
Breaking Badness
Where timely and relevant security meets puns and witty banter. Our goal is to keep defenders apprised of pertinent news and trends in under forty-five minutes.
Latest episodes

Mar 27, 2024 • 51min
184. Saflok It Down
This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Austin Northcutt discuss threat actors using DDP sites for phishing, credential harvesting, and more along with Wired’s reporting of how researchers discovered how to open 3 million hotel keycard locks

Mar 20, 2024 • 47min
183. BlackCat’s Out of the Bag
Episode 183 of Breaking Badness is here! This week Kali Fencl, Ian Campbell, and Austin Northcutt do a deep dive on the AlphV/BlackCat ransomware gang.

Mar 13, 2024 • 51min
182. Call to ARMs
Episode 182 of Breaking Badness is here! This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss Palo Alto’s latest findings on Bifrost along with the rise of laid off tech workers turning to cybercrime.

Mar 6, 2024 • 44min
181. Say My CNAME, Say My CNAME
Episode 181 of Breaking Badness is here! This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss CISA’s caution against a hacked VPN getaway along with Guardio Security’s discovery of a large subdomain hacking campaign.

Feb 28, 2024 • 48min
180. I-Sooner or Later
This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss China’s involvement with I-Soon along with DNSSEC and the #KeyTrap vulnerability

Feb 21, 2024 • 47min
179. Scamily Matters
Episode 179 of Breaking Badness is here! This week Kali Fencl, Kelly Molloy, and Ian Campbell discuss Cory Doctorow’s recent blog post about his experience getting scammed along with the decade-long issue of email sent to .ml addresses rather than .mil ones.

Feb 14, 2024 • 49min
178. Volt Typhoon Lagoon
Episode 178 of Breaking Badness is here! This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss the US disabling of Volt Typhoon along with AnyDesk’s recent cyberattack.

Feb 7, 2024 • 1h 3min
[Special Report] Ransomware and Mortgage Brokers
In the latest episode of Breaking Badness, Kali Fencl, Austin Northcutt, and Yelisey Bohuslavskiy discuss a string of mortgage brokers who have been hit with ransomware over the past several months. What are the targeting patterns? Who are the victims?

Jan 31, 2024 • 1h 31min
Breaking Badness Book Club #3
This week on the Breaking Badness podcast, Allan Liska and Jon DiMaggio join Kali Fencl to discuss Jon’s book, The Art of Cyberwarfare, along with other favorite cybersecurity picks!

Jan 24, 2024 • 49min
177. Just Around the COLDRIVER Bend
This week it’s all about targeting expansions! Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss threat actors COLDRIVER expanding their targeting along with Mint Sandstorm.
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