Chinese agent tried to recruit Stanford Student - 2025-09-02

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02:18 - BHIS - Talkin’ Bout [infosec] News 2025-09-02

03:07 - Story # 1: Salesloft breached to steal OAuth tokens for Salesforce data-theft attacks

07:35 - Story # 2: DSLRoot, Proxies, and the Threat of ‘Legal Botnets’

13:46 - Story # 3: Attackers Abuse Velociraptor Forensic Tool to Deploy Visual Studio Code for C2 Tunneling

17:44 - Story # 4: Ransomware crooks knock Swedish municipalities offline for measly sum of $168K

19:39 - Story # 5: As crippling cyberattack against Nevada continues, Lombardo says ‘we’re working through it.’

20:56 - Story # 6: Citrix forgot to tell you CVE-2025–6543 has been used as a zero day since May 2025

22:43 - Story # 7: NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway Security Bulletin for CVE-2025-7775, CVE-2025-7776 and CVE-2025-8424

25:20 - Story # 8: First known AI-powered ransomware uncovered by ESET Research

30:00 - Story # 9: In the rush to adopt hot new tech, security is often forgotten. AI is no exception

32:06 - Story # 10: TransUnion suffers data breach impacting over 4.4 million people

34:17 - Story # 11: ChickenSec FollowUp: Artificial Intelligence: The other AI

35:20 - Story # 12: They weren’t lovin’ it - hacker cracks McDonald’s security in quest for free nuggets, and it was apparently not too tricky

39:29 - Identify the birds you see or hear with Merlin Bird ID

40:04 - Story # 13: Detecting and countering misuse of AI: August 2025

51:31 - Story # 14: I’m a Stanford student. A Chinese agent tried to recruit me as a spy