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No honor among thieves. [Research Saturday]

CyberWire Daily

N2K Networks, Inc.

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

John Fokker, Head of Threat Intelligence at Trellix is discussing "Gang Wars: Breaking Trust Among Cyber Criminals." Trellix researchers reveal how the once-organized ransomware underworld is collapsing under its own paranoia. Once united through Ransomware-as-a-Service programs, gangs are now turning on each other — staging hacks, public feuds, and exit scams as trust evaporates. With affiliates jumping ship and rival crews sabotaging each other, the RaaS model is fracturing fast, signaling the beginning of the end for ransomware’s criminal empires. The research can be found here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Gang Wars: Breaking Trust Among Cyber Criminals Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:12.6

What's your 2am security worry?

0:15.3

Is it, do I have the right controls in place?

0:18.1

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0:20.5

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0:47.3

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0:51.3

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1:05.3

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1:18.9

Music T.com slash cyber. Hello, everyone, and welcome to the CyberWires Research Saturday.

1:23.2

I'm Dave Bittner, and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts

1:27.8

tracking down the threats and vulnerabilities, solving some of the hard problems and

1:32.6

protecting ourselves in a rapidly evolving cyberspace.

1:36.4

Thanks for joining us.

1:43.3

There was just something strange going on.

1:45.0

We kind of felt like the larger families were not as prevalent anymore.

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