Risky Business is a weekly information security podcast featuring news and in-depth interviews with industry luminaries. Launched in February 2007, Risky Business is a must-listen digest for information security pros. With a running time of approximately 50-60 minutes, Risky Business is pacy; a security podcast without the waffle.
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Risky Business #836 -- You can't patch the bugpocalypse
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest co-host Brad Arkin. They discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: The US Government says we just have to patch faster, but… Bugs in cPanel, MoveIt and all Linux distributions this week show that patching alone isn’t enough James gets mad about lame AI Agent adoption advice from the US and Australian Governments James Kettle and Niels Provos both showed us that any model can find 0day like Mythos And the cyber-assisted theft of cargo results in an astonishing loss of $725 million dollars This week’s show is sponsored by SpecterOps. Their CTO, Jared Atkinson, chats to Pat about the big changes in the threat landscape, brought about by AI, that are causing a pivot away from detection and remediation, and toward prevention. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Exclusive: US officials weigh cutting deadlines to fix digital flaws amid worries over AI-powered hacking, sources say | Reuters British cyber agency warns of looming ‘patch wave’ as AI speeds flaw discovery | The Record from Recorded Future News Federal agencies must patch cPanel bug by Sunday, CISA says | The Record from Recorded Future News cPanel zero-day exploited for months before patch release (CVE-2026-41940) - Help Net Security The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed - Ars Technica New MOVEit vulnerabilities prompt urgent patch warning | Cybersecurity Dive US and allies urge ‘careful adoption’ of AI agents | Cybersecurity Dive careful_adoption_of_agentic_ai_services.pdf User just tricked Grok and Bankrbot to send tokens with Morse code - Cryptopolitan Finding Zero-Days with Any Model (1872) Sponsored: James Kettle built an AI hacker - YouTube Feature Interview: Nicholas Carlini, Anthropic - Risky Business Media Trellix investigating breach of source code repository | Cybersecurity Dive Popular DAEMON Tools software compromised | Securelist Komari Red: The Monitoring Tool with a Built-in Reverse Shell | Huntress Hackers earning millions from hijacked cargo, FBI says | The Record from Recorded Future News Congress punts FISA renewal to June | The Record from Recorded Future News Cops Use Apple Data And Car Bluetooth To Identify Crypto Robbery Suspect Stewart Baker, outspoken voice on cybersecurity and national security law, dies at 78 | IAPP
Snake Oilers: Ent AI, Spacewalk and Mondoo
In this edition of the Snake Oilers podcast three vendors stop by to pitch the audience on their products: Ent AI: Co-founder Brandon Dixon pitched Ent, an intent-aware, AI-powered endpoint security control. Spacewalk AI: Founders Chris Fuller and Tim Wenzlau pitch Spacewalk, an AI-powered incident response platform. Mondoo: Co-founder Dominik Richter pitches Mondoo, an AI-powered “service as software” in the vulnerability management space. This episode is also available on YouTube. Show notes
Risky Business #835 -- Why the Fast16 malware is badass
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest-host Dmitri Alperovitch. They discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: The US government is mad as hell about Chinese firms stealing American AI technology Dmitri has an opinion or two about the US selling Nvidia chips to China Speaking of Chinese AI, Kimi’s new 2.6 is very interesting The US sanctions a Cambodian senator for earning mega bucks through scam compounds And a ransomware family is promoting itself as being … quantum-safe? This week’s show is sponsored by Trail of Bits. CEO and co-founder Dan Guido chats to Pat about how private inference works and Trail of Bits’ audit of WhatsApp’s private AI setup. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Exclusive: US State Dept orders global warning about alleged AI thefts by DeepSeek, other Chinese firms | Reuters moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 · Hugging Face Discord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic’s Mythos | WIRED Newly Deciphered Sabotage Malware May Have Targeted Iran’s Nuclear Program—and Predates Stuxnet | WIRED Hackers deployed wiper malware in destructive attacks on Venezuela’s energy sector | The Record from Recorded Future News Mystery Around Venezuelan Cyberattack Deepens, with New Discovery of "Highly Destructive" Wiper Risky Business #819 -- Venezuela (credibly?!) blames USA for wiper attack - Risky Business Media AI Tools Are Helping Mediocre North Korean Hackers Steal Millions | WIRED CISA: US agency breached through Cisco vulnerability, FIRESTARTER backdoor allowed access through March | The Record from Recorded Future News US, UK authorities warn that Firestarter backdoor malware survives patching | Cybersecurity Dive Surveillance campaigns use commercial surveillance tools to exploit long-known telecom vulnerabilities | CyberScoop UK regulator closes loophole that allowed rogue companies to track phone users' location | Reuters US sanctions Cambodian senator for millions earned through scam compounds | The Record from Recorded Future News Vercel says some of its customers' data was stolen prior to its recent hack | TechCrunch Supply Chain Security Incident Update Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones | TechCrunch Kyle Daigle on X: "Wanted to provide more clarity about this. Yesterday, we had a regression in merge queue behavior where, in some cases, squash or rebase commits were generated from the wrong base state, making earlier changes appear reverted in branch history. 2,804 pull requests out of over 4M" / X Securing the git push pipeline: Responding to a critical remote code execution vulnerability - The GitHub Blog One ransomware crew now drives half of all cyber claims: At-Bay | Insurance Business In a first, a ransomware family is confirmed to be quantum-safe - Ars Technica What we learned about TEE security from auditing WhatsApp's Private Inference
Risky Business #834 -- Vercel gets owned, Mozilla dumps hundreds of Mythos bugs
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest The Grugq. They discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Vercel got owned, and there’s a few infostealer and compromised employee dots to connect Mozilla used Mythos to find 271 bugs, which feels like a sign of the bug-pocalypse Speaking of the bug-pocalypse, is that why NIST is noping out of enriching a bunch of bugs? The NSA is using Mythos even though the government did that whole Anthropic blacklisting thing And DDos attacks hit a couple of smaller-player socials This week’s episode is sponsored by Permiso. Ian Ahl chats to Pat about the subtle signals Permiso uses to detect ShinyHunters-style activity in cloud and on-prem environments. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Vercel April 2026 Security incident Vercel breach linked to infostealer infection at Context.ai Vercel confirms breach as hackers claim to be selling stolen data Matt Johansen: “This is not a good look” | X NIST limits vulnerability analysis as CVE backlog swells | Cybersecurity Dive CISA Cyber on X Ransomware attack continues to disrupt healthcare in London nearly two years later | The Record from Recorded Future News Lawmakers ponder terrorism designations, homicide charges over hospital ransomware attacks | CyberScoop In defeat for Trump, House extends electronic spying program for just 10 days | The Record from Recorded Future News Crypto infrastructure company blames $290 million theft on North Korean hackers | The Record from Recorded Future News US-sanctioned currency exchange says $15 million heist done by "unfriendly states" - Ars Technica Hackers are abusing unpatched Windows security flaws to hack into organizations | TechCrunch Mozilla Used Anthropic’s Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox | WIRED NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist Beyond the breach: inside a cargo theft actor’s post-compromise playbook | Proofpoint US Beware scam messages offering ships safe transit through Hormuz Strait, says security firm | The Straits Times New Jersey men given lengthy sentences for running North Korean laptop farms | The Record from Recorded Future News Turns Out We’re Not Alone - Volodymyr Styran US joins nearly two dozen other countries in striking back against DDoS-for-hire platforms | Cybersecurity Dive Bluesky blames app outage on ‘sophisticated’ DDoS attack | The Record from Recorded Future News Mastodon says its flagship server was hit by a DDoS attack | TechCrunch An IT expert explained under what conditions using a VPN can cause a smartphone to explode
Risky Business #833 -- The Great Mythos Freakout of 2026
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover: Everyone has an opinion about Claude Mythos… even though almost nobody has used it yet CISA adds a 2009 Excel bug to the KEV list, u wot? Adobe also parties like it’s the 2000s, and fixes an Acrobat Reader bug Disgraced former Trenchant exec Peter Williams’ sob story fails to resonate with … anyone Remember those crosswalk buttons hacked to play audio mocking Trump and Zuck? They were “secured” by the password: 1234. This week’s episode is sponsored by mobile network operator, Cape. Ajit Gokhale talks with James about the ways to get being a telco right when you’re starting from scratch and solving the security problems of 2026. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Lab Space The “AI Vulnerability Storm”: Building a “Mythosready” Security Program Polymarket on X: "JUST IN: Goldman Sachs is reportedly ramping up its cyber defenses in preparation for Claude Mythos." Ananay on X: "Marcus Hutchins probably has the best take on Mythos doing vulnerability research" solst/ICE of Astarte on X: "Th vast majority of CISOs do not work at Google-sized companies, and will not have to worry about 0days" Charlie Miller on X: "we’ve gone through this before with early fuzzers, afl, etc" James Kettle on X: "'Can AI Do Novel Security Research? Meet the HTTP Terminator' will premiere at Blackhat" jeffrey lee funk on X: "We've been tricked, again. Many of the thousands of bugs and vulnerabilities Mythos found are in older software are impossible to exploit." Claude is getting worse, according to Claude • The Register Your Agent Is Mine: Measuring Malicious Intermediary Attacks on the LLM Supply Chain OpenAI's Mac apps need updates thanks to the Axios hack | CyberScoop Hack at Anodot leaves over a dozen breached companies facing extortion | TechCrunch Snowflake customers hit in data theft attacks after SaaS integrator breach Booking.com confirms hackers accessed customers’ data CPUID hijacked to serve malware as HWMonitor downloads • The Register Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA Adobe fixes PDF zero-day security bug that hackers have exploited for months | TechCrunch The Sad Decline of Trenchant Exec Who Had Everything, Before Deciding to Steal and Sell Zero Days to Russian Buyer FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database US operation evicts Russia from hacked SOHO routers used to breach critical infrastructure | Cybersecurity Dive Telegram Is Still Hosting a Sanctioned $21 Billion Crypto Scammer Black Market | WIRED The Dumbest Hack of the Year Exposed a Very Real Problem | WIRED
Snake Oilers: Burp AI, Sondera and Truffle Security
In this edition of the Snake Oilers podcast three vendors stop by to pitch the audience on their products: Burp AI and DAST: The founder of PortSwigger and creator of legendary security software Burp Suite, Dafydd Stuttard, drops by to pitch listeners on Burp AI and Burp Suite DAST. Sondera: Josh Devon talks about Sondera, a technology designed to intervene when AI models start doing the wrong thing by statefully tracking their trajectories. This isn’t a permissions suite for AI agents, it’s a way to stick agents in a harness and make sure they adhere to hard policy boundaries. Truffle Security: Dylan Ayrey, the founder of Truffle Security, joins Risky Business again to talk through the latest bells and whistles in Trufflehog, a security tool that searches for exposed secrets and validates them. The Truffle team has done a lot of work on the remediation part of their product over the last few years, and Dylan tells us all about it! This episode is also available on YouTube Show notes
Risky Business #832 -- Anthropic unveils magical 0day computer God
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover: Anthropic’s new Mythos model hunts bugs and chains exploits together so well that… you cant have it… …Unless you’re one of their Project Glasswing partners The world isn’t short on bugs, though. F5, Fortinet, Progress ShareFile, and TrueConf are all getting rekt by humans GPU Rowhammering goes in the GPU, past the IOMMU and back into the host-side Nvidia driver North Korea is spending serious time and money on its crypto hacking Just when the US needs CISA most, they slash its budget some more! This week’s episode is sponsored by identity verification firm, Persona. Tying digital actions to actual human identities isn’t just for banking know-your-customer any more. Persona’s Benjamin Crait says know-your-staff checks belong in high-value flows inside your organisation, too. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Claude Mythos Preview \ red.anthropic.com Anthropic Claims Its New A.I. Model, Mythos, Is a Cybersecurity ‘Reckoning’ - The New York Times Anthropic Teams Up With Its Rivals to Keep AI From Hacking Everything | WIRED FFmpeg on X: "Thank you to @AnthropicAI for sending FFmpeg patches" / X Critical flaw in F5 BIG-IP faces wide exploitation risk | Cybersecurity Dive React2Shell vulnerability helps hackers steal credentials, AI platform keys and other sensitive data | Cybersecurity Dive Critical flaw in FortiClient EMS under exploitation | Cybersecurity Dive Researchers warn of critical flaws in Progress ShareFile | Cybersecurity Dive CISA gives agencies two weeks to patch video conferencing bug exploited by Chinese hackers | The Record from Recorded Future News New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs - Ars Technica North Korea's hijack of one of the web's most used open source projects was likely weeks in the making | TechCrunch Drift crypto platform confirms $280 million stolen in hack as researchers point finger at North Korea | The Record from Recorded Future News Drift on X: "Drift Protocol — Incident Background Update " / X Trump’s FY2027 budget again targets CISA | Cybersecurity Dive CISA’s vulnerability scans, field support on chopping block in Trump budget | Cybersecurity Dive Iranian hackers break into U.S. industrial systems, agencies warn FBI labels suspected China hack of law enforcement data 'a major cyber incident' Russia Hacked Routers to Steal Microsoft Office Tokens – Krebs on Security Massachusetts hospital turning ambulances away after cyberattack | The Record from Recorded Future News Exclusive | 'Ghost Murmur,' a never-used secret tool, deployed to find lost airman in Iran in daring mission A Secure Chat App’s Encryption Is So Bad It Is ‘Meaningless’
How the World Got Owned Episode 2: The 1990s, Part One
In this special documentary episode, Patrick Gray and Amberleigh Jack take a look back at hacking throughout the 1990s, from the feel-good vibes of the early hacking communities to the antics of young hackers who wound up on the run from the FBI. Part one features recollections from: Jeff Moss (The Dark Tangent), DefCon and Black Hat founder Chris Wysopal (Weld Pond), L0pht member, co-founder, @Stake Kevin Poulsen (Dark Dante), 1990s hacker turned journalist Elias Levy (Aleph One), author of Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit, Phrack, 1996 How the World Got Owned is produced in partnership with SentinelOne. Show notes Elias Levy (Aleph1), Former Principle Engineer, Google Kevin Poulsen, Journalist Jeff Moss, DefCon founder Chris Wysopal, @Stake founder, L0pht member Hackers testifying at the United States Senate, May 19, 1998 Hackers May ‘Net’ Good PR for Studio DefCon Archives | DefCon 1 A Not So Terribly Brief History of the Electronic Frontier Foundation Innocent Hackers Want Their Computers Back Breakdowns in Computer Security Unsolved Mysteries, Season 3, Episode 4 The Last Hacker: He Called Himself Dark Dante. His Compulsion Led Him to Secret Files and, Eventually, The Bar of Justice Justia appeal summary, Kevin Poulsen, 1994 Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit, Phrack Magazine, November 1996 From subversives to CEOs: How radical hackers built today’s cybersecurity industry
Risky Business #831 -- The AI bugpocalypse begins
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover: Those pesky North Koreans shim a backdoor into a 100M-downloads-a-week npm package TeamPCP appear to have ransacked Cisco’s source and cloud environments AI is getting legitimately good at being told to “just go find some 0day in this” Kaspersky says Coruna and Triangulation do share code lineage Iranian hackers dump Kash Patel’s gmail spool Oh, and of course there’s a Citrix Netscaler memory leak being exploited in the wild This week’s episode is sponsored by Dropzone AI, who make automated AI SOC analysts. Head honcho Ed Wu explains how they’ve built pre-canned ‘hunt packs’ to lead the AI off into your environment to find weird, interesting and security relevant things. Show notes Google links axios supply chain attack to North Korean group | The Record from Recorded Future News Cisco source code stolen in Trivy-linked dev environment breach chiefofautism on X: "someone at ANTHROPIC just showed CLAUDE finding ZERO DAY vulnerabilities in a live conference demo" h0mbre on X: "Claude is somehow better at kernel exploitation than creating meal plans." Vulnerability Research Is Cooked — Quarrelsome MAD Bugs: vim vs emacs vs Claude - Calif MAD Bugs: Claude Wrote a Full FreeBSD Remote Kernel RCE with Root Shell (CVE-2026-4747) A Risky Biz Experiment: Hunting for iOS 0day with AI - Risky Business Media Security leaders say the next two years are going to be 'insane' | CyberScoop Coruna framework: an exploit kit and ties to Operation Triangulation | Securelist Apple says no one using Lockdown Mode has been hacked with spyware | TechCrunch Reverse engineering Apple’s silent security fixes - Calif Jury finds Meta's platforms are harmful to children in 1st wave of social media addiction lawsuits | PBS News Meta and YouTube found liable in social media addiction trial Iranian hackers publish emails allegedly stolen from Kash Patel Iran Us War: 'Legitimate targets': Iran issues warning to US tech firms including Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia - The Times of India Drop Site on X: "IRGC: From now on, for every assassination, an American company will be destroyed" OSINTtechnical on X: "Starlink shutdowns are forcing Russian troops even deeper into Ubiquiti’s ecosystem. " State Department reissues $10 million reward for info on Iranian hackers | The Record from Recorded Future News National Cyber Authority: 50 Israeli companies 'digitally erased' | Israel National News Stryker restores most manufacturing after cyberattack | Cybersecurity Dive Citrix NetScaler products confirmed to be under exploitation | Cybersecurity Dive CISA tells federal agencies to patch Citrix NetScaler bug by Thursday | The Record from Recorded Future News Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying | WIRED Post reporters called the White House. Their phones showed ‘Epstein Island.’ - The Washington Post
Soap Box: Red teaming AI systems with SpecterOps
In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the show, Patrick Gray and James Wilson talk about red teaming AI systems with Russel Van Tuyl, Vice President of Services at elite penetration testing firm SpecterOps. SpecterOps is the company behind attack path enumeration tool Bloodhound and Bloodhound Enterprise, but they’re also a pentest and red teaming shop with world class expertise in popping shells on all sorts of interesting systems in all sorts of interesting places. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes
Risky Business #830 -- LiteLLM and security scanner supply chains compromised
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James WIlson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They talk through: TeamPCP’s supply chain attack on Github, and they threw in an anti-Iran wiper, because why not?! Anthropic hooks up its models to just… use your whole computer After Stryker’s Very Bad Day, CISA says maybe add some more controls around your Intune? Another iOS exploit kit shows up in the cyber bargain-bin The FTC decides to ban… all new home routers?! U wot m8?! Supermicro founder was personally sanction-busting Nvidia GPUs into China?! This week’s episode is sponsored by enterprise browser maker, Island. Chief Customer Officer Bradon Rogers joins Pat to explain how its customers are using Island to control the use of personal AI services in regulated industries. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes ‘CanisterWorm’ Springs Wiper Attack Targeting Iran TeamPCP deploys CanisterWorm on NPM following Trivy compromise Andrej Karpathy on X: "Software horror: litellm PyPI supply chain" attack Checkmarx KICS GitHub Action Compromised: Malware Injected in All Git Tags Felix Rieseberg on X: "Today, we’re releasing a feature that allows Claude to control your computer" A Top Google Search Result for Claude Plugins Was Planted by Hackers Lockheed Martin targeted in alleged breach by pro-Iran hacktivist CISA urges companies to secure Microsoft Intune systems after hackers mass-wipe Stryker devices FBI seems to seize website tied to Iranian cyberattack on Stryker Stryker confirms cyberattack is contained and restoration underway Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild Someone has publicly leaked an exploit kit that can hack millions of iPhones Russia-linked hackers use advanced iPhone exploit to target Ukrainians Apple rolls out first 'background security' update for iPhones, iPads, and Macs to fix Safari bug Post by @wartranslated.bsky.social — Bluesky Signal’s Creator Is Helping Encrypt Meta AI Hacker says they compromised millions of confidential police tips held by US company Millions of 'anonymous' crime tips exposed in massive Crime Stoppers hack Feds Disrupt IoT Botnets Behind Huge DDoS Attacks FCC bans import of consumer-grade routers amid national security concerns White House pours cold water on cyber ‘letters of marque’ speculation Google launches threat disruption unit, stops short of calling it ‘offensive' Supermicro’s cofounder was just arrested for allegedly smuggling $2.5 billion in GPUs to China Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded across the US Man pleads guilty to $8 million AI-generated music scheme Two Israelis AI generated "intelligence" and sold it to Iran
Risky Business #829 -- Sneaky lobsters: Why AI is the new insider threat
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James WIlson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They discuss: Iran’s Intune-based wiper attack on medical device maker Stryker Qihoo 360’s AI publishes its own wildcard TLS cert private key Instagram is canning its end-to-end encrypted messaging What’s going on with mobile internet access in Moscow? The Xbox One’s bootloader gets voltage glitched into submission Oh Qualys! We love you! (At least, whoever is in the basement writing these beautiful .txt files…) This week’s episode is sponsored by browser-based detection and response company, Push Security. Researcher Dan Green and Field CTO Mark Orlando join Pat to talk through the InstallFix variant of the *Fix attack technique. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Iranian Hacktivists Strike Medical Device Maker Stryker in "Severe" Attack that Wiped Systems Stryker says it's restoring systems after pro-Iran hackers wiped thousands of employee devices | TechCrunch Stryker attack raises concerns about role of device management tool | Cybersecurity Dive Stryker tells SEC that timeline for recovery from cyberattack unknown | The Record from Recorded Future News How ‘Handala’ Became the Face of Iran’s Hacker Counterattacks | WIRED U.S Strikes Killed Iranian Cyber Chiefs, But The Hacks Continued Risky Business Features: Being a Wartime CISO Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories - Ars Technica China's biggest cybersecurity company, Qihoo 360 just leaked their own wildcard SSL private key Emergent Cyber Behavior: When AI Agents Become Offensive Threat Actors - Irregular Risky Business Features: MCP is Dead Measuring AI Agents’ Progress on Multi-Step Cyber Attack Scenarios Measuring AI Agents' Progress on Multi-Step Cyber Attack Scenarios What is end-to-end encryption on Instagram | Instagram Help Center US Lawmakers Move to Kill the FBI’s Warrantless Wiretap Access | WIRED Website "whitelists" launched in Moscow | Forbes.ru Exclusive: Foreign hacker in 2023 compromised Epstein files held by FBI, source and documents show | Reuters Feds say another DigitalMint negotiator ran ransomware attacks and helped extort $75 million | CyberScoop Researchers disclose vulnerabilities in IP KVMs from four manufacturers - Ars Technica RE//verse 2026: Hacking the Xbox One by Markus 'doom' Gaasedelen - YouTube CrackArmor: Multiple vulnerabilities in AppArmor
Risky Biz Soap Box: It took a decade, but allowlisting is cool again
In this Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray sits down with Airlock Digital co-founders Daniel Schell and David Cottingham to talk about the role AI models could play in managing enterprise allowlists. They also talk about the durability of allowlisting as a control. After 12 years in business, the Airlock product hasn’t really changed all that much. That’s a good thing! It also means the Airlock team have been able to spend some time doing deep engineering instead of chasing the latest attacker TTPs and writing detection rules for them. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes
Risky Business #828 -- The Coruna exploits are truly exquisite
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James WIlson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover: The Coruna exploits were L3 Harris, but it seems Triangulation… was not! Iran’s cyber HQ hit by Israeli (kinetic) strikes Trump’s cyber “strategy” is … well, all we’ve got is jokes cause there’s no serious content NSA and CyberCom finally get a leader after Lt Gen Joshua Rudd gets Senate nod DOGE (remember them?!) employee walked a social security database out on a USB stick This episode is sponsored by open source cloud security scanner Prowler. Creator and CEO Toni de la Fuente talks to Pat about some of the enterprise features Prowler is growing, while remaining true to its open source roots. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Inside Coruna: Reverse Engineering a Nation-State iOS Exploit Kit From JavaScript GitHub - matteyeux/coruna: deobfuscated JS and blobs US military contractor likely built iPhone hacking tools used by Russian spies in Ukraine APT36: A Nightmare of Vibeware State-linked actors targeted US networks in lead-up to Iran war Iranian cyber warfare HQ allegedly hit by Israel Last 2 names of 6 US soldiers who died in Kuwait attack identified by the Pentagon Signal, WhatsApp users face Russian phishing push, Dutch warn Samuel Bendett on X: "Russian military told it couldn't use Telegram messaging app" FBI investigating ‘suspicious’ cyber activities on critical surveillance network Risky Bulletin: New White House EO prioritizes fight against scams and cybercrime President Trump’s CYBER STRATEGY for America Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Combats Cybercrime, Fraud, and Predatory Schemes Against American Citizens UK plans to shift fraud fight onto telecoms, tech companies Trump to hit Anthropic with executive order to remove "woke" AI Claude Anthropic launches code review tool to check flood of AI-generated code CrowdStrike reports record quarter amid investor concerns about AI impact Critical defect in Java security engine poses serious downstream security risks Gen. Joshua Rudd confirmed as NSA, Cyber Command head Plankey’s nomination as CISA director now in jeopardy DOGE employee stole Social Security data and put it on a thumb drive, report says Taming Agentic Browsers: Vulnerability in Chrome Allowed Extensions to Hijack New Gemini Panel Cel mai mare exportator român de carne, deținătorul brandului Cocorico, a intrat în restructurări, alături de Casa de Insolvență Transilvania
Risky Business #827 -- Iranian cyber threat actors are down but not out
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James WIlson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover: The US-Israeli attack on Iran had a whole lot of cyber. It’s clearly in the playbook now! The NSA Triangulation / L3 Harris Trenchant iOS exploit kit is on the loose, and being used by Chinese crypto scammers So long Maddhu Gottumukkala, but CISA’s annus horribilis continues Adam “humbug” Boileau complains about the Airsnitch wifi attack just being three ethernets in a trenchcoat ASD’s Cisco SD-WAN threat hunting guide is clearly borne of … experience This week’s episode is sponsored by AI threat hunting platform Nebulock. Sydney Marrone joins to talk about how useful AI models are on the hunt, and her work building out an open source framework and maturity model. It’s methodology agnostic, so you can adapt it for your environment, and the github link is in the show notes! This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Inside the plan to kill Ali Khamenei Hacked traffic cams and hijacked TVs: How cyber operations supported the war against Iran | TechCrunch Matthew Prince 🌥 on X: "Counter to what some cyber vendors are saying, there’s been a dramatic drop in Iranian cyber operations. Likely as the operators are sheltering. They may pick back up, but right now there’s a noticeable lull." / X Cyber Command disrupted Iranian comms, sensors, top general says | The Record from Recorded Future News Iranian Hackers Use Elon Musk’s Starlink To Stay Online Exclusive | U.S. Smuggled Thousands of Starlink Terminals Into Iran After Protest Crackdown - WSJ Attacks on GPS Spike Amid US and Israeli War on Iran | WIRED Amazon Data Centers on Fire After Iranian Missile Strikes on Dubai A Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit Is Now in the Hands of Foreign Spies and Criminals | WIRED Canceled contracts, a failed polygraph and personal disputes: Inside the turbulent tenure of Noem’s former cyber czar - POLITICO CISA CIO Robert Costello exits agency | CyberScoop OpenAI alters deal with Pentagon as critics sound alarm over surveillance Inside Anthropic’s Killer-Robot Dispute With the Pentagon - The Atlantic Read the full transcript of our interview with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei - CBS News CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs Hackers Weaponize Claude Code in Mexican Government Cyberattack - SecurityWeek New AirSnitch attack bypasses Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises - Ars Technica CISA orders agencies to patch Cisco devices now under attack | Cybersecurity Dive CISCO SD-WAN THREAT HUNT GUIDE ClawJacked attack let malicious websites hijack OpenClaw to steal data Area Man Accidentally Hacks 6,700 Camera-Enabled Robot Vacuums | WIRED Intellexa founder, three others sentenced to 8 years in prison over Greek spyware scandal | The Record from Recorded Future News Moscow man accused of posing as FSB officer to extort Conti ransomware gang | The Record from Recorded Future News Farewell, Felix · The Recurity Lablog Atmos Sphere 2026 | Atmos The Agentic Threat Hunting Framework | Nebulock blog GitHub - Nebulock-Inc/agentic-threat-hunting-framework: ATHF is a framework for agentic threat hunting - building systems that can remember, learn, and act with increasing autonomy. · GitHub