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  • Friday · 11 min

    Risky Bulletin: Chinese APT exploits SS7, Diameter to spy on targets

    A Chinese APT exploits the SS7 and Diameter protocols, a remote code execution bug hits Apache, Brazil’s largest port suffers a cyberattack, and Europol takes down three malware operations. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Chinese APT uses SS7, Diameter attacks to spy on targets

  • Thursday · 21 min

    Srsly Risky Biz: Iranian hacks with Russian characteristics

    Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about the French government attributing freezer hacks to cyber units within the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp. This surprises Tom, because the hacks were entirely consistent with Russian sabotage operations across Europe. They also discuss how China’s cyber operators are turning the dial up to 11. Faster, noisier, and stealthier all at the same time, depending upon which particular threat actor you look at. This episode is also available on YouTube Show notes

  • Wednesday · 8 min

    Risky Bulletin: France blames Iran for supermarket freezer hacks

    France blames Iran for supermarket freezer hacks, the White House nominates Palantir’s CISO as CISA director, another Russian cloud provider gets hacked, and N-able takes down its SaaS platform after a researcher discloses 33 vulnerabilities in it. Show notes Risky Bulletin: France blames Iran for the October supermarket fridge hacks

  • Monday · 24 min

    Between Two Nerds: Why PHP2Shell fizzled

    In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about why PHP2Shell failed to live up to its hype. A critical bug in a very widely used web scripting language amounted to… not much. The pair dissect the reasons why. Show notes Zack Korman on PHP Marcus Hutchins on hacking as a business Brian in Pittsburgh on memory corruption

  • November 8 · 15 min

    Sponsored: The evolution of ASD's Essential Eight

    In this Risky Business sponsored interview Tom Uren talks to Airlock Digital’s CTO and CSO Peter Baussmann about how the Essential Eight is evolving into ASD’s Essentials framework. The pair discuss why the change was needed and how Essentials is a broader framework that is less prescriptive and requires more judgement. Show notes From the Essential Eight to ASD's Essentials

  • November 6 · 9 min

    OpenSSH auth bypass bug hits Alpine Linux, OperWRT

    An OpenSSH authentication bypass bug hits Alpine Linux and OpenWRT, hackers attempt to raise fridge temperatures at French blood banks, a French bank gets hacked for $133 million, and the Thai opposition has been targeted with spyware. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Some OpenSSH instances take any password longer than 256 characters

  • November 5 · 17 min

    Srsly Risky Biz: The ritual bitcoin sacrifices will continue until security improves

    Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about North Korea’s hack of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange. Binance’s founder CZ says it is a wake up call for real banks, but he’s wrong. Even though they are probably just as hackable as crypto exchanges, real banks cooperate to reverse fraudulent transactions and it is far harder to get away with billions. They also discuss the pressure being felt in tech firms everywhere to speed up software development using AI. From a security perspective, results will be mixed. This episode is also available on YouTube. Show notes

  • November 4 · 8 min

    Risky Bulletin: Hackers brick Chinese EVs in Russia

    Hackers brick Chinese EVs in Russia, a second wave of hacks defrost European supermarket freezers, the US boots Acronis from government networks and the major distros patch a Linux kernel RCE. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Hackers lock out and extort Li Auto EV owners in Russia

  • November 2 · 31 min

    Between Two Nerds: Finding bugs does not mean security

    In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss CISO’s expectations and priorities regarding budgets and what they will spend their money on. AI features heavily in 2027 priorities, but what will it deliver? This episode is also available on YouTube. Show notes The New Security Agenda

  • November 2 · 10 min

    FBI confirms North Korea behind Binance hack

    The FBI links the Binance hack to North Korea, game developers are being extorted with game-cloning threats, the Belarusian CyberPartisans hack Russia’s statistics service and Apple sends new mercenary spyware notifications. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Game devs are being extorted with AI game-cloning threats

  • November 1 · 12 min

    Sponsored: Sublime Security on the rise of ISC calendar phishing

    In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Luke Wescott, Threat Detection Engineer at Sublime Security. Luke talks through the rise of calendar-based phishing campaigns over the past year and the reasons behind it. Show notes Luke Wescott on LinkedIn Sublime observes massive uptick in ICS phishing and calendar-based malware attacks

  • October 30 · 9 min

    Billions stolen in Binance hack

    Billions stolen from Binance in a crypto hack, Last week’s PHP2Shell bugs are being exploited to hack Palo Alto Networks firewalls, The Brotli bugs also get a run, Belarusian state hackers carry out a wiper attack, and a hacker leaks the data of 41,000 DHS employees. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Belarusian state hackers get on the data-wiping train

  • October 29 · 19 min

    Srsly Risky Biz: Chinese AI can learn to love the West

    Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about new research that shows that Chinese open-weight AI models can be reeducated to remove pro-CCP bias. Good news for American businesses that want cheap AI, but we suspect that many knives will still be out for Chinese open-weight models. They also discuss the near-misses from the PHP and Brotli bugs. We collectively dodged the bullet so that we only got grazed, but the good luck won’t last forever. Finally, Tom looked at CISA’s 2030 strategy. Amazingly, it doesn’t really mention AI at all. Bizarre! This episode is also available on YouTube. Show notes

  • October 28 · 7 min

    Risky Bulletin: Moldovan public services crippled by cyberattack

    Moldova takes down more than 80 public services after a cyberattack, the White House launches a new cybersecurity pilot program, South Korea arrests an AI-assisted cybercrime ring, and the Electrum wallet patches a crypto-stealing bug. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Moldova takes down 80+ public services after cyberattack

  • October 26 · 27 min

    Between Two Nerds: Why frontier lab security will always suck

    In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about security culture. The PHP foundation seems to have had a change of heart about security, but what are the chances that OpenAI or other frontier AI labs will start to take it seriously? This episode is also available on YouTube. Show notes Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security Stefan Esser's month of PHP bugs Andon cord

  • October 26 · 7 min

    Risky Bulletin: Brotli RCE is wrecking what's left of the internet

    While everyone was distracted by PHP, another RCE has been wrecking the internet, Australia’s ABC wipes some staff devices, a third PHP RCE is incoming and researchers discover a new DDoS attack vector in HTTP/3. Show notes Risky Bulletin: While everyone was looking at PHP, another RCE is wrecking what's left of the internet

  • October 25 · 18 min

    Sponsored: Should your threat hunt become a detection?

    In this Risky Business sponsored interview James Wilson chats to Nebulock’s Head of Detection Strategy Alex Hurtado about the company’s threat hunting evaluation framework, GATES. The pair talk through the five steps of Nebulock’s new acronym, and how they help remove gut feelings and guesswork when asking the question: “Should this threat hunt find be promoted to a detection rule”? Show notes The GATES Method: when a hunt becomes a detection

  • October 22 · 18 min

    Srsly Risky Biz: OpenAI's Kazoo-Grade Spying Incident

    Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about the weird bugging incident at OpenAI. It doesn’t look at all like it was normal state-backed espionage, but there are still good reasons the frontier labs should ensure that their crown jewels are safe. They also discuss how cybercriminals are rapidly evolving their use of AI. The technology and harnesses available are getting better and the criminals are also discovering business models where they can sit back while AI automates most of the work. This episode is also available on YouTube. Show notes

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