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Risky Bulletin: Crime Stoppers puts bounty on INC ransomware group
A non-profit puts a $22,000 bounty on the INC ransomware group, hackers breach the UK Department for Education, Russia charges Telegram founder Pavel Durov, and the FCC bans foreign robots and power inverters. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Non-profit offers $22,000 bounty for INC ransomware group
Friday · 8 min
Srsly Risky Biz: Chipping away at Chinese AI risks
Tom Uren and James Wilson talk about open-weight AI models and distillation. These topics have been subject to a lot of US government attention in recent weeks, but let’s not forget that America’s overriding goal is to remain ahead of China in the AI race. There are better ways to do that than overindexing on distillation. They also discuss Iranian attacks on US critical infrastructure. Given that the war in Iran is unpopular, incidents that make headlines without causing serious impact are perfectly calibrated. This episode is also available on YouTube Show notes
Thursday · 23 min
Risky Bulletin: Cyberattack disrupts Minnesota water utilities
A cyberattack has disrupted water utilities in more than 30 communities in Minnesota, Denmark tests a secondary banking system in case of a cyberattack, North Korea arrests bank hackers, and a new Chinese cyber contractor has been identified. Show notes Risky Bulletin: New Chinese cyber contractor identified
Wednesday · 8 min
Between Two Nerds: Cyber is people
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss how important people are to cyber power and whether the rise of AI is changing that. This episode is also available on YouTube. Show notes Hugging Face incident OpenAI release Security review cost from Vercel
Monday · 30 min
Risky Bulletin: A JSON RCE bug is about to rock the Java world
A JSON bug is about to rock the Java world, scam compounds continue in Myanmar despite the junta crackdown, and Google has a new APT naming scheme. Show notes Risky Bulletin: A JSON RCE bug is about to rock the Java world
Monday · 6 min
Sponsored: How AI is putting pressure on EDR
In this sponsored interview James Wilson chats with Airlock Digital co-founders David Cottingham and Daniel Schell about how attackers are using LLMs to enumerate EDR detections. LLMs dramatically reduce the time and specialist labour needed to extract rulesets out of EDR products. What once might have taken months of manual reversing can now be accelerated by “burning tokens”. The takeaway is that defenders increasingly need to assume attackers have visibility into how their endpoint security products work. Show notes
July 26 · 17 min
Risky Bulletin: Western cyber agencies warn of Russian hacks of Zimbra servers
A Russian hacking campaign targets Zimbra servers, the US accuses Moonshot AI of distillation attacks, Iran targets more PLC vendors, and Google adds selfie video to its login options. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Western cyber agencies warn of Russian hacks of Zimbra servers
July 24 · 8 min
Srsly Risky Biz: Knives are out for open-weight AI models
Tom Uren and James Wilson talk about the future of open-weight models. For different reasons, both the Chinese and American governments have reasons to crack down on them. They also talk about arrests of several members of the Scattered Spider juvenile cybercrime collective. This episode is also available on YouTube Show notes
July 23 · 24 min
Risky Bulletin: Rogue OpenAI models were behind the Hugging Face breach
Rogue OpenAI models were behind last week’s Hugging Face breach, the Linux kernel discloses 442 vulnerabilities as the AI bugpocalypse settles in, France becomes the first EU country to pass a social media age limit, and Germany takes down the Kratos phishing service. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Linux kernel discloses 442 CVEs as AI bugpocalypse settles in
July 22 · 6 min
Between Two Nerds: What China gets wrong about Russia's cyber war in Ukraine
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss what mainland Chinese analysts think about Russia’s use of cyber operations in the war in Ukraine. This episode is also available on YouTube. Show notes Cyber Lessons from Russia's War in Ukraine
July 20 · 27 min
Risky Bulletin: Hacker wipes Romania's entire land registry database
A hacker wipes Romania’s entire land registry database, Magnet Forensics sues a former employee for leaking an iPhone exploit, an autonomous AI agent hacked Hugging Face, and an unauthenticated remote code execution bug was finally found in WordPress. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Hacker wipes Romania's entire land registry database
July 20 · 9 min
Sponsored: Thinkst on building companies that don’t suck
In this Risky Business sponsor interview Casey Ellis chats with Haroon Meer from Thinkst about building companies customers don’t hate. Haroon explains why Thinkst still offers Canary tokens for free and why it has avoided annual price hikes on its paid products. They talk about Eric Ries’s “Incorruptible”, Rob Lee’s 100-year-company approach at Dragos, and why keeping customers happy is a better business strategy than chasing easy sugar highs. Show notes
July 20 · 21 min
Srsly Risky Biz: Ransomware uses AI to amp up negotiations
Tom Uren and James Wilson talk about different ways ransomware groups are taking advantage of AI. The relatively new FulcrumSec group uses simple techniques to breach companies and then uses AI to get more leverage over victims in its extortion negotiations. They also discuss the ever so many bugs being patched. This is good for organisations that patch, but it will leave a very long tail of unpatched vulnerabilities. This episode is also available on YouTube Show notes
July 16 · 20 min
Between Two Nerds: Exploits are not cyber power
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss just how important exploits are for cyber operations using data published in a new paper authored by two members of Ukraine’s cyber security agency. This episode is also available on YouTube. Show notes Exploits were never the point Rethinking Exploitation in Cyber War: Reassessing the Role of Software Exploits in Wartime Max Smeets' chapter 5 from "No Shortcuts": The Elements of an Offensive Cyber Capability
July 13 · 30 min
Risky Bulletin: NSA Tailored Access Operations is back
The NSA’s Tailored Access Operations team is back, India bans an app used to hack e-rickshaws, Accenture has another data breach, and a leak exposes a suspected Chinese cyber contractor. The Risky Bulletin newsletter and podcast will be on an editorial break until July 20. Show notes Risky Bulletin: India bans app used to hack e-rickshaws in viral videos
July 10 · 7 min
Sponsored: Why Sublime doesn’t toss AI at every email
In this Risky Business sponsored interview, Tom Uren chats with Sublime Security Product Manager AJ Williams about how the company targets its AI use. Rather than throwing its AI agents at everything, Sublime gives them the time-consuming email security tasks that humans don’t want to do. Its ASA (Autonomous Security Analyst) agent investigates suspicious and user-reported messages, while the ADÉ (Autonomous Detection Engineer) agent writes new detection coverage for attacks that slipped through. Show notes
July 10 · 14 min
Srsly Risky Biz: US Supreme Court undermines Section 702 intel
Tom Uren and James Wilson talk about a new US Supreme Court decision that puts the current EU-US data sharing agreement at risk. American intelligence collection efforts have been at the centre of legal challenges of these on-again off-again data transfer agreements, and if the current agreement were struck down it would cripple Section 702 collection from Europe. They also discuss Canada’s effort to be more transparent about its active cyber operations, those that degrade and disrupt foreign adversaries. This episode is also available on YouTube Show notes
July 9 · 27 min
Risky Bulletin: DHS IG investigates forced CISA reassignments
The DHS inspector general will investigate forced CISA reassignments, Canada hacked a ransomware gang, Taiwan charges two executives with helping Chinese hackers, and new vulnerabilities can disable Hoymiles solar panels. Show notes Risky Bulletin: All new cars to include a camera aimed at the driver's face
July 8 · 9 min
Between Two Nerds: Why AI has not meant more hacks. Yet.
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about why we haven’t seen an explosion of devastating hacks even though AI has been used to discover lots and lots of bugs. This episode is also available on YouTube. Show notes Jerry Gamblin | X Cyber: Ignore the Penetration Testers Phineas Fisher's hacking team write up Phineas Fisher
July 6 · 32 min
Risky Bulletin: EU official’s phone infected with Pegasus
A European MP’s phone was infected by Pegasus spyware, Android drops its PIN guessing limit from 1,800 attempts to 20, Alibaba bans employees from using Claude at work, and there’s a new vulnerability in the Linux kernel. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Android drops PIN guessing limit from 1,800 attempts to just 20
July 6 · 5 min

Risky Bulletin

Risky Bulletin: Crime Stoppers puts bounty on INC ransomware group

Srsly Risky Biz: Chipping away at Chinese AI risks

Risky Bulletin: Cyberattack disrupts Minnesota water utilities

Between Two Nerds: Cyber is people

Risky Bulletin: A JSON RCE bug is about to rock the Java world

Sponsored: How AI is putting pressure on EDR

Risky Bulletin: Western cyber agencies warn of Russian hacks of Zimbra servers

Srsly Risky Biz: Knives are out for open-weight AI models

Risky Bulletin: Rogue OpenAI models were behind the Hugging Face breach

Between Two Nerds: What China gets wrong about Russia's cyber war in Ukraine

Risky Bulletin: Hacker wipes Romania's entire land registry database

Sponsored: Thinkst on building companies that don’t suck

Srsly Risky Biz: Ransomware uses AI to amp up negotiations

Between Two Nerds: Exploits are not cyber power

Risky Bulletin: NSA Tailored Access Operations is back

Sponsored: Why Sublime doesn’t toss AI at every email

Srsly Risky Biz: US Supreme Court undermines Section 702 intel

Risky Bulletin: DHS IG investigates forced CISA reassignments

Between Two Nerds: Why AI has not meant more hacks. Yet.

Risky Bulletin: EU official’s phone infected with Pegasus