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    Risky Business

    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 #801 -- AI models can hack well now and it's weirding us out Aug 06, 2025
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    On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. Google security engineering VP Heather Adkins drops by to talk about their AI bug hunter, and Risky Business producer Amberleigh Jack makes her main show debut.

    This episode explores the rise of AI-powered bug hunting:

    • Google’s Project Zero and Deepmind team up to find and report 20 bugs to open source projects
    • The XBOW AI bug hunting platform sees success on HackerOne
    • Is an AI James Kettle on the horizon?

    There’s also plenty of regular cybersecurity news to discuss:

    • On-prem Sharepoint’s codebase is maintained out of China… awkward!
    • China frets about the US backdooring its NVIDIA chips, how you like ‘dem apples, China?
    • SonicWall advises customers to turn off their VPNs
    • Hardware controlling Dell laptop fingerprint and card readers has nasty driver bugs
    • Russia uses its ISPs to in-the-middle embassy computers and backdoor ‘em.
    • The Russian government pushes VK’s Max messenger for everything

    This week’s show is sponsored by device management platform Devicie. Head of Solutions Sean Ollerton talks through the impending Windows 10 apocalypse, as Microsoft ends mainstream support. He says Windows 11 isn’t as scary as people make out, but if the update isn’t on your radar now, time is running out.

    This episode is also available on Youtube.

    Show notes

    • Google says its AI-based bug hunter found 20 security vulnerabilities | TechCrunch
    • Is XBOW’s success the beginning of the end of human-led bug hunting? Not yet. | CyberScoop
    • James Kettle on X: "There I am being careful to balance hyping my talk without going too far and then this gets published 😂 maybe the countdown timer is just too ominous!
    • Risky Bulletin: China with the accusations again - Risky Business Media
    • 美情报机构频繁对我国防军工领域实施网络攻击窃密
    • SharePoint Exploit: Microsoft Used China-Based Engineers to Maintain the Software — ProPublica
    • China fears Nvidia chips could track, trace and shut down its AIs - Asia Times
    • SonicWall urges customers to take VPN devices offline after ransomware incidents | The Record from Recorded Future News
    • Gen 7 SonicWall Firewalls – SSLVPN Recent Threat Activity
    • ReVault! When your SoC turns against you…
    • Nearly 100,000 ChatGPT Conversations Were Searchable on Google
    • Microsoft catches Russian hackers targeting foreign embassies - Ars Technica
    • The Kremlin’s Most Devious Hacking Group Is Using Russian ISPs to Plant Spyware | WIRED
    • Frozen in transit: Secret Blizzard’s AiTM campaign against diplomats | Microsoft Security Blog
    • Russia blocks popular US-made internet speed test tool over national security concerns | The Record from Recorded Future News
    Soap Box: Why AI can't fix bad security products Aug 01, 2025
    Show notes

    In this Soap Box edition of the show Patrick Gray chats with the CEO of email security company Sublime Security, Josh Kamdjou. They talk about where AI is useful, where it isn’t, and why AI can’t save vendors from their bad product design choices.

    This episode is also available on Youtube.

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    Risky Business #800 — The SharePoint bug may have leaked from Microsoft MAPP Jul 30, 2025
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    On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news:

    • Did the SharePoint bug leak out of the Microsoft MAPP program?
    • Expel retracts its FIDO bypass writeup
    • The mess surrounding the women-only dating-safety app Tea gets worse
    • Broadcom customers struggle to get patches for VMWare hypervisor escapes
    • Aeroflot gets hacked by the Cyber Partisans, disrupting flights

    This week’s episode is sponsored by Push Security. Daniel Cuthbert joins and explains how having telemetry about identity from inside the browser is a key pillar for investigating intrusions in the browser-centric future.

    This episode is also available on Youtube.

    Show notes

    • Microsoft Probing Whether Cyber Alert Tipped Off Chinese Hackers
    • Microsoft says Warlock ransomware deployed in SharePoint attacks as governments scramble | The Record from Recorded Future News
    • What we know about the Microsoft SharePoint attacks | Cybersecurity Dive
    • An important update (and apology) on our PoisonSeed blog
    • Tea User Files Class Action After Women’s Safety App Exposes Data
    • A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating
    • Top Lawyer for National Security Agency Is Fired
    • From Help Desk to Hypervisor: Defending Your VMware vSphere Estate from UNC3944
    • VMware prevents some perpetual license holders from downloading patches
    • Pro-Ukrainian hackers take credit for attack that snarls Russian flight travel - Ars Technica
    • КИБЕРУДАР ПО АЭРОФЛОТУ РФ!v
    • Treasury sanctions North Koreans involved in IT-worker schemes | Cybersecurity Dive
    • Minnesota governor activates National Guard amid St. Paul cyberattack | StateScoop
    • Outage was result of cyberattack, Post Luxembourg says
    • Clorox files $380 million suit blaming Cognizant for 2023 cyberattack | Cybersecurity Dive
    • Cisco network access security platform vulnerabilities under active exploitation | CyberScoop
    • Arizona woman sentenced to 8.5 years for running North Korean laptop farm | The Record from Recorded Future News
    • Cybercrime forum Leak Zone publicly exposed its users' IP addresses | TechCrunch
    Risky Business #799 -- Everyone's Sharepoint gets shelled Jul 23, 2025
    Show notes

    Risky Biz returns after two weeks off, and there sure is cybersecurity news to catch up on. Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss:

    • Microsoft tried to make outsourcing the Pentagon’s cloud maintenance to China okay (it was not)
    • She shells Sharepoint by the sea-shore (by ‘she’ we mean ‘China’)
    • Four (alleged) Scattered Spider members arrested (and bailed) in the UK
    • Hackers spend $2700 to buy creds for a Brazilian payment system, steal $100M
    • Fortinet has SQLI in the auth header, Citrix mem leak is weaponised, HP hardcodes creds and Sonicwalls get user-moderootkits. Just security vendor things!

    This week’s episode is sponsored by Airlock Digital. CEO David Cottingham talks through what it takes to build a mature, resilient management platform for a security critical system.

    This episode is also available on Youtube.

    Show notes

    • Update on DOD’s cloud services
    • Microsoft to stop using engineers in China for tech support of US military, Hegseth orders review
    • A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers
    • While DOD policy bans unauthorized apps like TikTok from being on employees phones over national security risks
    • Microsoft Fix Targets Attacks on SharePoint Zero-Day – Krebs on Security
    • National Guard was hacked by China's 'Salt Typhoon' group, DHS says
    • Suspected contractor for China’s Hafnium group arrested in in Italy | Cybersecurity Dive
    • Singapore accuses Chinese state-backed hackers of attacking critical infrastructure networks | The Record from Recorded Future News
    • UK Arrests Four in ‘Scattered Spider’ Ransom Group – Krebs on Security
    • Four people bailed after arrests over cyber attacks on M&S, Co-op and Harrods
    • Brazilian police arrest IT worker over $100 million cyber theft | The Record from Recorded Future News
    • At Least 750 US Hospitals Faced Disruptions During Last Year’s CrowdStrike Outage, Study Finds | WIRED
    • Hacker returns cryptocurrency stolen from GMX exchange after $5 million bounty payment | The Record
    • Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX says $44 million stolen from reserves | The Record
    • Chainalysis: $2.17 billion in crypto stolen in first half of 2025, driven by North Korean hacks | The Record
    • PoisonSeed bypassing FIDO keys to ‘fetch’ user accounts
    • Risky Bulletin: Browser extensions hijacked for web scraping botnet
    • A Startup is Selling Data Hacked from Peoples’ Computers to Debt Collectors
    • A surveillance vendor was caught exploiting a new SS7 attack to track people's phone locations | TechCrunch
    • Ukrainian hackers wipe databases at Russia's Gazprom in major cyberattack, intelligence source says
    • File transfer company CrushFTP warns of zero-day exploit seen in the wild | The Record
    • HPE warns of hardcoded passwords in Aruba access points
    • Pre-Auth SQL Injection to RCE - Fortinet FortiWeb Fabric Connector (CVE-2025-25257)
    • Researchers, CISA confirm active exploitation of critical Citrix Netscaler flaw | Cybersecurity Dive
    • Google finds custom backdoor being installed on SonicWall network devices - Ars Technica
    • Hackers Can Remotely Trigger the Brakes on American Trains and the Problem Has Been Ignored for Years
    Risky Biz Soap Box: Prowler, the open cloud security platform Jul 15, 2025
    Show notes

    In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray chats with Toni de la Fuente, founder of open source multi-cloud security product Prowler.

    Toni explains how Prowler came to be, and how its journey followed his own learning about the cloud. The pair also discuss Prowler’s successful transition from an open-source project into a community, and now a growing business with an as-a-service platform.

    This episode is also available on Youtube.

    Show notes

    Risky Business #798 -- Mexican cartel surveilled the FBI to identify, kill witnesses Jul 02, 2025
    Show notes

    On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news:

    • Australian airline Qantas looks like it got a Scattered Spider-ing
    • Microsoft works towards blunting the next CrowdStrike disaster
    • Changes are coming for Microsoft’s default enterprise app consenting setup
    • Synology downplays hardcoded passwords for its M365 cloud backup agent
    • The next Citrix Netscaler memory disclosure looks nasty
    • Drug cartels used technical surveillance to find, fix and finish FBI informants and witnesses

    This week’s episode is sponsored by RAD Security. Co-founder Jimmy Mesta joins to talk through how they use AI automation to assess the security posture of sprawling cloud environments.

    This episode is also available on Youtube.

    Show notes

    • Qantas hit by cyber attack, leaving 6 million customer records at risk of data breach
    • Scattered Spider appears to pivot toward aviation sector | Cybersecurity Dive
    • Microsoft to make Windows more resilient following 2024 IT outage | Cybersecurity Dive
    • (384) The Ultimate Guide to App Consent in Microsoft Entra - YouTube
    • When Backups Open Backdoors: Accessing Sensitive Cloud Data via "Synology Active Backup for Microsoft 365" / modzero
    • AT&T deploys new account lock feature to counter SIM swapping | CyberScoop
    • Iran-linked hackers threaten to release Trump aides' emails | Reuters
    • US government warns of new Iran-linked cyber threats on critical infrastructure | Cybersecurity Dive
    • Actively exploited vulnerability gives extraordinary control over server fleets - Ars Technica
    • Critical vulnerability in Citrix Netscaler raises specter of exploitation wave | Cybersecurity Dive
    • Identities of More Than 80 Americans Stolen for North Korean IT Worker Scams | WIRED
    • Cloudflare confirms Russia restricting access to services amid free internet crackdown | The Record from Recorded Future News
    • Mexican drug cartel used hacker to track FBI official, then killed potential FBI informants, government audit says | CNN Politics
    • Audit of the FBI's Efforts to Mitigate the Effects of Ubiquitous Technical Surveillance - Redacted Report
    • NATO members aim for spending 5% of GDP on defense, with 1.5% eligible for cyber | The Record from Recorded Future News
    • US sanctions bulletproof hosting provider for supporting ransomware, infostealer operations | CyberScoop
    • US, French authorities confirm arrest of BreachForums hackers | TechCrunch
    • Spanish police arrest five over $542 million crypto investment scheme | The Record from Recorded Future News
    • Scam compounds labeled a 'living nightmare' as Cambodian government accused of turning a blind eye | The Record from Recorded Future News
    Risky Business #797 -- Stuxnet vs Massive Ordnance Penetrators Jun 25, 2025
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    On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news:

    • We roll our eyes over the “16 billion credentials” leak hitting mainstream news
    • Some interesting cyber angles emerge from the conflict in Iran
    • Opensource maintainer of libxml2 is fed up with this hacker crap
    • Shockingly, there are yet more ways to trick people into pasting commands into Windows
    • Veeam “patches” its backup software RCE like it’s 2002 … by breaking the public PoC

    This week’s episode is sponsored by Internet-wide honeypot reconnaissance platform, Greynoise. Founder Andrew Morris joins to talk about their journey spotting Chinese ORB-builders hacking thousands of ASUS routers, and why they’re destined for the woodchipper.

    This episode is also available on Youtube.

    Show notes

    • No, the 16 billion credentials leak is not a new data breach
    • Canadian telecom hacked by suspected China state group - Ars Technica
    • Telecom giant Viasat breached by China's Salt Typhoon hackers
    • WarTranslated on X: "Iran’s jamming GPS in the Strait of Hormuz, messing with ~970 ships, per Windward. UKMTO confirms the interference. Faulty AIS coordinates are screwing up navigation in the Persian Gulf. The IRGC threatens to shut the strait down in hours. https://t.co/kdMJvshOGC" / X
    • Dmitri Alperovitch on X: "Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine says @US_CYBERCOM supported this strike mission" / X
    • Top Pentagon spy pick rejected by White House - POLITICO
    • DHS warns of heightened cyber threat as US enters Iran conflict | Cybersecurity Dive
    • Exclusive: Early US intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites, sources say
    • U.S. braces for Iran's response after overnight strikes on nuclear sites
    • Assessing the Damage to Iran’s Nuclear Program
    • Iran Hacks Tirana Municipality in Retaliation Over MEK - Tirana Times
    • Iran's government says it shut down internet to protect against cyberattacks | TechCrunch
    • Aflac discloses cyber intrusion linked to wider crime spree targeting insurance industry | Cybersecurity Dive
    • Tonga Ministry of Health hit with cyberattack affecting website, IT systems | The Record from Recorded Future News
    • Alleged Ryuk ransomware gang member arrested in Ukraine and extradited to US | The Record from Recorded Future News
    • Russia releases REvil members after convictions for payment card fraud | The Record from Recorded Future News
    • OneLogin, Many Issues: How I Pivoted from a Trial Tenant to Compromising Customer Signing Keys - SpecterOps
    • Triaging security issues reported by third parties (#913) · Issue · GNOME/libxml2
    • README: Set expectations straight (35d04a08) · Commits · GNOME / libxml2 · GitLab
    • What’s in an ASP? Creative Phishing Attack on Prominent Academics and Critics of Russia | Google Cloud Blog
    • FileFix - A ClickFix Alternative | mr.d0x
    • Address bar shows hp.com. Browser displays scammers’ malicious text anyway. - Ars Technica
    • Researchers urge vigilance as Veeam releases patch to address critical flaw | Cybersecurity Dive
    • ASUSpicious Flaw - Millions of Users’ Information Exposed Since 2022 | MrBruh's Epic Blog
    • Perth dad who created ‘evil twin’ Wi-Fi did so to access pictures of women
    • GreyNoise Discovers Stealthy Backdoor Campaign Affecting Thousands of ASUS Routers
    Risky Business #796 -- With special guest co-host Chris Krebs Jun 18, 2025
    Show notes

    On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau are joined by special guest Chris Krebs to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They talk through:

    • Israeli “hacktivists” take out an Iranian state-owned bank
    • Scattered-spider and friends pivot into attacking insurers
    • Securing identities in a cloud-first world keeps us awake at night
    • Microsoft takes the “aas” out of SaaS for Europe, leaving us with just software!
    • An AI prompt injection into M365 exfils corporate data

    This week’s episode is sponsored by Kroll’s Cyber practice. Kroll Cyber Associate Managing Director George Glass is based in London and talks through his experiences helping organisations in the UK deal with the Scattered Spider attacks.

    This episode is also available on Youtube.

    Show notes

    • Iran’s Bank Sepah disrupted by cyberattack claimed by pro-Israel hacktivist group | CyberScoop
    • Iran orders officials to ditch connected devices
    • Heightened Cyberthreat Amidst Israel-Iran Conflict
    • Threat group linked to UK, US retail attacks now targeting insurance industry | Cybersecurity Dive
    • Coming to Apple OSes: A seamless, secure way to import and export passkeys - Ars Technica
    • Cyberattack on Washington Post Compromises Email Accounts of Journalists
    • Hackers impersonating US government compromise email account of prominent Russia researcher | The Record from Recorded Future News
    • A good one to talk to Chris about:
    • Breaking down ‘EchoLeak’, the First Zero-Click AI Vulnerability Enabling Data Exfiltration from Microsoft 365 Copilot
    • CISA warns of supply chain risks as ransomware attacks exploit SimpleHelp flaws | Cybersecurity Dive
    • Whole Foods supplier making progress on restoration after cyberattack left shelves empty | The Record from Recorded Future News
    • Ransomware attack on ticketing platform upends South Korean entertainment industry | The Record from Recorded Future News
    • Advisory: Cybersecurity incident
    Soap Box: AI has entered the SOC, and it ain't going anywhere Jun 16, 2025
    Show notes

    In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray chats with Dropzone AI founder Ed Wu about the role of LLMs in the SOC.

    The debate about whether AI agents are going to wind up in the SOC is over, they’ve already arrived. But what are they good for? What are they NOT good for? And where else will we see AI popping up in security?

    This episode is also available on Youtube.

    Show notes

    Risky Business #795 -- How The Com is hacking Salesforce tenants Jun 11, 2025
    Show notes

    On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news:

    • New York Times gets a little stolen Russian FSB data as a treat
    • iVerify spots possible evidence of iOS exploitation against the Harris-Walz campaign
    • Researcher figures out a trick to get Google account holders’ full names and phone numbers
    • Major US food distributor gets ransomwared
    • The Com’s social engineering of Salesforce app authorisations is a harbinger of our future problems
    • Australian Navy forgets New Zealand has computers, zaps Kiwis with their giant radar.

    This week’s episode is sponsored by identity provider Okta. Long-time friend of the show Alex Tilley is Okta’s Global Threat Research Coordinator, and he joins to discuss how organisations can use both human and technical signals to spot North Koreans in their midst.

    This episode is also available on Youtube.

    Show notes

    • How The Times Obtained Secret Russian Intelligence Documents - The New York Times
    • Ukraine's military intelligence claims cyberattack on Russian strategic bomber maker | The Record from Recorded Future News
    • Harris-Walz campaign may have been targeted by iPhone hackers, cybersecurity firm says
    • iVerify Uncovers Evidence of Zero-Click Mobile Exploitation in the U.S.
    • Spyware maker cuts ties with Italy after government refused audit into hack of journalist’s phone | The Record from Recorded Future News
    • Italian lawmakers say Italy used spyware to target phones of immigration activists, but not against journalist | TechCrunch
    • Android chipmaker Qualcomm fixes three zero-days exploited by hackers | TechCrunch
    • Cellebrite to acquire mobile testing firm Corellium in $200 million deal | CyberScoop
    • Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications
    • A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account
    • Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user
    • Acreed infostealer poised to replace Lumma after global crackdown | The Record from Recorded Future News
    • BidenCash darknet forum taken down by US, Dutch law enforcement | The Record from Recorded Future News
    • NHS calls for 1 million blood donors as UK stocks remain low following cyberattack | The Record from Recorded Future News
    • Major food wholesaler says cyberattack impacting distribution systems | The Record from Recorded Future News
    • Kettering Health confirms attack by Interlock ransomware group as health record system is restored | The Record from Recorded Future News
    • Hackers abuse malicious version of Salesforce tool for data theft, extortion | Cybersecurity Dive
    • shubs on X: "IP whitelisting is fundamentally broken. At @assetnote, we've successfully bypassed network controls by routing traffic through a specific location (cloud provider, geo-location). Today, we're releasing Newtowner, to help test for this issue: https://t.co/X3dkMz9gwK" / X
    • Ross Ulbricht Got a $31 Million Donation From a Dark Web Dealer, Crypto Tracers Suspect | WIRED
    • Australian navy ship causes radio and internet outages to parts of New Zealand
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