Your router may not be your router. It could be a Russian surveillance device. In Episode 5 of The GIST of Govt IT, Brian and Sean unpack a stunning two weeks in cybersecurity: the FBI's court-authorized takedown of a Russian GRU operation that silently hijacked thousands of TP-Link routers across 23 American states, an Iranian-linked APT group actively disrupting U.S. water and energy systems through Allen-Bradley PLCs, and Anthropic's release of Claude Mythos — a frontier model so capable at finding zero-day vulnerabilities that the company chose not to release it publicly. They break down what Project Glasswing means for industry, how AI is becoming both the most dangerous offensive weapon and the most powerful defensive tool a CISO has ever had, why "vibe hacking" is democratizing cyber attacks (one low-skill actor compromised 600 FortiGate firewalls across 55 countries), and why the old playbook for SOC operations needs to be blown up entirely. What the unresolved tension between Anthropic and the DoD over supply chain risk designation means for federal agencies trying to defend critical infrastructure while CISA operates at 38% capacity. Plus Sean shares his hacker name (maybe) if he wasn't a CTO and instead worked in a windowless office in Pyongyang.
