The NSA gets an AI upgrade.

About this episode

The episode discusses the NSA's use of AI, recent cyber threats, and features an interview with Ashu Savani on building effective security teams.

Anthropic brings Mythos to the NSA. A Palantir executive emerges as a possible CISA pick. A Linux flaw is under active attack. Minecraft malware goes commercial. An npm package gets caught in the Miasma worm campaign. Researchers document the first AI-driven container escape. A browser supply-chain compromise and a university breach with unexpected victims. Our guest is Ashu Savani, Co-Founder at TryHackMe, discussing building high performing SOC & IR teams. The web becomes machine majority. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our daily intelligence roundup, Daily Briefing, and you’ll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow CyberWire Daily on LinkedIn. CyberWire Guest On today’s Industry Voices segment, we are joined by Ashu Savani, Co-Founder from TryHackMe, discussing building high performing SOC & IR teams. You can listen to the full conversation here. Selected Reading US National Security Agency using Anthropic’s Mythos for cyber attacks (Financial Times) Trump considers Palantir exec to lead CISA (The Record) CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of Linux Container Escape Flaw (Beyond Machines) Game Over…

People in this episode

Guest: Ashu Savani

Topics covered

• AI in cybersecurity
• cyber attacks
• Linux vulnerabilities
• malware
• supply chain security
• SOC and IR teams

Keywords

• NSA
• AI upgrade
• cybersecurity
• Linux flaw
• Minecraft malware
• supply chain compromise
• SOC teams
• IR teams

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NSA, Anthropic, Palantir, CISA, Linux, Minecraft, npm, TryHackMe, CyberWire Daily, Financial Times

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