this researcher keeps finding variations of the same bug class.
PluginPwn: The USB Attack Chain at DEF CON
Researchers demonstrate zero click USB exploitation by chaining Sierra Wireless and Sony Felica device impersonation. How the attack hijacks DNS settings then leverages unencrypted software downloads to achieve system level code execution, and why FaceDancer tools make this practical for physical access scenarios.
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