Defensive Security Podcast Episode 326

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Here are the stories we discuss this week:

https://cybersecuritynews.com/hackers-actively-compromising-databases/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-target-university-hr-employees-in-payroll-pirate-attacks/

https://securityaffairs.com/183154/security/threat-actors-steal-firewall-configs-impacting-all-sonicwall-cloud-backup-users.html

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/07/gen_ai_shadow_it_secrets/

https://thehackernews.com/2025/10/from-phishing-to-malware-ai-becomes.html?m=1

https://databreaches.net/2025/10/12/from-sizzle-to-drizzle-to-fizzle-the-massive-data-leak-that-wasnt/