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Three Buddy Problem - Episode 75: We dig into a CVSS 10/10 unauthenticated RCE bug causing chaos across the internet and early signs that Chinese APTs are already launching exploits, the cascading patch chaos, and a long tail of malware intrusions to come.

Plus, commentary on Chrome’s telemetry collection, Microsoft and the "SFI success story," newest BRICKSTORM backdoor intrusions, the US national security strategy, Anthropic's AI popping smart-contract bugs, a secret FBI ransomware-hunting unit getting weird, and a pair of sad stories in the security community.

Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu.

Links:

• Transcript (unedited, AI-generated)
• ThreatLocker — Meet the cybersecurity platform that prevents ransomware
• An essay by Vess
• RIP Stealth
• Google Goodbye to the Chrome Cleanup Tool
• US National Security Strategy (PDF)
• Critical Security Vulnerability in React Server Components (CVE-2025-55182)
• Chinese threat groups rapidly exploit React2Shell vuln
• AWS MadPot
• BRICKSTORM Backdoor (PDF)
• WARP PANDA: A New Sophisticated China-Nexus Adversary
• Meet Group 78, the secret US task force that fights cybercriminals
• Recorded Future: Intellexa’s Global Corporate Web
• Intellexa’s Prolific Zero-Day Exploits Continue
• To Catch a Predator: Leak exposes the internal operations of Intellexa’s mercenary spyware
• Apple, Google send new round of threat notifications to users around world
• Calisto Targets Reporters Without Borders in Phishing Campaign
• Anthropic AI agents find $4.6M in blockchain smart contract exploits
• Lazarus hack largest South Korean crypto exchange
• EU countries reach breakthrough on chat-scanning law despite intense pushback
• The Denial of Death - by Ernest Becker