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In this week's Intel Chat, Chris Luft and Matt Bromiley discuss how the same AI capabilities fueling adversaries are available to defenders too. Matt's takeaway: you don't need to buy an AI product to keep pace. The same way an attacker points AI at a code base, defenders can point it at detection rules and telemetry. Chris adds that as more developers use these models to check their own code, the playing field will level out, though the next year or two will likely bring a spike in exploits from lower-skilled attackers leveraging AI before defenses catch up.

Today we're speaking with Behnaz Karimi, an independent researcher specializing in ransomware and agentic AI systems, Senior Cybersecurity Analyst at Accenture, and founder of Tremorina, about how ransomware is evolving to target AI systems, machine learning pipelines, and autonomous agents.

Hundreds of MSPs joined our last webinar to discuss the growing security and operational challenges of remote-user VPNs. Since then, the headlines have only reinforced the problem. Fortinet. Ivanti. Palo Alto Networks. SonicWall. Different vendors, same challenge: critical vulnerabilities, credential theft, and ransomware attacks continue to target remote access infrastructure, forcing organizations into a cycle of emergency patching, user disruption, and increased risk.

This week on the podcast, we take a look at the impact of the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) backing away from their previous role of enriching vulnerability CVE records. Before that, we discuss Huntress's insider threat drama before ending with an AI-assisted vulnerability discovery in the Front Gate Tickets platform.

Intel Chat with Matt Bromiley and Chris Luft. Matt and Chris break down four stories from the week in threat intel: Chapters: The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast — a podcast about cybersecurity and the people that keep the internet safe. New episodes drop weekly. Subscribe wherever you listen.