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Risky Business
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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 Biz Soap Box: Greynoise knows when bad bugs are coming
Nov 2000:37:51Summary readyIn this sponsored Soap Box edition of the podcast, Andrew Morris joins Patrick Gray to talk about how Greynoise can often get a 90 day heads up on serious vulnerabilities. Whether it’s malicious actors doing reconnaissance or the affected vendors trying to understand the scope of the problem, it seems that mass scanning activity lines up pretty nicely with typical 90-day disclosure timelines. A fascinating chat with Andrew, as always. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes
SummaryRisky Business #815 -- Anthropic's AI APT report is a big deal
Nov 1900:51:24Summary readyIn this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Anthropic says a Chinese APT orchestrated attacks using its AI It’s a day ending in -y, so of course there are shamefully bad Fortinet exploits in the wild Turns out slashing CISA was a bad idea, now it’s time for a hiring spree Researchers brute force entire phone number space against Whatsapp contact discovery API DOJ figures out how to make SpaceX turn off scam compounds’ Starlink service This week’s episode is sponsored by Mastercard. Senior Vice President of Mastercard Cybersecurity Urooj Burney joins to talk about how the roles of fraud and cyber teams in the financial sector are starting to converge. Mastercard also recently acquired Recorded Future, and Urooj talks about how they aim to integrate cyber threat intelligence into the financial world. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Full report: Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign Researchers question Anthropic claim that AI-assisted attack was 90% autonomous - Ars Technica China’s ‘autonomous’ AI-powered hacking campaign still required a ton of human work | CyberScoop Amazon discovers APT exploiting Cisco and Citrix zero-days | AWS Security Blog CISA gives federal agencies one week to patch exploited Fortinet bug | The Record from Recorded Future News PSIRT | FortiGuard Labs CISA, eyeing China, plans hiring spree to rebuild its depleted ranks | Cybersecurity Dive This Is the Platform Google Claims Is Behind a 'Staggering’ Scam Text Operation | WIRED A Simple WhatsApp Security Flaw Exposed 3.5 Billion Phone Numbers | WIRED DOJ Issued Seizure Warrant to Starlink Over Satellite Internet Systems Used at Scam Compound | WIRED Multiple US citizens plead guilty to helping North Korean IT workers earn $2 million | The Record from Recorded Future News Cyberattack leaves Jaguar Land Rover short of £680 million | The Record from Recorded Future News FBI: Akira gang has received nearly $250 million in ransoms | The Record from Recorded Future News Operation Endgame: Police reveal takedowns of three key cybercrime tools | The Record from Recorded Future News Inside a Wild Bitcoin Heist: Five-Star Hotels, Cash-Stuffed Envelopes, and Vanishing Funds | WIRED
SummaryRisky Business #814 -- It's a bad time to be a scam compound operator
Nov 1201:03:19Summary readyIn this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: The KK Park scam compound in Myanmar gets blasted with actual dynamite China sentences more scammers TO DEATH While Singapore is opting to lash them with the cane Chinese security firm KnownSec leaks a bunch of documents Necromancy continues on NSO Group, with a Trump associate in charge OWASP freshens up the Top 10, you won’t believe what’s number three! This week’s episode is sponsored by Thinkst Canary. Big bird Haroon Meer joins and, as usual, makes a good point. If you’re going to trust a vendor to do something risky like put a box on your network, they have an obligation to explain how they make that safe. Thinkst has a /security page that does exactly that. So why do we let Palo Alto and Fortinet get away with “trust me, bro”? This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Myanmar Junta Dynamites Scam Hub in PR Move as Global Pressure Grows China sentences 5 Myanmar scam kingpins to death | The Record from Recorded Future News Law passed for scammers, mules to be caned after victims in Singapore lose almost $4b since 2020 | The Straits Times KnownSec breach: What we know so far. - NetAskari Risky Bulletin: Another Chinese security firm has its data leaked Inside Congress Live The Government Shutdown Is a Ticking Cybersecurity Time Bomb | WIRED Former Trump official named NSO Group executive chairman | The Record from Recorded Future News Short-term renewal of cyber information sharing law appears in bill to end shutdown | The Record from Recorded Future News Jaguar Land Rover hack hurt the U.K.'s GDP, Bank of England says Monetary Policy Report - November 2025 | Bank of England SonicWall says state-linked actor behind attacks against cloud backup service | Cybersecurity Dive Japanese media giant Nikkei reports Slack breach exposing employee and partner records | The Record from Recorded Future News "Intel sues former employee for allegedly stealing confidential data" Post by @campuscodi.risky.biz — Bluesky Introduction - OWASP Top 10:2025 RC1
SummaryRisky Business #813 -- FFmpeg has a point
Nov 501:05:08Summary readyIn this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: We love some good vulnerability reporting drama, this time FFmpeg’s got beef with Google OpenAI announces its Aardvark bug-gobbling system Two US ransomware responders get arrested for… ransomware Memento (nee HackingTeam) CEO says: Sì, those are totally our tools getting snapped in Russia Hackers help freight theft gangs steal shipments to resell A second Jabber Zeus mastermind gets his comeuppance 15 years on This week’s episode is sponsored by Nucleus Security, who make a vulnerability information management system. Co-founder Scott Kuffer says that approaches for triaging vulnerabilities have started to fall apart, given there are just. So. Many. And they’re all important! This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes vx-underground on X: "Yeah, so pretty much this entire drama thing is FFmpeg are a bunch of nerds…" FFmpeg on X: "@DavidEGrayson It's someone's hobby project of an obscure 1990s decoder…" Halvar Flake on X: "Given the extremely big role ffmpeg has played historically..." thaddeus e. grugq on X: "Current drama: Plucky security researcher Google takes on volunteer open source behemoth FFmpeg." Robert Graham on X: "Current status: There's a conflict between Google…" Introducing Aardvark: OpenAI’s agentic security researcher | OpenAI Bugcrowd acquires Mayhem Security to advance AI-powered security testing | CyberScoop Prosecutors allege incident response pros used ALPHV/BlackCat to commit string of ransomware attacks | CyberScoop Former Trenchant Exec Sold Stolen Code to Russian Buyer Even After Learning that Other Code He Sold Was Being "Utilized" by Different Broker in South Korea How an ex-L3Harris Trenchant boss stole and sold cyber exploits to Russia | TechCrunch Operation Zero — A Zero-Day Vulnerability Platform John Scott-Railton on X: "7/ There's a push to scale up America's offensive industry right now…" CEO of spyware maker Memento Labs confirms one of its government customers was caught using its malware | TechCrunch Exploiting Microsoft Teams: Impersonation and Spoofing Vulnerabilities Exposed Microsoft Teams Vulnerabilities Uncovered Cargo theft gets a boost from hackers using remote monitoring tools | The Record from Recorded Future News Remote access, real cargo: cybercriminals targeting trucking and logistics | Proofpoint US Alleged Conti ransomware gang affiliate appears in Tennessee court after Ireland extradition | The Record from Recorded Future News Three suspected developers of Meduza Stealer malware arrested in Russia | The Record from Recorded Future News Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder ‘MrICQ’ in U.S. Custody – Krebs on Security Windows Server Update Service exploitation ensnares at least 50 victims | Cybersecurity Dive Post by @paulschnack.bsky.social — Bluesky
SummaryRisky Business #812 -- Alleged Trenchant exploit mole is ex-ASD
Oct 2901:06:14Summary readyIn this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: L3Harris Trenchant boss accused of selling exploits to Russia once worked at the Australian Signals Directorate Microsoft WSUS bug being exploited in the wild Dan Kaminsky DNS cache poisoning comes back because of a bad PRNG SpaceX finally starts disabling Starlink terminals used by scammers Garbage HP update deletes certificates that authed Windows systems to Entra This week’s episode is sponsored by automation company Tines. Field CISO Matt Muller joins to discuss how Tines has embraced LLMs and the agentic-AI future into their workflow automation. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes US accuses former L3Harris cyber boss of stealing and selling secrets to Russian buyer | TechCrunch Attackers bypass patch in deprecated Windows Server update tool | CyberScoop CVE-2025-59287 WSUS Unauthenticated RCE | HawkTrace CVE-2025-59287 WSUS Remote Code Execution | HawkTrace Catching Credential Guard Off Guard - SpecterOps Cache poisoning vulnerabilities found in 2 DNS resolving apps - Ars Technica Uncovering Qilin attack methods exposed through multiple cases Safety on X: "By November 10, we’re asking all accounts that use a security key as their two factor authentication (2FA) method to re-enroll their key to continue accessing X. You can re-enroll your existing security key, or enroll a new one. A reminder: if you enroll a new security key, any" / X SpaceX disables more than 2,000 Starlink devices used in Myanmar scam compounds | The Record from Recorded Future News SpaceX: Update Your Inactive Starlink Dishes Now or They'll Be Bricked How we linked ForumTroll APT to Dante spyware by Memento Labs | Securelist Former Polish official indicted over spyware purchase | The Record from Recorded Future News HP OneAgent Update Broke Entra Trust on HP AI Devices Windows' Built-in OpenSSH for Offensive Security How Hacked Card Shufflers Allegedly Enabled a Mob-Fueled Poker Scam That Rocked the NBA | WIRED
SummaryRisky Business #811 -- F5 is the tip of the crap software iceberg
Oct 2200:51:51Summary readyIn this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: China has been rummaging in F5’s networks for a couple of years Meanwhile China tries to deflect by accusing the NSA of hacking its national timing system Salesforce hackers use their stolen data trove to dox NSA, ICE employees Crypto stealing, proxy-deploying, blockchain-C2-ing VS Code worm charms us with its chutzpah Adam gets humbled by new Linux-capabilities backdoor trick Microsoft ignores its own guidance on avoiding BinaryFormatter, gets WSUS owned. This episode is sponsored by Push Security. Co-founder and Chief Product Officer Jacques Louw joins to talk through how Push traced a LinkedIn phishing campaign targeting CEOs, and the new logging capabilities that proved critical to understanding it. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Why the F5 Hack Created an ‘Imminent Threat’ for Thousands of Networks | WIRED Breach at US-based cybersecurity provider F5 blamed on China, sources say | Reuters Network security devices endanger orgs with ’90s era flaws | CSO Online China claims it caught US attempting cyberattack on national time center | The Record from Recorded Future News Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials Hackers Say They Have Personal Data of Thousands of NSA and Other Government Officials ICE amps up its surveillance powers, targeting immigrants and antifa - The Washington Post John Bolton Indictment Provides Interesting Details About Hack of His AOL Account and Extortion Attempt US court orders spyware company NSO to stop targeting WhatsApp, reduces damages | Reuters Apple alerts exploit developer that his iPhone was targeted with government spyware | TechCrunch A New Attack Lets Hackers Steal 2-Factor Authentication Codes From Android Phones | WIRED GlassWorm: First Self-Propagating Worm Using Invisible Code Hits OpenVSX Marketplace | Koi Blog European police bust network selling thousands of phone numbers to scammers | The Record from Recorded Future News Stephan Berger on X: "We recently took over an APT investigation from another forensic company. While reviewing analysis reports from the other company, we discovered that the attackers had been active in the network for months and had deployed multiple backdoors. One way they could regain root" / X Linux Capabilities Revisited | dfir.ch CVE-2025-59287 WSUS Remote Code Execution | HawkTrace TARmageddon (CVE-2025-62518): RCE Vulnerability Highlights the Challenges of Open Source Abandonware | Edera Blog Browser threat detection & response | Push Security | Push Security How Push stopped a high risk LinkedIn spear-phishing attack
SummaryWide World of Cyber: A deep dive on the f5 hack
Oct 2100:39:11Summary readyIn this edition of the Wide World of Cyber podcast Patrick Gray talks to Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos about the f5 incident. They talk about what happened, whether it’s a big deal, and why private equity ownership of mid-tier cybersecurity companies is often a red flag. Show notes
SummaryRisky Biz Soap Box: Why Mastercard became a cybersecurity vendor
Oct 1600:30:49Summary readyIn this sponsored Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast, host Patrick Gray chats with Mastercard’s Executive Vice President and Head of Security Solutions, Johan Gerber, about how the card brand thinks about cybersecurity and why it’s aggressively investing in the space. After listening to this interview you’ll understand why the credit card company spent $2.65b on threat intelligence vendor Recorded Future! This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes
SummaryRisky Business #810 -- Data extortion attacks have a silver lining
Oct 1501:03:12Summary readyIn this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: FBI intervenes in Scattered Spider Salesforce leaksite Clop loots Oracle E-Biz deployments Plus so much more data extortion.. At least it’s not ransomware … we guess? The US still can’t decide who’s gonna be in charge of NSA & Cybercom Cambodian scam compounds get sanctioned and $15b in crypto is seized NSO gets sold for pocket-lint-grade money Bugs! Redis CVSS 10, Ivanti, Crowdstrike and… Internet Explorer?! zeroday?! In the wild?!!!? This week’s episode is sponsored by Stairwell. Founder Mike Wiacek talks about how Stairwell brings VirusTotal-like visibility to private files, and about integrating the insights that brings into your SOC workflow. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes FBI takedown banner appears on BreachForums site as Scattered Spider promotes leak | The Record from Recorded Future News Dozens of Oracle customers impacted by Clop data theft for extortion campaign | CyberScoop Well, Well, Well. It’s Another Day. (Oracle E-Business Suite Pre-Auth RCE Chain - CVE-2025-61882) Clop is a Big Fish, But Not Worth Hunting - Risky Business Media ShinyHunters Wage Broad Corporate Extortion Spree – Krebs on Security The company Discord blamed for its recent breach says it wasn't hacked Qantas confirms cybercriminals released stolen customer data | The Record from Recorded Future News Red Hat confirms breach of GitLab instance, which stored company’s consulting data | CyberScoop Risky Bulletin: Microsoft revamps Edge's "IE Mode" after zero-day attacks - Risky Business Media Teenagers arrested in England over cyberattack on nursery chain Kido | The Record from Recorded Future News Acting US Cyber Command, NSA chief won’t be nominated for the job, sources say | The Record from Recorded Future News Layoffs, reassignments further deplete CISA | Cybersecurity Dive Trump’s scandalous directive to AG Pam Bondi reached the public by accident Feds sanction Cambodian conglomerate over cyber scams, seize $15 billion from chairman | The Record from Recorded Future News US Congress committee investigating Musk-owned Starlink over Myanmar scam centres | Myanmar | The Guardian Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data | WIRED Netherlands invokes special powers against Chinese-owned semiconductor company Nexperia | The Record from Recorded Future News Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors | TechCrunch Apple Announces $2 Million Bug Bounty Reward for the Most Dangerous Exploits | WIRED Wiz Finds Critical Redis RCE Vulnerability: CVE‑2025‑49844 | Wiz Blog SonicWall admits attacker accessed all customer firewall configurations stored on cloud portal | CyberScoop SonicWall SSLVPN devices compromised using valid credentials | Cybersecurity Dive Issues Affecting CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor for Windows ZDI Drops 13 Unpatched Ivanti Endpoint Manager Vulnerabilities - SecurityWeek Jaguar Land Rover launches phased restart at factories after cyber-attack | Jaguar Land Rover | The Guardian Windows 10 support ends today — here's who's affected and what you need to do
SummarySnake Oilers: Realm Security, Horizon3 and Persona
Oct 700:45:40Summary readyIn this edition of the Snake Oilers podcast, three vendors pop in to pitch you all on their wares: Realm Security: A security focussed, AI-first data pipeline platform Horizon3: AI hackers! Pentesting robots!! They’re coming fer yur jerbs! Persona: Verify customer and staff identities with live capture This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes
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