The Daily Raptor

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  • Monday: Fortune 500 CISO Moves, a $50M Demand & AI Agents Taking Orders

    A Japanese hosting company's breach let hackers trade in customers' accounts at five brokers that report no breach of their own. GMO refused a $50 million extortion demand and pledged about $32 per customer. Plus: a planted file in a Downloads folder steered AI coding agents toward malware, and researchers say there is nothing to patch.

    Fortune 500 CISO moves: two arrivals, two departures and one open seat. Subscribers get the names in the full edition.

    Chapters

    00:00 Intro

    00:10 Today's number: $50 million

    00:44 Welcome

    01:02 Fortune 500 CISO moves

    01:39 Cyber stocks

    01:55 Risk 1: A supplier's breach moves your customers' money

    02:57 Risk 2: AI agents taking orders from strangers

    04:01 Wrap-up

    Read the full edition, with six board-level assignments, at dailyraptor.com.

    The Daily Raptor, Vol. IV, No. 261, Monday, October 26, 2026. Hosted by Stephen Baker.

    5 min
  • Friday: SLED CISO Moves, a $14.7M City Scam & AI-Found Flaws

    Mobile, Alabama says $14.7 million in city funds went to a fraudster, and Microsoft says a China-aligned group's AI agents used one ConnectWise service to target 2,250+ customer environments. Plus: AI-found PHP flaws drew millions of attack attempts within a day.

    SLED CISO moves: two arrivals, two departures and one open seat. Subscribers get the names in the full edition.

    Chapters

    00:00 Today's number: $14.7 million

    00:41 Introduction

    00:58 SLED CISO moves

    01:34 Cyber stocks this week

    01:45 Risk 1: One supplier, thousands of customers

    02:52 Risk 2: AI on both sides

    03:34 Two questions for your board

    03:57 Close

    Read the full edition, with six board-level assignments, at dailyraptor.com.

    The Daily Raptor, Vol. IV, No. 259, Friday, October 23, 2026. Hosted by Stephen Baker.

    5 min
  • Wednesday: Healthcare CISO Moves, Rogue AI Agents & Revenue Ransom

    Three enterprise risks CEOs and executives need to know this week. OpenAI says two of its own AI agents undermined the monitoring meant to supervise them. Wiz says an AI agent appeared to run an entire break-in across two cloud providers. And U.S., German and British agencies warn the SafePay ransomware group prices its demands off a company's revenue. Plus: the cyber stock index fell about 12% week over week.

    Healthcare CISO moves in this episode: two arrivals, two departures and one open seat. Subscribers get the names in the full edition.

    Chapters

    00:00 Today's number: 14

    00:53 Healthcare CISO moves

    01:40 Cyber stocks fall about 12%

    02:11 Risk 1: AI agents undercut their own monitoring

    03:01 Risk 2: An AI-run break-in

    03:24 Where your AI models come from

    04:06 Risk 3: Ransom priced off revenue

    04:38 Three questions for your board

    05:04 Read the full edition

    Read the full edition, with six board-level assignments, at dailyraptor.com.

    The Daily Raptor, Vol. IV, No. 257, Wednesday, October 21, 2026. Hosted by Stephen Baker.

    6 min
  • Monday: Fortune 500 CISO Moves, $50 AI Hacks & Vendor Keys

    Three enterprise risks CEOs and executives need to know this week. One hacker's AI agents reportedly broke into websites at more than 100 companies for about $50 each. Thieves are going after the AI keys your developers store. And a reportedly compromised ConnectWise key opened at least 162 Microsoft 365 environments.

    This week's Fortune 500 CISO moves: two arrivals, two departures and one open seat. Subscribers get the names in the full edition.

    Chapters

    00:00 Today's number: 268%

    00:40 Fortune 500 CISO moves

    01:44 Risk 1: AI agents at $50 a break-in

    02:56 Risk 2: Your AI keys are cash

    03:44 Risk 3: One vendor key, 162 Microsoft 365 tenants

    04:41 Three questions for your board

    05:12 Close

    Read the full edition, with six board-level assignments, at dailyraptor.com.

    The Daily Raptor, Vol. IV, No. 255, Monday, October 19, 2026. Hosted by Stephen Baker.

    6 min
  • Top 3 Enterprise Risks for CEOs: Hidden Devices, Flaw Overload, Fake Hires

    Three enterprise risks CEOs and executives need to know this week. A former OpenAI engineer is charged with hiding a recorder in an executive conference room, AI is finding software flaws faster than companies can fix them, and North Korean IT workers reached more than 70 U.S. employers through ordinary hiring.

    Healthcare CISO moves: arrivals at Sanford Health and Mayo Clinic; departures at Renown Health and Sutter Health; an open seat at Ohio State Wexner Medical Center.

    Chapters

    00:00 Intro

    00:31 Welcome

    00:46 Healthcare CISO moves

    01:27 Risk 1: The insider in the conference room

    02:46 Risk 2: AI finds flaws faster than we can fix them

    03:58 Risk 3: The hire who isn't who they claim

    04:48 Three board questions

    05:15 Close

    Read the full edition, with six board-level assignments, at dailyraptor.com.

    The Daily Raptor, Vol. IV, No. 251, Wednesday, October 14, 2026. Hosted by Stephen Baker.

    6 min
  • Top 3 Enterprise Risks for CEOs: Rogue AI, Factory Floors, Trusted Middlemen

    Three enterprise risks CEOs and executives need to know this week. Washington has begun treating rogue AI behavior the way it treats a breach. AI is lowering the barrier to your physical operations. And the trusted middleman has quietly become the way in.

    CISO moves in this episode: new security leaders at Keurig Dr Pepper and FactSet, departures at Textron and Travelers, and an open seat at Halliburton.

    Chapters

    00:00 Today's Number: two days

    00:29 Welcome to The Daily Raptor

    00:47 CISO moves: who's in, who's out, what's open

    01:31 First up: rogue AI becomes a reportable incident

    02:36 What to do: name the executive who reports

    02:59 Next: from screens to steel

    03:59 Where to start in your plants

    04:13 Finally: the trusted middleman

    05:07 The fix: know every party that holds your trust

    05:30 Three questions for your next board meeting

    05:59 Close

    Read the full edition, with six board-level assignments, at dailyraptor.com.

    The Daily Raptor, Vol. IV, No. 249, Monday, October 12, 2026. Hosted by Stephen Baker.

    7 min

About The Daily Raptor

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The enterprise cyber risks CEOs, boards and senior executives need to know, in plain business terms and under seven minutes. Each episode of The Daily Raptor turns the day's edition into a strategic briefing: the risks that matter over the next three to five years, the CISO moves at major companies, and three questions to take into your next board meeting. Hosted by Stephen Baker, a cybersecurity sales leader for nearly 30 years, formerly at FireEye, Mandiant, Cylance and McAfee. New episodes every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Full editions at dailyraptor.com.