On the floor of HumanX, Ryan is joined by Adam Meyers, Senior VP of Counter Adversary Operations at Crowdstrike, for a deep dive on their latest Global Threat Report that tracks over 281 adversaries across nation states, e-crime, and hacktivist organizations. They discuss the new wave of phishing attacks that target identity and use social engineering, how foreign bodies are exploiting security flaws to get your information, and how you can protect yourself from attacks as AI makes both defenders and attackers smarter at what they do.
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On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest-host Dmitri Alperovitch. They discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
The US government is mad as hell about Chinese firms stealing American AI technology
Dmitri has an opinion or two about the US selling Nvidia chips to China
Speaking of Chinese AI, Kimi’s new 2.6 is very interesting
The US sanctions a Cambodian senator for earning mega bucks through scam compounds
And a ransomware family is promoting itself as being … quantum-safe?
This week’s show is sponsored by Trail of Bits. CEO and co-founder Dan Guido chats to Pat about how private inference works and Trail of Bits’ audit of WhatsApp’s private AI setup.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes
Exclusive: US State Dept orders global warning about alleged AI thefts by DeepSeek, other Chinese firms | Reuters
moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 · Hugging Face
Discord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic’s Mythos | WIRED
Newly Deciphered Sabotage Malware May Have Targeted Iran’s Nuclear Program—and Predates Stuxnet | WIRED
Hackers deployed wiper malware in destructive attacks on Venezuela’s energy sector | The Record from Recorded Future News
Mystery Around Venezuelan Cyberattack Deepens, with New Discovery of "Highly Destructive" Wiper
Risky Business #819 -- Venezuela (credibly?!) blames USA for wiper attack - Risky Business Media
AI Tools Are Helping Mediocre North Korean Hackers Steal Millions | WIRED
CISA: US agency breached through Cisco vulnerability, FIRESTARTER backdoor allowed access through March | The Record from Recorded Future News
US, UK authorities warn that Firestarter backdoor malware survives patching | Cybersecurity Dive
Surveillance campaigns use commercial surveillance tools to exploit long-known telecom vulnerabilities | CyberScoop
UK regulator closes loophole that allowed rogue companies to track phone users' location | Reuters
US sanctions Cambodian senator for millions earned through scam compounds | The Record from Recorded Future News
Vercel says some of its customers' data was stolen prior to its recent hack | TechCrunch
Supply Chain Security Incident Update
Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones | TechCrunch
Kyle Daigle on X: "Wanted to provide more clarity about this. Yesterday, we had a regression in merge queue behavior where, in some cases, squash or rebase commits were generated from the wrong base state, making earlier changes appear reverted in branch history. 2,804 pull requests out of over 4M" / X
Securing the git push pipeline: Responding to a critical remote code execution vulnerability - The GitHub Blog
One ransomware crew now drives half of all cyber claims: At-Bay | Insurance Business
In a first, a ransomware family is confirmed to be quantum-safe - Ars Technica
What we learned about TEE security from auditing WhatsApp's Private Inference
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Today on Equity, Rebecca Bellan sits down with Crowdstrike co-founder and former CTO, Dmitri Alperovitch, to talk about the evolving cybersecurity landscape, the role of startups, and why he says we’re living in a World on the Brink.
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How AI export controls and global rivalries are reshaping innovation.
What investors are really looking for when backing cybersecurity startups today.
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In this week’s edition of Risky Business Dmitri Alperovitch and Adam Boileau join Patrick Gray to talk through the week’s news, including:
EXCLUSIVE: A Scattered Spider-style crew is hijacking DNS MX entries and compromising enterprises within minutes
The SVG format brings the all horrors of HTML+JS to image files, and attackers have noticed
Brian Krebs eats a 6.3Tbps DDoS … ‘cause that’s how you demo your packet cannon
Law enforcement takes out Lumma Stealer, Qakbot, Danabot and some dark web drug traffickers
Iranian behind 2019 Baltimore ransomware mysteriously appears in North Carolina and pleads guilty
CISA’s leadership is fleeing in droves, even though the US needs them more than ever.
This week’s episode is sponsored by Thinkst Canary. Long time friend of the show Haroon Meer joins and talks through where he feels the industry is at, having just returned home from the AI-fueled hype at this year’s RSA conference.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes
China-linked ‘Silk Typhoon’ hackers accessed Commvault cloud environments, person familiar says - Nextgov/FCW
Risky Bulletin: SVG use for phishing explodes in 2025 - Risky Business Media
KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Near-Record 6.3 Tbps DDoS – Krebs on Security
Midwestern telco Cellcom confirms cyber incident after days of service outages | The Record from Recorded Future News
Microsoft leads international takedown of Lumma Stealer | Cybersecurity Dive
Who said what? on X: "Message from the administrator of Lumma Stealer on the forums about the recent events🕊️👀 https://t.co/MOjCSMMErK" / X
Ransomware hackers charged, infrastructure dismantled in international law enforcement operation | The Record from Recorded Future News
Oops: DanaBot Malware Devs Infected Their Own PCs – Krebs on Security
DOJ charges man allegedly behind Qakbot malware | The Record from Recorded Future News
US, Europol arrest 270 dark web drug traffickers in Operation RapTor | The Record from Recorded Future News
Iranian pleads guilty to launching Baltimore ransomware attack, faces 30 years behind bars | The Record from Recorded Future News
Decentralized crypto platform Cetus hit with $223 million hack | The Record from Recorded Future News
Nearly 70,000 impacted by Coinbase breach involving $20 million ransom demand | The Record from Recorded Future News
USA: Crypto investor charged with kidnapping, torturing man in an NYC apartment
Vietnam orders ban on Telegram messaging app over security concerns | The Record from Recorded Future News
Exclusive: Hacker who breached communications app used by Trump aide stole data from across US government | Reuters
CISA loses nearly all top officials as purge continues | Cybersecurity Dive
White House dismisses scores of National Security Council staff - The Washington Post
Kara discusses the “pacing threat” that is China – from TikTok to cyberattacks to semiconductors and Taiwan – with two cybersecurity experts: Dimitri Alperovitch, co-founder and former CTO of CrowdStrike and author of the new book World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century, and Chris Krebs, Chief Intelligence Officer at SentinelOne and former Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency under President Trump (until he was fired in a tweet for batting down Trump’s election lies).
The episode features an expert question from a previous On guest: former Congressman Mike Gallagher, the Republican from Wisconsin who chaired the Select Committee on the CCP. If you like this episode, make sure you go back to listen to that conversation as well.
This conversation was taped live at American University on April 19, 2024.
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George Kurtz is the CEO of CrowdStrike, a $65B+ public cybersecurity company. In this episode, George reveals the surprising intricacies of paying ransom and discusses how CrowdStrike is dealing with increasing cybercrime in the age of AI. We also talk about CrowdStrike’s early days, including how the company found product market fit and the operating frameworks that brought them to the forefront of cybersecurity today. (0:00) Intro
(1:52) The Journey to Founding CrowdStrike
(2:38) The Difference Between Stopping Malware and Stopping Breaches
(3:27) Inspiration Behind CrowdStrike's Unique Approach
(4:30) Challenges of Building a New Architecture in Cybersecurity
(5:10) The Decision to Leave McAfee and Start CrowdStrike
(8:11) Early Days of CrowdStrike: Building the Product and Offering Services
(9:45) Unexpected Beginnings of CrowdStrike's Intelligence Product
(10:33) The Role of Incident Response in Cybersecurity
(11:16) Journey to Becoming a Software Business
(14:36) Evolution of CrowdStrike's Product Offering
(19:54) The Importance of Building Trust and Credibility in Cybersecurity
(20:27) The Role of Nation States and Cybercrime in the Growth of Cybersecurity Threats
(25:09) Experience of Handling High-Profile Cybersecurity Incidents
(26:16) The Importance of Having the Right Investors and Board Members
(34:08) The Strategy Behind Competing with Big Players Like Microsoft
(42:09) The Importance of Having the Right Team and Leadership
(43:53) The Challenges and Rewards of Scaling a Cybersecurity Company
(48:49) Hiring and Retaining the Right People
(49:49) Understanding Different Types of Salespeople
(51:52) The Importance of Marketing and PR in Business
(55:59) The Role of Nation State, E Crime, and Hacktivism in Cybersecurity
(1:05:03) Impact of AI on Cybersecurity
(1:09:36) The Importance of Password Security
(1:10:41) New SEC Reporting Rule for Cybersecurity Breaches
(1:14:48) The Role of AI in the Future of Cybersecurity
(1:17:42) The Journey to Entrepreneurship
(1:19:58) Importance of Timing in Starting a Business
(1:25:06) Impact of Early Life Experiences on Entrepreneurship
(1:26:58) The Role of Sports in Developing Leadership Skills
(1:29:41) Transition from Accounting to Entrepreneurship
(1:29:55) Importance of Timing and Market Readiness in Entrepreneurship
(1:35:32) The Role of Teamwork in Business Success
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George Kurtz is the CEO and co-founder of CrowdStrike, a leading provider of next-generation endpoint protection, threat intelligence, and services. Prior to Crowdstrike's incredibly successful IPO in 2019, George raised funding from the likes of Accel, General Atlantic, CapitalG, IVP and Warburg Pincus to name a few. Before founding Crowdstrike, George spent close to 7 years at McAfee in roles such as Worldwide Chief Technology Officer and GM as well as EVP of Enterprise. Finally, before McAfee, George started Foundstone in 1999 leading them very successfully to their acquisition by McAfee in 2004.
In Today's Episode with George Kurtz You Will Learn:
1.) How George came to found Crowdstrike having been Worldwide CTO @ McAfee? How did the founding of his prior companies impact how George thought about the early days of Crowdstrike? What does George believe are the pros and cons of serial entrepreneurship?
2.) Funding: With the benefit of hindsight, how does George reflect on his approach to fundraising? How did what George needed from VCs change over time? How does George approach investor selection? Through what framework does George advise founders as the right way to construct their cap table? Where do many go wrong on investor selection?
3.) Talent Acquisition: What has enabled George to hire some of the best talent in the world? What is the right way to construct the hiring process to recruit the best? What does George mean when he says, "you cannot forget the spouse factor"? Why is cash a moat and important when it comes to talent acquisition?
4.) Leadership: How has George's style of leadership changed over time? What stage of leadership did George find the most challenging? How does George find being a public markets CEO? What elements does he enjoy the most? What does he enjoy the least? Why does George believe the company has been so well received by public markets?
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George's Favourite Book: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't
In this episode, we talk about remote work with Kara Luton, software engineer at CrowdStrike. Kara talks about her biggest challenges transitioning into remote work, how she managed those challenges, and her experiences working remotely before and after the pandemic.
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Kara went from tutus to tech. After working as a music publicist and pursuing a career as a ballerina, Kara now works as a software engineer. She has a passion for introducing others to this industry and showing them they can succeed.
To help revenue and sales leaders navigate and identify ways to leverage cloud marketplaces, join Sapphire Ventures, Snowflake, Sumo Logic, and Crowdstrike to understand: How to successfully sell enterprise software through the major cloud marketplaces, what investments and alignment you need at your company need to be successful transacting on cloud marketplaces, and how to cultivate and enable a successful co-sell relationship with cloud marketplaces.
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