Three Buddy Problem

What's behind US gov push to 'privatize' offensive cyber operations?


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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.

Links:

  • ThreatLocker Solutions
  • Transcript (unedited, AI-generated)
  • Trump Admin Turning to Private Firms in Cyber Offensive
  • Microsoft on React2Shell
  • React2Shell and OpenAI (shoutout Andrew MacPherson)
  • Apple Patches Two Zero-Days Tied to Mysterious Exploited Chrome Flaw
  • iOS 26.2 Security Patches
  • Reporters Without Borders uncovers new spyware from Belarus
  • Cisco Talos on Cisco 0day attacks
  • Hack of Chinese state time center hints at U.S. advanced missile defense
  • Amazon on Russian APT targeting Western critical infrastructure
  • North Korean infiltrator caught in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location
  • Tracing a Paper Werewolf campaign through AI-generated decoys and Excel XLLs
  • Russian defense firms targeted by hackers using AI
  • TLPBLACK looks back at 2025
  • Inside Google's basement in Malaga: ChatGPT of Cybersecurity
  • GitHub - xdanx/open-klara: Open KLara Project
  • Gepetto Web
  • ...more
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