April 1, 2026 01:07:21 S6:E13

FCC Blocks Foreign-Made Routers – 2026-03-30

This episode covers the FCC’s move to restrict or ban certain foreign-made networking equipment—especially routers tied to Chinese manufacturers—highlighting the potential cybersecurity risks, supply chain implications, and how the rule could affect ISPs and consumers. The hosts also discuss broader concerns around hardware trust, existing infrastructure, and what qualifies as “approved” devices under FCC guidelines, along with a brief, lighter mention of a viral robot incident making the rounds online.

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Chapters

(00:00) - PreShow Banter™ — Robot Handlers
(05:11) - FCC Blocks Foreign-Made Routers – 2026-03-30
(06:44) - Story # 1: FCC moves to block new foreign-made routers
(17:00) - Story # 2: FBI Chief Kash Patel’s Gmail Account was Hacked by Iranian Hackers
(20:07) - Story # 3: FancyBear Exposed: Major OPSEC Blunder Inside Russian Espionage Ops
(24:18) - Story # 4: LiteLLM and Telnyx compromised on PyPI: Tracing the TeamPCP supply chain campaign
(27:49) - Story # 4b: TeamPCP Supply Chain Campaign
(42:45) - Story # 5: Spylandia: How a Stretch of Florida Real Estate Has Become a Covert Corridor for Chinese and Russian Spies
(45:51) - Story # 6: Anthropic readies Mythos model with high cybersecurity risk
(57:31) - Story # 7: Google Ships WebMCP, The Browser-Based Backbone For The Agentic Web
(01:02:24) - Story # 8: DDR5 Memory Prices Just Took a Noticeable Dive for the First Time in Months, and Google’s TurboQuant Might Be Behind It
(01:04:03) - Securing the Cloud: Foundations by Andrew Krug
(01:04:47) - Incident Response Simplified by Patterson Cake

News Links
Story # 1: FCC moves to block new foreign-made routers
Story # 2: FBI Chief Kash Patel’s Gmail Account was Hacked by Iranian Hackers
Story # 3: FancyBear Exposed: Major OPSEC Blunder Inside Russian Espionage Ops
Story # 4: LiteLLM and Telnyx compromised on PyPI: Tracing the TeamPCP supply chain campaign
Story # 4b: TeamPCP Supply Chain Campaign
Story # 5: Spylandia: How a Stretch of Florida Real Estate Has Become a Covert Corridor for Chinese and Russian Spies
Story # 6: Anthropic readies Mythos model with high cybersecurity risk
Story # 7: Google Ships WebMCP, The Browser-Based Backbone For The Agentic Web
Story # 8: DDR5 Memory Prices Just Took a Noticeable Dive for the First Time in Months, and Google’s TurboQuant Might Be Behind It

Securing the Cloud: Foundations by Andrew Krug
Incident Response Simplified by Patterson Cake

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Episode Video

Creators and Guests

Host

Bronwen Aker

Bronwen Aker is a BHIS Technical Editor who joined full-time in 2022 after years of contract work, bringing decades of web development and technical training experience to her roles in editing pentest reports, enhancing QA/QC processes, and improving public websites, and who enjoys sci-fi/fantasy, Animal Crossing, and dogs outside of work.

Host

Corey Ham

Corey Ham has been with Black Hills Information Security (BHIS) since 2021 delivering red teaming and OSINT services. Currently, Corey leads the ANTISOC team at BHIS, providing subscription-based continuous red teaming to BHIS clients. Outside of his time at BHIS, you can find him out in the woods or up on a mountain somewhere.

Host

Ralph May

Ralph is a U.S. Army veteran and former DoD contractor who supported the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) with information security challenges and threat actor simulations. Over the past decade, he has provided offensive security services at Optiv Security and Black Hills Information Security (BHIS) across various industries. His expertise spans network, physical, and wireless penetration testing, social engineering, and advanced adversarial emulation through red and purple team assessments. Ralph has developed several tools, including Bitor (set to release in January 2025) and Warhorse, which enhance efficiency in penetration testing infrastructure and operations. He has spoken at numerous conferences, including DEF CON, Black Hat, Hack Miami, B-Sides Tampa, and Hack Space Con.

Host

Wade Wells

Wade Wells has been working in cybersecurity for a decade, focusing on detection engineering, threat intelligence, and defensive operations. Wade currently works as a Lead Detection Engineer at 1Password, where he helps build and mature scalable detection programs. Outside of his day-to-day work, Wade is deeply involved in the security community through teaching, mentoring, podcasting, and running local events

Guest

Andrew Krug

Andrew Krug is a Security Geek specializing in Cloud and Identity and Access Management. Andrew brings 15 years experience at the intersection of security, education, and systems administration. As a fierce advocate for Open Source and founder of ThreatResponse tool suite, Andrew has helped inspire the landscape around forensics and incident response in the Cloud. Andrew has been a presenter at a variety of conferences, publishing papers with BlackHat USA, DerbyCon, and many more.

Guest

Andy Pettit "Nerf"

Andy Pettit is a cybersecurity practitioner and lifelong builder with a hacker’s mindset, driven by deep curiosity and a desire to understand how systems truly work. He began coding in C at age 12 building custom MUDs and has been pulling systems apart ever since, focusing on gaps between design and real-world behavior. Andy brings a whole-business perspective from over a decade as managing partner of Clown Shoe Motorsports, shaping his views on risk, reliability, cost, and people. He volunteers with Black Hills Information Security and Antisyphon Training as a Nerd Herder and is a top 5% MetaCTF competitor, endurance racer, and HPDE instructor with NASA Texas Region.

Guest

Patterson Cake

Producer

Ryan Poirier

Ryan Poirier began his time at Black Hills Information Security (BHIS) as the Video Producer and Editor in August 2020. Ryan polishes and perfects every webcast, podcast, and workshop on the BHIS, ACM, and WWHF YouTube Channels. Prior to Ryan’s time at BHIS, he worked for one of the largest public schools in the United States, conducting their video production and live broadcasting. He joined the BHIS team because he felt like it would be a great group of people to work with, and he couldn’t pass up the perfect next step in his career. Outside of his time with BHIS, Ryan does freelance photography, attends Cars & Coffee events, and expands his knowledge of audio and videos.