🔴 Sep 23's Top Cyber News NOW! - Ep 1250

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All right, what's up, everybody? Welcome to the party. Today's Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026 This is Simply Cyber's Daily Cyber Threat Brief podcast. My guy, we are off and running on this beautiful Wednesday morning. And if you, Marlon J, Phil Stafford at Tech, and everyone who's listening right now live with us, you're looking for the top cyber news stories with expert analysis, breaking those stories down, building communities, and high-fiving you virtually, well, then you're in the right place. So get your coffee, get comfortable. We're off and running.

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Oh, boy.

All right, hold on. All right, so I'm in real time getting information here about a video John Hammond put out. Now, the title is Oh My God, and I have no context for it. But I'm hoping, based on the submission that came with it, that this is Shiny Hunter's takedown. Let's go.

I think they hacked the FBI, which probably is not in today's news. We'll have to do a special breaking news edition here on Daily Cyber Threat Brief. But let me get through the intros. Good morning, Phil Stafford. Hey, Cyber Risk Witch. Michael Nolan's in the hissy. Hi, Cypher. Hit that F5 for sure, for sure.

Good. Good. Good. All right. Yeah, we will do that extra story first. I'm feeling it. So here, let me actually do this. I'll just assume FBI hacked by Shiny Hunters because I saw that yesterday. So let's pull it up. DJ Bissett, confirm with me if this is the newest story or if there's been further developments. All right, guys. Hey, listen, you might be a little confused about what's going on here. I'm kind of all over the place.

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