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.
Risky Business #809 -- Hackers try to pay a journalist for access to the BBC
October 01, 2025
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On this week’s show Patrick Gray is on holiday so Amberleigh Jack and Adam Boileau hijack the studio to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
- Hackers learn that trying to coerce a journalist just makes for … a great story?
- A man in his 40s gets arrested over the European airport chaos. Yep, we’re surprised, too.
- Adam fanboys over Watchtowr Labs while bemoaning Fortra.
- Academics pick apart Tile trackers and find them lacking
- CISA tells agencies to patch their damn Cisco gear
This episode is also available on YouTube.
Show notes
- 'You'll never need to work again': Criminals offer reporter money to hack BBC
- Government to guarantee £1.5bn Jaguar Land Rover loan after cyber shutdown
- Feds Tie ‘Scattered Spider’ Duo to $115M in Ransoms – Krebs on Security
- UK authorities arrest man in connection with cyberattack against aviation vendor | Cybersecurity Dive
- Chinese scammer pleads guilty after UK seizes nearly $7 billion in bitcoin
- Cyberattack on Japanese beer giant Asahi limits shipping, call center operations | The Record from Recorded Future News
- Afghanistan plunged into nationwide internet blackout, disrupting air travel, medical care | The Record from Recorded Future News
- Tile trackers are a stalker's dream, say Georgia Tech researchers
- Intel and AMD trusted enclaves, the backbone of network security, fall to physical attacks - Ars Technica
- Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware - Ars Technica
- China-linked hackers use ‘BRICKSTORM’ backdoor to steal IP | The Record from Recorded Future News
- Another BRICKSTORM: Stealthy Backdoor Enabling Espionage into Tech and Legal Sectors
- Federal agencies given one day to patch exploited Cisco firewall bugs | The Record from Recorded Future News
- Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software SNMP Denial of Service and Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- Is This Bad? This Feels Bad. (Fortra GoAnywhere CVE-2025-10035)
- It Is Bad (Exploitation of Fortra GoAnywhere MFT CVE-2025-10035) - Part 2