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Security Squawk - The Business of Cybersecurity
by Bryan Hornung Reginald Andre & Randy Bryan
Security Squawk is a business podcast dedicated to helping business people fight the war against cyber criminals.
Episodes
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New Gang Takes 344GB From a Med School. Bill Gates Just Called It.
A ransomware gang that did not exist three months ago claims it stole 344 gigabytes from one of America's biggest medical schools. It already has around 49 victims. The number of crews that can hit your business keeps growing. This week: the attack on the University of Illinois Chicago College of...
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1.3M Social Security Numbers Exposed, Microsoft Sounds the Alarm, Walmart Dragged Into a Breach
One click on one email exposed 1.3 million Social Security numbers. If it can happen to a state Supreme Court, it can happen to the business you run. This week, the stories involve the Arizona courts, Microsoft, Walmart, Baxter, and Cardinal Health. *Your biggest cyber risk is the people and...
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FBI Breached, AI Malware Hijacks Servers, Defense Supplier Hit by Ransomware
FBI Breached, AI Malware Hijacks Servers, Defense Supplier Hit by Ransomware Hackers Claim They Breached the FBI and Stole Data on Nearly Every Agent A criminal crew says it stole data on nearly every FBI agent and job applicant through the bureau's hiring system. The reported way in was the kind...
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AECOM Hit by Two Gangs at Once, CenterPoint Leaks 7.5M Records, Ransomware Sets a Record
Two ransomware crews are claiming the same Fortune 500 company at the same time. It's the second week in a row this has happened. If you still think your business is too small to be worth a hacker's time, this is the week that idea dies. *You're not facing one attacker anymore, you're facing a...
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Florida DMV Breached by a Stolen Police Login. 347K Trezor Users Phished
A criminal crew broke into Florida's DMV database and proved it by leaking Jeffrey Epstein's driver record. They didn't hack the system. They used a police login stored on a personal device. If one stolen password can open a government database, what does that say about the logins running your...
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LA Metro Hit by Ransomware, 153M Licenses for Sale, AI Breaches a Network in 10 Hours
LA Metro, the transit system that moves nearly 10 million people in Los Angeles, just appeared on a ransomware gang's extortion site. A dark-web service is selling 153 million scanned driver's licenses. And security researchers watched AI break into a company and steal the master keys in under 10...
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Boston Scientific Frozen by Hackers, Microsoft Wipes 171,000 Nonprofits, ATF Ransomed
Your business can be taken down in three completely different ways, and only one involves a hacker. This week, a cyberattack froze Boston Scientific, the company that ships pacemakers and defibrillators to hospitals worldwide. Microsoft ended a free program, and roughly 171,000 nonprofits lost...
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AI Attacks US Water Plants, Apollo Beaten by a Phone Call, Kids' Hospital Breached Again
Five federal agencies just warned that hackers are using AI to attack the computers running America's water plants and factories. That same week, a trillion-dollar investment firm was breached, not by a virus, but by a phone call. The hard part of hacking is disappearing. Every business owner…
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Delta Fake Wi-Fi, a Hospital's Hijacked Facebook, US Lets Firms Hack Back
A fake Wi-Fi network at 35,000 feet turned a Delta flight into a crime scene. Someone on a flight out of Las Vegas set up a fake network to steal passengers' logins, a ransomware gang seized a hospital's Facebook page to post its ransom note, and a White House memo would let private firms hack...
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Levi's Hacked by a Phone Call, a City Beats Ransomware, and LockBit Is Back
A six-billion-dollar brand got breached this week, and the attackers never wrote a line of code. They called three employees and pretended to be IT. Every business owner should sit with this: the same phone call works even better on a company your size. *Every breach is won or lost before it...
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Iran Hits US Water,Abbott Extorted for 30M Records, Teams Call Ends in Ransomware
Hackers got inside America's drinking water controls. In one Minnesota town, the tower called for water while the well sat dead. This wasn't a data leak. Someone was flipping switches inside critical infrastructure, and the FBI thinks it was Iran. *Your attacker isn't malware anymore. It's a…
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Chick-fil-A Breached, an AI Ran a Real Attack, and Congress Wants a Kill Switch
If you think hackers are still typing away in a basement, this week will change your mind. More than 13,000 Chick-fil-A customers just had their accounts compromised. An AI assistant executed a government-network attack with no human at the keyboard, and Congress hurried out a bill to force an...
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AI Ran Its Own Hack, Fairlife Milk Halted, 79% of Ransomware Starts With a Login
An AI just ran an entire hacking campaign on its own. No human at the keyboard, 17,000 actions in a single weekend, against Hugging Face, the platform nearly every company on earth downloads its AI from. If the tool your business relies on can be attacked by software that never sleeps, the math…
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Accenture Breached. 80% of Restaurants Hit. Fined Without a Hack.
Three companies thought they had security under control. They were wrong, and it cost them. A hacker is selling 35 gigabytes of Accenture's code, 80% of restaurants were breached while feeling secure, and a defense contractor paid the government half a million dollars without ever being hacked....
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Medtronic Breach Hits 9M, and an AI Just Ran Its Own Ransomware Attack
Your Social Security number and health history could be sitting on a criminal's hard drive right now, and you wouldn't find out until the letter shows up in your mailbox. That's exactly what happened to nine million Medtronic customers. This week, a global medical giant, a city right outside...
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Insurance Regulator Breached, Security Firm Insider Scandal, CEOs Demand Hours-Not-Days Recovery
The group that holds the financial filings for the entire U.S. insurance industry just got cracked open, and 3.1 terabytes of its data landed on the dark web. The break-in came through a software bug nobody could have patched in time. If a central regulator can be hit this way, the vendors and...
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NSA Gets Secret AI, 3 Million Texans Exposed & 75,000 Firewalls Hit
The government just put an AI company inside the NSA. Not to defend networks. To help find ways into them. At the same time, more than 3 million Texans had their driver's license and passport data exposed through a third-party vendor, and attackers harvested credentials from 75,000 Fortinet...
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The Government Just Switched Off Anthropic's AI — Plus a $1.9B AI Scam and Russia in Your Router
What happens to your business when the AI tool you rely on gets shut off overnight, not by a hacker, but by the U.S. government? Last Friday, Anthropic, the maker of Claude, pulled its two newest AI models offline within hours of a letter from Washington. This is the first time that has ever...
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DentaQuest Breach Exposes 2.6 Million — and Why "Confident" Small Businesses Keep Getting Hit
Your dental plan just became your biggest security problem. DentaQuest — one of the largest dental-benefits companies in America — had the personal and health data of 2.6 million people dumped online, and almost none of those people ever chose to do business with them. If you think your own…
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The Biggest Cybersecurity Threat Isn't Malware Anymore | NYC Hospitals, Carnival & FBI Warning
Three breaches. No malware. No zero-days. Just trust being exploited. This week on Security Squawk, Bryan Hornung, Randy Bryan, and Reginald Andre break down three major cybersecurity incidents that reveal a growing reality: attackers are increasingly targeting people, vendors, and physical…
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7-Eleven Hacked, 143,000 Immigration Records Exposed, FBI Quietly Takes Over From CISA
This Week's Cybersecurity Breakdown 1. CISA Shrinks While the FBI Expands Its Cyber Role The federal cyber response structure is changing in real time: CISA reportedly lost over 1,000 employees Proposed federal budget would cut another $707 million FBI IC3 received 1 million cybercrime complaints...
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OpenAI Devices Hacked, Ozempic Supplier Offline & Change Healthcare Lawsuit
A poisoned software package compromised OpenAI employee devices before security teams could stop it. The company behind critical Ozempic injection components has been offline for weeks after a ransomware attack. And Change Healthcare is now facing another major lawsuit tied to the 2024 breach…
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AI Built Its First Zero-Day | 275M Student Records Stolen | 90% Hidden Ransomware
A cybersecurity line just got crossed. Google has now confirmed the first known case of hackers using artificial intelligence to build a working zero-day exploit that bypasses two-factor authentication. At the same time, Instructure the company behind Canvas, used by over 9,000 schools worldwide...
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TSYS Ransomware Attack, Canvas Data Breach & HIPAA Security Failures Explained
A major U.S. payment processor just got hit by ransomware, again. TSYS, one of the largest payment processors in the country, has been attacked by the Everest ransomware group for the second time in five years. Industry experts warned this was coming. It happened anyway. At the same time,...
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Hackers Use Microsoft Teams to Break In - VPN Ransomware Surge - KPMG 2026 Warning
A new type of cyberattack is bypassing every security tool you've invested in — and it starts with a simple Microsoft Teams message. No malware. No exploit. No zero-day. Just someone pretending to be IT support. At the same time, new data shows 73% of ransomware attacks are now entering through...
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Frost & Citizens Bank Ransomware | ShinyHunters Hit Zara, Carnival & 7-Eleven | Vercel Breach
The Everest ransomware group claims it has stolen 250,000+ Social Security Numbers and 3.4 million banking records from Frost Bank and Citizens Bank — and the leak countdown is already ticking. At the same time, ShinyHunters just executed coordinated attacks on Zara, Carnival, and 7-Eleven, while…
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80 Banks Breached via Marquis Software Vendor Chain
A ransomware attack on one software vendor exposed 823,000 people's Social Security numbers and bank account data across 80 community banks — and those banks didn't find out for 74 days. That's just one of three stories on today's Security Squawk that show exactly how the vendor trust chain is...
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FBI Hacked, Chemo Cancelled, 2.5M Hims & Hers Customers Stolen in One Call
Chinese state-linked hackers breached the FBI's own surveillance system — and they got in through a vendor. That's not a spy novel plot; that's a confirmed federal "major incident" declared at the highest severity level under FISMA, and it happened in 2024. That's just the opener. On this episode...
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Cyber Claims Doubled, Sheriff's Office Wiped, Texas School District Offline
A ransomware attack walked in through one email, sat silent for two days, then destroyed every computer in an Indiana sheriff's office — and the FBI is still investigating. That's just one of three cybersecurity stories that every business owner needs to hear this week. On this episode of…
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4.8M Cybersecurity Jobs Unfilled + 31% of Businesses w/ Backups Still Lost Their Data Are You Next?
31% of businesses that had backup solutions still failed to restore their data during a ransomware attack according to At-Bay's analysis of 186 real insurance claims. And if you think your business is safe because someone "set up backups," you need to watch this. Meanwhile, there are 4.8 million...
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DigitalMint Negotiator Was the Attacker | Stryker Wiper | OT Crisis
A ransomware negotiator at DigitalMint secretly ran the attacks he was being paid to stop and then negotiated ransoms on behalf of the companies he'd just hit. This week on Security Squawk, we break down $75 million in extorted ransoms, an Iranian hacker group that destroyed 80,000 Stryker…
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Cognizant TriZetto 3.4M Patient Breach, AkzoNobel Ransomware & AI Hacked Mexico's Government
A hacker used an AI chatbot to break into 10 government agencies and steal records on 195 million people — without writing a single line of code. Meanwhile, Cognizant's TriZetto healthcare billing platform sat silently compromised for over a year while 3.4 million patients' data walked out the...
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Vendor Failures, Ransomware Leverage, and Legacy Data Risk
This week's Security Squawk episode isn't about phishing. It's about structural weakness. Three separate incidents. Three different industries. One uncomfortable pattern: the systems organizations trust most are expanding risk quietly — and in some cases, architecturally. First, a lawsuit that...
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Hospital Shutdown, Ransomware Surge, Fortinet Failures
Hospital Shutdown, Ransomware Surge, Fortinet Failures A hospital doesn't cancel chemotherapy appointments because of a “technical issue.” They cancel them because they've lost operational control. This week, the University of Mississippi Medical Center shut down its entire network after a...
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From FanDuel Fraud to Google AI Abuse The Real Risk in 2026
Google has confirmed that state-backed threat actors are operationally using Gemini across the intrusion lifecycle — not experimentally, but strategically. In this episode of Security Squawk, we break down how AI is being integrated into reconnaissance, phishing refinement, vulnerability…
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SolarWinds, BridgePay, and the Ransomware Shift No One’s Ready For
In this episode of Security Squawk, Bryan Hornung, Reginald Ande, & Randy Bryan break down three stories that should change how executives think about cyber risk. This is not about tools, alerts, or vendor promises. It is about operational dependency, leadership accountability, and financial...
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Ransomware Turns Violent, AI Agents Leak Data, Extortion Still Works
Cyber risk is escalating fast, and most business leaders are still operating with outdated assumptions. This episode of Security Squawk confronts that reality head on. Ransomware is no longer limited to encrypted files and downtime calculations. Threat actors are escalating pressure tactics into...
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Big Brands Exposed And Why Silence After Breaches Keeps Failing
This episode of Security Squawk breaks down a familiar and dangerous pattern in cybersecurity. Major brands are losing data. Attackers are moving fast. And companies are still relying on silence and delay as a response strategy. We cover hackers auctioning stolen source code from a major…
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Ireland Cyberattack Exposes a Bigger Truth & Businesses Still Aren’t Ready
Cybersecurity failures are no longer just IT problems. They are legal, financial, and leadership failures. In this episode of Security Squawk, we break down how a ransomware attack on Ireland's Office of the Ombudsman delayed justice for citizens and what that incident reveals about preparedness,...
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Three Breaches, Same Problem Government Data Exposure and Ransomware Reality
Today on Security Squawk we are breaking down three different incidents that all point to the same underlying issue. Basic security failures with real consequences. An Oregon state agency exposes personal information tied to environmental complaints. Nissan suffers a ransomware incident that…
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University Breach Hits 3.5M | Legacy Medical Devices in Danger | 50 Firms Breached Without MFA
University of Phoenix confirms a massive data breach affecting almost 3.5 million current and former students, staff, and partners after attackers exploited a zero-day in Oracle E-Business Suite. We break down the implications for identity theft risk and breach response. Next, Andre explains why...
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Our Cyber Predictions and 2025 Proved Us Right (Mostly)
In this annual Security Squawk tradition, we do two things most people avoid: accountability and predictions. First, we break down the top cyber-attacks of 2025 and translate them into what actually matters for business owners, IT pros, and MSPs. Then we grade our predictions from last year using...
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America’s Hidden Cyber War Is Already Here
Cyber attacks are no longer a future problem or a Silicon Valley issue. They are happening right now across the United States, quietly and relentlessly, targeting local governments, public agencies, schools, police departments, fire services, and critical infrastructure that most people rely on...
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Cybercrime Economy Exposed. Billions Paid. Banks Breached
This episode breaks down the true scale of the cybercrime economy. Randy covers the Marquis vendor breach that exposed data across more than 74 banks and credit unions and highlights the ongoing weakness in third-party risk. Andre examines the FinCEN report showing over 2 billion in ransomware...
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Emergency Alerts Hacked, Retailers Paying Up, And 2026 Looks Rough
This episode breaks down three major cybersecurity stories that reveal exactly where businesses are exposed and how fast the threat landscape is shifting. We analyze how a ransomware group hijacked an emergency alert system to trigger fake national warnings, why more than half of retailers are...
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Ransomware Reality Check: Inside “The Gentlemen” Gang
In this Security Squawk episode, Brian Horning from Xact IT is joined by guests to unpack three real ransomware incidents, the rapid rise of “The Gentlemen” gang, and how attackers bypass basic security by turning off tools like Windows Defender. You'll learn why relying only on built-in...
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How a Food App, a Tech Giant and a State Attorney General All Got Hacked
In this episode of Security Squawk, we dig into three major cyber incidents — the DoorDash data breach exposing users' contact info, the Logitech zero-day and data-theft campaign tied to Clop, and the ransomware attack on the Pennsylvania AG office. We break down how each attack played out, what…
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Healthcare Hit Again and Nevada Falls to One Employee Mistake
In this episode of the Security Squawk Podcast, Bryan Hornung, Randy Bryan, and Reginald Andre break down three major cybersecurity failures hitting government, media, and healthcare. We expose how a single employee action triggered a Nevada ransomware attack, why stolen Slack credentials led to…
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Cyber Blunders: Library Locked Down & 1.2 Million Records Exposed
In this week's episode of the Security Squawk Podcast, Bryan Hornung, Randy Bryan, and Reginald Andre break down three major cybersecurity incidents that show how no industry is immune — from universities and government contractors to the British Library itself. We dig into a 1.2 million-record...
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Qilin’s Ransomware Takeover: City Pays Up & Telco Breach Fallout
In this week's Security Squawk Podcast, Bryan Hornung, Randy Bryan, and Reginald Andre break down three massive cybersecurity stories shaping 2025. Bryan kicks off with Qilin — the ransomware gang behind over 700 global attacks this year. Andre covers a New York city that paid a $150,000 ransom…
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Security Squawk is a business podcast dedicated to helping business people fight the war against cyber criminals.
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Bryan Hornung Reginald Andre & Randy Bryan
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