Legal corruption, React2Shell exploitation, dual-use AI risks

December 11th, 2025  |  2 hrs 12 mins

ai, apt research, cyberespionage, nation-state, ransomware, zero-day

(Presented by ThreatLocker: Allow what you need. Block everything else by default, including ransomware and rogue code).

Three Buddy Problem - Episode 76: On the show this week, Costin walks through how a single Romanian documentary kick-started nationwide protests, exposing how corruption can be perfectly legal when the law itself is gamed, and why this moment feels different, darker, and more consequential than past flare-ups.

Plus, news on the React-to-Shell exploitation wave overwhelming the internet, why patching is structurally hard, and how APTs and criminals are converging on the same fragile dependency chain. Along the way, they take aim at Microsoft’s shrinking transparency, the limits of vendor trust, and what it really means when defenders are told (again) to just patch and pray.

Cast: Ryan Naraine, Costin Raiu and Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade.

APTs pounce on React2Shell; BRICKSTORM backdoors; .gov surveillance

December 6th, 2025  |  1 hr 41 mins

ai, apt research, cyberespionage, nation-state, ransomware, zero-day

(Presented by ThreatLocker: Allow what you need. Block everything else by default, including ransomware and rogue code).

Three Buddy Problem - Episode 75: We dig into a CVSS 10/10 unauthenticated RCE bug causing chaos across the internet and early signs that Chinese APTs are already launching exploits, the cascading patch chaos, and a long tail of malware intrusions to come.

Plus, commentary on Chrome’s telemetry collection, Microsoft and the "SFI success story," newest BRICKSTORM backdoor intrusions, the US national security strategy, Anthropic's AI popping smart-contract bugs, a secret FBI ransomware-hunting unit getting weird, and a pair of sad stories in the security community.

Cast: Ryan Naraine, Costin Raiu and Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade.

Shai-Hulud 2.0, Russia GRU Intrusions, and Microsoft’s Regulatory Capture

November 29th, 2025  |  1 hr 57 mins

ai, apt research, cyberespionage, nation-state, ransomware, spyware, zero-day

(Presented by Material Security: We protect your company’s most valuable materials -- the emails, files, and accounts that live in your Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 cloud offices).

Three Buddy Problem - Episode 74: We attempt to parse the rumor-fog around Microsoft’s CISO at CYBERWARCON and what it reveals about the company’s shifting posture on intel sharing, regulation, and its outsized grip on the security ecosystem. Plus, coverage of the Shai-Hulud npm supply-chain mess, CISA’s mobile spyware guidance, NSO’s legal contortions, a sharp new GRU-linked intrusion from Arctic Wolf.

We also discuss the FCC retreating on telco security rules, and the emerging AI arms race shaping how cloud giants hunt threats and how Washington misunderstands all of it.

Cast: Ryan Naraine, Costin Raiu and Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade.

Gemini 3 reactions, Fortinet/Chrome zero-days, a Cloudflare monoculture and a billion-dollar crypto twist

November 21st, 2025  |  2 hrs 19 mins

ai, apt research, cyberespionage, nation-state, ransomware, zero-day

(Presented by Material Security: We protect your company’s most valuable materials -- the emails, files, and accounts that live in your Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 cloud offices).

Three Buddy Problem - Episode 73: The buddies react to Google’s release of Gemini 3 and its early performance, new Chrome interface changes landing on users’ machines, and major highlights from CYBERWARCON. We revisit the long-running debate over APT naming conventions, examine Amazon’s latest threat-intel reporting on Iranian activity, and walk through the Cloudflare outage that briefly knocked chunks of the internet offline.

Plus, new APT reports from ESET, Positive Technologies, and SecurityScorecard, and China's CN-CERT (now validated claim) that the U.S. government seized billions in Bitcoin tied to the Lubian mining-pool hack.

Cast: Ryan Naraine, Costin Raiu and Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade.

Anthropic Claude Code automating APT hacks, KnownSec leak, Chinese buses with remote access

November 14th, 2025  |  2 hrs 12 mins

ai, apt research, cyberespionage, nation-state, ransomware, zero-day

Presented by Material Security: We protect your company’s most valuable materials -- the emails, files, and accounts that live in your Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 cloud offices.

Three Buddy Problem - Episode 72: We unpack Anthropic’s conflicting self-promotion around the “first AI-orchestrated cyberattack” using Claude Code and the future of automated APT attacks.

Plus, Chinese cyber vendor KnownSec falls victim to data breach, fresh accusations that the U.S. stole billions in Bitcoin, Amazon warning about Cisco/Citrix zero-days, Google’s new Private AI Compute and Microsoft kernel zero-day marked as "actively exploited."

Cast: Ryan Naraine, Costin Raiu and Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade.

LIVE from Ring0 COUNTERMEASURE: Google v FFmpeg, Ransomware Turncoats, Samsung 0days

November 10th, 2025  |  1 hr 9 mins

ai, apt research, cyberespionage, nation-state, ransomware, zero-day

Presented by Material Security: We protect your company’s most valuable materials -- the emails, files, and accounts that live in your Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 cloud offices.

Three Buddy Problem - Episode 71: The buddies travel to Canada for a live recording at the Countermeasure conference, discussing the Google v FFmpeg open-source patching brouhana, ransomware negotiators charged and linked to ransomware attacks, the looming TP-Link ban in the U.S., and the discovery of LANDFALL, an APT attack caught using a Samsung mobile zero-day.

Cast: Ryan Naraine, Costin Raiu and Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade.

On AI’s future, security’s failures, and what comes next...

August 15th, 2025  |  1 hr 57 mins

ai, apt research, backdoors, nation-state, zero-day

Three Buddy Problem - Episode 58: Indepth reaction to the Brandon Dixon episode, digging into what it’s really like to scale products inside a tech giant, navigate politics, and bring features to millions of machines. Plus, an exploration of the AI cybersecurity gold-rush, the promise and hype, and the gamble for startups versus the slow-moving advantage of incumbents.

We revisit the Chinese "cyber militia" discussion and the looming AI “dot-com bubble,” the value of owning infrastructure, Nvidia and export controls, China’s manufacturing edge, and the geopolitics of supply chains.

Cast: Ryan Naraine, Costin Raiu and Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade.

Live from Black Hat: Brandon Dixon parses the AI security hype

August 7th, 2025  |  1 hr 30 mins

ai, apt research, nation-state, zero-day

Three Buddy Problem - Episode 57: Brandon Dixon (PassiveTotal/RiskIQ, Microsoft) leads a deep-dive into the collision of AI and cybersecurity. We tackle Google’s “Big Sleep” project, XBOW’s automation hype, the long-running tension between big tech ownership of critical security tools and the community’s need for open access.

Plus, the future of SOC automation to AI-assisted pen testing, how agentic AI could transform cyber talent bottlenecks and operational inefficiencies, geopolitical debates over backdoors in GPUs and the strategic implications of China’s AI model development.

Cast: Brandon Dixon, Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade and Ryan Naraine.

Microsoft Sharepoint security crisis: Faulty patches, Toolshell zero-days

July 25th, 2025  |  1 hr 55 mins

ai, apt research, nation-state, zero-day

Three Buddy Problem - Episode 55: We dig into Microsoft's latest security nightmare: a SharePoint zero-day exploit chain from Pwn2Own Berlin becomes a full-blown security crisis, with Chinese nation-state actors exploiting vulnerabilities that Microsoft struggled to patch properly, leading to trivial bypasses and a cascade of new CVEs. The timeline is messy, the patches are faulty, and ransomware groups are lining up to join the party.

We also revisit the ProPublica bombshell about Microsoft's "digital escorts" and U.S. government data exposure to Chinese adversaries and the company's "oops, we will stop" response. Plus, trusting Google's Big Sleep AI claims and a cautionary tale about AI agents gone rogue that wiped out a production database.

Cast: Ryan Naraine, Costin Raiu and Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade.

Inside the Turla Playbook: Hijacking APTs and fourth-party espionage

December 7th, 2024  |  1 hr 47 mins

ai, apt research, nation-state, salt typhoon, turla, zero-day

Three Buddy Problem Episode 24: In this episode, we dig into Lumen/Microsoft’s revelations on Russia's Turla APT stealing from a Pakistani APT, and issues around fourth-party espionage and problems with threat actor attribution. We also discuss Citizen Lab’s findings on Monokle-like spyware implanted by Russian authorities, the slow pace of Salt Typhoon disinfection, the Solana web3.js supply chain attack affecting crypto projects, and the Romanian election crisis over Russian interference via TikTok.

Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Costin Raiu, Ryan Naraine.