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Dragon Bytes

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Delivering weekly insights, research, and threat indicators to help security professionals track emerging threats and intelligence.

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  1. Agentic Escapes and Spyware Fingerprints

    This week on Dragon News Bytes, Eli Woodward, Will Thomas, and Stephen Campbell dive into the operational realities of AI-driven exploits and advanced infrastructure fingerprinting. The team breaks down the mechanics behind the OpenAI agent escape targeting Hugging Face and explores new...

  2. Rogue LLMs, Clop’s 8th Zero-Day, and Threat Hunting at Scale

    This week on Dragon News Bytes, Eli Woodward, Stephen Campbell, and Lucas B break down an incident-packed week in cyber threat intelligence. From AI models breaking air-gapped containment to steal benchmark answers to Clop ransomware dropping its eighth zero-day, the team explores how...

  3. ORB Networks, Ceasefire Cyber Warfare, and AI Infrastructure Exploits

    This week on Dragon News Bytes, senior threat intel advisor Eli Woodward is joined by colleagues Lucas and Stephen to dive into the changing mechanics of modern cyber espionage and nation-state warfare. From the tactical evolution of China-nexus operational relay box (ORB) networks to the…

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  4. Software Supply Chain Paradox, Ubiquiti Zero-Days, and the TFL Hackers

    This week on Dragon News Bytes, Eli Woodward, Stephen Campbell, Will Thomas, and newly joined threat intel advisor Lucas Bliven break down the latest high-urgency threats targeting enterprise infrastructure. From the contradictory security advice surrounding AI and CI/CD pipelines to the...

  5. Inside Group Pink’s Vishing Tactics, Residential Proxy Zero-Trust, and the AI SecOps Arms Race

    This week on Dragon News Bytes, Eli Woodward, Steven Campbell, and newly minted Head of Product Will Baxter dive into the rapidly shifting operational landscape. From extortion groups leveraging vishing to bypass corporate perimeters from the inside out, to the industrialization of localized...

  6. The Canvas Breach, AI-Enabled Intrusions, and APT-29's Easter Bunny

    This week on Dragon News Bytes, Eli Woodward and Stephen Campbell break down a chaotic week of critical breaches, the accelerating weaponization of AI by both defenders and adversaries, and long-term state-sponsored espionage. From the massive educational data breach impacting Instructure to a...

  7. AI Supply Chain Exploits, Cyber-Kinetic Threats, and the FUD-X

    This week on Dragon News Bytes, Eli Woodward and Will Baxter welcome Stephen Campbell, Team Cymru's new Senior Threat Intel Advisor, to the show. The team breaks down an intense week of AI-assisted supply chain compromises, the expanding blast radius of Iranian cyber operations, and the…

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  8. The AI Zero-Day Engine, China’s Cyber Rise, and CI/CD Poisoning

    This week on Dragon News Bytes, Eli Woodward, Will Baxter, and Will Thomas return from RISE Dublin to cut through the AI hype and discuss the realities of automated threat hunting. From the zero-day discovery capabilities of the Claude "Mythos" model to China’s emerging equivalent, the team...

  9. Hacktivist Hoaxes, DPRK Zoom Exploits, and Defending with AI

    This week on Dragon News Bytes, Eli Woodward and Ben Archie cut through the noise of inflated hacktivist claims and break down the relentless evolution of state-sponsored operations. From a critical look at the Wall Street panic surrounding Anthropic's new AI model to the latest social…

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  10. AI Supply Chain Attacks, Iranian PLC Exploits, and DPRK IT Workers

    This week on Dragon News Bytes, Eli W. and Will B. break down a fast-moving week in cybersecurity—from AI-driven supply chain attacks and Iranian targeting of critical infrastructure to North Korean IT worker scams, new edge-device zero-days, and the takedown of an APT28 router botnet. Topics…

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  11. APJ Ransomware, Axios NPM Hijack, and AI Privacy Nightmares

    This week on Dragon News Bytes, Eli Woodward and Will Baxter are joined by Ben Archie to break down a high-velocity week of supply chain compromises and surging regional threats. We cover the explosive growth of ransomware in the APJ region, the North Korean state-actor hijack of the Axios NPM...

  12. Pipeline Peril, Citrix Bleed 3.0, and the Hacktivist Playbook

    This week on Dragon News Bytes, Eli Woodward and Will Baxter break down a relentless wave of CI/CD pipeline compromises. The team dives into the rapid-fire attacks by Team PCP, the emergence of Citrix Bleed 3.0, and the psychological warfare tactics of Iranian-aligned hacktivists. Plus, we…

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  13. Operation Ghost Mail, Starlink Evasion, and the Stoat Waffle Threat

    This week on Dragon News Bytes, Eli Woodward and Will Thomas dive into a packed week of vulnerability disclosures, APT campaigns, and geopolitical cyber fallout. From Iranian threat actors utilizing Starlink to bypass national internet blocks, to North Korean campaigns targeting developers with...

  14. Intune Wipers, Veeam RCEs, and DPRK's $800M IT Empire

    This week on Dragon News Bytes, Eli Woodward and Will Thomas hold down the fort while Will Baxter is in Japan. The team breaks down a highly active week in the cyber world, covering critical unauthenticated vulnerabilities, the weaponization of foundational IT tools, and the staggering financial...

  15. JWT Cracks, South American Telecom Breaches, and the Kinetic-Cyber Nexus in Iran

    This week, the Dragon News Bytes team dives into a critical series of high-impact vulnerabilities and escalating geopolitical tensions. We start with a deep dive into the latest wave of JWT authentication bypasses before moving to the "Famous Sparrow" APT targeting South American...

  16. Project Compass, AI-Augmented Pipelines, and the Air-Gap Jumpers

    This week, the Dragon News Bytes team dives into a major international crackdown on "The Com," a decentralized cybercrime network. They also break down how AI is being used as a force multiplier for automated exploitation, a series of critical vulnerabilities in edge networking gear, and...

  17. The Long Game and the Laptop Farm

    In this episode of Dragon News Bytes, Will Baxter and Eli Woodward sit down in person to dissect the "long game" of modern cyber espionage. We dive into the Dell RecoverPoint zero-day exploited by China-linked actors and why some threat actors are now sitting silent in networks for over a year...

  18. Edge Warfare, MDM Hijacks, and the Warlock Blitz

    This week on Dragon News Bites, Will Baxter, Eli Woodward, and Will Thomas break down a week of high-velocity threats targeting the "foundational" layers of enterprise connectivity. From the long-term compromise of Singapore’s ISP infrastructure to the critical hijacking of Mobile Device…

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  19. Agentic Overload: The Rise of AI Exploits and the "Wet Bandit" APT

    This week on Dragon News Bytes, Will Baxter and Will Thomas dive into a week defined by "Paradigm Shifts." We break down how top-tier state actors like Salt Typhoon are abandoning traditional phishing to live inside your edge infrastructure and how a new era of Agentic AI is creating a "One-Click...

  20. Sandboxes, Seizures, and the Industrialization of Cybercrime

    This week on Dragon News Bytes, Eli Woodward and Will Baxter are joined Will Thomas to break down a convergence of nation-state activity and critical infrastructure disruptions. We cover the FBI’s massive takedown of the RAMP cybercrime forum, the re-attribution of Poland’s energy sector...

  21. Malicious Prompts, Botnet Backdoors, and the Industrialization of Cybercrime

    This week on Dragon News Bytes, Eli Woodward and Will Baxter dive into the shift from "cottage industry" cybercrime to an industrialized assembly line fueled by AI. We break down high-urgency RCEs in Cisco Unified Platforms, the massive comeback of the Kimwolf Botnet via IoT backdoors, and the…

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  22. The Call Is Coming from Inside the House

    This week on Dragon News Bytes, Eli Woodward and Will Baxter break down the operational fires you need to fight now and the emerging AI threats targeting your internal guardrails. We cover the critical FortiSIEM zero-day RCE, the rise of AI prompt injection attacks across Microsoft Copilot and...

  23. Dragon Bytes: The "Trust Nothing" Update

    This week on Dragon Bytes, we break down the operational fires you need to fight now and the emerging threats you’ll be fighting tomorrow. We cover the critical "Ni8mare" RCE in n8n automation tools, the new "ClickFix" social engineering waves hitting hospitality, and the "Zombie" D-Link routers...

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