CyberWire Daily Millions of devices still up for grabs.
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Mar 20, 2026 Peter Kilpie, CEO and publisher at N2K, reflects on founding the CyberWire and growing it into a trusted security news outlet. Conversations cover disruptive IoT botnet takedowns, a major hacktivist infrastructure seizure, and a string of high-profile breaches and scams. They also revisit the podcast’s early format, team-building, and memorable milestones.
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Device Management Tools Can Become Weapons
- Enterprise device management tools can be abused to inflict widespread damage when administrators are compromised.
- Handala used Microsoft Intune to issue device wipe commands across corporate and employee-managed Windows and mobile systems, wiping ~80,000 devices.
Weeks Of Undetected Access Multiplies Identity Risk
- Prolonged undetected access dramatically increases the harm of breaches involving identity data.
- Kaplan's intrusion lasted three weeks (Oct–Nov 2025) exfiltrating names, SSNs, and driver's license data for nearly 195,000 people before detection.
Breached Tip Platforms Threaten Public Safety
- Tip and law-enforcement platforms hold highly sensitive data that, if breached, can undermine public safety and informant trust.
- An attacker claimed to exfiltrate 93 GB from P3 Global Intel affecting over 8 million confidential reports.