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🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Federal agencies warn Iranian-linked hackers are probing U.S. critical infrastructure, while the DOJ disrupts a Russian router hijacking campaign. Cyberattacks hit Minnesota government systems and force a Massachusetts hospital to divert ambulances. Anthropic limits access to its new AI bug-hunting model, hackers leak terabytes of LAPD data, and researchers warn of a rise in AI recommendation poisoning. Our guest is Benny Czarny, Founder and CEO of OPSWAT, discussing his book "Cybersecurity Upside Down: Rethink Your Cybersecurity Strategy." Japan trades red tape for training data. 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, we are joined by Benny Czarny, Founder and CEO of OPSWAT, discussing his book "Cybersecurity Upside Down: Rethink Your Cybersecurity Strategy." If you enjoyed this interview, check out the full conversation here. Selected Reading Iran-Linked Hackers Are Sabotaging US Energy and Water Infrastructure (WIRED) Iranian-Affiliated Cyber Actors Exploit Programmable Logic Controllers Across US Critical Infrastructure (FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)) Pro-Iran Group Takes Credit for Cyberattacks on Chime, Pinterest (Bloomberg) US disrupts Russian military-run DNS hijacking network, Justice Department says (Reuters) Frostarmada forest blizzard dns hijacking (Lumen Technologies Black Lotus Labs) Minnesota governor orders emergency support for cyberattack disrupting county's 'critical systems' (StateScoop) Massachusetts hospital turning ambulances away after cyberattack (The Record) What Anthropic Glasswing reveals about the future of vulnerability discovery (CSO Online) Sensitive LAPD records leaked in hack of L.A. city attorney's office (LA Times) Manipulating AI memory for profit: The rise of AI Recommendation Poisoning (Microsoft Security Blog) Japan relaxes privacy laws to make AI development easy (The Register) 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? N2K CyberWire helps you reach the industry’s most influential leaders and operators, while building visibility, authority, and connectivity across the cybersecurity community. Learn more at sponsor.thecyberwire.com. 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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1:29.2	Federal agencies warn Iranian-linked hackers are probing U.S. critical infrastructure, while the DOJ disrupts a Russian router hijacking campaign. Cyber attacks hit Minnesota government systems
1:34.9	and force a Massachusetts hospital to divert ambulances. Anthropic limits access to its new
1:40.8	AI bug hunting model. Hackers leak terabytes of LAPD data,
1:45.0	and researchers warn of a rise in AI recommendation poisoning.
1:50.0	Our guest is Benny Zarni, founder and CEO of Opswatt,
1:54.0	discussing his book, Cybersecurity Upside Down,
1:57.0	Rethink Your Cybersecurity Strategy.
2:00.0	And Japan trades red tape for training data.
2:13.8	It's Wednesday, April 8th, 2026.
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