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Today we have Damon Rouse, Threat Intelligence from Lumen's Black Lotus Labs, discussing their work on "The infrastructure quartermaster: inside a China-nexus state enablement model." Black Lotus Labs identified a China-nexus cyber infrastructure provider, dubbed a “quartermaster,” that supplies reconnaissance, proxy routing, and obfuscation services to Chinese cyber espionage actors. Its interconnected systems, including QScan and Fast Labyrinth, help identify high-value targets, conceal…

Today's episode covers an update on the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities, a Signal flaw that kept calls alive after hang-up, critical Cisco Snort 3 vulnerabilities, and Linux kernel KSMBD vulnerability reports that were accidentally posted to a public mailing list. PHP Vulnerability Update Patches for the PHP remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities are now available from many vendors, with notable exceptions such as QNAP. Cloudflare reports a lot of exploit activity, and Amazon saw exploit attempts…

Imagine buying a brand new hardware wallet for your cryptocurrency with the shrink-wrap still on... what could possibly be hiding inside? We break out a Geiger counter and a cat to find out. Meanwhile, malicious ads are targeting journalists with zero-click attacks. Plus, Origin’s Spencer Thompson reveals what AI agents are really getting up to on your employees’ laptops when nobody’s looking. All this and more in episode 489 of the “Smashing Security” podcast with cybersecurity expert and…

An unreleased AI solved a 26-year-old cryptographic secret in less than half an hour, exposing the origins of a widely used standard. Discover what this jaw-dropping breakthrough means for the future of trust and transparency in cybersecurity. Another record smashing Patch Tuesday. But again, all those updates were not without consequences. Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 reports on an agentic attack. A mass-compromised hardware cryptocurrency wallet attack. How to create your own known-safe crypto…

Imagine driving down the road and your phone loses signal. Not just a lost signal, but it starts displaying SOS. Meaning no service configured at all. You can't make any calls, no data, no service. What goes through your head? In this episode we hear from Ricky Handschumacher