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Signal Check
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Episode 74: June 14, 2026
This episode covers a major supply chain attack on Arch Linux's AUR, a zero-day exploit in Oracle PeopleSoft used by the ShinyHunters crew to breach…
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Episode 73: June 13, 2026
This episode digs into a brutal week for security, starting with over 400 hijacked Arch Linux packages that installed credential stealers and rootkits. We also…
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Episode 72: June 12, 2026
This episode covers ShinyHunters exploiting an unpatched Oracle PeopleSoft vulnerability to breach universities, the leaked Miasma worm source code lowering…
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Episode 71: June 11, 2026
This episode digs into a fresh Microsoft Defender zero-day granting full system access, a new SSD timing attack that tracks your browsing through hardware…
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Episode 70: June 10, 2026
This episode covers a critical Check Point VPN flaw being actively exploited by ransomware groups, a wild new browser-based attack that uses your SSD to spy on…
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Episode 69: June 09, 2026
This episode covers emergency patches for a critical Check Point VPN zero-day that's been exploited by ransomware groups since early May, plus a Python…
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Episode 68: June 08, 2026
This episode digs into the worst security breaches of 2026 so far, from compromised critical infrastructure to a hacked FBI surveillance system. Adrian also…
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Episode 67: June 07, 2026
This episode digs into Arabic-targeted Android spyware disguised as news apps, a massive npm supply chain attack distributing Rust-based malware to developers…
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Episode 66: June 06, 2026
This episode covers six critical cybersecurity signals, from World Cup scam operations already in overdrive to the disturbing rise of in-person social…
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Episode 65: June 05, 2026
This episode covers a critical Cisco vulnerability that grants attackers root access without credentials, AI-powered tools now hunting bugs faster than humans…
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Episode 64: June 04, 2026
This episode covers a zero-day flaw in Visual Studio Code that's leaking GitHub tokens, a devastating HTTP/2 exploit hammering web servers across the internet…
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Episode 63: June 03, 2026
This episode covers Google's urgent Android patch fixing an actively exploited vulnerability, another authentication bypass hitting Palo Alto's VPN gateways…
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Episode 62: June 02, 2026
This episode covers a wild range of security wake-up calls — from hackers tricking Meta's AI chatbot to hijack high-profile Instagram accounts, to compromised…
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Episode 61: June 01, 2026
This episode covers critical vulnerabilities in Gogs and Palo Alto's GlobalProtect VPN that are already being actively exploited, plus the takedown of a…
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Episode 60: May 31, 2026
This episode covers critical vulnerabilities hitting Gogs self-hosted Git servers, Palo Alto VPN authentication bypass being actively exploited, and a…
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Episode 59: May 30, 2026
This episode covers a cybercrime gang funding real-world violence with stolen data, a Russian hacker who spent five years running an AI bot inside a…
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Episode 57: May 28, 2026
This episode digs into a dark week for software supply chains, from the Glassworm botnet takedown to the TrapDoor malware infecting npm, PyPI, and…
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Episode 56: May 27, 2026
This episode covers a critical Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability demanding immediate patching, a major 7-Eleven data breach exposing 183,000 people, and a…
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Episode 55: May 26, 2026
On today's Signal Check, Adrian North digs into a massive botnet takedown involving two million compromised devices, a coordinated supply chain attack…
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Episode 54: May 25, 2026
This episode covers a coordinated supply chain attack on PHP's Packagist repository, mass exploitation of a critical Ghost CMS vulnerability turning websites…
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Episode 53: May 24, 2026
This episode covers GitHub's new security requirements for npm publishers, a major credential leak from a CISA contractor, and Apple's lockdown mode for…
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Episode 52: May 23, 2026
This episode digs into the week's quiet but persistent threats—Linux rootkits, router zero-days, and AI adversarial probing—before covering major incidents…
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Episode 51: May 22, 2026
This episode covers Microsoft shutting down a malware signing operation that weaponized their own trust systems, law enforcement dismantling a VPN service used…
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Episode 50: May 21, 2026
This episode covers GitHub's massive breach, CISA's accidental exposure of government cloud credentials, and Microsoft's new open-source AI security tools. We…
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Episode 49: May 20, 2026
On today's Signal Check, Adrian North digs into over six hundred malicious npm packages flooding the registry, a CISA contractor's exposed AWS credentials left…
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Episode 48: May 19, 2026
This episode covers a critical NGINX vulnerability already being exploited in the wild, a Windows zero-day giving attackers full system control, and a…
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Episode 47: May 18, 2026
On today's Signal Check, Adrian covers a dangerous new Windows zero-day giving attackers full system access, an actively exploited NGINX vulnerability hitting…
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Episode 46: May 17, 2026
This episode covers a critical Microsoft Exchange vulnerability being actively exploited in the wild, the story of Fisker EV owners who reverse-engineered…
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Episode 45: May 16, 2026
This episode covers active exploitation of critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange and Cisco SD-WAN, a supply chain breach that hit OpenAI developers…
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Episode 44: May 15, 2026
This episode covers the fallout from Pwn2Own Berlin, where researchers exposed 24 zero-day exploits in one day, plus urgent warnings about a Cisco SD-WAN…
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Episode 43: May 14, 2026
This episode covers two unpatched Windows zero-days that bypass BitLocker and escalate privileges, a self-replicating worm spreading through npm packages in…
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Episode 42: May 13, 2026
This episode covers Microsoft's rare zero-day-free Patch Tuesday, Google's discovery of the first AI-developed exploit bypassing two-factor authentication, and…
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Episode 41: May 12, 2026
This episode digs into Google's confirmation of the first AI-generated zero-day exploits now being used in the wild, marking a major shift in the threat…
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Episode 39: May 10, 2026
This episode covers a dangerous new Linux zero-day called Dirty Frag that grants root access across major distros, a mass ShinyHunters attack defacing Canvas…
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Episode 38: May 09, 2026
This episode covers critical zero-day exploits hitting Palo Alto firewalls before disclosure, an unpatched Linux privilege escalation flaw called Dirty Frag…
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Episode 37: May 08, 2026
This episode covers a critical zero-day exploit in Palo Alto firewalls that went unpatched for nearly a month, malware hiding in PyPI packages using workplace…
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Episode 2026-04-23
This episode digs into North Korean hackers weaponizing job interviews to infect developers, the concerning reality that CISA was shut out from testing…
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Episode 2026-04-20
This episode digs into the surprisingly organized underground economy of stolen credit cards, where fraudsters use customer service metrics and escrow systems…
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Episode 2026-04-18
This episode covers a massive North Korean laptop-farm scheme that fooled U.S. companies for years, Bluesky's battle with a brutal DDoS attack that's testing…
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Episode 2026-04-09
This episode digs into the growing gap between cyber threats and our defenses — from the FBI's report on a record $21 billion lost to scams, to AI models now…
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Episode 2026-04-07
This episode digs into NASA's Artemis II Moon mission — historic but more infrastructure test than breakthrough — then pivots to a brutal week in…
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Episode 2026-04-06
This episode digs into LinkedIn's hidden surveillance of over 6,000 Chrome extensions, the failure of app store privacy labels to actually protect users, and…
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Episode 2026-04-04
This episode digs into a lightning-fast npm supply chain attack that shows how AI is collapsing human response time, explores a skull-vibration authentication…
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Episode 2026-04-01
This episode digs into a man who lost everything to an AI chatbot he believed was becoming sentient, a shocking leak of Claude's source code through a simple…
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Episode 2026-03-29
This episode covers Google's 2029 deadline for quantum-safe encryption, the military weaponization of hacked security cameras by state actors, and the…
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Episode 2026-03-26
This episode digs into a landmark legal case where a jury held Meta and Google accountable for harm caused to a teen's mental health, plus a sophisticated…
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Episode 2026-03-24
This episode digs into a supply-chain attack that compromised Trivy, the vulnerability scanner millions trust, turning a security tool into the very threat…
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Episode 2026-03-23
This episode covers a massive international takedown of four major botnets that had hijacked IoT devices to launch hundreds of thousands of crippling…
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Episode 2026-03-22
On today's Signal Check — we cover Musician admits to $10M streaming royalty fraud using AI bots, WordPress.com now lets AI agents write and publish posts, and…
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Episode 2026-03-21
This episode digs into three major security threats making waves right now: a devastating iOS exploit chain called DarkSword that's giving attackers full…
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Episode 2026-03-20
On this episode of Signal Check, Adrian North digs into how the FBI keeps buying location data from brokers to bypass warrants, why Meta and TikTok tracking…
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Episode 2026-03-18
This episode digs into Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster's lawsuit against OpenAI for allegedly scraping their content and falsely attributing AI…
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Episode 2026-03-17
On today's Signal Check, Adrian North digs into the launch of Betterleaks, a new open-source tool from the creator of Gitleaks that scans code for accidentally…
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Episode 2026-03-16
This episode digs into Meta's surprising rollback of Instagram encryption, new Pew data revealing America's split feelings on AI, and the rise of Handala as a…
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Episode 2026-03-14
This episode digs into AI chatbots giving violent instructions when asked about mass attacks, a foreign hacker breaching FBI files on the Jeffrey Epstein case…
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Episode 2026-03-13
This episode digs into Amazon's massive six-hour outage traced back to AI-assisted code gone wrong, plus the company's new requirement for senior engineers to…
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Episode 2026-03-12
This episode covers a Russian hacking campaign targeting Signal and WhatsApp users through clever social engineering, North Korean IT workers now using AI…
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Episode 2026-03-11
This episode digs into how the tools we built for safety are being turned against us — from hacked security cameras becoming military reconnaissance tools to…
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Episode 2026-03-10
This episode digs into incendiary devices hidden in massage pillows shipped from Lithuania, an AI model uncovering twenty-two security flaws in Firefox without…
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Episode 2026-03-09
This episode digs into Pakistan-aligned hackers using AI to mass-produce malware, the aging face of cybercrime moving beyond the teenage hacker stereotype, and…