It’s said that life truly begins when you step out of your comfort zone. Living in California provides me with many options for hiking and trekking, a perfect backdrop for spending time with nature and enjoying it with friends and family. As a hiking and nature enthusiast, I have done many moderately challenging trails in and around the Bay Area – my comfort zone.

The Play ransomware group is one of the most successful ransomware syndicates today. All it takes is a quick peek with a disassembler to know why this group has become infamous. This is because reverse engineering the malware would be a Sisyphean task full of anti-analysis techniques. That said, it might come as a surprise that the malware crashes quite frequently when running.

The cybersecurity industry has a major people problem: it doesn’t have enough of them. The global shortage of more than 4 million cybersecurity workers isn’t a new phenomenon, but as digital and cloud initiatives accelerate, the effects are even more profound. This is especially true in the identity security domain.

In this episode of Trust Issues, CyberArk’s resident Technical Evangelist, White Hat Hacker and Transhuman Len Noe joins host David Puner for a discussion about the emerging threat of AI kiddies, a term that describes novice attackers using large language models (LLMs) and chatbots to launch cyberattacks without any coding skills.