Tony Bradley
Senior Contributor. Tony Bradley covers the intersection of tech and entertainment.
Promotional posters for Midnight in the War Room highlight the film’s central message: that the battle for cybersecurity is an ongoing, unseen conflict shaping national security and daily life.Semperis
If you ask Dr. Chase Cunningham whether we’re in a cyber war, he won’t hedge.
“We’ve already had our cyber Pearl Harbor,” he told me. “It just didn’t happen in a single day.”
That line lingered with me because it’s not hyperbole. Cunningham, one of the featured voices in Midnight in the War Room, knows what he’s talking about. The new documentary—produced by Semperis—offers an unfiltered look at the modern cyber battlefield and the people trying to hold the line. It’s raw, unscripted and, in Cunningham’s words, “deeply concerning.”
We tend to talk about cybersecurity as a technical problem: firewalls, zero trust and threat intel feeds. Cunningham sees it differently. He frames it as national defense, full stop. “I’m genuinely concerned about the way our infrastructure runs in this country,” he said. “On the cyber front, we are positioned for failure.”
It’s hard to disagree. For years, I’ve covered ransomware attacks that shut down hospitals, pipelines and entire cities. I’ve written about data theft on a scale that would’ve been unthinkable twenty years ago. But what Cunningham drives home is the human cost behind those headlines. “Nearly a hundred Americans died last year because ransomware hit hospitals and care facilities,” he said. “People are dying, and no one blinks an eye.”
That’s not a metaphor. When a healthcare network goes offline, chemotherapy stops, dialysis stops and surgeries get canceled. Those aren’t theoretical losses—they’re measurable. Cunningham calls it “kinetic cyber warfare,” and he’s right. We’ve crossed the line where cyberattacks affect real bodies, not just data.
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