Three Buddy Problem

Ryan Naraine, Costin Raiu, Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade

Booking Overview

A technical cybersecurity panel focused on malware, nation-state threats, cyberwar, privacy, and threat intelligence, with three recurring expert hosts and occasional interviews with senior practitioners or company founders. Credible pitches include threat-intelligence executives, malware researchers, cybersecurity founders, incident-response leaders, and policymakers with substantial technical or operational expertise; booking difficulty is medium because the show favors highly knowledgeable, specialized guests over general business spokespeople.

Metrics

Episodes: 237

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 1.3k subscribers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

naraine@gmail.com

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Host

Ryan Naraine - Cybersecurity journalist and veteran security professional covering malware, cyberwar, threat intelligence, and nation-state activity.

Costin Raiu - Veteran malware researcher and security professional with deep expertise in nation-state malware, attribution, and advanced cyber threats.

Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade - Veteran security professional and malware researcher specializing in advanced threats, cyber operations, and malware analysis.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Senior cybersecurity practitioners, threat-intelligence leaders, malware researchers, incident-response experts, cybersecurity founders, or policymakers with substantial technical or operational expertise.

Required Achievements:

Founding or leading a specialized cybersecurity company, Senior roles at major technology companies, Recognized expertise in malware, threat intelligence, or cyber operations

Recent Guest Discussions

Kenneth Kinion - Internet Intelligence, Passive DNS Data, Threat-intelligence Workflows, Infrastructure Hunting, Artificial Intelligence Tools, And The Challenge Of Helping Defenders Keep Pace With Attackers.

Recent Topics

Cybersecurity, Malware, Cyberwar, Threat Intelligence, Privacy

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Three Buddy Problem

A tiny 12 KB Windows backdoor, one victim, and a dead domain

August 17, 2026

(Presented by State of Statecraft: A security and intelligence conference that brings together multiple disciplines, backgrounds, and nationalities to share research into the covert activities of nation-states and other malign actors.) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 109: The buddies dig into a new White House memo handing vetted private companies real offensive cyber authorities, and Costin explains why a stack of ransomware takedown cases has been sitting on a shelf waiting for exactly this....

Inside OpenAI's Black Hat Confession

August 08, 2026

(Presented by TLPBLACK: A cybersecurity intelligence platform focused on sharing curated, high-sensitivity threat insights and research with trusted security professionals.) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 108: OpenAI got on the Black Hat stage and walked through how its own agent swarm hacked Hugging Face. We discuss and struggle to decide whether to clap or panic. Plus, why only the attacker can do forensics now, frontier models being built as cyber-weapons on purpose, APT29's "Dark Hotel...

Proofpoint's Greg Lesnewich on Laundry Bear, ‘Half-Click’ Exploits, and Magnets of Threats

July 31, 2026

(Presented by Thinkst Canary: Most Companies find out way too late that they’ve been breached. Thinkst Canary changes this. Deploy Canaries and Canarytokens in minutes and then forget about them. Attackers tip their hand by touching ’em giving you the one alert, when it matters. With zero admin overhead and almost no false-positives, Canaries are deployed (and loved) on all 7 continents.) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 107: Proofpoint's Greg Lesnewich joins the show to break down Laundry Bear...

Publicly listed emails

naraine@gmail.com

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