The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast
by LimaCharlie
© 2023 LimaCharlie
Sep 16, 2026Recent reviews on Apple Podcasts (4)
Love the intel chats
Most useful security intel podcast I’ve found. Thanks guys, you help a lot.
crackshot24 ·
Great podcast!
Loving this podcast! They explain cybersecurity issues in an easy way to understand.
GrandmaKeenan ·
Amazing!
This is such a fabulous podcast that is informative for anyone from laymen and cybersecurity experts! One of my new favorite shows!
Peachy RMFK ·
Great content for cyber pros
Interesting, thoughtful content for cyber professionals. Mix of timely and relevant topics and history of the industry.
CyDJ56 ·
Episodes (349)

Physical AI and self-learning machines with Dr. Amarjot Singh [348]
Sep 16, 202636m#348
Today we're speaking with Dr. Amarjot Singh, Founder & CEO of Skylark Labs, about physical AI — what changes when a model leaves the server and has to perceive, decide and act inside a machine that moves through the real

Intel Chat: Claude models reached real systems, an AI safety resignation & ShieldCrash [347]
Sep 11, 202634m#347
Intel Chat with Matt Bromiley and Chris Luft. • An Anthropic researcher quits over where the race is heading. Jacob Coxon, who trains models on large amounts of data, is leaving both Anthropic and the AI industry: he bel

Intel Chat: OpenAI's Astra hits Critical, DEF CON phishing, Philippine nuclear breach [346]
Sep 3, 202632m#346
Intel Chat with Matt Bromiley and Chris Luft. • OpenAI says Astra is the first of its models to reach the "Critical" cybersecurity capability level under its Preparedness Framework — the tier that means a model can indep

Intel Chat: AI patches fail, LiteLLM supply chain, Claude eval incidents & DPRK npm [345]
Aug 14, 202634m#345
Intel Chat with Matt Bromiley and Chris Luft. • AI-generated patches fix vulnerabilities about half the time. 1Password's Off-By-1 team tested ChatGPT-5.5 and Opus 4.8 against six vulnerabilities: across 6,080 generated

Proving the value of security operations with Christopher Crowley [344]
Aug 13, 202642m#344
Today we're speaking with Christopher Crowley, cybersecurity consultant through Montance and Senior Instructor with the SANS Institute, about the value of cybersecurity operations — how to measure it, how to express it t

Intel Chat: Shai-Hulud is back, model pinning & the token spend problem [343]
Aug 8, 202635m#343
Intel Chat with Matt Bromiley and Chris Luft — recorded in person at Black Hat USA in Las Vegas, day two. No prep doc, no script: just what Matt and Chris were actually hearing on the floor. • Shai-Hulud is back. The sel

Intel Chat: Hugging Face AI-agent breach, WP2Shell, Suno & Paidwork leaks, AWS Bahrain strike [342]
Jul 30, 202630m#342
Intel Chat with Matt Bromiley and Chris Luft. Matt and Chris break down four stories from the week in threat intel: • Hugging Face's security incident disclosure: an intrusion conducted end-to-end by an autonomous AI age

Building trustworthy AI with Rob van der Veer [341]
Jul 29, 202635m#341
Today we're speaking with Rob van der Veer, Chief AI Officer at Software Improvement Group, about how organizations can build trustworthy AI in an era of rapidly evolving technology and regulation — AI security, threat m

AI Chat: The Hugging Face / OpenAI breach — the attacker was the model [340]
Jul 23, 202635m#340
AI Chat with Maxime Lamothe-Brassard and Chris Luft — a special episode. One story, pulled apart start to finish. In mid-July 2026, Hugging Face disclosed a breach of its production infrastructure carried out end-to-end

AI Chat: Grok CLI data exfiltration, AI vs. patching, distillation wars & shadow AI [339]
Jul 14, 202623m#339
AI Chat with Maxime Lamothe-Brassard and Chris Luft. A new segment on the podcast: AI news in cybersecurity that is less than 24 hours old, discussed while it is still hot. Joining Chris for these conversations is LimaCh

Intel Chat: Dialogflow Rogue Agent, ghost phishing, CISA KEV deadline & HalluSquatting [338]
Jul 9, 202634m#338
Intel Chat with Matt Bromiley and Chris Luft. Matt and Chris break down four stories from the week in threat intel: • Varonis Threat Labs' "Rogue Agent" — a permission boundary flaw in Google Dialogflow CX's Code Blocks

Ransomware in the age of agentic AI with Behnaz Karimi [337]
Jul 8, 202633m#337
Today we're speaking with Behnaz Karimi, an independent researcher specializing in ransomware and agentic AI systems, Senior Cybersecurity Analyst at Accenture, and founder of Tremorina, about how ransomware is evolving

Intel Chat: Hijacked AI backends, billboard hacks, Cursor DuneSlide & Claude export controls [336]
Jul 3, 202633m#336
Intel Chat with Matt Bromiley and Chris Luft. Matt and Chris break down four stories from the week in threat intel: • Zenity researchers observed three campaigns where attackers hijacked internet-exposed AI inference end

Intel Chat: Cisco CUCM exploited, ransomware profiles, Gamaredon & AI agent phishing [335]
Jul 1, 202630m#335
Intel Chat with Matt Bromiley and Chris Luft. Matt and Chris break down four stories from the week in threat intel: • Cisco CUCM (CVE-2026-20230) — a web-dialer SSRF that chains to root-level RCE, exploited in the wild l

The evolving fraud landscape in the age of AI with Tamas Kadar [#334]
Jun 30, 202642m#334
Today we're speaking with Tamas Kadar, CEO / Co-Founder of SEON, about building a safer digital world for businesses. We touch on fraud, how it's evolved in the age of AI, and what we can do to protect ourselves against

Anthropic restriction, ServiceNow incident, Fortinet credential harvesting & Ukraine accesses EU cyber reserve / Intel Chat [#333]
Jun 28, 202634m#1
In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community . Reports state that the US government issued an export control order restricting access to anthropi

Last call for Defenders - How we're actually using AI in the SOC with Eric Capuano / Defender Fridays [#332]
Jun 20, 202637m#332
Join us for the final episode of Defender Fridays as Eric Capuano, creator of Defender Fridays and co-founder of Digital Defense Institute, closes out the series with a candid conversation on how he's actually building a

FFmpeg's 21 zero-days, Ruby cooldown feature, Microsoft disrupted by Shai-Hulud worm & Meta AI tool compromise / Intel Chat [#331]
Jun 15, 202628m#331
In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community . DepthFirst reported that it's autonomous security agent discovered 21 previously unknown vulnerabi

AI-assisted SOC training with Carlo Anez / Defender Fridays [#330]
Jun 12, 202632m#330
Join us for this week's Defender Fridays as Carlo Anez, Founder and Lead Instructor at IgniteCyber Academy and DEFCON Training Instructor, breaks down how to build practical blue team skills using open-source labs, MITRE

Building practical blue team skills using AI-assisted SOC training with Bobby Ford/ Defender Fridays [#329]
Jun 5, 202630m#329
Join us for this week's Defender Fridays as Bobby Ford, Chief Strategy and Experience Officer at Doppel, talks about open-source labs, MITRE ATT&CK, and real-world defender workflows. At Defender Fridays, we delve into t

"Megalodon" Malware in GitHub, Malware-Slop steals from Claude AI, 7-Eleven breach & CISA cPanel vulnerability / Intel Chat [#328]
Jun 1, 202629m#328
Originally recorded: Friday May 29, 2026 In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community . A large-scale software supply chain attack dubbed “Megalo

From PentestGPT to production: The state of AI-assisted offensive security with Charles Grandjean / Defender Fridays [#327]
May 30, 202630m#327
Join us for this week's Defender Fridays as Charles Grandjean, CTO and Co-founder at Hexiagon AI, breaks down where AI-assisted pen testing actually stands today and what it means for both red teams and defenders. At Def

GitHub repositories compromised, Webworm targets Europe, fake Outlook & cybercriminal VPN / Intel Chat [#326]
May 29, 202624m#326
Originally recorded: Friday May 22, 2026 In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community . GitHub has confirmed that roughly 3,800 internal reposito

How analysts use cognitive reasoning in investigations with Chris Sanders / Defender Fridays [#325]
May 22, 202632m#325
Join us for this week's Defender Fridays as Chris Sanders, Founder at Applied Network Defense and the Rural Technology Fund, breaks down how analysts actually think through investigations and what separates high performe

"Dirty Frag", Canvas ransomware attack, “Mini Shai-Hulud” malware campaign & AI-developed zero-day exploit / Intel Chat [#324]
May 18, 202628m#324
In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community . Researchers have disclosed a new Linux local privilege escalation technique called “Dirty Frag,” w