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   Number 1: Who’s watching the AI watchers?

   A watchdog challenges the Trump administration’s secret frontier AI reviews. METR discloses two cyberattacks. Leaked documents reveal a Russian cyber training pipeline. Rogue ScreenConnect clients spread malware like a worm. A breach exposes appellate court records across the U.S. and Canada. Spring Ring impersonates IT support on Microsoft Teams. Plex urges users to patch, and Cisco warns of unpatched Secure Email flaws. Our guest is Rob van der Veer, Chief AI Officer at Software Improvement Group, discussing how we are not keeping up with the AI attack surface. Robocall report cards. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our daily intelligence roundup, Daily Briefing, and you’ll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow CyberWire Daily on LinkedIn. CyberWire Guest Today we are joined by Rob van der Veer, Chief AI Officer at Software Improvement Group, discussing how we are not keeping up with AI attack surface. Selected Reading Trump may be forced to reveal secret rules feds use for AI safety testing (Ars Technica) Attacker stole a METR API key, used $600K worth of credits, and no one noticed for weeks (The Register) 2,000 Leaked Documents Reveal How Russia Turns Engineering Students Into GRU Cyber Operators (Security Affairs) Rogue ScreenConnect Installations Across Unrelated Hosts Suggest Worm-Like Activity (Huntress) A breach at Thomson Reuters reached appellate courts in twelve US jurisdictions (Thenextweb) Spring Ring Vishing Attack Uses Fake IT Calls on Microsoft Teams to Install Malware (Hackread) Plex warns users to patch security vulnerabilities immediately (Bleeping Computer) Cisco Warns of Unpatched Secure Email Flaws, Patches Critical Switch Vulnerabilities (SecurityWeek) The FCC wants consumers to rate their telecom’s anti-robocall protections (CyberScoop) Share your feedback. What do you think about CyberWire Daily? Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us by completing our brief listener survey. Thank you for helping us continue to improve our show. Want to hear your company in the show? N2K CyberWire helps you reach the industry’s most influential leaders and operators, while building visibility, authority, and connectivity across the cybersecurity community. Learn more at sponsor.thecyberwire.com. The CyberWire is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

   September 03, 2026·25min
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   Number 2: Clear your calendar, it’s Patch Tuesday.

   Patch Tuesday is a doozy. The Feds warn China-based AI companies are distilling U.S. AI models. A new ClickFix campaign goes straight for the browser. Smart TVs get nosy. Hackers gift themselves a $47 million bug bounty. An Ohio man gets 15 years in federal prison for cyberstalking and sextortion. Andy Hornegold, Chief Security Technologist from Intruder, discusses what makes up a reliable AI pentests and the benefits and risks that come with AI-enabled security. Putting AI at the head of the class. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our daily intelligence roundup, Daily Briefing, and you’ll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow CyberWire Daily on LinkedIn. CyberWire Guest Today we are joined by Andy Hornegold, Chief Security Technologist from Intruder, discussing what makes up a reliable AI pentests and the benefits and risks that come with AI-enabled security. Selected Reading Microsoft Patch Tuesday Fixes 966 Vulnerabilities, Including 2 Exploited 0-Days (Hackread) Ivanti Patches Critical Flaws Across Enterprise Security Products (SecurityWeek) Chrome 153 Patches Seventh Zero-Day of 2026 (SecurityWeek) Adobe Patches Over 170 Vulnerabilities, Including Commerce Zero-Day (SecurityWeek) ICS Patch Tuesday: Schneider Electric, Siemens Fix Critical Flaws (SecurityWeek) CISA, NSA and FBI Warn Chinese AI Firms Are Targeting U.S. AI Models at Industrial Scale (HSToday) Europe's push for space sovereignty. (N2K Networks) History for European spaceflight: Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight (Isar Aerospace) ClickFix moves into the browser: Cryptocurrency theft with Google-hosted C2 (Talos Intelligence) LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby (The Verge) 'White hat' hackers take $47 million bounty after $320 million crypto theft (The Record) Man gets 15 years for extorting women with AI-generated porn videos (Bleeping Computer) Alpha School’s AI teaching model is expanding. Does it work? (Scientific American) Share your feedback. What do you think about CyberWire Daily? Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us by completing our brief listener survey. Thank you for helping us continue to improve our show. Want to hear your company in the show? N2K CyberWire helps you reach the industry’s most influential leaders and operators, while building visibility, authority, and connectivity across the cybersecurity community. Learn more at sponsor.thecyberwire.com. The CyberWire is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

   September 09, 2026·31min
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   Number 3: Worming its way through WeChat.

   Researchers build a self-propagating attack against WeChat. Threat actors move toward multi-agent AI frameworks. N-able issues an emergency patch for a maximum-severity bug under active exploitation. MikroTik patches multiple RouterOS vulnerabilities. China accesses restricted American technology through subsidiaries and overseas partners. An active phishing campaign abuses legitimate Google services to make malicious links appear trustworthy. Australians may soon be able to disable the algorithm. Monday business briefing. Jason Lancaster, Chief Investigations Officer at SpyCloud, discusses how AI is affecting shifting cybercrime from traditional investigations to agentic AI at scale. Electromagnetic eavesdropping gets personal. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our daily intelligence roundup, Daily Briefing, and you’ll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow CyberWire Daily on LinkedIn. CyberWire Guest Today we are joined by Jason Lancaster, Chief Investigations Officer at SpyCloud, discussing how AI is affecting shifting cybercrime from traditional investigations to agentic AI at scale. Selected Reading A.I. Models Built a Computer Worm That Could Rapidly Hack WeChat Accounts (The New York Times) Hackers build AI frameworks for widescale credential theft (Bleeping Computer) N-able Issues Emergency Hotfix for Maximum-Severity Unauthenticated RCE in N-central (Beyond Machines) MikroTik Patches Critical Flaws Chained to Hack Routers (SecurityWeek) How a Blacklisted Chinese Tech Giant Kept Buying America’s Best A.I. Chips (The New York Times) Bypassing the Gatekeepers: How a Global Phishing Campaign Turns Google's Infrastructure into a Trust Proxy (KnowBe4) ‘Global reckoning for big tech’: Australia to force social media platforms to allow users to opt out of algorithms (The Guardian) Socure raises $156 million and acquires agentic AI platform Fravity. (N2K Pro Business Briefing) New attack eavesdrops on headphone audio from 30 meters away (CyberInsider) Share your feedback. What do you think about CyberWire Daily? Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us by completing our brief listener survey. Thank you for helping us continue to improve our show. Want to hear your company in the show? N2K CyberWire helps you reach the industry’s most influential leaders and operators, while building visibility, authority, and connectivity across the cybersecurity community. Learn more at sponsor.thecyberwire.com. The CyberWire is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

   September 08, 2026·31min
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   Number 4: This call may be monitored. [Special Edition]

   In this Special Episode, Maria Varmazis and Dave Bittner are joined by friend of the show, Brandon Karpf, to unpack a new bipartisan congressional investigation into the lingering presence of Chinese state-owned telecommunications companies inside U.S. internet infrastructure. The House Select Committee on China says China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom remain deeply embedded in American networks even after federal regulators denied or revoked their authority to provide certain telecommunications services over national security concerns. The investigation found that restrictions imposed by the FCC limited what the companies could sell, but did not necessarily remove their equipment, network connections, or commercial relationships from the U.S. internet ecosystem. Links to stories: Stranger Pings: Chinese Telecom Companies Infiltrate U.S. Infrastructure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

   September 07, 2026·39min
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   Number 5: Bigfoot in the neural network.

   NSA preps a major restructuring. Anthropic’s CEO calls for an AI slowdown. China acknowledges AI risks. RubyGems got swarmed by AI agents. A maximum-severity GitLab vulnerability is under active exploitation. Direct Send abuse makes phishing emails appear legit. A British fintech firm leaks sensitive customer info. LinkedIn wins a legal dispute over browser extension scanning. Monday business briefing. Our guest is Tim Starks, senior reporter at CyberScoop, sharing government leaders’ outlook for cybersecurity and AI at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit. Finding Bigfoot in the neural network. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our daily intelligence roundup, Daily Briefing, and you’ll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow CyberWire Daily on LinkedIn. CyberWire Guest We are joined by Tim Starks, senior reporter at CyberScoop, sharing government leaders’ outlook for cybersecurity and AI at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit. You can read Tim’s coverage here. Selected Reading National Security Agency launches historic restructuring (The Washington Post) Anthropic CEO Calls for an AI Slowdown. Is It Possible? (SecurityAffairs) China’s spy agency warns of AI risk to national security (Financial Times) OpenAI Agent Swarm Hacks RubyGems Package Manager (Infosecurity Magazine) CISA: Hackers now exploit max severity GitLab flaw in attacks (Bleeping Computer) Direct Send: How Attackers Weaponize Your Infrastructure Against You (KnowBe4) Revolut discloses data breach exposing financial info, passports (Bleeping Computer) LinkedIn beats "BrowserGate" lawsuits over scanning users' Chrome extensions (Ars Technica) NVIDIA to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. (N2K Pro Business Briefing) Sentient AI's Bigfoot Era Could Arrive at Any Moment (Gizmodo) Share your feedback. What do you think about CyberWire Daily? Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us by completing our brief listener survey. Thank you for helping us continue to improve our show. Want to hear your company in the show? N2K CyberWire helps you reach the industry’s most influential leaders and operators, while building visibility, authority, and connectivity across the cybersecurity community. Learn more at sponsor.thecyberwire.com. The CyberWire is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

   September 14, 2026·28min
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