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Recorded Future takes you inside the world of cyber threat intelligence. We’re sharing stories from the trenches and the operations floor as well as giving you the skinny on established and emerging adversaries. We also talk current events, technical tradecraft, and offer up insights on the big pict…

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    The Recorded Future - Inside Threat Intelligence for Cyber Security podcast is a highly informative and diverse show that caters to all cybersecurity professionals, enthusiasts, and anyone interested in staying updated on the latest threats and trends in the industry. Hosted by experts in the field, this podcast provides invaluable insights, interviews with industry leaders, and thought-provoking discussions that keep listeners engaged and educated.

    One of the best aspects of The Recorded Future podcast is its impressive variety of guests. The show consistently features a wide range of experts from different areas of cybersecurity, providing listeners with diverse perspectives and valuable insights. Whether it's renowned researchers, threat hunters, or practitioners working on the frontlines, each guest brings their unique expertise to the table. This variety keeps the content fresh and ensures that listeners gain a comprehensive understanding of various aspects of cybersecurity.

    Furthermore, the podcast excels at covering a broad range of topics related to threat intelligence and information security. From discussing emerging threats like ransomware attacks or nation-state espionage to exploring new technologies such as artificial intelligence in cybersecurity, The Recorded Future keeps its finger on the pulse of the industry. With each episode focusing on specific topics or trends, listeners can expect deep dives into relevant issues that are both insightful and relevant.

    However, one potential downside to this otherwise excellent podcast is occasional audio quality issues. While most episodes are professionally produced with excellent sound quality, there have been instances where guests' audio has not been up to par. This can occasionally detract from an otherwise informative conversation. However, it is worth noting that such instances are rare and do not significantly impact overall enjoyment or educational value.

    In conclusion, The Recorded Future - Inside Threat Intelligence for Cyber Security podcast stands out as an outstanding resource for anyone involved or interested in cybersecurity. With its diverse array of guests and comprehensive coverage of various topics within the field, it offers something for everyone seeking knowledge about threats faced by organizations globally. Despite minor audio quality hiccups that may occur on occasion, the podcast consistently delivers valuable insights, making it a must-listen for anyone involved in the world of cybersecurity.



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    Latest episodes from Recorded Future - Inside Threat Intelligence for Cyber Security

    SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘With AIs Wide Open' from IRL: Online Life is Real Life

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2025 24:00


    An episode from IRL: Online Life is Real Life  from Mozilla and PRX: Are today's large language models too hot to handle? Bridget Todd, host of the IRL: Online Life is Real Life podcast, digs into the risks and rewards of open sourcing the tech that makes ChatGPT talk. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

    Mic Drop: Tracking a Ghost

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2025 12:10


    Law enforcement agencies have been disrupting criminal gangs by intercepting their encrypted communications. Jamie O'Reilly of the cybersecurity company Dvuln talks about an Aussie effort to track Ghost. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

    Knights of Old and a ransomware joust

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2025 24:31


    For 150 years Knights of Old, a U.K. logistics company, survived everything from two world wars to Brexit. Then a ransomware group called Akira stormed the company's networks. In just a blink of an eye, everything changed. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

    Mic Drop: Australia's attempt to keep kids off social media

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2025 14:14


    Australia is trying to use age-gating to keep kids under 16 off social media. John Pane, at Electronic Frontiers Australia, is worried that kids won't be the only people losing something. He says privacy as we know it is also in the crosshairs. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

    Why Australia scares encrypted apps

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2025 29:34


    Session, a little known encrypted messaging app out of Australia, thought it would help the world keep its communication private—and then a new law threatened their plans.

    Mic Drop: Elon Musk, come and get your space junk.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2025 10:37


    Jordan Hobbs, a cattle farmer in the Australian Outback, discovers an unexpected offering from low-earth orbit.

    Space Jam: What if adversaries hacked a dead satellite?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2025 24:14


    Former NASA astronaut Ed Lu used to worry about asteroids crashing into earth. Now, he's turned his attention to an even more pressing problem – the weaponization of space debris — and officials say it may have already happened.

    Mic Drop: Russia's unexpected wartime real estate boom

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2025 12:04


    Russia's military spending has propped up and the economy and made some military families rich and set off a housing boom. But some worry the center will not hold.

    Tech workers return to Russia, not quite with love

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2025 25:52


    We look at the strange and complicated journeys of Russian tech workers who left their country by the thousands when the war in Ukraine first began and now, begrudgingly, are returning home.

    Mic Drop: The demise of ransomware and the rise of crypto

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2025 13:36


    2024 was a banner year for cybercriminal takedowns. Recorded Future analyst Alexander Leslie talks about how ransomware has had to adapt and what the Trump administration's vow to take cryptocurrency mainstream will mean for the cyber criminals in 2025.

    196. 2024: A year of living more dangerously in cyberspace.

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2024 41:59


    In a recent conversation on WAMU's nationally syndicated 1A news show, Click Here's Dina Temple-Raston spoke with 1A's host Jenn White about China and Russia's increasingly aggressive cyber attacks, and in the second half of the show, White speaks with human rights advocate Bill Browder about what the world needs to do for Ukraine.

    195. Mic Drop: A return to the NSA's Cryptologic Museum - a spycatcher's dream

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 27, 2024 11:52


    Just a stone's throw from the NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, the National Cryptologic Museum displays dozens of rarely seen codebreaking machines that, quite literally, changed the course of history. We revisit our tour and chat with the museum's director, Vince Houghton.

    194. A return to the musicians who came in from the cold

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2024 22:26


    At a time when Vladimir Putin is attempting to redraw the Iron Curtain, we revisit an earlier episode in which we take a trip back to the Soviet Union circa 1985 when four American musicians smuggled messages in and out of the Soviet Union — with music.

    193. Mic Drop: For researcher Alison Nixon, young cybercriminals are ‘objectively interesting'

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2024 13:46


    We return to a conversation we had over the summer with Unit 221B's Allison Nixon about young cybercriminals, radicalization, and the search for self in the virtual world.

    192. Return to the leak that unmasked China's hackers-for-hire

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2024 22:39


    Recently, the US sanctioned a Chinese cybersecurity company and one of its employees who compromised tens of thousands of firewalls worldwide, with potentially deadly consequences. All of this could sound a little familiar to regular listeners. Earlier this year, CLICK HERE reported on a huge leak of internal documents from a private cybersecurity company that pulled back the curtain on the secret world of China's hacker-for-hire network.

    191. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘(Ai)ding Cybercrime' from SHIFT

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2024 12:37


    An episode of ‘SHIFT' from PRX:AI is being integrated into our technologies at warp speed, but we are only starting to consider how it could be weaponized in the future. The SHIFT podcast talks to Lee Klarich, the chief product officer at Palo Alto Networks, about how AI is both helping and hurting cybersecurity. 

    190. Return to the curious case of the disappearing TikTok videos

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2024 26:50


    TikTok took down Esma Memtimin's posts for allegedly violating the platform's community rules, even though her videos were about little more than stickers and some current events. Just days after TikTok's Chinese parent company asked a federal court to put a temporary hold on a law that would require ByteDance to sell the app or face a ban in this country, we go back to an episode we did this fall about a mysterious dearth of TikTok posts about subjects Beijing doesn't like.

    189. MicDrop: Return to Wazawaka

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2024 19:07


    We return to an earlier interview we had with Wazawaka, a Russian hacker who, in late 2023, was added to the FBI's Cyber Most Wanted List. Russian authorities allegedly jailed him late last week — though we saw he was back online a short time later.

    188. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘The Right-Wing Plan for Trump-Friendly Spies' from In the Room with Peter Bergen

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2024 43:08


    An episode from In the Room with Peter Bergen. Longtime national security analyst Peter Bergen looks at what President-elect Trump's return to the White House will likely mean for intelligence gathering as we know it – and whether the conservative Project 2025 will turn out to be the new intelligence gathering playbook. This story was originally released before the November election.

    187. Mic Drop: Crypto and the man: Prof. Lamont Black on Donald Trump's federal bitcoin reserve

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2024 18:28


    Crypto was envisioned as the ultimate democratic currency, the thing that allowed you to buy things without “the man.” But, now the president-elect's newfound interest means “the man" may be adding bitcoin to the federal reserve. We ask DePaul University professor and former Fed economist Lamont Black what will the digital currency do now?

    186. Ukraine's Radio ROKS: Heavy metal (and hackers) for brothers in arms

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2024 25:35


    Before the invasion of Ukraine, Serhii Zenin was the host of one of the nation's most popular hard rock radio shows on Radio ROKS 103.6. Some three years later, Serhii is a soldier and Radio ROKS has taken on a whole new role, too.

    185. Mic Drop: Evelyn Farkas on Ukraine: ‘Don't count them out'

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2024 16:32


    As Vladimir Putin says the Ukraine war is about to go global, we sat down with former Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary Evelyn Farkas. She's now at the McCain Institute. Farkas tells us about the mood in Ukraine during her recent trip, President-elect Trump's claim he could end the Ukraine war in 24 hours, and what's next for the world's first truly hybrid war.

    184. Escape from Bamban: One man's scam farm nightmare in the Philippines

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2024 29:26


    Back in February, Dylan went to the Philippines for what he thought would be a great Chinese Lunar New Year vacation. Then he found himself held hostage in a gang-run scamming compound. We tell one man's story about getting out and what the Philippines is doing to shut these operations down.

    183. Mic Drop: Moore's Law now applies to space

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2024 9:58


    Former NASA astronaut Ed Lu says Moore's Law of computing power doesn't just apply to chips anymore – he says it describes the exponential growth of satellite launches, too.

    182. Exclusive: Gen. Nakasone on national security threats, life after the NSA, and a possible return to government

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2024 33:28


    A week before the election, we sat down with Ret. General Paul Nakasone and he talked about North Korea, Russian hackers, his life after the NSA and why he hasn't ruled out taking another government job.

    181. A hacker's final frontier — Space

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2024 23:29


    Recently, a lot of smart people who work on space problems gathered at the Value of Space Summit in Colorado Springs and talked to us about the things that keep them up at night. At the top of their list? Earthlings hacking satellites and speeding bits of space junk.

    180. Mic Drop Exclusive: Gen. Nakasone says reports about influence campaigns are ‘a sign of success'

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2024 21:23


    We sit down one-on-one with Retired General Paul Nakasone, the man who dreamed up the US response to the latest iteration of foreign election chicanery. He explains why he's so confident the 2024 vote will be safe and secure.

    179. Mic Drop: Guardians of the Galaxy are sitting in Colorado Springs

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2024 13:51


    While the world was taking selfies against the colorful backdrop of solar storm auroras this past spring, officials at the Space Watch Center in Colorado Springs were searching for something more nefarious.

    178. Saving Odie: A team of space geeks, a scrappy lunar lander and today's hackable space race

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2024 26:29


    NASA has off-loaded much of the space program onto the private sector. Companies are building space suits and moon buggies and lunar landers. We tell the story of a scrappy little lander — and how earthlings had to hack it to save it.

    177. Mic Drop: NSA's David Luber on Russia, China and the power of partnerships

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2024 14:46


    We talk to the NSA's Director of Cybersecurity, David Luber, about Ukraine, adversaries in cyberspace, and the importance of partnerships.

    176. Spamouflage: Is China's best known disinformation gang taking new aim at the US?

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2024 24:31


    China's influence campaigns look different from Russia's. Instead of Moscow's firehouse of falsehoods, the Chinese tend to change the subject by inundating social media hashtags with content. And, Click Here has learned, their premier disinformation gang appears to be honing its skills on, among others, Florida Senator Marco Rubio. First in 2022, and then again just last month.

    175. Mic Drop: Kraken CSO Nick Percoco's unusual anti-scamming campaign

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2024 11:29


    We talk to Nick Percoco, Kraken's chief security officer, about joining forces with a popular YouTube scambaiter.

    174. Beyond Ukraine: Russia wages low-grade, hybrid attacks on Europe

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2024 29:06


    Dozens of small acts of sabotage and arson have flared across Europe as part of Russia's hybrid battle against the West. This week, we spoke with four experts on Europe and Russia at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC to try to make sense of the Russian campaign and what the West can do in response. (edited)

    173. Mic Drop: Hear ye, Hear ye, the Hacker's Court is in session

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2024 13:58


    We re-visit our conversation with Analyst1 senior researcher Jon DiMaggio about how hackers settle their disputes – think People's Court without all the robes.

    172. Want a crypto education? A new WhatsApp scam is tailor-made just for you.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2024 27:38


    When Stephanie joined a WhatsApp group to get advice on cryptocurrency investing, it began a wild ride that included the CEO of a large investment firm, cybercriminals half a world away, and a brush with a rag tag team of computer nerds in Alabama chasing a $5 billion problem.

    171. Mic Drop: Andrew Ferguson says AI's introduction into the simple police report, isn't that simple.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2024 14:52


    In the U.S. criminal justice system, a lot of things hinge on the simple police report. As departments begin to use AI and large language model software to help cops write them, American University law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson worries people don't understand the possible downstream effects.

    170. AI is writing police reports: Should we be worried?

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2024 33:58


    Police departments across the country are testing generative AI and large language model software to see if they can cut down on the time officers spend writing reports. But AI seems to have this way of always surprising us, and the benefits it brings to police may have nothing to do with time.

    169. Mic Drop: Election security? Slovakia's cautionary tale

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2024 16:16


    Leaders from Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft told the Senate Intelligence Committee that they were doing all the could to combat foreign interference ahead of the November election. The Senators weren't convinced.

    168. Exclusive: Senator Mark Warner on election fears and all things cyber and intelligence

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2024 35:27


    We sat down with US Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia to talk about election interference, his recent hearing with tech execs on misinformation and disinformation, and the future of cybersecurity.

    167. Mic Drop: TikTok's day in Appeals Court

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2024 12:18


    TikTok's lawyers were in a U.S. Court of Appeals this week trying to push back against a law that requires the popular video app to sell its American subsidiary to a non-Chinese owner or be banished from app stores. Alan Rozenshtein, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota, and expert in lawfare, explains what's at stake.

    166. The curious case of Esma Memtimin's disappearing TikTok videos

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2024 33:57


    TikTok took down Esma Memtimin's posts for allegedly violating the platform's community rules even though her videos were about stickers and current events. A recent study from Rutgers University suggests Memtimin isn't alone — when researchers compared TikTok's content with other similar platforms there is a mysterious dearth of posts about subjects Beijing considers hot button issues.

    165. Mic Drop: FIN7 is hiring

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2024 13:22


    The Russian-speaking cyber gang, FIN7, has fooled red team hackers into doing their dirty work by masquerading as legitimate cybersecurity companies just looking for talent. Silent Push's Zach Edwards talks about the scam.

    164. The Hunt for Fin7: Hot on the trail of a notorious cyber gang

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2024 37:13


    Investigators have been chasing the Russian-speaking cyber gang for years — and they've stayed just one step ahead. Threat researcher Zach Edwards lays out why bringing gangs like this to justice has always been so hard.

    163. Mic Drop: From banned to beloved, the Taliban's unexpected embrace of the Internet

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2024 14:23


    Afghanistan's Taliban leadership may have smashed TVs in the 1990s, but these days their embracing slickly-produced videos and social media influencers to try to rehab their image abroad. Afghan anthropologist Omar Sharifi unpacks whether its working.

    162. Ehtesab in Afghanistan: an app's struggle to survive under the Taliban

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2024 33:30


    Technology has changed the way countries wage war and, today, we look at an app in Afghanistan that wanted to change the way people on the ground experienced it.

    161. Mic Drop: Can ransomware be an act of terror?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2024 17:01


    New legislation is seeking to designate some ransomware attacks as acts of terror. Former FBI agent John Riggi talks about the proposal and how it might change the battle against ransomware gangs.

    160. Anatomy of a fall: One rural hospital's ransomware story

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2024 34:53


    Skylakes Medical Center in south central Oregon never imagined it could be on the receiving end of a ransomware attack. Then Ryuk put them in the crosshairs.

    159. Mic Drop: The NSA's Cryptologic Museum - a spycatcher's dream

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2024 14:47


    Just a stone's throw from the NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, the National Cryptologic Museum displays dozens of rarely seen code breaking machines that, quite literally, changed the course of history. We take a tour and chat with the museum's affable director, Vince Houghton.

    158. The antidote to our disinformation woes? Just a dash of fun

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2024 31:26


    For years now, the Internet has trafficked in things that are more mean than fun. Disinformation, online bullying, and a general malaise are all over social media. We talk to former Stanford Internet Observatory Research Director Renee Diresta about her new book “Invisible Rulers” and ask why, ahead of the DNC Convention, the Dems' new unbearable lightness has gone so viral.

    157. Mic Drop: For researcher Alison Nixon, young cyber criminals are ‘objectively interesting'

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2024 16:19


    We talk with Unit 221B's Allison Nixon about young cyber criminals, radicalization, and the search for self in the virtual world.

    156. Something different: a hacker redemption story

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2024 37:33


    This isn't your typical hacker tale. The one about boy meets computer, boy loves computer, boy weaponizes computer to commit crimes. This is about what comes after that.

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