#245 - Intel Chat: Salt Typhoon, Scattered LapSus Hunters, WhatsApp vulnerability & AI-assisted compromise
Update: 2025-09-08
Description
In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community.
- The Salt Typhoon cyber campaign, attributed to Chinese state-backed hackers, has been declared a national defense crisis by the FBI and allied intelligence agencies.
- A group identifying itself as “Scattered LapSus Hunters” has posted a threat on Telegram demanding that Google terminate two of its employees.
- A newly discovered WhatsApp vulnerability, now tracked as CVE-2025-55177, has triggered urgent security advisories, particularly for iPhone users.
- More than 1,000 developers were compromised in just over four hours on August 26 during an unprecedented, AI-assisted software supply chain attack targeting the npm ecosystem.
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