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🗓️ 5 June 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Anthropic brings Mythos to the NSA. A Palantir executive emerges as a possible CISA pick. A Linux flaw is under active attack. Minecraft malware goes commercial. An npm package gets caught in the Miasma worm campaign. Researchers document the first AI-driven container escape. A browser supply-chain compromise and a university breach with unexpected victims. Our guest is Ashu Savani, Co-Founder at TryHackMe, discussing building high performing SOC & IR teams. The web becomes machine majority. 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 segment, we are joined by Ashu Savani, Co-Founder from TryHackMe, discussing building high performing SOC & IR teams. You can listen to the full conversation here. Selected Reading US National Security Agency using Anthropic’s Mythos for cyber attacks (Financial Times) Trump considers Palantir exec to lead CISA (The Record) CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of Linux Container Escape Flaw (Beyond Machines) Game Over: WeedHack - The Rise of Minecraft Malware-as-a-Service Campaigns (McAfee Blog) Detecting Claude Cowork Insider Threat Activity (DTEX) Trojanized ai-sdk-ollama Delivers Miasma, a Self-Replicating npm Worm via binding.gyp (Endor Labs) Agentic threat actor hits the orchestration plane: AI agent-driven container escape (Sysdig) You do surprise me.exe: An unexpected executable in Hola Browser (SOPHOS) My SSN was exposed in a breach at Columbia—a school I have no connection with (Ars Technica) ‘Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year (Tom's Hardware) 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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2:05.6	Anthropic brings mythos to the NSA. A palantir executive emerges as a possible Sissapik, a Linux flaws under active attack,
2:12.1	Minecraft malware goes commercial, an NPM package gets caught in the miasma worm campaign. Researchers document
2:19.9	the first AI-driven container escape, a browser supply chain compromise, and a university
2:25.6	breach with unexpected victims. Our guest is Aschew Savani, co-founder at TriHakMe, discussing building
2:33.0	high-performing SOC and IR teams.
2:36.0	And the web becomes machine majority.
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