China’s cyberstorm goes global.

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🗓️ 4 September 2025

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Salt Typhoon marks China’s most ambitious campaign yet. A major Google outage hit Southeastern Europe. A critical zero-day flaw in FreePBX gets patched. Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters claim the Jaguar Land Rover hack. Researchers uncover a major evolution in the XWorm backdoor campaign. GhostRedirector is a new China-aligned threat actor. CISA adds a pair of TP-Link router flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The feds put a $10 million bounty on three Russian FSB officers. Experts warn sweeping cuts to ODNI could cripple U.S. cyber defense. Our guest is Rick Kaun, Global Director of Cybersecurity Services at Rockwell Automation, discussing IT/OT convergence in securing critical water and wastewater systems. Google says rumors of Gmail’s breach are greatly exaggerated. 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 Today our guest is Rick Kaun, Global Director of Cybersecurity Services at Rockwell Automation, who is talking about "IT/OT Convergence for Critical Water & Wastewater Security." Selected Reading ‘Unrestrained’ Chinese Cyberattackers May Have Stolen Data From Almost Every American (The New York Times) Google Down in Eastern Europe (UPDATED) (Novinite Sofia News Agency) Sangoma Patches Critical Zero-Day Exploited to Hack FreePBX Servers (SecurityWeek) M&S hackers claim to be behind Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack (BBC) XWorm’s Evolving Infection Chain: From Predictable to Deceptive (Trellix) GhostRedirector poisons Windows servers: Backdoors with a side of Potatoes (welivesecurity by ESET) CISA Flags TP-Link Router Flaws CVE-2023-50224 and CVE-2025-9377 as Actively Exploited (The Cyber Security News) US offers $10 million bounty for info on Russian FSB hackers (Bleeping Computer) Cutting Cyber Intelligence Undermines National Security (FDD) No, Google did not warn 2.5 billion Gmail users to reset passwords (Bleeping Computer) Share your feedback. What do you think about CyberWire Daily? Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us by completing our brief listener survey. Thank you for helping us continue to improve our show. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here’s our media kit. Contact us at [email protected] to request more info. The CyberWire is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:12.8	A critical zero-day flaw in free PBX gets patched.
1:16.5	Scattered Lapsis hunters claim the Jaguar Land Rover hack.
1:20.6	Researchers uncover a major evolution in the X-worm backdoor campaign.
1:24.9	Ghost redirector is a new China-aligned threat actor. Sisa adds a pair of
1:29.5	TPLink router flaws to its known exploited vulnerabilities catalog. The feds put a $10 million
1:34.7	bounty on three Russian FSB officers. Experts warn sweeping cuts to ODNI could cripple U.S.
1:41.8	cyber defense. Our guest is Rick Kahn, Global Director of Cybersecurity Services at Rockwell Automation,
1:48.4	discussing the OT-IT convergence in securing critical water and wastewater systems.
1:54.3	And Google says rumors of Gmail's breach are greatly exaggerated.
2:09.5	It's Thursday, September 4th, 2025.
2:13.4	I'm Dave Bittner, and this is your Cyberwire Intel briefing.
2:30.3	Thank you. Thanks for joining us here today. It's great as always to have you with us. The New York Times weighs in on salt typhoon, reminding us that for decades, China has targeted
2:37.3	U.S. companies and infrastructure through hacking. But the Salt Typhoon cyber attack marks its most
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