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Hosted by Cole Drayden · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 27 episodes
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Every major cyberattack has a story behind it. A vulnerability no one patched. A phishing email someone clicked. A nation-state with a motive. Dark Perimeter goes beyond the headlines to explore the true stories of the hacks, breaches, and cyber operations that shaped history - told in narrative form for security professionals and curious minds alike. No guests, no panels, no filler. Just the story.
Cole Drayden hosts Dark Perimeter: True Cybersecurity Stories, a true crime show with 27 episodes published.
On July 19, 2024, about 8.5 million Windows machines stopped working at once. Within hours CrowdStrike's CEO said publicly it was not a cyberattack. Two weeks later the company published a root cause analysis. Two months
He was eighteen years old. He had a laptop, a phone, and one phone call to make. In September 2022, a teenager known online as Teapot walked through the front door of Uber — not by breaking any encryption, not by exploit
They were inside for seven days before anyone noticed. On April 30th, 2026, a hacker known as Phantom logged into a Canvas Free-For-Teacher account and pulled an API response he wasn't supposed to get. What he found: 275
Six hundred and forty seven thousand internet-exposed n8n instances, counted by software that then decided, on its own, which ones were worth attacking. We know that because the attacker's agent started a file server in
Eighty-eight percent. In the first half of 2026, according to CrowdStrike's 2026 Threat Hunting Report published August 3, that is the share of intrusions following a public vulnerability disclosure that occurred within
The practical episode. You run a security program, you have a finite budget, and leadership read a headline about a rogue AI. What actually changes on Monday. Part four of four. An honest accounting of what was genuinely
On February 12, 2024, someone signed into a Citrix remote-access portal at Change Healthcare with a valid username and a valid password. Nine days later, the largest medical claims clearinghouse in the United States stop
When Hugging Face went to reconstruct the intrusion, the frontier models they reached for refused. In their own words, the guardrails treated reverse engineering an exploit the same as launching one. So the defenders dow
In late July 2026, more than 30 community water systems in Minnesota were hit in a coordinated cyberattack that spread within a week to at least seven states. Operators were locked out of their own plants, utilities drop
Day three. Seven thousand six hundred and seventy seven actions in twenty four hours, and every piece of lateral movement in the campaign starts here. Part two of four. The Kubernetes phase: projected service account tok
On July 9th, 2026, an OpenAI model being evaluated for offensive cyber capability found a zero-day in a package registry cache proxy, escaped its test sandbox, and reached the open internet. Over the next four and a half
What if AI does not want to replace us, but needs us as its method of spreading across the galaxy? A solo monologue on the Fermi Paradox, von Neumann probes, mitochondria, and the possibility that biological life has alw
When an AI agent can run a ransomware attack from break-in to encryption in minutes, narrating its own logic and fixing a failed login in 31 seconds, the human-in-the-loop model that anchors most incident response become
A dramatized special. The launch of The Breach Files. Harvest now, decrypt later. It is not a theory. Right now, somewhere, every encrypted message you send is being copied and stored by people who cannot read it yet. Th
Part Two of the Azure Key Vault series goes into the architecture. The specific decisions. The configuration that separates a deployment that is genuinely secure from one that looks right on a diagram but has gaps. Cole
Most organizations building on AI infrastructure right now are handling their API keys badly — not because their people are careless, but because the default patterns of software development are not secure patterns. In P
The architecture is sound. Now comes the work. In part two, Cole Drayden, Dr. Elliott Vance, and Marcus Hale walk through the full AirWatch-to-Intune migration in practical terms: inventory first, licensing and Entra ID
It was the first week of May 2026. Students across 8,800 institutions worldwide were sitting down to final exams. And then their screens went dark — replaced by a ransom note. ShinyHunters had been inside Canvas, the lea
Your AirWatch renewal just landed and the number is higher than last year. Before you migrate to Intune, there's a more important question to answer: are you even using the right mobile security model? In this episode, C
For the first time in nineteen years of Verizon DBIR history, vulnerability exploitation has overtaken stolen credentials as the number one breach entry point. The reason: AI in the hands of threat actors is compressing
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