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Adversarial Podcast Ep. 20 – corporate espionage among SaaS companies, DC's Signal snafu, where is the cyber market going?

Adversarial Podcast Ep. 20 – corporate espionage among SaaS companies, DC's Signal snafu, where is the cyber market going?

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00:00 Highlight/theme

00:28 Intro

02:15 Unicorn startup allegedly cultivated spy to steal trade secrets from competitor

18:19 Google Strikes $32 Billion Deal for Cybersecurity Startup Wiz

33:35 Trump Administration accidentally sends war plans to reporter via Signal

47:20 GitHub action supply chain attack

53:55 Oracle under fire for its handling of security incidents

Rippling Alleges Deel Cultivated Spy, Orchestrated Trade-Secret Theft Against Competitor

Rippling has filed a lawsuit alleging that $12 billion HR-tech company Deel orchestrated a months-long corporate espionage campaign involving a planted spy within Rippling.

Reference: https://www.rippling.com/blog/lawsuit-alleges-12-billion-unicorn-deel-cultivated-spy-orchestrated-long-running-trade-secret-theft-corporate-espionage-against-competitor

Google Strikes $32 Billion Deal for Cybersecurity Startup Wiz

Google has agreed to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz for $32 billion in cash, marking its largest acquisition ever and the biggest tech deal of 2025 so far.

Reference: https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/alphabet-back-in-deal-talks-for-cybersecurity-startup-wiz-41cd3090?st=uQ8bmN&reflink=article_copyURL_share

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

In the article, journalist Jeffrey Goldberg reveals that he was accidentally included in a Signal group chat by senior members of the Trump administration—specifically Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense—who shared detailed plans for a military strike on Houthi targets in Yemen.

Reference: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/

Supply Chain Attack on GitHub Action

Wiz discovered a supply chain attack on the GitHub Action reviewdog/action-setup@v1, likely leading to the compromise of tj-actions/changed-files, resulting in widespread CI secret leakage and highlighting the risks of unpinned actions.

Reference: https://www.wiz.io/blog/new-github-action-supply-chain-attack-reviewdog-action-setup

Oracle hacked

Oracle has informed clients of a second recent cybersecurity breach in which a hacker accessed an old system and stole customer log-in credentials, some of which date back to 2024, according to Bloomberg News.

Latest: https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/oracle-tells-clients-second-recent-hack-log-in-data-stolen-bloomberg-news-2025-04-02/

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