The identities your security stack is ignoring.
Stephen Harrison, VP of Product at Abnormal AI joins Dave Bittner on the CyberWire Daily podcast for an interview at Black Hat USA 2026. He explains why AI agents and service accounts are creating a new identity challenge for security teams, how shadow AI is expanding the attack surface through unmanaged OAuth permissions, and why organizations need to understand what "normal" looks like for every identity in their environment.
The phishing kit that thinks like a human.
Piotr Wojtyla, Head of Threat Intel and Platform at Abnormal AI, is discussing their work on "InboxPrime AI: New Phishing Kit Fueling Scalable, AI-Powered Cybercrime." A new AI-powered phishing kit called InboxPrime AI is rapidly gaining traction in underground forums, automating the creation and delivery of highly believable phishing emails that mimic legitimate business communications and leverage Gmail’s web interface to evade detection.
AI-powered attacks are now a commodity.
Mike Britton, CIO at Abnormal AI, joins Dave Bittner on the CyberWire Daily podcast to discuss how AI-powered attacks have evolved from simple phishing assistance into fully productized cybercrime platforms. Drawing on recent research into platforms like VENOM and EvilTokens, as well as findings from Abnormal's 2026 Attack Landscape Report, Mike explains why sophisticated attacks are becoming accessible to virtually anyone with a subscription fee and what security leaders must do to adapt their threat models to this new reality.
Innovation that withstands ransomware.
Mickey Bresman, CEO of Semperis joins Dave Bittner on the CyberWire Daily podcast for a sponsored Industry Voices. They discuss the growing importance of hybrid identity security, insights from the HIP Conference, and how emerging challenges from agentic AI identities to ransomware resilience are shaping the next era of enterprise defense and recovery.
Ransomware’s escalating playbook.
Sean Deuby, Semperis' Principal Technologist, joins Dave Bittner on the CyberWire Daily podcast for a sponsored Industry Voices to discuss alarming new ransomware trends from the 2025 Global Ransomware Report. He details how attackers are escalating tactics with physical threats against executives, regulatory blackmail, and delivering unusable decryption keys even after ransom payments.