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🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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F5 discloses long-term breach tied to nation-state actors. PowerSchool hacker receives a four-year prison sentence. Senator scrutinizes Cisco critical firewall vulnerabilities. Phishing campaign impersonates LastPass and Bitwarden. Credential phishing with Google Careers. Reduce effort, reuse past breaches, recycle into new breach. Qilin announces new victims. Manoj Nair, from Snyk, joins us to explore the future of AI security and the emerging risks shaping this rapidly evolving landscape. And AI faces the facts. 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 Manoj Nair, Chief Innovation Officer at Snyk, joins us to explore the future of AI security and the emerging risks shaping this rapidly evolving landscape. In light of the recent high-severity vulnerability in Cursor, Manoj discusses how threats like tool poisoning, toxic flows, and MCP vulnerabilities are redefining what secure AI-driven development means—and why organizations must move faster to keep up. Selected Reading F5 disclosures breach tied to nation-state threat actor (CyberScoop) CISA Directs Federal Agencies to Mitigate Vulnerabilities in F5 Devices (CISA) ED 26-01: Mitigate Vulnerabilities in F5 Devices (CISA) PowerSchool hacker sentenced to 4 years in prison (The Record) Cisco faces Senate scrutiny over firewall flaws (The Register) Fake LastPass, Bitwarden breach alerts lead to PC hijacks (Bleeping Computer) Google Careers impersonation credential phishing scam with endless variation (Sublime Security) Elasticsearch Leak Exposes 6 Billion Records from Scraping, Old and New Breaches (HackRead) Qilin Ransomware announced new victims (Security Affairs) When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face (WIRED) Semperis Announces Midnight in the War Room: A Groundbreaking Cyberwar Documentary Featuring the World's Leading Defenders and Reformed Hackers (PR Newswire) 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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2:05.5	Power school hacker receives a four-year prison sentence.
2:08.6	Senator scrutinizes Cisco critical firewall vulnerabilities.
2:12.5	Fishing campaign impersonates Last Pass and Bitwarden.
2:16.2	Credential fishing with Google careers,
2:18.7	reduce effort, reuse past breaches, recycle into new breach.
2:23.0	Hillen announces new victims.
2:25.3	Manoj Nair from Sneak joins us to explore the future of AI security
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