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Out of the Woods: The Threat Hunting Podcast
Intel 471's podcast with a twist! Join us for the first fully interactive threat hunting podcast where you can hang out with threat hunters from all over the world!
Join a rag-tag bunch of threat hunters as they come out of the woods to explore some of the most burning issues related to cyber security. The Out of the Woods podcast is a casual talk covering the topics of threat hunting, security research, and threat intelligence, and some ranting and raving along the way, all over a cocktail or…
Episodes
Out of the Woods: The Threat Hunting PodcastS4 Ep14: I, Malware
What happens when malware starts asking AI what it should do next? This episode examines an autonomous AI-assisted command-and-control implant that queries…
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S4 Ep13: You Had Me at npm install
Having the telemetry is one thing. Knowing what to do with it is another. This episode starts with Tortoiseshell's use of reverse SSH tunneling, masquerading…
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S4 Ep12: Dude, Where's My Alert?
A fake recruiter, a coding challenge, and a Node.js payload walk into a development environment. This week, we break down Mirage Kitten's NodeRabbit and…
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S4 Ep11: Of Mice and RATs
This week, we dig into a packed threat landscape starting with Silk Parasite and its sprawling ecosystem of modular RATs, DLL sideloading, Google Drive C2, and…
Out of the Woods: The Threat Hunting PodcastS4 Ep10: [LIVE] Know Thy Environment: Putting Your Data to Work
Most threat hunters have more data than they know what to do with. The problem isn't access. It's understanding: what your fields actually mean, what normal…
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S4 Ep9: Cloudy With a Chance of Malware
Top Headlines: Group-IB | HOLLOWGRAPH: Turning Microsoft 365 Calendars into Covert Command-and-Control Channels…
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S4 Ep8: We’re Going Threat Hunting Through the Quad Into the Gymnasium
Top Headlines: JFrog | Miasma Worm Returns to npm: https://research.jfrog.com/post/miasma-worm-returns-to-npm/ Mind Gard | Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure…
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S4 Ep7: Threat Report - Q2 2026
In this episode of Out of the Woods, Scott Poley and Tom Kostura review key findings from the Q2 2026 Threat Hunt Report and discuss what stood out across the…
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S4 Ep6: Built to Blend In
Top Headlines: welivesecurity | Gamaredon in 2025: Leveraging tunnels, workers, dead drops, and new alliances…
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S4 Ep5: Forti Shades of Breach
Top Headlines: JFrog | From PostCSS Masquerading to Windows RAT: https://research.jfrog.com/post/from-postcss-typosquat-to-windows-rat/ Elastic | Lost in…
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S4 Ep4: Old Flaws, New Attacks
Top Headlines: Trend Micro | Old WinRAR Flaw Fuels Attacks on Ukraine: How Unmanaged Software Keeps the Door Open…
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S4 Ep3: [LIVE] Know Thy Environment: Building Context for Effective Threat Hunting
Understanding your environment is one of the most overlooked parts of threat hunting, and one of the most important. This live episode focuses on how to…
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S4 Ep2: Ptrace Yourself Before Your Agent Wrecks Yourself
Top Headlines: Qualys | CVE-2026-46333: Local Root Privilege Escalation and Credential Disclosure in the Linux Kernel ptrace Path…
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S4 Ep1: When the Chain Bites Back
Top Headlines: The Hacker News | Mini Shai-Hulud Worm Compromises TanStack, Mistral AI, Guardrails AI & More Packages…
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S3 Ep63: May the Context Be With You
Top Headlines: Elastic Security Labs | Phantom in the vault: Obsidian abused to deliver PhantomPulse RAT…
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S3 Ep62: Q1 2026 - Threat Hunt Report
In this special episode of Out of the Woods, Scott Poley and Tom Kostura review key findings from the Q1 2026 Threat Hunt Report and discuss what stood out…
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S3 Ep61: [LIVE] Guess Who: The Malware Edition
Can You Identify the Malware Family? Out of the Woods: The Threat Hunting Podcast returns with another live, interactive edition designed to test how you…
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S3 Ep60: Honey, I sideloaded Havoc...
*[LIVE] Out of the Woods Podcast: Guess Who: The Malware Edition March 25, 2026 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM ET Sign Up…
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S3 Ep59: Raiders of the Lost Macro
Top Headlines: Group-IB | Operation Olalampo: Inside MuddyWater’s Latest Campaign: https://www.group-ib.com/blog/muddywater-operation-olalampo/ Point Wild |…
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S3 Ep58: Keep the Classics, Cue the Chaos
Top Headlines: The Hacker News | Microsoft Discloses DNS-Based ClickFix Attack Using Nslookup for Malware Staging…
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S3 Ep57: If you speak it, they will come...
*On-Demand - Threat Hunting Workshop: Hunting for Privilege Escalation - Level 2 Watch Now…
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S3 Ep56: Hunt the Whole Story, Follow the Rabbit
*Threat Hunting Workshop: Hunting for Privilege Escalation - Level 2 February 11, 2026 | 12:00 - 1:00 PM ET Sign Up…
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S3 Ep55: Threat Hunting Year in Review: 2025 Trends and What’s Next
*Threat Hunting Workshop: Hunting for Privilege Escalation - Level 2 February 11, 2026 | 12:00 - 1:00 PM ET Sign Up…
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S3 Ep54: Stop, Collaborate and Secure
*[LIVE] Out of the Woods: The Threat Hunting Podcast – Threat Hunting Year in Review: 2025 Trends and What’s Next January 29, 2026 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM ET Sign…
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S3 Ep53: New Year, Old Tricks
*[LIVE] Out of the Woods: The Threat Hunting Podcast – Threat Hunting Year in Review: 2025 Trends and What’s Next January 29, 2026 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM ET Sign…
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S3 Ep52: The Threat Hunting Soapbox
Top Headlines: welivesecurity.com | LongNosedGoblin tries to sniff out governmental affairs in Southeast Asia and Japan…
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S3 Ep51: Same Break-In, New Front Door
Top Headlines: Unit 42 | Exploitation of Critical Vulnerability in React Server Components (Updated December 12)…
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S3 Ep50: Game of Nodes: Persistence Is Coming
Top Headlines: securelist.com | The Tsundere botnet uses the Ethereum blockchain to infect its targets…
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S3 Ep49: Guess Who: The Adversary Edition - 2
Can You Identify the Nation-State Actor? …
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S3 Ep48: Familiar Moves, Novel Grooves
*[LIVE] Out of the Woods: The Threat Hunting Podcast – Guess Who Edition November 19, 2025 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM ET Sign Up…
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S3 Ep47: Common, but Deadly
*Threat Hunting Management Workshop: The Business Value of Threat Hunting October 29, 2025 | 12:00 - 12:30 PM ET Sign Up…
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S3 Ep46: Here We Go Again...
*Threat Hunting Management Workshop: The Business Value of Threat Hunting October 29, 2025 | 12:00 - 12:30 PM ET Sign Up…
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S3 Ep45: Think, McFly, Think
*Threat Hunting Management Workshop: The Business Value of Threat Hunting October 29, 2025 | 12:00 - 12:30 PM ET Sign Up…
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S3 Ep44: If You Build It... Backdoors Will Open
Top Headlines: LastPass Labs | Large-Scale Attack Targeting Macs via GitHub Pages Impersonating Companies to Attempt to Deliver Stealer Malware…
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S3 Ep43: Invasion of the Modular Malware
*Threat Hunting Workshop: Hunting for Persistence - Level 2 September 24, 2025 | 12:00 - 1:00 PM ET Sign Up…
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S3 Ep42: [LIVE] AI for Security Teams: Scaling Impact Without Losing Control
In this episode of Out of the Woods, we explored how AI is reshaping security operations beyond threat hunting. We highlighted real progress in insider threat…
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S3 Ep41: The Silence of the Carves
*[LIVE] Out of the Woods: The Threat Hunting Podcast - AI for Security Teams: Scaling Impact Without Losing Control September 11, 2025 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM…
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S3 Ep40: Named Pipes and Usual Suspects
*[LIVE] Out of the Woods: The Threat Hunting Podcast - AI for Security Teams: Scaling Impact Without Losing Control September 11, 2025 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM…
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S3 Ep39: Think Behavior, Attribute Later
*[LIVE] Out of the Woods: The Threat Hunting Podcast - AI for Security Teams: Scaling Impact Without Losing Control September 11, 2025 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM…
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S3 Ep38: Testimonial from the Trenches
Scott Poley and Tom Kostura are joined by Ben McGavin, Threat Hunting Team Lead at RSM Defense, and Justin Dolgos, Senior Threat Hunter at RSM Defense, for a…
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S3 Ep37: Be Effective, Not Just Subjective
*Intel-Driven Threat Hunting Workshop: Analyzing Malware Behaviors July 31, 2025 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM ET Sign Up…
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S3 Ep36: Paste and Persist
*Intel-Driven Threat Hunting Workshop: Analyzing Malware Behaviors July 31, 2025 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM ET Sign Up…
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S3 Ep35: [LIVE] The Intersection of AI and Threat Hunting: What Problems Emerge, What Problems Get Solved
In this episode of Out of the Woods: The Threat Hunting Podcast, we explored how AI is being used in threat hunting, from generating hypotheses to enriching…
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S3 Ep34: Latest and Greatest... Or Is It?
*[LIVE] Out of the Woods: The Threat Hunting Podcast The Intersection of AI and Threat Hunting: What Problems Emerge, What Problems Get Solved July 10, 2025 |…
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S3 Ep33: Old Tricks, New Plays
*[LIVE] Out of the Woods: The Threat Hunting Podcast The Intersection of AI and Threat Hunting: What Problems Emerge, What Problems Get Solved July 10, 2025 |…
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S3 Ep32: Security Is a Mindset, Not a Product
*[LIVE] Out of the Woods: The Threat Hunting Podcast The Intersection of AI and Threat Hunting: What Problems Emerge, What Problems Get Solved July 10, 2025 |…
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S3 Ep31: Hack the Gibson
Threat Hunting Management Workshop: Structuring Collaboration Across Teams June 18, 2025 | 12:00 - 12:45 PM ET Sign up…
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S3 Ep30: Attack like a Tact-ti-cian
Top Headlines: Qualys | Fileless Execution: PowerShell Based Shellcode Loader Executes Remcos RAT WIRED | How the Signal Knockoff App TeleMessage Got Hacked in…
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S3 Ep29: ClickFix, So Easy Even a Nation State Can Do It
Top Headlines: Proofpoint | TA406 Pivots to the Front hunt.io | APT36-Linked ClickFix Campaign Spoofs Indian Ministry of Defence, Targets Windows & Linux Users…
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S3 Ep28: [LIVE] Guess Who: The Adversary Edition
Clue by Clue: Can You Name the Threat Actor? Out of the Woods: The Threat Hunting Podcast returns with a special edition live episode built to sharpen how…
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S3 Ep27: Eyes Got Data
[LIVE] Out of the Woods: The Threat Hunting Podcast - "Guess Who: The Adversary Edition" May 8, 2025 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM ET Sign Up…
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S3 Ep26: Inception Point: Informed Defense
[LIVE] Out of the Woods: The Threat Hunting Podcast - "Guess Who: The Adversary Edition" May 8, 2025 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM ET Sign Up…
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S3 Ep25: 00UserAgent: Complexity Never Sleeps
[LIVE] Out of the Woods: The Threat Hunting Podcast - "Guess Who: The Adversary Edition" May 8, 2025 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM ET Sign Up…
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S3 Ep24: ShortCut to the Fast and the Obfuscated
Top Headlines: Elastic | Outlaw Linux Malware: Persistent, Unsophisticated, and Surprisingly Effective…
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S3 Ep23: [LIVE] From Skilled to Tactical Threat Hunting: Where to Focus for Maximum Impact
In this episode of Out of the Woods: The Threat Hunting Podcast, this live discussion focuses on where threat hunters should focus their time to drive real…
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S3 Ep22: What You Don't Know, Can Hurt You
*Top Cover 4 – Threat Hunting Management Workshop: Hiring Effective Threat Hunters March 5, 2025 | 12:00 – 12:45 PM ET Sign Up…
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S3 Ep21: Sight Your Sources, Look for the Obvious
*Top Cover 4 – Threat Hunting Management Workshop: Hiring Effective Threat Hunters March 5, 2025 | 12:00 – 12:45 PM ET Sign Up…
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S3 Ep20: Adjust, Protect, Improve - API Your Posture
[LIVE] Top Cover 4 – Threat Hunting Management Workshop: Hiring Effective Threat Hunters March 5, 2025 | 12:00 – 12:45 PM EST Sign Up…
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S3 Ep19: [Bonus Episode] From Curiosity to Cybersecurity: Matt Scheurer on Incident Response, Mentorship, and Career Growth
In this episode of Out of the Woods, Scott Poley sits down with Matt Scheurer at the Information Security Summit in Cleveland to discuss his journey into…
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S3 Ep18: 99 Problems but AI (Maybe) Ain't 1
[LIVE] Threat Hunting Workshop: Hunting for Initial Access – Level 2 February 12, 2025 | 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET Sign Up -->…