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🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The Senate confirms a new national cyber director. A new commission explores the establishment of a separate Cyber Force. Cybercriminals exploit link wrapping to launch sophisticated phishing attacks. AI agents are hijacked, cameras cracked, and devs phished. Gene sequencers and period trackers settle allegations of oversharing personal data and inadequate security. Today we are joined by Tim Starks from CyberScoop discussing how China accuses the US of exploiting Microsoft zero-day in a cyberattack. OpenAI scrambles after a chat leak fiasco. 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. You can read Tim’s article on the topic here. CyberWire Guest Today we are joined by Tim Starks from CyberScoop discussing how China accuses the US of exploiting Microsoft zero-day in a cyberattack. Selected Reading Sean Cairncross confirmed as national cyber director (The Record) Panel to create roadmap for establishing US Cyber Force (The Record) Microsoft 365: Attackers Weaponize Proofpoint and Intermedia Link Wrapping to Steal Logins (WinBuzzer) When Public Prompts Turn Into Local Shells: ‘CurXecute’ – RCE in Cursor via MCP Auto‑Start (Aim Security) LegalPwn Attack Tricks GenAI Tools Into Misclassifying Malware as Safe Code (Hackread) Bitdefender Warns Users to Update Dahua Cameras Over Critical Flaws (Hackread) Mozilla warns of phishing attacks targeting add-on developers (Bleeping Computer) Gene Sequencing Giant Illumina Settles for $9.8M Over Product Vulnerabilities (SecurityWeek) Flo settles class action lawsuit alleging improper data sharing (The Record) ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results (Ars Technica) Audience Survey Complete our annual audience survey before August 31. 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 cyberwire@n2k.com 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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1:08.4	The Senate confirms a new national cyber director.
1:11.6	A new commission explores the establishment of a separate cyber force. Cyber criminals exploit link wrapping to launch sophisticated fishing attacks.
1:17.5	AI agents are hijacked, cameras cracked, and devs fished. Gene sequencers and period
1:23.3	trackers settle allegations of oversharing personal data and inadequate security.
1:28.7	Our guest today is Tim Starks discussing China's allegations of the U.S.
1:33.2	exploiting a Microsoft Zero Day in a cyber attack, and OpenAI scrambles after a chat leak fiasco.
1:48.0	It's Monday, I'm Dave Bittner, and this is your Cyberwire Intel briefing.
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2:11.1	Sean Cairncross, a former Republican National Committee official and Trump advisor,
2:16.5	was confirmed by the Senate as the new national
2:19.4	cyber director in a 59 to 35 vote. Despite having no background in cybersecurity, Kairn Cross gained
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