Quiet Wins, Loud Failures: A Year-End Cybersecurity Reckoning

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( Presented by ThreatLocker : Allow what you need. Block everything else by default, including ransomware and rogue code. ) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 78 : We close out the year with a no-budget, no-permission awards show, spotlighting the cybersecurity stories that actually mattered. Plus, a bizarre polygraph scandal at CISA, Chinese APT research dumps, ransomware pre-notification hiccups, foreign drone bans, and the growing gap between cyber theater and real operational value. Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade , Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu . Links: Transcript (unedited, AI-generated) ThreatLocker Solutions Acting CISA director failed a polygraph LANDFALL: New Commercial-Grade Android Spyware in Exploit Chain Targeting Samsung Devices Qianxin’s research on the CSDN watering hole attack ViciousTrap - Turning edge devices into honeypots en masse AyySSHush: Tradecraft of an emergent ASUS botnet Intellexa’s Global Corporate Web (Recorded Future) Frozen in transit: Secret Blizzard’s AiTM hits embassies in Russia GitHub - KittenBusters/CharmingKitten Bunnie Huang Black Hat keynote (YouTube) How I used o3 to find CVE-2025-37899, a remote zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s SMB implementation DeepSeek Debates: Chinese Leadership On Cost, True Training Cost, Closed Model Margin Impacts Behind the Dismantling of Hezbollah Israel Secretly Recruited Iranian Dissidents to Attack Iran From Within Follow the Smoke | China-nexus Threat Actors Hammer At the Doors of Top Tier Targets Code Orange: Cloudflare resilience plan following recent incidents Apple SEAR: Memory Integrity Enforcement

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