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Three Buddy Problem - Episode 81: We dissect New York Times reporting on the "precision" of US cyber operations in Venezuela, the competing narratives around offensive cyber capabilities and "letters of marque" for private hackers. Plus, a mysterious failed cyber attack on Poland's power grid, internet blackouts in Iran (with fascinating DNS telemetry revealing Chinese bank traffic and Russian website spikes), and news of China's ban on US/Israeli cybersecurity software.

We also cover Check Point's research on "VoidLink" (is it a successor to ShadowPad?), Microsoft's threat intelligence sharing practices, and Google Project Zero's disclosure of zero-click vulnerabilities caused by AI-powered transcription features.

Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu.

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Three Buddy Problem - Episode 80: Researcher Hamid Kashfi returns to unpack Iran’s latest unrest, separating economic reality from propaganda while examining how information control, cyber pressure, and state surveillance are shaping events on the ground.

Plus, did cyber make the lights go out in Venezuela?

Cast: Hamid Kashfi, Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu.

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Three Buddy Problem - Episode 79: We cover MongoBleed (CVE‑2025‑14847), exposed MongoDB deployments, and the sad realization that zero-day attacks are a normal, everyday occurrence. Plus, AI’s expanding role and misuse across products and workflows, proximity attacks against Bluetooth audio devices, spyware sanctions de-listings, and ransomware economics.

In a special mailbag segment, we give our book recommendations and respond to common questions from the listeners.

Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu.

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Three Buddy Problem - Episode 78: We close out the year with a no-budget, no-permission awards show, spotlighting the cybersecurity stories that actually mattered.

Plus, a bizarre polygraph scandal at CISA, Chinese APT research dumps, ransomware pre-notification hiccups, foreign drone bans, and the growing gap between cyber theater and real operational value.

Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu.

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Three Buddy Problem - Episode 77: New React2Shell data from Microsoft, fresh Apple and Cisco zero-days already in the wild, and state-linked campaigns from Russia and China that show a merging of espionage, crime, and infrastructure disruption.

Plus, the US government's push to enlist private firms in offensive hacking, letters of marque for cartels, new discovery of spyware used against journalists in Belarus, and Amazon catching North Koreans via keystroke latency.

Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu.

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Three Buddy Problem - Episode 76: On the show this week, Costin walks through how a single Romanian documentary kick-started nationwide protests, exposing how corruption can be perfectly legal when the law itself is gamed, and why this moment feels different, darker, and more consequential than past flare-ups.

Plus, news on the React-to-Shell exploitation wave overwhelming the internet, why patching is structurally hard, and how APTs and criminals are converging on the same fragile dependency chain. Along the way, they take aim at Microsoft’s shrinking transparency, the limits of vendor trust, and what it really means when defenders are told (again) to just patch and pray.

Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu.

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Three Buddy Problem - Episode 75: We dig into a CVSS 10/10 unauthenticated RCE bug causing chaos across the internet and early signs that Chinese APTs are already launching exploits, the cascading patch chaos, and a long tail of malware intrusions to come.

Plus, commentary on Chrome’s telemetry collection, Microsoft and the "SFI success story," newest BRICKSTORM backdoor intrusions, the US national security strategy, Anthropic's AI popping smart-contract bugs, a secret FBI ransomware-hunting unit getting weird, and a pair of sad stories in the security community.

Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu.

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Three Buddy Problem - Episode 74: We attempt to parse the rumor-fog around Microsoft’s CISO at CYBERWARCON and what it reveals about the company’s shifting posture on intel sharing, regulation, and its outsized grip on the security ecosystem. Plus, coverage of the Shai-Hulud npm supply-chain mess, CISA’s mobile spyware guidance, NSO’s legal contortions, a sharp new GRU-linked intrusion from Arctic Wolf.

We also discuss the FCC retreating on telco security rules, and the emerging AI arms race shaping how cloud giants hunt threats and how Washington misunderstands all of it.

Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu.

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Three Buddy Problem - Episode 73: The buddies react to Google’s release of Gemini 3 and its early performance, new Chrome interface changes landing on users’ machines, and major highlights from CYBERWARCON. We revisit the long-running debate over APT naming conventions, examine Amazon’s latest threat-intel reporting on Iranian activity, and walk through the Cloudflare outage that briefly knocked chunks of the internet offline.

Plus, new APT reports from ESET, Positive Technologies, and SecurityScorecard, and China's CN-CERT (now validated claim) that the U.S. government seized billions in Bitcoin tied to the Lubian mining-pool hack.

Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu.

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Three Buddy Problem - Episode 72: We unpack Anthropic’s conflicting self-promotion around the “first AI-orchestrated cyberattack” using Claude Code and the future of automated APT attacks.

Plus, Chinese cyber vendor KnownSec falls victim to data breach, fresh accusations that the U.S. stole billions in Bitcoin, Amazon warning about Cisco/Citrix zero-days, Google’s new Private AI Compute and Microsoft kernel zero-day marked as "actively exploited."

Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu.

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