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Recent leaks tied to LockBit and Black Basta have exposed the inner workings of two of the most notorious ransomware groups—revealing their tactics, negotiation strategies, and operational infrastructure. For defenders, this rare window into adversary behavior offers critical intelligence to strengthen incident response and prevention strategies. In this interview, we'll break down what these leaks reveal and how security teams can use this intelligence to proactively harden their defenses, including:

• Key takeaways from the LockBit and Black Basta leaks—and what they confirm about ransomware operations
• How leaked playbooks, chats, and toolkits can inform detection and response
• Practical steps to defend against modern ransomware tactics in 2025

In the security news:

• Practical exploit code
• Old vulnerabilities, new attackers
• AI and web scraping - the battle continues
• 0-Days: You gotta prove it
• WinRAR 0-Day
• LLM patch diffing
• $20 million bug bounty
• Your APT is showing
• Hacking from the routers
• Its that easy eh?
• NIST guidance on AI
• Words have meaning
• Developers knowingly push vulnerable code
• My Hackberry PI post is live: https://eclypsium.com/blog/build-the-ultimate-cyberdeck-hackberry-pi/

Resources:

• Inside the LockBit Leak: Rare Insights Into Their Operations: https://flashpoint.io/blog/inside-the-lockbit-leak/?utmcampaign=WBHostedSCMedia2025&utmsource=SCMedia&utmmedium=email&sfcampaign_id=701Rc00000S48bZIAR
• 2025 Ransomware Survival Guide: https://flashpoint.io/resources/e-book/2025-ransomware-survival-guide/?utmcampaign=WBHostedSCMedia2025&utmsource=SCMedia&utmmedium=email&sfcampaign_id=701Rc00000S48bZIAR
• AI and Threat Intelligence: The Defenders' Guide https://go.flashpoint.io/ai-and-threat-intelligence-guide?utmcampaign=WBHostedSCMedia2025&utmsource=SCMedia&utmmedium=email&sfcampaign_id=701Rc00000S48bZIAR

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-888

The industry is obsessed with vulnerabilities. From vulnerability assessment to vulnerability management to exposure management and even zero days, we love to talk about vulnerabilities. But what about misconfiguration? By definition it's a vulnerability or weakness, but it doesn't have a CVE (common vulnerability enumeration). Should we ignore it?

Danny Jenkins, CEO and Founder at ThreatLocker, joins BSW to discuss why misconfigurations matter. Simply, you can prevent many cyberattacks by eliminating your misconfigurations. That's why ThreatLocker released Defense Against Configurations (DAC). Danny will discuss the benefits of DAC, including:

• Immediate visibility into system misconfigurations before they become vulnerabilities
• Compliance transparency, showing exactly where systems fall short of industry standards
• One unified view, with filters by criticality, system, and framework
• Actionable insights, updated weekly and delivered straight to customers' inboxes

Segment Resources:

• https://www.threatlocker.com/press-release/threatlocker-launches-dac-empowering-organizations-with-real-time-visibility-into-configuration-risks-and-compliance-gaps
• https://www.threatlocker.com/platform/defense-against-configurations

This segment is sponsored by ThreatLocker. Visit https://securityweekly.com/threatlocker to learn more about them!

In the leadership and communications segment, CEO Blind Spots That Put Your Company at Risk, The CISO Mindset Shift: From Risk Defender to Business Accelerator in the Age of AI, When "Yes, and…" Backfires, and more!

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-409

The cult of Doug, Crime, Pipemagic, Clickfix, Cats in Space, Uncle Silvio, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News.

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-504

A smaller attack surface should lead to a smaller list of CVEs to track, which in turn should lead to a smaller set of vulns that you should care about. But in practice, keeping something like a container image small has a lot of challenges in terms of what should be considered minimal. Neil Carpenter shares advice and anecdotes on what it takes to refine a container image and to change an org's expectations that every CVE needs to be fixed.

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-344

Interview with Snehal Antani - Rethinking Risk-Based Vulnerability Management

Vulnerability management is broken. Organizations basically use math to turn a crappy list into a slightly less crappy list, and the hardest part of the job as a CIO is deciding what NOT to fix. There has to be a better way, and there is...

Segment Resources:

• https://horizon3.ai/intelligence/blogs/vulnerability-management-is-broken-there-is-a-better-way/

This segment is sponsored by Horizon3.ai. Visit https://securityweekly.com/horizon3 to learn more about them!

Topic - Andy Ellis's Black Hat Expo Experience

Andy Ellis visited every booth at Black Hat. Every. Single. One. He wrote up what he learned and we discuss his findings!

https://www.duha.co/state-of-security-vendors-blackhat-2025/

News

Finally, in the enterprise security news,

1. Tons of handy new and free tools!
2. is cybersecurity really at the latter stages of consolidation?
3. new books
4. is our obsession with risk quantification hurting our credibility?
5. AI trends
6. is there an impending AI layoff-pocalypse?
7. we explain the kids' favorite new term: Clanker

All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly.

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-420

Creepy chatbots, Fortinet, CISA, Agentic AI, FIDO, EDR, Aaran Leyland, and More on this episode of the Security Weekly News.

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-503

We kick things off with a deep dive into the Hackberry PI and how to build one. Then in the security news:

• Will Perplexity buy Chrome?
• ESP32 Bus Pirates
• Poisoned telemetry
• Docker image security
• Fully Open Source Quantum Sensors
• Securing your car, Flippers, and show me the money
• Bringing your printer and desktop to Starbucks
• Paying a ransom? You need approval
• AI: Shield or Spear?
• No authentication? That's a problem
• Transient Bugs: A realistic threat?
• You can run Linux
• And who still uses AOL dial-up?

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-887

As brands grow more digital, the threats grow more personal. Attackers impersonate executives, spin up fake websites, and leak sensitive data — hurting business reputations and breaking customer trust. How do you defend your organization's reputation and customers' trust?

Santosh Nair, Co-Founder and CTO at Styx Intelligence, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss how to defend trust and reputation in the age of AI. Santosh will cover both the company and executive challenges of defending against the latest AI attacks, including:

• Impersonations and Deepfakes
• Employee Scams
• Financial Fraud

Segment Resources: - https://styxintel.com/blog/what-is-brand-protection/ - https://styxintel.com/blog/brand-impersonation-hurts-business/ - https://styxintel.com/blog/social-engineering-tactics/

In the leadership and communications section, Mind the overconfidence gap: CISOs and staff don't see eye to eye on security posture, Your AI Strategy Needs More Than a Single Leader, Avoid These Communication Breakdowns When Launching Strategic Initiatives, and more!

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-408

300 Baud, Buddy Hackett Nudes, Dell, badUSB, Exchange, Erlang/OTP, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News.

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-502

Resources

• https://www.forrester.com/blogs/make-no-mistake-software-is-a-supply-chain-and-its-under-attack/
• https://www.forrester.com/report/the-future-of-software-supply-chain-security/RES184050

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-343