Iran-linked hackers claim responsibility for attack on US medical device maker Stryker

Attackers tied to Iran say they hit Stryker, and investors punished the stock as the company scrambled to assess exposure.

Trump Signs Executive Order Aimed at Cybercrime Gangs

The President issued an order to tide together federal tools, international partners, and private-sector incentives for hunting down and disrupting ransomware crews.

President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America

The new national cyber strategy leans hard on resilience, collaboration with allies, and deterring Beijing through offensive-ready posture.

The future of third-party risk is NOT better questionnaires

The author argues that automation and better data sharing—not more paperwork—are what finally move the needle on vendor risk management.

Hosts:

Jerry Perullo (Founder, https://adversarial.com/)

Sounil Yu (Founder, https://www.knostic.ai/)

Mario Duarte (Founder, stealth startup)

Producer: Tillson Galloway (Founder, http://githoundexplore.com/)

Claude Code Security research preview Claude now reasons about code like a human researcher, re-checks its own findings for confidence, and surfaces patch suggestions in a dashboard while keeping humans in control—limited preview for Enterprise/Team customers plus expedited access for open-source maintainers.

Pentagon gives Anthropic a best-and-final offer With a deadline looming, the Pentagon demanded full lawful-use access, threatening supply-chain risk and even a Defense Production Act push, but Anthropic stood firm on guardrails around mass surveillance and autonomous weapons.

State Department and other agencies ditch Anthropic for OpenAI State, Treasury, HHS, and others are dropping Claude after Trump’s directive to cancel Anthropic contracts, swapping in OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 for tools like StateChat as the broader federal boycott takes shape.

New AirSnitch attack bypasses Wi-Fi encryption AirSnitch leverages cross-layer identity desync to nullify client isolation on routers from Netgear to Cisco, giving nearby attackers full MitM access to intercept and tamper with otherwise encrypted traffic.

Your password manager’s “zero knowledge” promise is broken ETH Zürich’s USENIX paper proves that malicious servers controlling Bitwarden/Dashlane/LastPass infrastructure can hijack everyday vault interactions and read users’ encrypted data despite the “zero knowledge” pitch.

Researchers find critical vulnerabilities in cloud-based password managers The ETH team demonstrated a dozen attacks on Bitwarden, seven on LastPass, six on Dashlane, and even a 1Password flaw, showing compromised servers—without exotic hardware—can view or rewrite entire vaults.

Hosts:

Jerry Perullo (Founder, https://adversarial.com/)

Sounil Yu (Founder, https://www.knostic.ai/)

Mario Duarte (Founder, stealth startup)

Producer: Tillson Galloway (Founder, http://githoundexplore.com/)

GTIG AI Threat Tracker: Distillation, Experimentation, and (Continued) Integration of AI for Adversarial Use Google’s threat team distills red-team learnings from sophisticated experimentation as it hardens defenses and anticipates adversarial AI backdoors.

New Trump Cyber Strategy Prompts Companies to Mull Legal Limits The administration’s aggressive cyber doctrine is forcing firms to reconsider how far they can legally follow the offensive playbook.

The Trump Administration’s Cyber Strategy Fundamentally Misunderstands China’s Threat | Council on Foreign Relations CFR analysis warns that the new strategy oversimplifies China’s capabilities and risks misaligning priorities.

CISA will shutter some missions to prioritize others. CISA’s Cybersecurity Division is reorganizing to better match a layered threat-response posture.

Google TIG disrupts “world’s largest residential proxy network” The threat-intel team dismantled a sprawling residential proxy operation that was selling access to anonymized traffic, curbing a major enabler of fraud and abuse.

Hosts: Jerry Perullo (Founder, https://adversarial.com/)

Sounil Yu (Founder, https://www.knostic.ai/)

Mario Duarte (Founder, stealth startup)

Producer: Tillson Galloway (Founder, http://githoundexplore.com/)