00:00 Intro

03:10 NPM supply chain attack leaves attackers empty handed

24:44 Why is Atlassian buying a browser company?

37:20 Apple's new Memory Integrity Enforcement

52:56 Salesloft breach leads to downstream hacks

Hackers left empty-handed after massive NPM supply-chain attack

Hackers briefly compromised popular NPM packages like chalk and debug-js, infecting ~10% of cloud environments, but despite the massive supply-chain reach they only netted about $600 in stolen cryptocurrency.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-left-empty-handed-after-massive-npm-supply-chain-attack/

Why is Atlassian Buying a Browser Company?

Atlassian is buying The Browser Company (makers of Arc and Dia) for $610M to gain control of the browser channel, secure its AI agent (Rovo) distribution, and enter the emerging “enterprise browser” market, even though success is uncertain against Google and Microsoft.

https://nextword.substack.com/p/why-is-atlassian-buying-a-browser

Memory Integrity Enforcement: A complete vision for memory safety in Apple devices

Apple’s new Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) brings always-on hardware-software memory safety to iPhone 17, making advanced spyware exploits far harder.

https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement/

Salesloft breached to steal OAuth tokens for Salesforce data-theft attacks

Hackers exploited Salesloft’s Drift–Salesforce integration to steal OAuth tokens and exfiltrate sensitive Salesforce data, tracked as UNC6395.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/salesloft-breached-to-steal-oauth-tokens-for-salesforce-data-theft-attacks/

Hosts:

Jerry Perullo (Founder, https://adversarial.com/)

Sounil Yu (Founder, https://www.knostic.ai/)

Mario Duarte (Founder, stealth startup)

Producer: Tillson Galloway (https://tillsongalloway.com)

00:00 Introduction & BlackHat

02:06 Cybersecurity in Schools

18:53 Black Hat Conference Highlights

34:02 New York sues Zelle

44:48 Trends in Cybersecurity Mergers and Acquisitions

1:02:44 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing

1:08:53 Prompt injection with poisoned calendar invites

DARPA announces $4 million winner of AI code review competition at DEF CON

DARPA announced Team Atlanta as the winner of its two-year competition among researchers to create the best artificial intelligence systems that can find and fix vulnerabilities.

Attorney General James Sues Company Behind Zelle for Enabling Widespread Fraud

New York today sued Early Warning Services, a company owned and controlled by a group of the largest banks in the United States that was tasked with developing and operating the electronic payment platform Zelle, for failing to protect its users from massive amounts of fraud.

Cyber Acquisitions

• Palo Alto / CyberArk
• CrowdStrike / Onum
• Okta / Axiom
• Armis raises millions at $5B valuation

MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing

A recent MIT‑commissioned study—highlighted in Fortune on August 18, 2025—reveals that approximately 95% of generative AI pilot programs at companies failed to deliver any measurable return on investment or financial uplift. The core issue appears to be not the AI itself, but poor integration into existing workflows and misaligned use cases, with only about 5% of pilots achieving rapid revenue growth by focusing sharply on specific pain points.

Hackers Hijacked Google’s Gemini AI With a Poisoned Calendar Invite to Take Over a Smart Home

Security researchers demonstrated that a poisoned Google Calendar invite could indirectly prompt-inject Google’s Gemini, causing it to control smart-home devices.

Hosts:

Jerry Perullo (Founder, https://adversarial.com/)

Sounil Yu (Founder, https://www.knostic.ai/)

Mario Duarte (Founder, stealth startup)

Producer: Tillson Galloway (https://tillsongalloway.com)

00:00 Introduction & BlackHat

03:14 AI Action Plan Overview

13:30 Chip Security Act

20:48 Government led AI-ISAC?

23:16 UK government considering banning public sector ransomware payments

28:14 Microsoft probing if Chinese hackers learned SharePoint flaws through alert

42:07 Ethics in Vendor Relationships – Gifts for meetings

America's AI Action Plan

“America’s AI Action Plan,” released by the Trump administration, outlines a roadmap with over 90 federal actions across three pillars—accelerating AI innovation, building U.S. AI infrastructure, and asserting international AI leadership through exports and technology alliances.

The Chip Security Act: A Bipartisan Solution to Chip Smuggling

The Chip Security Act, introduced by U.S. lawmakers, mandates that export‑controlled AI chip makers (like NVIDIA) embed on‑chip location‑verification mechanisms to ensure devices go only where they’re authorized—aiming to deter smuggling (especially to China) without deploying intrusive GPS or kill switches.

Why a Government-Led AI-ISAC is a Missed Opportunity

Errol Weiss argues that an AI‑ISAC led by the U.S. government, as proposed in the July 2025 White House AI Action Plan, represents a missed opportunity, because government-led initiatives tend to be bureaucratic, slow, less innovative, struggle to win private-sector trust and buy‑in, risk duplicating existing ISAC efforts, and may be perceived as politically biased—undermining effective, rapid, cross-industry intelligence sharing

UK plans to ban public sector bodies from paying ransom to cyber criminals

The UK government is set to ban public sector bodies and operators of critical national infrastructure from paying ransom demands to cyber criminals, as part of a wider package also mandating mandatory reporting for other organisations planning to pay, aimed at dismantling the ransomware business model and protecting essential services from dangerous disruptions.

Microsoft probing if Chinese hackers learned SharePoint flaws through alert, Bloomberg News reports

Microsoft is investigating whether a leak from its Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP)—which provides early vulnerability alerts to security partners—may have enabled Chinese-aligned hackers (Linen Typhoon, Violet Typhoon, and Storm-2603) to exploit critical zero‑day flaws in on-premises SharePoint servers before Microsoft fully patched the software, fueling a global espionage and ransomware campaign.

Hosts:

Jerry Perullo (Founder, https://adversarial.com/)

Sounil Yu (Founder, https://www.knostic.ai/)

Mario Duarte (Founder, stealth startup)

Producer: Tillson Galloway (https://tillsongalloway.com)

00:00 Intro

3:23 Cybersecurity stocks: why now might be the time to buy?

8:55 AI in cyber investment and business

29:28 Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel

34:29 New AI Malware PoC Reliably Evades Microsoft Defender

37:08 VSCode Fork; Putting Millions at Risk

43:39 Extensions turn Trojan and infect 2.3M Chrome and Edge users

54:20 US government takes down major North Korean ‘remote IT workers’ operation

1:06:06 Phishing Training Doesn't Work

Cybersecurity stocks: why now might be the time to buy?

https://moneyweek.com/investments/tech-stocks/buy-cybersecurity-stocks

AI Is Driving A Shift Towards Outcome-Based Pricing

Cloudflare will now, by default, block AI bots from crawling its clients’ websites

Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel

https://www.theverge.com/news/692637/microsoft-windows-kernel-antivirus-changes

New AI Malware PoC Reliably Evades Microsoft Defender

https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint-security/ai-malware-poc-evades-microsoft-defender

Marketplace Takeover: How We Could’ve Taken Over Every Developer Using a VSCode Fork; Putting Millions at Risk

https://blog.koi.security/marketplace-takeover-how-we-couldve-taken-over-every-developer-using-a-vscode-fork-f0f8cf104d44

Massive browser hijack: extensions turn Trojan and infect 2.3M Chrome and Edge users

https://cybernews.com/security/chrome-edge-hijacked-by-eighteen-malicious-extensions

US government takes down major North Korean ‘remote IT workers’ operation https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/us-government-takes-down-major-north-korean-remote-it-workers-operation/

We've All Been Wrong: Phishing Training Doesn't Work

https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint-security/phishing-training-doesnt-work

Hosts:

Jerry Perullo (Founder, https://adversarial.com/)

Sounil Yu (Founder, https://www.knostic.ai/)

Mario Duarte (Founder, stealth startup)

Producer: Tillson Galloway

00:00 Intro

03:17 Banks call out US Treasury's cybersecurity failures

28:54 SEC scraps proposed cybersecurity rules

38:05 What makes AI Security different

Banks Challenge Treasury on Cybersecurity Failures. A coalition of major U.S. banking associations—including the American Bankers Association, Bank Policy Institute, MFA, and SIFMA—has publicly challenged the U.S. Treasury and OCC to adopt private-sector cybersecurity standards, decentralize sensitive data, enforce rapid breach notifications, and streamline data collection following high-profile email breaches at federal regulators. https://www.theglobaltreasurer.com/2025/06/10/banking-groups-demand-regulator-cybersecurity-standards/

SEC scraps proposed cybersecurity rules for investment advisers, market participants. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has scrapped proposed cybersecurity regulations targeting investment advisers, funds, and market participants. The withdrawal reflects pushback from the financial industry, which cited concerns over compliance burdens and regulatory overlap. Critics argue the move weakens oversight as cyber threats continue to rise across the financial sector. https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/sec-withdraw-cyber-rules-investment-advisers-funds/750786/

Exclusive: New Microsoft Copilot flaw signals broader risk of AI agents being hacked—‘I would be terrified’. A newly discovered vulnerability in Microsoft’s Copilot platform—dubbed “Echoleak”—allows malicious actors to extract private user data from AI agent interactions. The flaw underscores the broader risks associated with AI-powered assistants, particularly as they become more deeply embedded in enterprise workflows. Experts warn this class of attacks could signal a new era of AI exploitation. https://fortune.com/2025/06/11/microsoft-copilot-vulnerability-ai-agents-echoleak-hacking/

Hosts:

• Jerry Perullo (Founder, https://adversarial.com/)
• Sounil Yu (Founder, https://www.knostic.ai/)
• Mario Duarte (Founder, stealth startup)

Producer: Tillson Galloway (https://tillsongalloway.com)

00:00 Intro

04:15 Our journeys from CISOs to Entreprenuers

23:48 Trump changes Biden's Cyber EOs

28:40 States rebuff proposed federal ban on AI laws

36:43 Vanta bug exposes customers' data to other customers

49:12 SentinelOne outage

52:53 Banking groups ask SEC to drop incident disclosure requirements

1:00:37 Cybersecurity teams generate average $36M in business growth

1:03:50 Cybersecurity Companies Want to Go Public. The Market Isn’t Letting Them

Trump Cybersecurity Fact Sheet President Trump announced a reprioritization of U.S. cybersecurity efforts, shifting away from prior frameworks and emphasizing national defense and economic resilience. https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/06/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-reprioritizes-cybersecurity-efforts-to-protect-america/

Vanta Bug Exposed Customer Data A software flaw in Vanta's platform briefly exposed sensitive compliance data between customers. https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/02/vanta-bug-exposed-customers-data-to-other-customers/

SentinelOne Outage A major backend outage at SentinelOne disrupted security operations for numerous customers. https://apple.news/AuaqeFPP8QUyoOwuAwvRBkA

States Push Back on Federal AI Law Ban U.S. states are resisting a federal proposal to ban state-level AI regulation, citing sovereignty and innovation concerns. https://www.wsj.com/articles/states-rebuff-proposed-federal-ban-on-ai-laws-6dde3ce6?mod=procyber_lead_pos1&tpl=cs

Banking Groups Oppose SEC Cyber Rule Banking associations urged the SEC to drop mandatory cyber incident disclosure rules, citing risk to financial stability. https://ecency.com/hive-167922/@justmythoughts/banking-groups-ask-sec-to

Cybersecurity Teams “Drive $36M in Growth” A report claims cybersecurity teams deliver $36M in business value annually—an assertion met with industry skepticism. https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cybersecurity-teams-business-growth/

Cybersecurity IPO Market Frozen Despite strong interest, cybersecurity companies are unable to go public due to investor hesitation and market volatility. https://www.wsj.com/articles/cybersecurity-companies-want-to-go-public-the-market-isnt-letting-them-60bfe663

Hosts:

• Jerry Perullo (Founder, https://adversarial.com/)
• Sounil Yu (Founder, https://www.knostic.ai/)
• Mario Duarte (Founder, stealth startup)

Producer: Tillson Galloway (https://tillsongalloway.com)

00:00 Intro

02:49 Authorities Carry Out Elaborate Global Takedown of Infostealer Heavily Used by Cybercriminals

14:29 Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data and are demanding $20 million ransom

26:24 Fake OpenAI MCP Integration

32:25 Malicious npm Packages Infect 3,200+ Cursor Users With Backdoor, Steal Credentials

36:03 Destructive malware available in NPM repo went unnoticed for 2 years

48:10 Sam & Jony introduce io

58:23 Discussion: how risky are local admin rights?

Authorities Carry Out Elaborate Global Takedown of Infostealer Heavily Used by Cybercriminals

In May 2025, an international coalition led by Microsoft, the U.S. Department of Justice, Europol, and Japan's Cybercrime Control Center dismantled the Lumma Stealer malware operation.

https://www.wired.com/story/lumma-stealer-takedown-disrupted/

Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data and are demanding $20 million ransom

Hackers bribed overseas Coinbase customer support agents to steal sensitive user data, leading to a breach prompting a $20M ransom, which Coinbase refused, instead offering a $20M bounty for information leading to the attackers' arrest.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/15/coinbase-says-hackers-bribed-staff-to-steal-customer-data-and-are-demanding-20-million-ransom.html

Fake OpenAI MCP Integration

A fake OpenAI MCP integration was found by a security researcher, showing the importance of security in emerging technologies.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7331118878384615424/

Malicious npm Packages Infect 3,200+ Cursor Users With Backdoor, Steal Credentials

Three malicious npm packages targeting macOS users of the AI-powered code editor Cursor have infected over 3,200 developers by harvesting credentials.

https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/malicious-npm-packages-infect-3200.html

Destructive malware available in NPM repo went unnoticed for 2 years

A destructive malware campaign infiltrated the npm ecosystem for over two years, with malicious packages disguised as legitimate tools targeting popular JavaScript frameworks.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/05/destructive-malware-available-in-npm-repo-went-unnoticed-for-2-years/

Sam & Jony introduce io

OpenAI has announced the acquisition of Jony Ive's AI hardware startup, io.

https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/

Hosts:

• Jerry Perullo (Founder, https://adversarial.com/)
• Sounil Yu (Founder, https://www.knostic.ai/)
• Mario Duarte (Founder, stealth startup)

Producer: Tillson Galloway (https://tillsongalloway.com)

00:00 Intro

00:44 Sounil's RSA Innovation Sandbox experience

5:00 5% staffing cuts at Crowdstrike, AI cited as a factor

16:00 Trump picks private sector veteran as Pentagon CIO

32:41 Messaging app used by Trump official suspends operations after reported hack

49:52 An open letter to third-party suppliers

59:32 Microsoft Sets Passkeys Default for New Accounts; 15 Billion Users Gain Passwordless Support

1:04:42 Discussion: delivering secret keys stored in PDFs for password managers

Hosts:

Jerry Perullo (Founder, https://adversarial.com/)

Sounil Yu (Founder, https://www.knostic.ai/)

Mario Duarte (CISO, https://www.aembit.io/)

Stories

5% staffing cuts at Crowdstrike, AI cited as a factor

CrowdStrike is laying off 5% of its workforce, citing AI-driven changes in industry operations as a driving factor.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/07/crowdstrike-announces-5percent-job-cuts-says-ai-reshaping-every-industry.html

Trump picks private sector veteran as Pentagon CIO

Former President Trump has nominated a private-sector executive to serve as the new Chief Information Officer for the Department of Defense.

https://therecord.media/trump-picks-private-sector-veteran-for-dod-cio-position

Messaging app used by Trump official suspends operations after reported hack

A secure messaging app used by a Trump official has suspended service following a reported cyberattack.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/05/signal-telemessage-hack-trump-waltz.html

An open letter to third-party suppliers

JPMorgan has issued an open letter urging its third-party suppliers to prioritize stronger cybersecurity and operational resilience.

https://www.jpmorgan.com/technology/technology-blog/open-letter-to-our-suppliers

Microsoft Sets Passkeys Default for New Accounts; 15 Billion Users Gain Passwordless Support

Microsoft is now enabling passkeys by default for new accounts, expanding passwordless access to over 15 billion users.

https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/microsoft-sets-passkeys-default-for-new.html