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The episode discusses a mysterious backdoor that evaded detection for a year, connecting it to elite-level APT intrusions and various cybersecurity topics.

( Presented by TLPBLACK : A cybersecurity intelligence platform focused on sharing curated, high-sensitivity threat insights and research with trusted security professionals. ) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 94 : We discuss a mysterious, VM-obfuscated backdoor that lived undetected on a single U.K. machine for a year before disappearing, finding clues pointing to an elite-level APT intrusion that still evades broader industry coverage. Plus, connecting the dots across AI-driven vulnerability discovery, Microsoft’s massive Patch Tuesday, Jensen Huang talks cybersecurity, Mythos dangers and Chinese chips, and the quiet erosion of CVE enrichment at NIST. Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade , Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu . Timestamps: 0:00 – Intros + AI news whiplash 5:10 – Patch Tuesday breakdown: Microsoft's second-largest CVE release ever 7:32 – AI accelerating vulnerability discovery at record pace 10:00 – Frontier lab cyber models, fine-tuning, guardrail removal & KYC 12:37 – FreeBSD NFS bug: Opus 4.6 was already finding critical vulns 14:26 – Anthropic's infrastructure strain: Is Opus being nerfed? 21:05 – OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber vs. Anthropic's Mythos cabal 28:45 –…

People in this episode

Hosts: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine, Costin Raiu

Topics covered

• cybersecurity
• APT intrusion
• vulnerability discovery
• Microsoft Patch Tuesday
• threat intelligence
• malware

Keywords

• APT
• backdoor
• cybersecurity
• vulnerability
• Microsoft
• threat intel
• malware
• Adobe Acrobat
• ZionSiphon

Sponsors

TLPBLACK

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, NIST

Products: Adobe Acrobat, ZionSiphon, Opus, Mythos

Places: U.K.

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