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Risky Business #858 -- The $6.3b laptop

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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest co-host Ciaran Martin, former CEO of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), to talk through the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

• The $6.3 billion dollar Binance hack turned out to be pretty clunky, but it ain’t dumb if it works we guess
• Meanwhile Brazil’s Mercado Bitcoin loses “millions”. Cute!
• A bit late to make the Word of the Year shortlist, but Google’s coined a new term with “LLMjacking”
• An infosec guy’s clankers hacked another infosec guy, everyone’s arguing about it, it’s funny Much, much more!

This week’s show is brought to you by runZero. VP of Security Research Tod Beardsley joins Patrick Gray to chat about fear around the looming post-quantum cryptography crisis, and how CISOs can use it as an opportunity to clean up house and finally take all the end-of-life products out to pasture.

This episode is also available on YouTube

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Nov 4, 2026 1 hr 1 min

Snake Oilers: Minimal.dev, Request Rocket and TRM Labs

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In this edition of the Snake Oilers podcast, three vendors drop by to pitch their products.

https://minimal.dev/: A sandbox for AI agents! Co-Founder and CEO Jake King explains what the company is and how it works.

Request Rocket: Runtime access control for AI agents and APIs. Founder and CTO Alex Ferguson drops by to talk about the problem the company is trying to solve.

TRM Labs: All-source threat intelligence. Global Strategic Accounts Director Simon Warren talks about the company’s platform Ardence.

This episode is also available on YouTube.

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Oct 30, 2026 44 min

Risky Business #857 -- AI FUD intensifies

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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest co-host Alex Stamos to talk through the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

• Everyone’s still panicking about “misbehaving” AI models that are pretty much just doing what they’re being told to do
• Americans are giving AI agents unfettered access to their bank accounts. What could go wrong?
• Last week’s PHP meteor seems to have missed Earth
• This week’s Brotli HTTP/2 critical flaw is this week’s meteor
• The private key is always 4. This time it’s TLS bugs in GoAhead
• Much, much more!

This week’s show is brought to you by Truffle Security. Co-founder and CEO Dylan Ayrey joins James Wilson to chat about scanning GitHub repos and finding more than half a million unique credentials that were never revoked. As Dylan explains, the problem of exposed keys exists everywhere and is only getting worse.

This episode is also available on YouTube

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• OpenAI AI agents demonstrate VM escapes and secret cross-sandbox communication
• OpenAi agents disabled safety monitoring, one lied about it
• solst/ICE of Astarte (@IceSolst) on X
• What I learned from cheating clankers
• Unvetted AI agents are accessing US bank accounts
• Hiding Capabilities in AI Models
• AI is finding bugs faster. Let the market find the fixes
• AI Guardrails Aren’t Stopping Criminal Hackers
• Andromeda October 2026 Security Incident
• Developer platform Railway urges ‘all users’ to revoke secret keys after cyberattack
• Exclusive: bipartisan bill would develop federal guidance for distillation attacks, convene industry on defensive cyber
• Hackers got a four-day head start on the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities
• Critical HTTP2Shell flaw in Brotli triggers emergency patches
• Senators say targeted ads are a security risk. Ad groups say the critics are off base
• Alleged Israeli spy company heavily targeted Starlink users, sources say
• LiteLLM release pipeline hacked to distribute info-stealer malware
• CISA warns attackers are chaining Plex flaws in active Plex2Shell attacks
• Abandoned Popcorn Time app exposed millions of devices to RCE attacks
• Chrome adds Gemini-powered scam detection and ClickFix warnings
• Microsoft Teams is getting context-aware phishing detection
• China-nexus actor linked to attack on ConnectWise cloud backup
• University of New Mexico hospital diverts ambulances after cyberattack
• solst/ICE of Astarte (@IceSolst) on X
• GitHub Repos Exposed 543,699 Credentials. Nobody Revoked Them

Oct 28, 2026 1 hr 6 min

Risky Business #856 -- 8-bit encryption, PHP megabugs and more

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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest co-host security engineer Mark El-Khoury to talk through the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

• The PHP foundation is about to release patches for a couple of critical bugs… We’re watching to see if the internet burns down
• 8 private keys underpinning some CA certs got compromised. The keys only had 8 bits of entropy!
• Is the breach-polcalypse upon us?
• OpenAI’s inside spy, Anthropic’s safety bill and election influence campaigns are coming for your chatbots
• Ukraine drone strikes hit more Russian data centres, this time VK’s in the firing line
• Much, much more!

This week’s show is brought to you by Trail of Bits. Principal Security Engineer Anish Naik joins James Wilson to chat about two agent skills plugins, Patching Bugs and Regression Hunt, that the company is releasing off the back of its joint initiative with Open AI, Patch the Planet.

This episode is also available on YouTube

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• The PHP Foundation (@ThePHPF) on X
• The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs
• OpenCode breach exposes users' external AI-provider API keys
• DHS to ban DeepSeek from federal civilian agencies
• Rob Joyce (@RGB_Lights) on X
• OpenAI engineer accused of spying on executives remains in custody
• An OpenAI Employee Allegedly Used a Chatbot to Help Plant a Recording Device at the Office
• Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers
• The next election influence campaign will target your AI chatbot
• Feds Suspect Ransom Negotiator Ran ShinyHunters Extortion Site
• Thousands of refrigerator devices remain exposed following French cyberattack
• AI agents navigated unfamiliar OT systems and moved equipment within minutes
• Microsoft and partners disrupt vast Chinese-language phishing kit ecosystem
• Feds crack down on North Korean IT-worker schemes with new raids, charges and arrests
• Federal bankruptcy courts dealing with outages after contractor cyberattack
• Russian social media giant VK faces disruptions after data center drone strike
• Data Centers Are War Targets Now
• How a Massive Chinese Crime Ring Hacked Staples to Steal Millions
• Microsoft Patches More Than 1,400 Security Flaws
• GitHub expands malware advisories across eight package ecosystems
• Hackers breach Microsoft 365 tenants via ConnectWise supply-chain attack
• AdFection: How mercenary spyware invades victims’ devices through targeted advertising
• CISA warns of new Ivanti bug being exploited as latest Patch Tuesday breaks records
• Suspected Chinese espionage attackers abusing BeyondTrust IT support zero-day
• Drupal patches critical RCE flaws and warns exploits may emerge soon
• Palo Alto Networks patches PAN-OS zero-day exploited for root-level code execution
• Eight US states sue OpenAI over alleged harms to users
• Cyberattack halts work on the Denmark–Germany Fehmarnbelt tunnel
• Ransomware groups expand targeting of Palo Alto Networks vulnerability
• DHS Said They Searched Man Who Wiped GrapheneOS Phone for Child Abuse Material. They Lied
• Trail of Bits skills plugins

Oct 21, 2026 1 hr 5 min

Risky Business #855 -- ShinyHunters done sowing, enters reaping phase

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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest co-host Brad Arkin to talk through the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

• Sacré bleu! Hackers turn up the heat at French supermarket freezers
• ShinyHunters enters “find out” stage
• Netscaler, Zimbra, SharePoint, Atlassian…. So many bugs exploited in the wild
• More models “behave badly” (by… doing exactly what we’re telling them to do)
• Ukraine hit another Yandex data centre in Russia and all those Texan patriots with numbers in their usernames have gone super quiet
• Much, much more…

This week’s show is brought to you by Corelight. Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Gregory Bell joins James Wilson to chat about the company’s new white paper that looks into whether a sophisticated model or nicely structured data is more important with automated SOC work.

This episode is also available on YouTube

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Oct 14, 2026 1 hr 6 min

Soap Box: HD Moore talks OT security, frontier fearmongering and more

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In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray chats with industry legend HD Moore about how his company runZero wound up being used heavily to discover OT devices in enterprise networks.

They also talk about the vulnpocalypse and how frontier lab fearmongering is reminiscent of the collective freakout when HD released the Metasploit exploit framework back in 2003.

This episode is also available on YouTube.

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Sep 30, 2026 34 min

Risky Business #854 -- We're Jevpilled

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THE RISKY BUSINESS WEEKLY SHOW IS NOW ON HIATUS FOR TWO WEEKS AND WILL RETURN OCTOBER 14

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by Adam Boileau to talk through the week’s news, including:

• Google’s Gemini finally did some crimes
• OpenAI admits more agents did silly things because “alignment”
• US Treasury’s Scott Bessent rules out a liability waiver for the frontier labs, saying, roughly: “Lol. Lmao even.”
• Jev is Silicon Valley’s “hot dog/not hotdog” app brought to life, and it will really improve security tooling
• The FBI and Coast Guard boarded oil tankers after they were allegedly hacked
• Much, much more…

This week’s show is brought to you by Thinkst Canary. Founder Haroon Meer joins Patrick to talk about Thinkst’s new deception tools that trick the AI agents that are targeting you. It’s actually hilarious how well deception tech works against hacking agents.

This episode is also available on YouTube

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• Google says its AI model gained unauthorized access to three outside systems | NBC News Tech
• OpenAI details more cases of AI agents taking unauthorized actions | BleepingComputer
• Researchers escape OpenAI Codex sandbox to run commands on host | BleepingComputer
• Hackers breached OpenAI, adding to fever pitch of security and safety concerns | NBC News Tech
• Treasury’s Scott Bessent says no liability exemptions for AI labs | Social Signals
• Scott Bessent meets with Chinese official on AI safety | NBC News Tech
• U.S. proposes exchanging AI safety alerts with China, Bessent says | NBC News Tech
• Trump says he’s creating an AI force and appointing a czar amid concerns over the rapidly developing tech | NBC News Tech
• AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack | Ars Technica
• Cybersecurity experts say AI giants are shutting them out of safety plans | nbcnews.to
• What Is Jev? A Guide to TypeSafe AI’s System One Model |
• FBI and Coast Guard boarded US-bound oil tankers after signs the ships were hit with cyberattacks | apnews.com
• Brevo supply-chain attack injected ClickFix scripts on customer sites | BleepingComputer
• Cisco alerts customers to second actively exploited zero-day in as many days | cyberscoop.com
• Hacking group ‘NightEagle’ targeting China’s high-tech sector expands operations to Russia | therecord.media
• Nations take action on North Korean IT workers after UN report | therecord.media
• North Korean hackers infect thousands of devices across 100 countries as part of ‘WaterPlum’ campaign | therecord.media
• An Undercover Google Analyst Infiltrated a Notorious Supply Chain Hacking Gang | wired.com
• Two arrested in UK after Microsoft takedown of ‘Eviltokens’ AI-chatbot for cybercriminals | therecord.media
• NightmareStresser DDoS Service Disrupted in International Operation | securityweek.com
• Brevo Supply Chain Attack Injects Malware Into 100,000 Websites | securityweek.com
• WordPress Click2Shell flaw lets hackers execute PHP on the server | BleepingComputer
• ShinyHunters cybercrime gang takes over Cl0p ransomware site, demands extortion payment | therecord.media
• Hacking group ShinyHunters claims it breached the FBI, stole agents’ and applicants’ data | TechCrunch Security
• Early Scattered Spider member pleads guilty to cybercrime spree | cyberscoop.com
• CISA promotes a fresh way to deter cyberattackers: Lie to them | Social Signals
• Getting agents to tell on themselves

Sep 23, 2026 55 min

Risky Business #853 -- We're all gonna die, apparently

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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by former US Cyber Command executive director turned PwC’s Cyber, Data & Technology Risk leader Morgan Adamski to talk through the week’s news, including:

• More tech guys penned more open letters and AI will destroy us all!
• Another Wednesday, another congregation of OpenAI agents on wikis… yawn
• OpenAI agents were behind the headscratching RubyGems hacking campaign in May
• The FBI will disrupt more adversary operations, NSA is creating more mission centres, lawmakers want sanctions on hackers-for-hire… Release more hounds!
• So many platforms, so many bugs, so many patches breaking other stuff
• Much, much more…

This week’s show is brought to you by Airlock Digital. Its co-founders Daniel Schell and David Cottingham join Patrick to talk about how Airlock has integrated itself with Crowdstrike via its Falcon Foundry platform.

This episode is also available on YouTube

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• AI researcher says there is 'substantial probability' AI could kill all humans in next decade | NBC News Tech
• Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier | Social Signals
• China spy chief points at US AI models in cyber threat warning | therecord.media
• Weixin Official Accounts Platform |
• Trump calls concerns over A.I. destroying humanity a “hoax” | NBC News Tech
• Dr_Gingerballs (@Dr_Gingerballs) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
• Sam Altman backs Anthropic CEO's call to slow down the global AI race | NBC News
• Anthropic: Detecting and countering misuse of AI, September 2026 | anthropic.com
• AI lets small actors run state-level hacking campaigns, Anthropic report finds | cyberscoop.com
• Users in Houthi-held Yemen tried to develop advanced weapons with AI, Anthropic says | apnews.com
• Anthropic caught Russia-linked spies using Claude in hacking operations | therecord.media
• OpenAI's rogue agents used at least 10 more sites for unauthorized comms, researchers say | reuters.com
• Researchers say OpenAI agents were behind May hacking campaign targeting RubyGems | cyberscoop.com
• Anthropic claims Moonshot, DeepSeek secretly diverted user requests to Claude | South China Morning Post
• WeWorm | Social Signals
• Hackers exploit Tencent app flaw to deploy GrayRabbit malware | BleepingComputer
• New FBI cyber strategy promises increase in adversary disruptions | Cybersecurity Dive
• US disrupts Xinbi Guarantee marketplace fueling the cyber scam economy | therecord.media
• Thorough reorganization at NSA will create five 'mission centers,' including cyber and AI | therecord.media
• Lawmakers call on Treasury to sanction hackers-for-hire | cyberscoop.com
• CISA: WatchGuard RCE flaw now exploited in ransomware attacks | BleepingComputer
• Dutch NCSC: Critical Check Point VPN flaws exploitation is imminent | BleepingComputer
• GitLab’s critical flaw is already drawing internet-wide probes | cyberscoop.com
• Cisco warns customers of actively exploited zero-day in email gateways | cyberscoop.com
• 4 groups caught using the same Chrome and Windows exploit kit | Ars Technica
• September Windows Server updates break Remote Desktop Services | BleepingComputer
• Microsoft confirms KB5002914 Excel update breaks copy and paste | BleepingComputer
• Microsoft: September updates break audio on some Windows PCs | BleepingComputer
• ClickFix attacks infecting PCs and Macs are going viral | arstechnica.com
• Passkey-themed phishing attacks lead to Microsoft 365 data theft | BleepingComputer

Sep 16, 2026 59 min

Snake Oilers: watchTowr, XBOW and CoreView

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In this edition of the Snake Oilers podcast three vendors stop by to pitch the audience on their products:

• watchTowr: We’re all familiar with watchTowr’s research, but what do they actually do?
• XBOW: The AI pentesting company pitches its approach
• CoreView: Your M365 tenant is probably a security disaster. Tame it with CoreView!

This episode is also available on YouTube.

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Sep 11, 2026 42 min

Risky Business #852 -- Cyber Command wants to buy shells

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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by guest co-host Robby Winchester from SpecterOps to talk through the week’s news, including:

• ID verification company IDScan was breached and 153m driver licenses wound up for sale online. Cue the barrage of lawsuits
• The US government plans to pay private contractors to conduct military hacks
• The US accuses China of distillation attacks, a.k.a. forbidden training
• It’s Wednesday, so OpenAI’s agents escaped sandboxes again and passed notes around on a German Wiki
• Much, much more…

This week’s show is brought to you by Sublime Security. Sublime’s head of detection engineering Randy Pargman joins the show to chat about how the company is preparing for prompt injection attacks to move from being largely theoretical to commonplace.

This episode is also available on YouTube

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• FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses | Krebs on Security
• IDScan sued over alleged data breach affecting 153 million drivers | BleepingComputer
• Senate Considers Allowing Contractors to Conduct Military Hacks | bloomberg.com
• Feds accuse China of ‘systematic’ distillation of U.S. AI models | cyberscoop.com
• Dropbox accounts breached through Lenovo email verification flaw | BleepingComputer
• FBI raises alarm over deceptive phishing campaign targeting prominent people | cyberscoop.com
• Microsoft warns of TerminalFix attacks deploying reverse tunnels | BleepingComputer
• OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki | arstechnica.com
• OpenAI releases new model that it says triggered internal security measures | NBC News Tech
• Trump may be forced to reveal secret rules feds use for AI safety testing | Social Signals
• Microsoft posts nearly 1,000 bugs for Patch Tuesday as CISA warns two being exploited | therecord.media
• Security Incident – BGP Hijacking – Virtualizor |
• Coder's registry infrastructure compromised to push malicious modules | BleepingComputer
• Pegasus, NoviSpy variant spyware found on devices of Serbian activists | cyberscoop.com
• European parliament members call for slowdown of Serbia’s EU entry over spyware use | CyberScoop
• New pro-Ukraine hacker group targets Russian companies with custom ransomware | therecord.media
• US military disabled ad tracking on troops’ devices following reports of targeted attacks | TechCrunch Security
• New CrowdStrike 'FalconFlank' zero-day grants SYSTEM privileges | BleepingComputer
• A hacker stole $340M in a crypto heist, then returned most of it | TechCrunch Security
• ‘White hat’ hackers take $47 million bounty after $320 million crypto theft | therecord.media

Sep 9, 2026 1 hr 3 min

Risky Business #851 -- Agents are just ones and zeros, and tigers are just atoms

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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by guest co-host The Grugq to talk through the week’s news, including:

• Two alleged TeamPCP hackers got arrested in Australia
• The White House has a plan to boost security for water facilities, but we can’t see it working
• OpenAI keeps the ol’ Hugging Face discourse going for another week with an incident debrief
• Tech companies write another open letter about AI… we’re getting CISA Shields Up flashbacks, but for robots
• Much, much more…

This week’s show is brought to you by Ent AI. Co-founder Brandon Dixon joins Pat to talk through some of the absolutely wild fraud and abuse the company’s endpoint security tool is finding when it’s deployed inside large organisations.

This episode is also available on YouTube

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• Two Alleged ‘TeamPCP’ Hackers Arrested in Australia | krebsonsecurity.com
• How Brian Krebs doxxed TeamPCP - Risky Business Media | Social Signals
• FIRST ON FOX: Texas becomes testing ground for new defense against attacks on America’s water systems | Social Signals
• OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack Debrief Raises More Questions Than It Answers | wired.com
• The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations |
• clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
• Matthew Zeitlin (@MattZeitlin) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
• 100-plus companies call for ‘global surge’ in AI-powered cyber defense | CyberScoop
• China's AI-Enabled APT Operations Are Getting Interesting - Risky Business Media |
• SilkParasite: Tracking a China-Nexus APT Across Central Asia |
• DoD confirms ‘refrigeration disruption’ at military commissaries | Military Times
• Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks | arstechnica.com
• Ukraine to give Britain access to battlefield data to train AI | therecord.media
• Anthropic warns infostealer malware is hijacking Claude sessions to drain usage | BleepingComputer
• White House bans foreign-made equipment for power generation over cyber backdoor concerns | therecord.media
• Large DDoS attack knocks Norwegian public services offline | The Record
• Researchers warn about chained SharePoint sequence | Cybersecurity Dive
• PaperCut warns of hackers using printer management software flaw in attacks | therecord.media
• AnonyMousKIT PhaaS uses voice AI agents to phish iPhone passcodes | BleepingComputer
• Slovenian casinos reopen after cyberattack knocked gaming systems offline | therecord.media
• DOJ firearms agency says hackers breached system containing investigation targets | therecord.media

Sep 2, 2026 59 min

Risky Business #850 -- Widespread AI-enabled attacks target Siemens PLCs

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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by guest co-host Ollie Whitehouse, the CTO of the UK’s NCSC, to talk through the week’s news, including:

• Iranian hackers take down a small-scale power generator in the UK
• Siemens PLCs in critical US sectors are also being targeted… We’re stumped on who could be behind that one, too.
• Microsoft fixed a CVSS 10 deserialisation bug in Entra before someone else found it and owned the planet
• Prompt injection isn’t going away
• LLMs are deceiving us meat sacks and it’s a worry
• Much, much more…

This week’s show is brought to you by Okta. VP of Threat Intel Brett Winterford joins the show in this week’s sponsor interview to talk James through how the company is turning its plethora of accumulated data into free alerting for its customers. They also chat about Okta’s new threat intelligence product line.

This episode is also available on YouTube

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Aug 26, 2026 1 hr 3 min

Risky Business #849 -- Trump will unleash contractors on cybercriminals

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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by guest co-host Dmitri Alperovitch to talk through the week’s news, including:

Trump’s memo authorising the private sector to release the cyber hounds is fine, don’t worry! OpenAI finally decides to add a few safety measures after the whole “oopsie we committed some felonies” thing Anthropic’s models start a turf war when given the same task, surprising… nobody We can’t figure out whether a device that can hack a 737 is showboating stunt hacking or … something more real-world cool. Or both. Or something. Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by threat hunt and detection platform Nebulock. Founder and CEO Damien Lewke joins Pat to chat about what it looks like when you try to reinvent the SIEM in 2026 on a clean sheet of paper.

This episode is also available on YouTube

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• Trump signs memo authorizing private sector to launch cyberattacks | washingtonpost.com
• Trump taps cyber firms to go on offensive against criminals | therecord.media
• OpenAI Overhauls Safety Protocols After Its AI Agents Went Rogue | wired.com
• Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities |
• Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war. | TechCrunch Security
• Researchers observe first ‘near-autonomous’ AI attack on government target in Taiwan | cyberscoop.com
• Researchers find AI-powered hacking tools for sale in underground forums | Cybersecurity Dive
• Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack | arstechnica.com
• Trivy, Not LiteLLM Behind the 2,500 Org Compromise | securityweek.com
• Ukraine says cyberattack hit Russian e-commerce giant Wildberries amid drone strikes | The Record
• ‘Unprecedented’ number of Apple users received recent spyware alert, say investigators | TechCrunch Security
• This Coin-Sized Device Can Hack a Boeing 737 | wired.com
• "City-Forum" data-theft attacks target Salesforce, ServiceNow portals | BleepingComputer
• Max severity SAP Commerce Cloud flaw now targeted in attacks | BleepingComputer
• Shell investigates 'potential incident' after Clop data theft claims | BleepingComputer
• Philips and GE investigating Clop ransomware data theft claims | BleepingComputer
• Uber Freight reportedly investigating after hacking group claims data breach | TechCrunch Security
• Details emerge on BlackFile’s recent attacks on financial companies | cyberscoop.com
• After Microsoft threatened legal action, a security researcher publishes a new Windows zero-day bug | TechCrunch Security
• Kimwolf botnet rebuilt to survive takedowns, researchers say | cyberscoop.com
• Hundreds of fake Chrome VPN extensions route traffic through a proxy | BleepingComputer
• Deepfake hiccup unmasks suspected digital certificate fraudster | theregister.com
• Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation | arstechnica.com
• Critical VMware vCenter RCE flaw exploited for reverse SSH access | BleepingComputer
• Poland probes MyDr healthcare software breach potentially affecting 19 million people | therecord.media
• Crypto hardware wallet owners face fresh security risks after recent spate of personal data thefts | TechCrunch Security
• [un]prompted.au — AI × Cybersecurity Conference · Sydney, 18–19 September 2026 | [un]prompted.au

Aug 19, 2026 59 min

Soap Box: Zero Trust(ish) Networks

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In this Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast host Patrick Gray chats with Adam Pointon, CEO of Knocknoc, about the failure of Zero Trust as a comprehensive architecture.

Most networks look like they were designed in 1999, and most Zero Trust products look like they were designed for 2049.

Instead, Patrick and Adam pitch something in the middle: Zero Trust(ish) networks, where Zero Trust principles are applied selectively where possible.

Instead of trying to re-architect entire networks, maybe it’s time we learned to apply Zero Trust principles selectively against risky assets. It’s a better approach than the status quo, which involves liberal use of the “risk accepted” stamp.

This episode is also available on YouTube

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Aug 14, 2026 29 min

Risky Business #848 -- OpenAI comes clean

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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by guest co-host Brad Arkin to talk through the week’s news, including:

• The AI-agent-hacks-stuff saga continues. This week we have one booting gymgoers from full classes to nab its owner a spot
• Somehow OpenAI’s legal team allowed the company to spill all the Hugging Face tea at BlackHat and it’s hot and delicious
• More details emerge about Iran’s hacking campaign against US water utilities, but Brad is unimpressed
• It turns out TeamPCP has been around longer than we thought and predates the AI era
• Some absolute plonker kept the DEFCON party going on a Delta flight home. No word yet on if they made the plane fly sideways
• Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by cloud security platform Prowler. Founder and CEO Toni de la Fuente chats about what the company is doing with AI and some of the cool ways customers are using it with Prowler.

This episode is also available on YouTube

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• How a simple request for AI to book a gym class exposed a major threat | Social Signals
• OK, Well, There Are Even More AI Agent Hacking Incidents | wired.com
• OpenAI BlackHat talk re Hugging Face incident |
• OpenAI says Daybreak will expand to offer specialized cyber services | CyberScoop
• Cyberattacks targeting water systems expand to 12 states as South Dakota, Georgia announce incidents | therecord.media
• Cyberattack on North Carolina Ports ‘contained’ as Coast Guard, state officials investigate | therecord.media
• Local governments in four states dealing with cyberattacks that have shut down services | The Record
• Follow-Up Report of the December 2025 Energy Sector Incident | CERT Polska
• Chinese telcos maintain deep US presence despite Salt Typhoon links, House committee says | The Record
• State Department says Trump raised cyber scam compound issue with Xi | therecord.media
• Open-source software’s archenemy TeamPCP goes back further than anyone thought | CyberScoop
• A Security Pro Hacked North Korean Hackers. He Found They’d Breached Hundreds of Networks Worldwide | wired.com
• Srsly Risky Biz: Being a North Korean Hacker Is About to Be Less Fun - Risky Business Media |
• Chrome adopts what may be the best protection yet against account takeovers | Ars Technica
• CSS:the bomb inside your inbox | PortSwigger Research
• Security update available for Metabase - Please upgrade now | Social Signals
• Canadian man pleads guilty to Snowflake hacks that led to 165 breaches | therecord.media
• British ‘Com’ member who abused more than 100 girls worldwide jailed for two years | therecord.media
• FBI says cybercriminals are hacking into victims’ online accounts to steal their intimate pictures | TechCrunch Security
• AI is getting better at election facts, but voters shouldn’t rely on it | CyberScoop
• The FTC wants to regulate AI for ideological bias | cyberscoop.com
• US and South Korea warn of Gunra ransomware targeting govt agencies | BleepingComputer
• CISA: Microsoft SharePoint flaw now exploited in ransomware attacks | BleepingComputer
• CISA: SonicWall SMA1000 flaws now exploited by ransomware gangs | BleepingComputer
• N-able N-central exploitation results in RMM tool deployment | Sophos
• Delta investigating after someone set up fake Wi-Fi network mid-flight | TechCrunch Security
• mcp-dashboard-demo/prompt/prowler_dashboard_prompt.md at main · prowler-cloud/mcp-dashboard-demo | GitHub

Aug 12, 2026 1 hr

Risky Business #847 -- Oops! Claude's accidental hacking spree

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On this week’s show Patrick Gray, and James Wilson are joined by bearded man of leisure Adam Boileau to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

• Accidental AI agent hacking sprees have the world’s media freaking out, but we think it’s all pretty funny
• The bugpocalypse is so chaotic, Microsoft can’t patch fast enough
• A ColdCard wallet flaw led to millions in Bitcoin theft, but the back story behind the bug is bonkers
• Iran hacks and disrupts water infrastructure in multiple American states
• North Korea’s state-backed hackers turn criminal. Or their criminals turn into state-backed hackers. Or something. It’s all a bit confusing, actually.
• Much, much more!

This week’s show is brought to you by Sondera. Co-founder Josh Devon joins Patrick and James to talk through some absolutely hilarious LLM horror stories.

This episode is also available on YouTube

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• OpenAI says rogue agent behind Hugging Face hack broke into additional services | therecord.media
• Anthropic Says Claude Hacked Real Systems During Cybersecurity Tests | wired.com
• Claude uploaded malware to PyPI in Anthropic's botched test | BleepingComputer
• Nobody Knows if OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s AI Hacking Sprees Are Illegal | wired.com
• Scanning 7.6 Petabytes of HuggingFace Training Data for Secrets Truffle Security Co. |
• Anthropic’s New AI Model Can Identify More Software Bugs Than Ever. Microsoft Is Struggling to Fix Them Fast Enough. | Social Signals
• Chrome Needs Twice-a-Week Patching Thanks to AI Bug Hunting | wired.com
• Google says it fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI | TechCrunch Security
• Mythos uncovers crypto weaknesses that went unknown for years | arstechnica.com
• COLDCARD wallet RNG flaw likely linked to $88 million Bitcoin theft | BleepingComputer
• Chris Masterjohn (@ChrisMasterjohn) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
• wale.moca 🐳 (@waleswoosh) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
• U.S. spy agencies suspect Iran launched cyberattack on Minnesota water facilities | washingtonpost.com
• FBI investigates as Michigan joins Minnesota in reporting cyberattacks on its water systems | washingtonpost.com
• Trump blames Minnesota for cyberattacks on water sector, drawing pushback from cyber world | cyberscoop.com
• A Leaked Memo Ties Cyberattacks on Minnesota Water Utilities to Iran | wired.com
• Russia accuses Telegram founder of aiding terrorism, seeks international arrest | The Record
• Laundry Bear’s webmail hackers had more in store after February, report says | therecord.media
• CaptiveCrunch: Midnight Blizzard targets travelers worldwide for malware delivery and credential theft | Microsoft Security Blog
• Phishing service spoofs RingCentral to steal Microsoft 365 accounts | BleepingComputer
• North Korean hackers behind major open-source supply chain attacks, Amazon says | therecord.media
• North Korea’s Lazarus Group sharing tools with ransomware hackers, South Korean agencies warn | The Record
• North Korea arrests hackers accused of laundering stolen bank funds through crypto |
• US government bans new foreign-made humanoids, robot dogs, and solar inverters, citing risks to national security | TechCrunch Security
• Judge says Trump admin still lacks evidence for Anthropic 'supply chain risk' label | TechCrunch
• Cyber Command plans Silicon Valley office to drive innovation | therecord.media
• Apple is getting this wrong | OpenAI
• Tech industry alliance proposes AI agent safety reporting program | Cybersecurity Dive
• Massive ChainDrop npm supply-chain attack infects hundreds of packages | BleepingComputer
• Massive supply-chain attack compromises 440 packages under four hours | cyberscoop.com

Aug 5, 2026 1 hr 8 min

Risky Business #846 -- OpenAI built a fireplace out of wood

Show notes

On this week’s show special guest co-host Pete Ranks, the former director of the CIA’s Centre for Cyber Intelligence, joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:

• Everyone signs the open weights open letter, except Anthropic… of course.
• OpenAI had no idea it had hacked Hugging Face
• Kimi K3 open weights released and they’re massive!
• Why a more aggressive response is needed to cyber attacks on OT
• And much, much more!

This week’s show is brought to you by SpecterOps. In this week’s sponsor interview Justin Kohler and Jared Atkinson talk about how SpecterOps’ Bloodhound now supports AWS attack paths. Run it against your AWS infra, but only if you have a strong stomach. The results will terrify you.

This episode is also available on YouTube.

Show notes

• Open Weights and American AI Leadership | Social Signals
• Our position on open-weights models | Social Signals
• Halvar Flake (@halvarflake) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
• White House accuses Chinese company of distilling Anthropic’s Fable | cyberscoop.com
• Jensen Huang (@JensenHuang) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
• Its AI Agent Spent Days Hacking a Company, but Sources Say OpenAI Did Not Notice for a Week | reuters.com
• How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face | TechCrunch Security
• Hugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after ‘unprecedented’ OpenAI hack | TechCrunch Security
• Sens. Banks and Schiff Introduce Bill to Help American AI Companies Combat Chinese Espionage |
• AI Kill Switch Act would let Trump admin order shutdown of rogue AI systems | Ars Technica
• Marco Rubio tells diplomats to play down talk of American tech "kill switch" | reuters.com
• Federal agencies broaden alert on Iran-linked OT attacks | therecord.media
• Coordinated cyberattack disrupts water utilities in 30+ Minnesota communities | CyberScoop
• NSA and Partners Alert Zimbra Collaboration Suite Users of a Russian State-Supported Phishing Campaign | nsa.gov
• Hackers hijack hotel Wi-Fi DNS to steal Microsoft 365 accounts | BleepingComputer
• Microsoft responds to LG monitors installing McAfee ads on Windows | Ars Technica
• LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps | krebsonsecurity.com
• Despite multiple takedowns, botnets continue to grow | cyberscoop.com
• Extension of CISA 2015 info-sharing protections passes as part of House’s defense bill | therecord.media
• Upbound says hack caused $13 million in fraudulent Acima leases | BleepingComputer
• Fake Claude app promoted by Bing ads pushes SectopRAT malware | BleepingComputer
• Apple sued over fake App Store crypto wallet app stealing $1.8M in Bitcoin | BleepingComputer
• Clop ransomware targets Windchill, FlexPLM in data theft attacks | BleepingComputer
• 'Wrench' attacks against crypto holders appear to be on the rise | therecord.media
• OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face | wired.com

Jul 29, 2026 1 hr 2 min

Risky Business #845 -- OpenAI's Skynet moment

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On this week’s show special guest co-host Chris Krebs joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:

• Oopsie daisy! OpenAI agents went rogue and hacked Hugging Face
• US and China trade AI model ban threats
• Iran has been using SS7 queries to locate and target US troops
• Scattered Spider is having a hard time, not just because of Microsoft’s GDID
• And much, much more!

This week’s show is brought to you by Push Security. Luke Jennings joins Patrick this week to talk about the rise in authorisation phishing, like device code phishing, and what companies like Push are doing about it.

This episode is also available on YouTube.

Show notes

• OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation | openai.com
• Security incident disclosure — July 2026 | Social Signals
• Hugging Face confirms breach affected internal datasets and credentials, urges users to take action | TechCrunch Security
• Cheating behaviour in frontier model evaluations | AISI Work | Social Signals
• JADEPUFFER: Agentic ransomware for automated database extortion | Sysdig | Social Signals
• Secret Claude tracker shocks users after Anthropic's anti-surveillance stance | Ars Technica
• EXCLUSIVE: Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say | reuters.com
• https://www.axios.com/2026/07/20/ai-us-china-open-source-kimi |
• Alibaba to ban employees from using Anthropic's coding tool, source says | reuters.com
• Iran abused mobile networks’ vulnerabilities to locate U.S. military in the Middle East, report says | TechCrunch Security
• Apps Marketed to US Troops Are Shipping Chinese and Russian Code | wired.com
• Trump calls for new election security measures | NBC News Tech
• Scattered Spider hackers sentenced to 5.5 years over £29 million Transport for London hack | therecord.media
• Alleged longstanding member of Scattered Spider extradited to US | CyberScoop
• https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/media/1450651/dl?inline |
• Tracking Peter Stokes and The Com: Allison Nixon and Her Work Unmasking Cybercriminals | zetter-zeroday.com
• 764 splinter group leader sentenced to 40 years in jail | cyberscoop.com
• Interpol cybercrime crackdown nets 5,800 arrests across 97 countries | cyberscoop.com
• White House details ‘Gold Eagle’ clearinghouse for AI cyber threats | cyberscoop.com
• Attackers vote themselves $20 million in BONK cryptocurrency | The Record
• CISA: Microsoft SharePoint RCE flaw now actively exploited | BleepingComputer
• Critical SharePoint RCE flaw exploited to steal machine keys | BleepingComputer
• Hackers are exploiting recently patched WordPress bugs, putting millions of websites at risk | TechCrunch Security
• Critical ServiceNow code execution flaw now exploited in attacks | BleepingComputer
• Critical Palo Alto VPN bug now exploited by Qilin ransomware gang | BleepingComputer
• Anubis ransomware claims Coca-Cola Fairlife attack, threatens data leak | BleepingComputer
• IPhone Hacking Firm Sues Ex-Worker Over Alleged Theft of Secrets | bloomberg.com
• Apple says former employee exploited ‘rare’ bug to download confidential files after leaving for OpenAI | TechCrunch Security
• Pegasus Spyware European Parliament Pega Committee Member | The Record
• Amazon fixing bug that billed some AWS customers billions of dollars | TechCrunch Security
• Risky Bulletin: Hacker wipes Romania's entire land registry database - Risky Business Media | Social Signals
• Microsoft Entra ID gets passkeys default authentication starting September | BleepingComputer
• On-demand Webinar: Device code phishing in 2026 | Push Security | Push Security

Jul 22, 2026 1 hr 10 min

Soap Box: Using threat hunting to drive detection

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In this wholly sponsored Soap Box edition of the podcast Patrick Gray chats with Damien Lewke, the CEO and founder of Nebulock, about the future of threat hunting and detection.

Damien spent a decade in the EDR and MDR space before founding Nebulock in 2024. It started off as an AI-powered threat hunt platform but has evolved into a broader security data platform that can answer questions, drive hunts and drive detections.

This product is engineered around the idea that a lot of security is a data problem. So, if we accept this premise, how do we solve security? And how much of that solution is about agents, vs building a good graph? And if you’re going to build a good graph, do you want to build it for a person to use, or an agent to use?

This is truly a conversation for the security nerd’s nerd. Enjoy!

This episode is also available on YouTube

Show notes

Jul 8, 2026 35 min

Risky Business #844 -- China closes AI vulndev gap as USA lifts Fable ban

Show notes

On this week’s show Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:

• Anthropic’s Fable 5 returning while OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 gets thrown in model jail
• Distillation, cheap tokens, and AI chat harvesting is an industry in China
• Edge becomes a lolbin via a new malicious extension
• An Iranian APT boss’s vacation in a beautiful place goes wrong
• Much, much more!

In this week’s sponsor interview Daf Stuttard and Katie Warren from Portswigger pop along to talk about how they built an AI security testing product that people would actually feel comfortable using.

This episode is also available on YouTube.

Show notes

• Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
• Howard Lutnick (@howardlutnick) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
• U.S. government gives Anthropic green light for limited re-release of Mythos 5 | NBC News Tech
• OpenAI limits GPT-5.6 rollout after government request | TechCrunch
• The U.S. government will decide who gets to use the latest American AI technology | washingtonpost.com
• Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities | reut.rs
• How to Buy Cheap Claude Tokens in China |
• Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
• Synthesis of Exploitarium Mass Zero-Day Disclosure | detections.ai
• Mythos on your desk? Using local LLMs for code reviews | Risky Business Media
• Beyond Fable: Can a Local LLM Replace Cloud AI for Security Code Reviews | Security Research Labs
• Accelerating EDR Evasion with LLM-Driven Analysis | SpecterOps
• CISA: Windows BlueHammer flaw now exploited by ransomware gangs | BleepingComputer
• When cybercriminals hire burglars: Inside an alleged Russian effort to infiltrate multibillion-dollar US law firms | CNN Politics | Social Signals
• Microsoft quietly extends free Windows 10 ESU support to October 2027 | BleepingComputer
• Edgecution: Malicious Edge Extension Backdoor | ThreatLabz | Social Signals
• Bluekit phishing kit adopts browser-in-the-middle for login theft | BleepingComputer
• New macOS malware embeds fake errors to confuse AI analysis tools | BleepingComputer
• DraftKings hacker 'Snoopy' sentenced to 18 months in prison | BleepingComputer
• Polymarket says hackers stole users’ funds | TechCrunch Security
• Australia's spy chief warns of rising terror and cyber threats | japantimes.co.jp
• Russian hackers were behind $2.5 billion hack of Jaguar Land Rover: Report | TechCrunch Security
• Iranian national sought by US on hacking charges arrested in Montenegro | apnews.com
• [un]prompted.au - AI x CyberSecurity: Notes from the Field: Call for Speakers |

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