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France Blames Iran for Supermarket Fridge Sabotage, Vanderbilt Restores Systems After Cyberattack, and Microsoft Patches 1,235 Flaws

France has formally blamed Shahid Kaveh, a cyber unit linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard, for an October sabotage campaign that hijacked Danfoss and Dixell refrigeration controllers in roughly 700 French supermarkets, spoiling food, causing fires, and prompting potential sanctions as similar attacks spread across Europe.

Vanderbilt University is restoring services after a hacking incident claimed by the BYOD ransomware gang, with key systems back online while allegations of stolen research data and over one million Social Security numbers remain unconfirmed.

Japan's Nitori disclosed a breach potentially exposing 37.6 million customer records as Japan rolls out a major cybersecurity package.

Microsoft's November Patch Tuesday fixes 1,235 vulnerabilities, including an exploited Outlook zero-day leaking NTLM hashes.

Cambodian cybercriminals using AI pentesting tools to attack banks worldwide

Belgium warns of Entra ID SMS sign-in abuse. The episode closes with Remembrance Day reflections.

00:00 Headlines And Intro 00:33 France Blames Iran Fridge Sabotage 02:19 Host Take And Wider Spillover 03:19 Vanderbilt Ransomware Disruption 04:54 BYOD Backstory And Prior Victims 05:51 Nitori Breach And Japan Cyber Surge 07:08 Japan Emergency Cyber Package 07:46 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Outlook Zero Day 08:59 AI Pentesting Tool Hits Banks 11:04 Belgium Warns On SMS Sign In 11:56 Why SMS Sign In Exists And Phaseout 13:37 Remembrance Day Closing Tribute 14:37 Sign Off And Next Episodes

French Bank Loses $133M in Crypto Laundering, Chainalysis Breach Deepens, OpenSSH 'SSH Hole' Exploited

Cybersecurity Today host David Shipley reports a $133M theft from French bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa after attackers entered via an unnamed third-party provider, moved funds from the bank's own accounts, and laundered them into USDC/USDT; investigators say delays allowed millions to be washed before the bank disclosed the incident.

Chainalysis says its breach exposed usernames, password hashes, and live tokens for all customers, prompting it to take major tools and portals offline while requiring IP allowlisting, password resets, and API key rotation.

Apiiro found Claude Code's "don't ask again" behavior can store secrets in plaintext in settings.local.json committed to public GitHub. A newly disclosed OpenSSH flaw on musl-based systems without PAM was exploited within hours.

A British soldier was court-martialed after ignoring phone-security orders and being blackmailed.

00:00 Top Cyber Headlines 00:38 French Bank Crypto Heist 03:11 Chainalysis Breach Fallout 04:43 Claude Code Secret Leaks 06:40 OpenSSH SSH Hole Exploits 08:55 Soldier Sextortion Court Martial 11:02 Wrap Up and Sign Off

Do We Still Need Cybersecurity Awareness Month in the Age of AI Agents and Deepfakes? (Denis Villeneuve, Kyndryl Canada)

Recorded after a brutal October of rapid-fire zero-days, Cybersecurity Today host David Shipley asks whether Cybersecurity Awareness Month still matters; Denis Villeneuve, who leads cyber resilience and connectivity at Kyndryl Canada, argues it does—and should be continuous.

They discuss how awareness must evolve beyond phishing to address AI's speed, cognitive risk, and "shadow AI," using a 20/60/20 framework for goal-setting, automation, and validation while stressing that responsibility can be delegated but accountability cannot. Denis explains that deepfakes may counterfeit faces or voices but shouldn't defeat resilient business processes, advocating strong approvals, callbacks, and even code words. The conversation covers AI agent governance, overprivileged identities, tech debt, vendor maturity, modernization delays, and the need for guardrails, human-in-command controls, and tested remediation plans—"basics at speed" to make AI-driven change trustworthy.

00:00 Black October Opens 01:32 Meet Denis Villeneuve 04:07 Cyber Awareness Every Month 05:40 AI Speed And Cognition 09:00 Deepfakes And Process 12:17 Shadow AI Basics 14:35 Agents In The Wild 17:42 Identity For Every Agent 21:57 Making Compliance Not Suck 26:10 2027 CISO Priorities 28:33 Genie Coefficient And Models 34:08 Burnout And Hope 36:04 Closing Thanks

French Blood Bank Refrigeration Hacked, AI Tools Hit India's Banks, DreamHost Breach, Extradition, and Malware That "Values" Victims

Cybersecurity Today host David Shipley reports France's National Blood Service (EFS) says a November 2 cyberattack manipulated cold-storage settings at three sites via its refrigerator supplier's remote monitoring software, but alarms and staff response prevented product loss and collections continued as ANSSI and the Health Ministry assist; the incident follows a wider wave of attacks that overheated supermarket refrigeration across France and later multiple European countries.

India's CERT warns an AI-assisted actor "Crafty Falcon" is repeatedly breaching fintechs, lenders, payment firms, and crypto exchanges through exposed test environments and shared credentials, using AI tools including Artex—while a backdoored Artex build was found on dozens of internet-facing consoles.

DreamHost reports an intruder exploited a file manager flaw for about two months, harvesting FTP/SFTP credentials from logged-in users.

A Canadian was extradited over alleged university supercomputer crypto-mining. Cisco Talos details Volta AutoDoxer, an info-stealer that uses AI to rank victims' monetizable assets.

00:00 Top Stories Rundown 00:32 Blood Bank Fridge Hack 02:06 Supermarket Cooling Campaign 03:12 AI Tools Hit Indian Finance 04:40 Artex Tool Backdoor Twist 05:50 DreamHost File Manager Breach 07:19 Canadians Crypto Mining Case 08:53 Volta AutoDoxer AI Dossiers 10:27 Weekend Show Preview 11:02 Closing Thanks And Contact

Binance's $6.34B Crypto Heist, Europe's Supermarket Fridge Hacks, and the Rise of LLM Jacking

Cybersecurity Today host David Shipley reports Binance's $6.34B October 29 crypto theft, which Binance says began with a June supply-chain compromise and escalated via a fake hiring process that delivered poisoned developer tools, leading to access to the internal wallet signing service and abuse of Ethereum EIP-7702

The episode also covers refrigerator system attacks spreading across European retailers and suppliers via vulnerable controllers, with the Pentagon treating similar August U.S. commissary outages as suspected cyberattacks.

Barracuda urges patching two flaws that can be chained for root control if admin interfaces are exposed.

Researchers link Chinese state-linked attackers to chaining PHP-to-shell bugs and a kernel exploit to gain root on Palo Alto firewalls.

Finally, Mandiant details "LLM jacking," where criminals steal API keys or cloud tokens to run up AI bills rapidly.

00:00 Today's Cyber Headlines 00:34 Binance Heist via Fake Hiring 03:52 Fridge Hacks Spread in Europe 05:46 Pentagon Probes US Spoilage 07:03 Barracuda Root-Takeover Flaws 08:44 PHP to Shell Hits PAN-OS 09:51 Disclosure Drama and Exploits 11:15 LLM Jacking Drains AI Budgets 12:58 Wrap Up and Sign Off

Vishing Breaches Top Canadian Law Firms, FBI Pins Record Binance Heist on North Korea, and GM Pays $220M Privacy Settlement

David Shipley covers major cybersecurity headlines for Nov. 2, 2026: four large Canadian law firms (McCarthy Tétrault, Davies, Bennett Jones, and BLG) were breached via vishing impersonating IT on Teams and spoofed phone numbers, leading to compromised accounts and alleged large-scale file theft, while firms share intel and bring in CrowdStrike and Mandiant.

The FBI attributes the $6.36B Binance crypto theft to North Korea's TraderTraitor/Lazarus, details laundering tactics and wallet addresses, and Binance says it has covered 95% of losses.

Chainalysis discloses a breach exposing limited customer directory data.

CrowdStrike reports China-linked Vapor Panda using Artex AI at scale.

A fake Claude code extension briefly appeared in Cursor's marketplace.

GM agrees to a $220M settlement over Smart Driver data sales.

00:00 Top Stories Rundown 00:35 Vishing Law Firm Breaches 02:52 North Korea Binance Heist 05:18 Chainalysis Gets Hacked 07:07 Agentic AI Attack Surge 09:33 Fake Claude Extension Scam 11:15 GM Driver Data Settlement 13:25 Wrap Up and Sign Off

AI agents are changing both sides of cybersecurity. Attackers can move faster, while defenders face another challenge: securing the agents inside their own organizations.

On this Cybersecurity Today Weekend Interview, I'm joined by Adam Ely, General Manager of AI Agent Security at Check Point Software. We talk about what AI is changing for security teams—and what still comes down to getting the basics right.

Adam brings the perspective of a former CISO at Fidelity Investments and deputy CISO at Walmart. We discuss the pressure on security leaders, the promise of AI for defenders, and how organizations can adopt agents while controlling what they can access and do.

In this conversation: • Why AI changes the speed and scale of cyberattacks. • CISO burnout, accountability, and the value of sharing experiences. • How AI agents can influence one another's behaviour. • Why security teams need to rehearse and test AI-assisted incident response. • The identity and access challenges of agents that can create other agents. • What it means when companies put agents on the organizational chart. • Why segmentation, access controls, monitoring, and other security basics matter more than ever. • Using AI as a sounding board that challenges your thinking.

Where could AI help your security team—and where would you draw the line on its access? Share your thoughts in the comments.

Hosted by Jim Love. Cybersecurity Today — Weekend Interview October 31, 2026

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Guest biography, Check Point Software: https://www.checkpoint.com/about-us/leadership/

Check Point Software research discussed in the interview: https://blog.checkpoint.com/security/peer-pressure-ai-agents

Adam's article on the changing CISO role: https://blog.checkpoint.com/ai-security/redefining-the-ciso-contract-from-securing-the-business-to-securely-doing-business/

Black October in Cybersecurity: PHP RCE Panic, Brotli Surprise, and Why Basics Still Matter In this special episode of Cyber Security Today, Jim and David discuss why the industry is calling the month "Black October," beginning with chaotic disclosure and leaked details of multiple PHP remote code execution vulnerabilities that triggered widespread anxiety and even service shutdowns by governments and other organizations.

They cover additional tensions from weak certificates issued by an intermediate CA in India, a breach disclosure by LiteLLM, and a major RCE initially thought to affect React/Node.js but later tied to Google's Brotli, which is widely deployed.

They note that while attacks began before patches and at least one European government was compromised, exploitation proved difficult and defenses often held, with limited confirmed victims so far. They argue AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery and democratizing capabilities, but emphasize "don't panic," focus on cyber hygiene basics, prioritize crown jewels, train staff, and address growing human fatigue as incident response capacity strains

00:00 Black October Begins 00:44 PHP Zero Day Chaos 03:51 More Hits Keep Coming 04:53 AI Hype And Reality 07:01 Exploitation In The Wild 09:15 Japan Breach Wave 13:23 Dont Panic Do Basics 15:38 Turn Crisis Into Budget 18:07 Training Beats Tools 21:21 Burnout On The Frontline 23:45 Know Your Crown Jewels 24:16 Final Thoughts And Outreach

Brotli Emergency Patches, PHP-to-Shell Exploited, and Australia Disrupts 180K Amadey Infections | Cybersecurity Today

On Cybersecurity Today (Oct. 28, 2026), Microsoft issues out-of-band .NET updates for a critical flaw in Google's Brotli library (CVE-2026-111497) that can enable remote privilege escalation and potentially remote code execution, with proof-of-concept exploits public and widespread exposure across ecosystems.

The episode also covers CISA confirming active exploitation of two "PHP to Shell" vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618/109619), with federal agencies facing an urgent patch deadline and broad impact across millions of PHP services and many vendors. In legal news, U.S. prosecutors allege Canadian ransomware negotiator Eduard Dubrovsky secretly worked for threat actors.

South Korean police say a former penetration tester used the Artex AI framework to breach 90+ organizations and steal 8.2 million records. Finally, Australia's Signals Directorate disrupts an Amadey botnet, cutting off 180,000 infected computers and destroying stolen data offered for sale.

00:00 Top Stories Rundown 00:32 Brotli Bug Emergency Patches 02:36 AI Noise in Vulnerability Hype 03:41 PHP to Shell Exploited Now 06:10 Ransomware Negotiator Accused 07:41 Artex AI Hacking Spree 10:04 Australia Disrupts Amadey Botnet 11:32 Wrap Up and Sign Off

PHP2Shell Hits European Government, New PHP RCE (No Patch Yet), Brotli "Node to Shell," and Capcom Breach

Attackers exploited the PHP2Shell remote code execution flaws to compromise a European government entity within two hours, stealing password hashes and MFA secrets, pivoting via NTLM relay toward Active Directory, and showing command output patterns Unit 42 says suggest an agentic AI attacker. Widespread scanning continues, with Cloudflare logging millions of attempts, Cyfirma reporting low-and-slow probing from nodes linked with moderate confidence to the Lazarus ecosystem, and defenders urged to watch for telltale crash sequences. PHP also disclosed a third RCE (CVE-2026-115560) with no patch yet but high exploitation requirements and a mitigation to disable session upload progress. Separately, a Brotli decoder memory corruption bug (CVE-2026-111497) affects Node.js and other software, with fixes delayed into October releases. Finally, Capcom says criminals breached Capcom ID, exposing data tied to 11.7 million accounts and resetting impacted passwords.

00:00 Headlines Overview 00:35 Government Breach Details 01:13 Global Scanning Surge 03:11 Third PHP RCE 05:00 Wildfire Or Smoke 06:08 Patch Race Warning 06:53 Brotli Node To Shell 08:47 Capcom Account Breach 10:21 Wrap Up And Outro