The Cyber Resilience Brief: A SafeBreach Podcast

In episode 2 of our special 4-part Cybersecurity Awareness Month series, The Cyber Resilience Brief hosts Tova Dvorin and Adrian Culley dive deep into Adversary Exposure Validation (AEV) — the next evolution of Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) and Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM).

Learn how AEV helps organizations move beyond endless vulnerability lists to validate exposures that real adversaries exploit, prioritize based on active threat intelligence, and shift from reactive defense to continuous cyber readiness.

Featuring insights on SafeBreach’s attack library, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, and why “patch and proceed is dead,” this episode reveals how AEV empowers security teams to focus on risk-driven validation that truly strengthens cyber resilience.

In this urgent episode of The Cyber Resilience Brief, host Tova Dvorin and Adrian Culley, Offensive Security Engineer at SafeBreach, break down the shocking manifesto released by Scattered Spider — also known as Lapsus$ and ShinyHunters — the same threat group now linked to the Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack that’s suspected to have Russian ties.

As geopolitical tensions rise and Russia’s hybrid cyber warfare intensifies, Scattered Spider’s public “declaration of war” marks a chilling shift: from quiet ransomware operations to open intimidation of Western governments and Fortune 500 companies.

Tova and Adrian unpack how this group combines social engineering, identity theft, and psychological warfare to paralyze organizations — and how companies can fight back using Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) and Continuous Automated Red Teaming (CART). 

We also published blogs on Scattered Spider and on what it's like to talk to hackers on the Dark Web.

October may be Cybersecurity Awareness Month, but as SafeBreach experts Tova Dvorin and Adrian Culley reveal, awareness alone doesn’t stop attackers. In this kickoff episode of our special four-part Cyber Month series, we explore why traditional awareness training and annual penetration tests aren’t enough in today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape.

Adrian and Tova break down:

Why awareness ≠ readiness — and the critical role of validation

How Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) turns cyber hygiene into measurable resilience

The alarming reality: 30% of security controls fail the first time they’re tested

Why ransomware remains more dangerous than ever

How organizations can continuously test defenses without risking downtime

Whether you’re a CISO, security practitioner, or business leader, this episode uncovers why continuous, automated validation is the only way to prove your defenses work against real-world threats.

Stay tuned for upcoming episodes on Adversary Exposure Validation (AEV), ransomware trends, and the EU Cyber Resilience Act

In this episode of The Cyber Resilience Brief, we expose the tactics of one of today’s most agile and financially motivated threat groups: BianLian. Originally known for double extortion ransomware, BianLian rapidly pivoted to pure data theft and extortion—making them harder to stop and faster to profit.

SafeBreach offensive security engineer Adrian Culley joins host Tova Dvorin to unpack:

How BianLian evolved from ransomware to exfiltration-based extortion.

The TTPs behind their attacks, from compromised RDP credentials to stealthy “living off the land” techniques.

Why traditional defenses struggle to keep pace with their adaptive methods.

How organizations can counter them with Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS), Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV), and Continuous Automated Red Teaming (CART) to test resilience across the full attack chain.

If you want to understand how adversaries like BianLian stay ahead—and how you can flip the advantage back to defenders—this episode is for you.

💡 Special Note: In honor of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we’re releasing two episodes each week throughout October 2025—so be sure to subscribe and catch them all!

As the US government shutdown begins, critical questions emerge about how funding instability threatens the nation’s cyber defense. In this urgent episode of The Cyber Resilience Brief, Tova and Adrian unpack the “dual threat” facing CISA: the looming expiration of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015, and deep budget cuts that could decimate its operational capacity.

We explore how these pressures risk crippling CISA’s ability to issue timely, actionable threat alerts—and what that means for CISOs trying to protect their networks today. Beyond CISA, we highlight the domestic agencies and international partners stepping up to fill the gap, from the FBI to the Five Eyes alliance.

This episode is a must-listen for security leaders navigating a moment where US cyber resilience hangs in the balance.

In this episode of the Cyber Resilience Brief, we dive into detection engineering and one of its most powerful tools: parsers.

SafeBreach experts Jonathan Tillman and Shachaf Raviv share how parsers transform raw logs into actionable insights, enabling organizations to scale detection engineering, customize security validation, and integrate seamlessly across SIEMs and security controls.

This episode is also a teaser for our upcoming webinar, “Elevate Detection Engineering at Scale”, where we’ll showcase the brand-new Parsers UI, walk through practical use cases, and answer your questions live.

🔗 Register here: safebreach.com/elevate-detection-engineering-at-scale

Step inside the hidden world of the dark web with SafeBreach’s Cyber Resilience Brief. In this episode, Senior Sales Engineer Hudney Piquant shares eye-opening stories from his explorations into hacker forums and ransomware recruitment pipelines.

Discover:

How cybercrime groups like Conti operate more like corporations than chaos-driven collectives.

Why the psychology of hacking—speed, opportunism, and human exploitation—matters as much as technology.

How penetration testing and adversary simulation can help security teams counter evolving tactics.

Why AI is supercharging cybercrime—and how defenders must adapt to keep pace.

Whether you’re a CISO, red team leader, or security practitioner, this episode will reshape how you think about threat intelligence, human risk, and proactive defense.

In this urgent episode of The Cyber Resilience Brief, host Tova Dvorin and SafeBreach’s Adrian Culley analyze the brand-new CISA AR25-261A report detailing malicious listeners in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM). We break down how attackers are exploiting CVE-2025-4427 and CVE-2025-4428, using sophisticated base64-encoded payload delivery to evade detection and establish persistent backdoors.

Listeners will learn:

How state-sponsored threat groups are targeting multiple industries—including finance, healthcare, retail, education, manufacturing, and energy.

The malware techniques involved, from malicious loaders to reassembled encoded chunks.

The critical role of Indicators of Compromise (IOCs), YARA rules, and Sigma rules in proactive defense.

Why upgrading Ivanti EPMM, treating MDM as critical infrastructure, and deploying phishing-resistant MFA are the top recommendations from CISA.

Finally, we share how SafeBreach Labs has already built the attack simulation—available within three hours of CISA’s release—so partners and customers can test, detect, and remediate this threat immediately.

🔒 Stay ahead of attackers. Learn how to protect your organization against one of today’s most pressing Ivanti EPMM threats.

Scattered Spider — also known as UNC3944, Oktapus, and Muddled Libra — has quickly become one of today’s most notorious cybercriminal groups. From high-profile breaches at MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment to attacks on retailers and airlines, their tactics show that the biggest threat isn’t always malware — it’s social engineering.

In this episode of the Cyber Resilience Brief, co-hosts Tova Dvorin and Adrian Culley explore how Scattered Spider operates and what makes them so dangerous. We break down their favorite attack methods, including SIM swapping, MFA push bombing, and IT helpdesk impersonation — and reveal why “they don’t break in, they log in.”

Listeners will learn:

The top TTPs Scattered Spider uses across the kill chain

Why identity and access management is their prime target

How companies can harden defenses against human-centric threats

Why continuous security validation is critical to resilience

If you’re a CISO, security leader, or anyone focused on protecting people, processes, and data, this episode is a must-listen.

The EU’s NIS2 Directive is reshaping the global cybersecurity landscape with sweeping requirements for essential and important entities, strict reporting obligations, and substantial penalties for non-compliance. In this episode of Cyber Resilience Brief, host Tova Dvorin is joined by Adrian Culley, Senior Sales Engineer at SafeBreach and EU/UK regulatory expert, to unpack what NIS2 means for organizations worldwide.

We explore:

Whether you operate inside the EU or engage with regulated industries abroad, NIS2 compliance is becoming a business-critical issue. Tune in to understand the directive’s global impact—and how to turn regulation into a resilience advantage.