AI accelerating vulnerability discovery

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:

• Those pesky North Koreans shim a backdoor into a 100M-downloads-a-week npm package
• TeamPCP appear to have ransacked Cisco’s source and cloud environments
• AI is getting legitimately good at being told to “just go find some 0day in this”
• Kaspersky says Coruna and Triangulation do share code lineage
• Iranian hackers dump Kash Patel’s gmail spool
• Oh, and of course there’s a Citrix Netscaler memory leak being exploited in the wild

This week’s episode is sponsored by Dropzone AI, who make automated AI SOC analysts. Head honcho Ed Wu explains how they’ve built pre-canned ‘hunt packs’ to lead the AI off into your environment to find weird, interesting and security relevant things.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Show notes

• Google links axios supply chain attack to North Korean group | The Record from Recorded Future News
• Cisco source code stolen in Trivy-linked dev environment breach
• chiefofautism on X: "someone at ANTHROPIC just showed CLAUDE finding ZERO DAY vulnerabilities in a live conference demo"
• h0mbre on X: "Claude is somehow better at kernel exploitation than creating meal plans."
• Vulnerability Research Is Cooked — Quarrelsome
• MAD Bugs: vim vs emacs vs Claude - Calif
• MAD Bugs: Claude Wrote a Full FreeBSD Remote Kernel RCE with Root Shell (CVE-2026-4747)
• A Risky Biz Experiment: Hunting for iOS 0day with AI - Risky Business Media
• Security leaders say the next two years are going to be 'insane' | CyberScoop
• Coruna framework: an exploit kit and ties to Operation Triangulation | Securelist
• Apple says no one using Lockdown Mode has been hacked with spyware | TechCrunch
• Reverse engineering Apple’s silent security fixes - Calif
• Jury finds Meta's platforms are harmful to children in 1st wave of social media addiction lawsuits | PBS News
• Meta and YouTube found liable in social media addiction trial
• Iranian hackers publish emails allegedly stolen from Kash Patel
• Iran Us War: 'Legitimate targets': Iran issues warning to US tech firms including Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia - The Times of India
• Drop Site on X: "IRGC: From now on, for every assassination, an American company will be destroyed"
• OSINTtechnical on X: "Starlink shutdowns are forcing Russian troops even deeper into Ubiquiti’s ecosystem. "
• Citrix NetScaler products confirmed to be under exploitation | Cybersecurity Dive
• CISA tells federal agencies to patch Citrix NetScaler bug by Thursday | The Record from Recorded Future News
• Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying | WIRED
• Post reporters called the White House. Their phones showed ‘Epstein Island.’ - The Washington Post