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Between Two Nerds: The perfect hacker Sep 01, 2026

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In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about how AI is the perfect hacker, but what makes it perfect for states is the opposite of what makes it perfect for criminals.

This episode is also available on YouTube.

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Risky Bulletin: New powers for Dutch intelligence services Aug 31, 2026

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Dutch intelligence services will get new powers, a security expert has been arrested in Israel for hacking, the BTS hacker gets a 20 year sentence in South Korea, and an AfD politician in Germany has been linked to a Russian cybercrime hosting service.

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Risky Bulletin: Dutch intel services to get extensive new powers

Sponsored: Attackers need to be right more than once Aug 31, 2026

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In this Risky Business sponsored interview, James Wilson chats with Dropzone AI’s founder and CEO Edward Wu to debunk the adage, “an attacker only has to be right once”. Modern intruders need to be successful across multiple steps before actually reaching an organisation’s “crown jewels”.

The pair chat about where AI helps attackers, why autonomous post-compromise agents aren’t quite here yet, and how AI can bolster the capacity of security teams when investigating alerts and reducing response times.

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Risky Bulletin: Two TeamPCP members arrested in Australia Aug 28, 2026

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Two members of TeamPCP arrested in Australia, Qilin hits the US firearms agency, America seizes two more Chinese botnets, CISA says most cyber activity is opportunistic.

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Risky Bulletin: Two TeamPCP members arrested in Australia

Srsly Risky Biz: China's AI-Enabled APT Operations Are Getting Interesting Aug 27, 2026

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Tom Uren and James Wilson talk about evidence that Chinese APT groups are using AI in a really sensible way, to beef up their malware arsenal. This will make it harder for threat intel firms to cluster activity for attribution.

They also discuss the US disrupting Iranian hackers by revealing that some of them are hacking the country’s own firms. That’s a new tactic, but making that information public in a Treasury Department sanctions package doesn’t really make sense.

This episode is also available on YouTube

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Risky Bulletin: Russia starts blocking DoH and DoT Aug 26, 2026

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Russia begins blocking the DoH and DoT protocols, Russian hacktivists leak Spanish police and military personnel data, China and South Korea detain a vishing gang, and AI malware is not that common.

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Risky Bulletin: Russia starts blocking DoH and DoT

Between Two Nerds: Attribution is dead, long live attribution Aug 25, 2026

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In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about whether the increasing use of AI will make it harder for forensics teams to determine who is responsible for a hack.

This episode is also available on YouTube.

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Risky Bulletin: Expired credit cards can be used for malicious transactions Aug 24, 2026

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Expired credit cards can be used for malicious transactions, Iranian hackers shut down a UK power plant, the Lazarus Group hacks South Korea’s Presidential Office, and an Android malware strain is infecting smart cars.

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Risky Bulletin: Expired cards can be used for new transactions

Sponsored: Passkeys won’t stop authorisation phishing Aug 24, 2026

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In this Risky Business sponsored interview, James Wilson chats with Luke Jennings, Push Security’s VP of Research, about how stronger authentication is pushing attackers towards the authorisation layer.

Device code phishing is on the rise. Luke explains how these attacks can survive passkeys and phishing-resistant MFA and, importantly, how defenders can check if their controls against these attacks actually work.

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Risky Bulletin: US warns of AI-assisted attacks against Siemens PLCs Aug 21, 2026

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The US warns of AI-aided attacks against Siemens PLCs, hackers breach Latvia’s road traffic agency, a new hacking tool enrolls an attacker’s passkey to your account, and academics find source code overlaps between Geedge devices and China’s Great Firewall