#222 - Intel Chat: PurpleHaze, KEV++, ChatGPT & Mirai botnet

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community.Over an eight-month period beginning in July of last year, China-backed threat actors carried out a coordinated campaign that included attempts to breach cybersecurity vendor SentinelOne.CISA has added two newly confirmed exploited vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active abuse in the wild.OpenAI has banned ChatGPT accounts linked to state-sponsored threat actors, including groups affiliated with governments in China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, and others.A critical vulnerability in Wazuh Server, CVE-2025-24016 (CVSS 9.9), is being actively exploited by threat actors to deliver multiple Mirai botnet variants for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) operations.