Risky Business #847 -- Oops! Claude's accidental hacking spree
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
Show notes
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
Risky Business #846 -- OpenAI built a fireplace out of wood
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
Risky Business #845 -- OpenAI's Skynet moment
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
Soap Box: Using threat hunting to drive detection
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
Risky Business #844 -- China closes AI vulndev gap as USA lifts Fable ban
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 |
Risky Business #843 -- Fortibleed is kinda awesome, actually
On this week’s show special guest co-host Rob Joyce joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. Rob served as an advisor to Donald Trump during his first term as president and also served at NSA for 34 years. While at the agency, Joyce led Tailored Access Operations (TAO), and later became NSA’s Director of Cybersecurity.
They cover:
The surprisingly well done Fortibleed campaign
Stolen Klue OAuth tokens lead to Salesforce data theft
OpenAI wants to patch the planet
runZero gets acquired by Accenture, congrats HD Moore!
Much, much more!
This episode is also available on YouTube.
Show notes
FortiBleed campaign used custom FortiGate sniffer to steal credentials | BleepingComputer
FortiBleed: Fortinet device credential compromise expands into broader credential-attack guidance | unit42.paloaltonetworks.com
Cybercriminals allegedly hacked tens of thousands of Fortinet firewalls used by major companies all over the world | TechCrunch Security
Klue OAuth breach linked to 'Icarus' Salesforce data theft attacks | BleepingComputer
Polymarket (@Polymarket) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic’s Mythos controversy | wrd.cm
Beyond Fable: Can a Local LLM Replace Cloud AI for Security Code Reviews - SRLabs Research | SRLabs
OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos | wired.com
Sponsored: Trail of Bits and OpenAI patch the planet | Risky Bulletin
Intel agencies: Frontier AI models will reshape cybersecurity faster than expected | cyberscoop.com
Embedding Forbidden Text in Spyware to Discourage AI Analysis | Schneier on Security
A new unpatchable flaw in Apple chips opens the door to an iPhone jailbreak | TechCrunch Security
USB worm spreads crypto-stealing malware via Windows shortcut files | BleepingComputer
Android verification is coming: Google confirms timeline and supported app stores | Ars Technica
California water utility probes breach claim by Iran-linked actor | Cybersecurity Dive
Suspected cyberattack triggers false emergency alerts across parts of Brazil | The Record
Tesco moving 40,000 server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's "abusive conduct" | Ars Technica
Trump directs federal agencies to protect US data from quantum threats | therecord.media
Accenture shells out $4.18B on three companies in big industrial cybersecurity push | cyberscoop.com
Risky Business #842 -- Anthropic needs an adult in the C suite
On this week’s show Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:
Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 get nuked by the US government four days after launch “because security”
Why “guardrails” won’t keep the world safe from your AI doomsday machine
The FISA 702 statute expired, but the spying can (probably) continue!
NPM v12 delivers some protection against supply chain attacks, but not enough.
Microsoft has a series of bugs that prevent Windows Update from … updating
Much, much more!
This episode is also available on YouTube
Show notes
Anthropic suspends new AI models after government directive | NBC News Tech
Anthropic rankles users with safety-first Fable release | NBC News Tech
How a 90-minute White House deadline sparked Silicon Valley’s biggest AI fight | washingtonpost.com
Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
David Sacks (@DavidSacks) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
DoW CIO Kirsten Davies (@DoWCIODavies) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
David Shulman (@DavidShulmanFL) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
Controversial FISA spying law expires tonight. The spying will continue. | Ars Technica
GitHub announces npm security changes to tackle supply-chain attacks | BleepingComputer
Why NPM v12 won’t stop supply chain attacks - Risky Business Media | Social Signals
Oracle PeopleSoft servers hacked in ShinyHunters data theft attacks | BleepingComputer
Microsoft patches Exchange Server zero-day exploited in attacks | BleepingComputer
Max severity Ivanti Sentry vulnerability now exploited in attacks | BleepingComputer
CISA warns of another cPanel plugin flaw exploited in attacks | BleepingComputer
Critical Fortinet FortiSandbox flaws now exploited in attacks | BleepingComputer
CISA orders feds to patch actively exploited Ivanti flaw by Sunday | BleepingComputer
CISA to require federal agencies to patch some cyber vulnerabilities within 3 days | therecord.media
Path traversal flaw in AI dev platform Langflow exploited in attacks | BleepingComputer
Microsoft: Some Windows PCs fail to install latest monthly updates | BleepingComputer
Microsoft fixes BitLocker recovery bug on Windows Server 2025 | BleepingComputer
Microsoft fixes Windows update failures linked to WUSA installer | BleepingComputer
New attack turned Microsoft 365 Copilot into 1-click data theft tool | BleepingComputer
Over 73,000 French govt employees affected in Tchap messenger breach | BleepingComputer
Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps | wired.com
FBI disrupts massive AI-powered phishing service using a million URLs | BleepingComputer
Cyberattack shuts down major Australian sugar mills, disrupting harvest | The Record
Drug Sites Hijacked Spotify’s Search Ranking Through Fake Podcasts, Report Finds | wired.com
It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests | 404.feed.press
Who Runs the Ransomware Group ‘The Gentlemen?’ | krebsonsecurity.com
:brdKnife: (@cR0w@infosec.exchange) | Infosec Exchange
Risky Business #841 -- Microsoft gets owned and 0day'd
On this week’s show special guest co-host Chris Wade, the founder of Corellium turned Cellebrite CTO, joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news.
They cover:
Microsoft has repos owned, GitHub tokens popped, and a new 0day dropped on them
Meanwhile, researchers are choosing full disclosure instead of engaging MSRC
Meta’s AI support agent allowed a staggering 20,000 accounts to be stolen!
Apple pulls Russia’s MAX messenger from the App Store and disables notifications
Anthropic gives the public our first Mythos-class model but it won’t do cybersecurity work
Stripe and Google Tag Manager used in eCommerce website hack campaign
And much, much more!
This week’s show is brought to you by runZero. HD Moore, runZeros’ founder, drops by in this week’s sponsor interview to talk about the AI vibe shift. Everyone is very worried about getting owned all of a sudden, and it’s really changing the cybersecurity business.
This episode is also available on YouTube.
Show notes
Microsoft Hacked to Deliver Malware to Claude and Gemini Users | 404.feed.press
Researcher publishes GitHub token-stealing exploit, blames Microsoft’s disclosure process | therecord.media
Microsoft Defender 'RoguePlanet' zero-day grants SYSTEM privileges | BleepingComputer
Microsoft breaks Patch Tuesday record with 206 vulnerabilities | CyberScoop
chompie1337 | X
WhatsApp says NSO targeted users with spearfishing attacks in violation of court order | therecord.media
Over 20,000 Instagram accounts stolen in Meta AI support hack | BleepingComputer
New Apple feature automatically changes your compromised passwords | BleepingComputer
Apple removes Russia’s state-backed messaging app Max from its store | therecord.media
Exclusive: Anthropic's Mythos can exploit new flaws in hours |
Anthropic’s new model is Mythos on a leash | CyberScoop
Anthropic Offers Mythos Upgrade for Cyber Partners and a ‘Safe’ Version for the Rest of You | wired.com
OpenClaw AI agent found falling for phishing attacks, spills user data | BleepingComputer
OpenAI unveils Lockdown Mode to protect sensitive data from prompt injection attacks | TechCrunch Security
Hands on with Intelligent Terminal, an AI-powered Windows Terminal | BleepingComputer
Seeking Counsel: Ongoing Targeted Campaign Against US Law Firms | Mandiant
Check Point warns of zero-day flaw targeted by ransomware affiliate | Cybersecurity Dive
ServiceNow discloses security incident exposing customer data | BleepingComputer
Credit card theft campaign abuses Stripe to host stolen payment info | BleepingComputer
CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks defy estimates as AI fuels cyber demand | Cybersecurity Dive
The U.S. Military Quietly Turned GPS Into a Global ‘Numbers Station,’ Evidence Suggests | 404.feed.press
New 'HTTP/2 Bomb' DoS attack crashes web servers in under a minute | BleepingComputer
Google has quietly cut staff across its Cloud business | businessinsider.com
Soap Box: Detection and response in the AI age
In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray chats with Edward Wu, founder of Dropzone, about what AI is doing to detection, response and the SOC more generally.
Dropzone makes AI agents that conduct alert investigations in your SOC, but will the SOC as we know it even exist in the future?
Ed has a deep expertise in SOC tech, having previously led AI/ML detection engineering at Extrahop. This interview is a fantastic look at what the future may bring for detection and response professionals.
This episode is also available on YouTube
Show notes
Risky Business #840 -- Microsoft walks back researcher threats
On this week’s show special guest co-host Andy Boyd joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. Andy is the CEO of REDLattice, which makes the Paragon “intelligence collection and reconnaissance” solution.
They cover:
Adversaries are tracking US troop locations with commercially available location data
A new Signal phishing campaign is going after message backups
404 Media is suing ICE to get its spyware contract with REDLattice (lol)
Microsoft’s tone-deaf response to ‘never justifiable’ zero-day disclosures
Mini Shai-Hulud pops up again just as Glassworm gets shattered
Much, much more
This week’s episode is sponsored by Authentik, an open source identity platform that you can host yourself. In this week’s sponsor interview Authentik’s CEO Fletcher Heisler joins Patrick Gray to talk about how they’re keeping up with the bugpocalypse, and also the work they’re doing to support identities for AI agents.
This episode is also available on YouTube.
Show notes
The Pentagon Knew Enemies Could Track Troops’ Phones for Years. Now They Are | wired.com
U.S. says troops were targeted with location data, as senator warns ad industry is a ‘national security threat’ | TechCrunch Security
DOD location data attachment (Wyden) |
Risky Business #830 -- LiteLLM and security scanner supply chains compromised | Risky Business Media
US has seized nearly $1 billion in crypto from Iran, Bessent says |
Russia claims foreign spy agencies hacked officials' phones | therecord.media
Hackers are trying to steal Signal users’ backups in new wave of phishing attacks | TechCrunch Security
We Sued ICE to Get Its Spyware Contract. The Agency Is Redacting Essentially Everything | Social Signals
Microsoft calls zero-day releases ‘never justifiable’ as researcher threatens to drop more | therecord.media
A shared responsibility: Protecting customers through Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure | Social Signals
Microsoft says it will not pursue security researchers after zero-day backlash | therecord.media
IBM’s new $5B initiative will help enterprises rapidly patch open-source vulnerabilities | Social Signals
Federal audit reveals NIST’s NVD is plagued by poor planning and duplication | cyberscoop.com
Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts | krebsonsecurity.com
Critical Windows Netlogon RCE flaw now exploited in attacks | BleepingComputer
CISA adds exploited Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect flaw to KEV | Cybersecurity Dive
Password manager Dashlane says hackers stole some customers’ password vaults | TechCrunch Security
CrowdStrike disrupts Glassworm botnet that preyed on open-source supply chain | cyberscoop.com
Botnet of more than 17 million devices dismantled | arstechnica.com
Chinese-speaking fraud gang could be stealing millions from 2026 World Cup fans | therecord.media
ACCC investigating Olympics ticket scam | ABC
Dozens of Red Hat packages backdoored through its offical NPM channel | arstechnica.com
Solo podcast: A deep dive on TeamPCP - Risky Business Media |
Trump administration releases scaled-back AI executive order | cyberscoop.com
Google security engineer accused of turning confidential search trends into $1.2M win on Polymarket | cyberscoop.com
Risky Business #839 -- TeamPCP stole GitHub's internal repos
On this week’s show Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:
TeamPCP breached GitHub’s internal repos. Now what?
Some absolute plonker glued Coruna to a hijacked npm package
CISA is worried about about open source and wants third party submissions for KEV
AI infrastructure is “systemically” insecure
Much, much more
This week’s episode is sponsored by allowlisting vendor Airlock Digital. Airlock’s founders David Cottingham and Daniel Schell join Patrick Gray to talk about Microsoft briefly flagging DigitCert’s root certificate as malware. Fun!
This episode is also available on YouTube
Show notes
GitHub confirms being hacked by TeamPCP, says customer data unaffected | therecord.media
Grafana Labs links GitHub environment breach to TanStack npm supply chain attack | Cybersecurity Dive
Coruna Respawned: Compromised art-template npm Package Leads... | Socket
CISA chief frets about open-source vulnerabilities, delayed security improvements | cyberscoop.com
Anthropic: Mythos finds more than 10,000 software flaws in first month | cyberscoop.com
Pardon MIE? | ironPeak Blog
CISA asks cybersecurity community to alert it to vulnerability exploitation | Cybersecurity Dive
Lawmakers Demand Answers as CISA Tries to Contain Data Leak | krebsonsecurity.com
Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users | arstechnica.com
Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package | arstechnica.com
Discord migrates all users to end-to-end encryption by default | The Record
Texas AG sues Meta over claims that WhatsApp doesn't provide end-to-end encryption | arstechnica.com
Alleged Kimwolf Botmaster ‘Dort’ Arrested, Charged in U.S. and Canada | krebsonsecurity.com
Iran-linked hackers target key US, allied sectors with sophisticated spear-phishing messages | Cybersecurity Dive
FBI warns about fast-growing phishing kit targeting Microsoft 365 users | cyberscoop.com
Analyzing the rise in device code phishing attacks in 2026 | Push Security
Trump Mobile confirms it exposed customers’ personal data, including phone numbers and home addresses | TechCrunch Security
Kash Patel’s clothing brand website shut down after reports it was hacked | TechCrunch Security
Tulsi Gabbard resigns as US director of national intelligence | Social Signals
When Certificate Trust Fails: The DigiCert Code-Signing Incident and Microsoft Defender False Positive |
Risky Business #838 -- GitHub investigates possible breach
On this week’s show Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news.
They cover:
GitHub announced a possible breach
CISA leaks important creds, keys in public repo
Awful vulnerability in Bitlocker renders it useless without a PIN
So. Many. Patches.
Polish Government urges officials to ditch Signal for mSzyfr
Much, much more
This week’s show is brought to you by Thinkst Canary. Thinkst’s founder, Haroon Meer, is this week’s sponsor guest. He joined James Wilson to talk about how doing “the basics” in security isn’t trivially easy.
This episode is also available on YouTube.
Show notes
GitHub on X: "We are investigating unauthorized access to GitHub’s internal repositories. While we currently have no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub’s internal repositories (such as our customers’ enterprises, organizations, and repositories), we are closely" / X
CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github – Krebs on Security
Experts Confirm the Fast16 Malware Was Sabotaging Nuclear Weapons Tests, Likely in Iran
Iran hackers: Hackers have breached tank readers at gas stations; officials suspect Iran is responsible | CNN Politics
War and Data Centers Are Driving Up the Cost of Fiber-Optic Cable
Microsoft on pace to break annual vulnerability record as AI-driven patch wave takes hold | The Record from Recorded Future News
NCSC’s Ollie Whitehouse on surviving the "bugpocalypse" - Risky Business Media
Defense at AI speed: Microsoft’s new multi-model agentic security system tops leading industry benchmark | Microsoft Security Blog
Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us
Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’
First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5
OpenAI launches Daybreak to combat cyber threats | Cybersecurity Dive
Zero-day exploit completely defeats default Windows 11 BitLocker protections - Ars Technica
GitHub - Wack0/bitlocker-attacks: A list of public attacks on BitLocker · GitHub
Catalin Cimpanu: "The Polish government has advi…" - Mastodon
CISA orders all federal agencies to patch exploited bug in Cisco SD-WAN systems by Sunday | The Record from Recorded Future News
CVE-2026-20182: Critical authentication bypass in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller (FIXED)
Huawei zero-day attack behind last year’s crash of Luxembourg's entire telecoms network | The Record from Recorded Future News
Patch bypass allows hackers to exploit prior flaw in SonicWall SSL-VPN | Cybersecurity Dive
Microsoft disrupts Fox Tempest malware-signing-as-a-service platform tied to ransomware gangs | The Record from Recorded Future News
Streamer Realtime Deepfakes Himself into Mr. Beast, Says He Loves 'Touching Little Boys'
Soap Box: Where does AI fit into cloud security?
In this sponsored soap box edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray chats with Toni de la Fuente, the founder of Prowler.
Prowler started off as a bunch of scripts in a trenchcoat, then became an open source cloud security tool, and it’s now a venture-funded cloud security business. In this interview Toni talks us through how AI is changing the game for him as an open source project owner, and as a vendor. In short, reports of the death of IT and security tooling at the hands of frontier models have been greatly exaggerated.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes
Risky Business #837 -- GitHub Actions footgun claims TanStack
On this week’s show Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news.
They cover:
Mini Shai-Hulud and the TanStack compromise using Github Actions
Instructure pays Canvas elearning platform data extortionists
More Linux privilege escalation 0days!
CISA helping critical infrastructure operators rearchitect their networks so they work offline
This week’s episode is sponsored by email security platform Sublime Security. Bobby Filar chats with Patrick about how agentic AI is being evaluated by buyers in a marketplace that’s experiencing “AI fatigue”.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes
‘Mini Shai-Hulud’ malware compromises hundreds of open-source packages in sprawling supply-chain attack | CyberScoop
Hardening TanStack After the npm Compromise | TanStack Blog
Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide – Krebs on Security
Instructure pays ransom after Canvas incident as Congress announces investigation | The Record from Recorded Future News
When DNSSEC goes wrong: how we responded to the .de TLD outage
Adversaries Leverage AI for Vulnerability Exploitation, Augmented Operations, and Initial Access | Google Cloud Blog
Mythos smythos! How to find 0day with lesser models - Risky Business Media
GitHub - V4bel/dirtyfrag · GitHub
retr0.zip
NVD - CVE-2026-42511
Flaw in Claude’s Chrome extension allowed ‘any’ other plugin to hijack victims’ AI | CyberScoop
Ivanti customers confront yet another actively exploited zero-day | CyberScoop
Palo Alto warns of critical software bug used in firewall attacks | The Record from Recorded Future News
Where Have All the Complex Windows Malware and Their Analyses Gone?
Meet Rassvet, Russia’s Answer to Starlink | WIRED
DOJ says ransomware gang tapped into Russian government databases | TechCrunch
Iranian government hackers using Chaos ransomware as cover, researchers say | The Record from Recorded Future News
Foxconn confirms cyberattack impacting North American factories | The Record from Recorded Future News
New CISA initiative aims for critical infrastructure to operate offline during cyberattacks | The Record from Recorded Future News
‘HELLO BOSS’: Inside the Chinese Realtime Deepfake Software Powering Scams Around the World
How to Disable Google's Gemini in Chrome | WIRED
FCC pushes ban on security updates for foreign-made routers, drones to 2029 | The Record from Recorded Future News
Risky Business #836 -- You can't patch the bugpocalypse
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest co-host Brad Arkin. They discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
The US Government says we just have to patch faster, but…
Bugs in cPanel, MoveIt and all Linux distributions this week show that patching alone isn’t enough
James gets mad about lame AI Agent adoption advice from the US and Australian Governments
James Kettle and Niels Provos both showed us that any model can find 0day like Mythos
And the cyber-assisted theft of cargo results in an astonishing loss of $725 million dollars
This week’s show is sponsored by SpecterOps. Their CTO, Jared Atkinson, chats to Pat about the big changes in the threat landscape, brought about by AI, that are causing a pivot away from detection and remediation, and toward prevention.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes
Exclusive: US officials weigh cutting deadlines to fix digital flaws amid worries over AI-powered hacking, sources say | Reuters
British cyber agency warns of looming ‘patch wave’ as AI speeds flaw discovery | The Record from Recorded Future News
Federal agencies must patch cPanel bug by Sunday, CISA says | The Record from Recorded Future News
cPanel zero-day exploited for months before patch release (CVE-2026-41940) - Help Net Security
The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed - Ars Technica
New MOVEit vulnerabilities prompt urgent patch warning | Cybersecurity Dive
US and allies urge ‘careful adoption’ of AI agents | Cybersecurity Dive
careful_adoption_of_agentic_ai_services.pdf
User just tricked Grok and Bankrbot to send tokens with Morse code - Cryptopolitan
Finding Zero-Days with Any Model
(1872) Sponsored: James Kettle built an AI hacker - YouTube
Feature Interview: Nicholas Carlini, Anthropic - Risky Business Media
Trellix investigating breach of source code repository | Cybersecurity Dive
Popular DAEMON Tools software compromised | Securelist
Komari Red: The Monitoring Tool with a Built-in Reverse Shell | Huntress
Hackers earning millions from hijacked cargo, FBI says | The Record from Recorded Future News
Congress punts FISA renewal to June | The Record from Recorded Future News
Cops Use Apple Data And Car Bluetooth To Identify Crypto Robbery Suspect
Stewart Baker, outspoken voice on cybersecurity and national security law, dies at 78 | IAPP
Snake Oilers: Ent AI, Spacewalk and Mondoo
In this edition of the Snake Oilers podcast three vendors stop by to pitch the audience on their products:
Ent AI: Co-founder Brandon Dixon pitched Ent, an intent-aware, AI-powered endpoint security control.
Spacewalk AI: Founders Chris Fuller and Tim Wenzlau pitch Spacewalk, an AI-powered incident response platform.
Mondoo: Co-founder Dominik Richter pitches Mondoo, an AI-powered “service as software” in the vulnerability management space.
This episode is also available on YouTube.
Show notes
Risky Business #835 -- Why the Fast16 malware is badass
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest-host Dmitri Alperovitch. They discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
The US government is mad as hell about Chinese firms stealing American AI technology
Dmitri has an opinion or two about the US selling Nvidia chips to China
Speaking of Chinese AI, Kimi’s new 2.6 is very interesting
The US sanctions a Cambodian senator for earning mega bucks through scam compounds
And a ransomware family is promoting itself as being … quantum-safe?
This week’s show is sponsored by Trail of Bits. CEO and co-founder Dan Guido chats to Pat about how private inference works and Trail of Bits’ audit of WhatsApp’s private AI setup.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes
Exclusive: US State Dept orders global warning about alleged AI thefts by DeepSeek, other Chinese firms | Reuters
moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 · Hugging Face
Discord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic’s Mythos | WIRED
Newly Deciphered Sabotage Malware May Have Targeted Iran’s Nuclear Program—and Predates Stuxnet | WIRED
Hackers deployed wiper malware in destructive attacks on Venezuela’s energy sector | The Record from Recorded Future News
Mystery Around Venezuelan Cyberattack Deepens, with New Discovery of "Highly Destructive" Wiper
Risky Business #819 -- Venezuela (credibly?!) blames USA for wiper attack - Risky Business Media
AI Tools Are Helping Mediocre North Korean Hackers Steal Millions | WIRED
CISA: US agency breached through Cisco vulnerability, FIRESTARTER backdoor allowed access through March | The Record from Recorded Future News
US, UK authorities warn that Firestarter backdoor malware survives patching | Cybersecurity Dive
Surveillance campaigns use commercial surveillance tools to exploit long-known telecom vulnerabilities | CyberScoop
UK regulator closes loophole that allowed rogue companies to track phone users' location | Reuters
US sanctions Cambodian senator for millions earned through scam compounds | The Record from Recorded Future News
Vercel says some of its customers' data was stolen prior to its recent hack | TechCrunch
Supply Chain Security Incident Update
Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones | TechCrunch
Kyle Daigle on X: "Wanted to provide more clarity about this. Yesterday, we had a regression in merge queue behavior where, in some cases, squash or rebase commits were generated from the wrong base state, making earlier changes appear reverted in branch history. 2,804 pull requests out of over 4M" / X
Securing the git push pipeline: Responding to a critical remote code execution vulnerability - The GitHub Blog
One ransomware crew now drives half of all cyber claims: At-Bay | Insurance Business
In a first, a ransomware family is confirmed to be quantum-safe - Ars Technica
What we learned about TEE security from auditing WhatsApp's Private Inference
Risky Business #834 -- Vercel gets owned, Mozilla dumps hundreds of Mythos bugs
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest The Grugq. They discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
Vercel got owned, and there’s a few infostealer and compromised employee dots to connect
Mozilla used Mythos to find 271 bugs, which feels like a sign of the bug-pocalypse
Speaking of the bug-pocalypse, is that why NIST is noping out of enriching a bunch of bugs?
The NSA is using Mythos even though the government did that whole Anthropic blacklisting thing
And DDos attacks hit a couple of smaller-player socials
This week’s episode is sponsored by Permiso. Ian Ahl chats to Pat about the subtle signals Permiso uses to detect ShinyHunters-style activity in cloud and on-prem environments.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes
Vercel April 2026 Security incident
Vercel breach linked to infostealer infection at Context.ai
Vercel confirms breach as hackers claim to be selling stolen data
Matt Johansen: “This is not a good look” | X
NIST limits vulnerability analysis as CVE backlog swells | Cybersecurity Dive
CISA Cyber on X
Ransomware attack continues to disrupt healthcare in London nearly two years later | The Record from Recorded Future News
Lawmakers ponder terrorism designations, homicide charges over hospital ransomware attacks | CyberScoop
In defeat for Trump, House extends electronic spying program for just 10 days | The Record from Recorded Future News
Crypto infrastructure company blames $290 million theft on North Korean hackers | The Record from Recorded Future News
US-sanctioned currency exchange says $15 million heist done by "unfriendly states" - Ars Technica
Hackers are abusing unpatched Windows security flaws to hack into organizations | TechCrunch
Mozilla Used Anthropic’s Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox | WIRED
NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist
Beyond the breach: inside a cargo theft actor’s post-compromise playbook | Proofpoint US
Beware scam messages offering ships safe transit through Hormuz Strait, says security firm | The Straits Times
New Jersey men given lengthy sentences for running North Korean laptop farms | The Record from Recorded Future News
Turns Out We’re Not Alone - Volodymyr Styran
US joins nearly two dozen other countries in striking back against DDoS-for-hire platforms | Cybersecurity Dive
Bluesky blames app outage on ‘sophisticated’ DDoS attack | The Record from Recorded Future News
Mastodon says its flagship server was hit by a DDoS attack | TechCrunch
An IT expert explained under what conditions using a VPN can cause a smartphone to explode
Risky Business #833 -- The Great Mythos Freakout of 2026
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:
Everyone has an opinion about Claude Mythos… even though almost nobody has used it yet
CISA adds a 2009 Excel bug to the KEV list, u wot?
Adobe also parties like it’s the 2000s, and fixes an Acrobat Reader bug
Disgraced former Trenchant exec Peter Williams’ sob story fails to resonate with … anyone
Remember those crosswalk buttons hacked to play audio mocking Trump and Zuck? They were “secured” by the password: 1234.
This week’s episode is sponsored by mobile network operator, Cape. Ajit Gokhale talks with James about the ways to get being a telco right when you’re starting from scratch and solving the security problems of 2026.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes
Lab Space
The “AI Vulnerability Storm”: Building a “Mythosready” Security Program
Polymarket on X: "JUST IN: Goldman Sachs is reportedly ramping up its cyber defenses in preparation for Claude Mythos."
Ananay on X: "Marcus Hutchins probably has the best take on Mythos doing vulnerability research"
solst/ICE of Astarte on X: "Th vast majority of CISOs do not work at Google-sized companies, and will not have to worry about 0days"
Charlie Miller on X: "we’ve gone through this before with early fuzzers, afl, etc"
James Kettle on X: "'Can AI Do Novel Security Research? Meet the HTTP Terminator' will premiere at Blackhat"
jeffrey lee funk on X: "We've been tricked, again. Many of the thousands of bugs and vulnerabilities Mythos found are in older software are impossible to exploit."
Claude is getting worse, according to Claude • The Register
Your Agent Is Mine: Measuring Malicious Intermediary Attacks on the LLM Supply Chain
OpenAI's Mac apps need updates thanks to the Axios hack | CyberScoop
Hack at Anodot leaves over a dozen breached companies facing extortion | TechCrunch
Snowflake customers hit in data theft attacks after SaaS integrator breach
Booking.com confirms hackers accessed customers’ data
CPUID hijacked to serve malware as HWMonitor downloads • The Register
Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA
Adobe fixes PDF zero-day security bug that hackers have exploited for months | TechCrunch
The Sad Decline of Trenchant Exec Who Had Everything, Before Deciding to Steal and Sell Zero Days to Russian Buyer
FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database
US operation evicts Russia from hacked SOHO routers used to breach critical infrastructure | Cybersecurity Dive
Telegram Is Still Hosting a Sanctioned $21 Billion Crypto Scammer Black Market | WIRED
The Dumbest Hack of the Year Exposed a Very Real Problem | WIRED
Snake Oilers: Burp AI, Sondera and Truffle Security
In this edition of the Snake Oilers podcast three vendors stop by to pitch the audience on their products:
Burp AI and DAST: The founder of PortSwigger and creator of legendary security software Burp Suite, Dafydd Stuttard, drops by to pitch listeners on Burp AI and Burp Suite DAST.
Sondera: Josh Devon talks about Sondera, a technology designed to intervene when AI models start doing the wrong thing by statefully tracking their trajectories. This isn’t a permissions suite for AI agents, it’s a way to stick agents in a harness and make sure they adhere to hard policy boundaries.
Truffle Security: Dylan Ayrey, the founder of Truffle Security, joins Risky Business again to talk through the latest bells and whistles in Trufflehog, a security tool that searches for exposed secrets and validates them. The Truffle team has done a lot of work on the remediation part of their product over the last few years, and Dylan tells us all about it!
This episode is also available on YouTube
Show notes
Risky Business #832 -- Anthropic unveils magical 0day computer God
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:
Anthropic’s new Mythos model hunts bugs and chains exploits together so well that… you cant have it…
…Unless you’re one of their Project Glasswing partners
The world isn’t short on bugs, though. F5, Fortinet, Progress ShareFile, and TrueConf are all getting rekt by humans
GPU Rowhammering goes in the GPU, past the IOMMU and back into the host-side Nvidia driver
North Korea is spending serious time and money on its crypto hacking
Just when the US needs CISA most, they slash its budget some more!
This week’s episode is sponsored by identity verification firm, Persona. Tying digital actions to actual human identities isn’t just for banking know-your-customer any more. Persona’s Benjamin Chait says know-your-staff checks belong in high-value flows inside your organisation, too.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes
Claude Mythos Preview \ red.anthropic.com
Anthropic Claims Its New A.I. Model, Mythos, Is a Cybersecurity ‘Reckoning’ - The New York Times
Anthropic Teams Up With Its Rivals to Keep AI From Hacking Everything | WIRED
FFmpeg on X: "Thank you to @AnthropicAI for sending FFmpeg patches" / X
Critical flaw in F5 BIG-IP faces wide exploitation risk | Cybersecurity Dive
React2Shell vulnerability helps hackers steal credentials, AI platform keys and other sensitive data | Cybersecurity Dive
Critical flaw in FortiClient EMS under exploitation | Cybersecurity Dive
Researchers warn of critical flaws in Progress ShareFile | Cybersecurity Dive
CISA gives agencies two weeks to patch video conferencing bug exploited by Chinese hackers | The Record from Recorded Future News
New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs - Ars Technica
North Korea's hijack of one of the web's most used open source projects was likely weeks in the making | TechCrunch
Drift crypto platform confirms $280 million stolen in hack as researchers point finger at North Korea | The Record from Recorded Future News
Drift on X: "Drift Protocol — Incident Background Update " / X
Trump’s FY2027 budget again targets CISA | Cybersecurity Dive
CISA’s vulnerability scans, field support on chopping block in Trump budget | Cybersecurity Dive
Iranian hackers break into U.S. industrial systems, agencies warn
FBI labels suspected China hack of law enforcement data 'a major cyber incident'
Russia Hacked Routers to Steal Microsoft Office Tokens – Krebs on Security
Massachusetts hospital turning ambulances away after cyberattack | The Record from Recorded Future News
Exclusive | 'Ghost Murmur,' a never-used secret tool, deployed to find lost airman in Iran in daring mission
A Secure Chat App’s Encryption Is So Bad It Is ‘Meaningless’
How the World Got Owned Episode 2: The 1990s, Part One
In this special documentary episode, Patrick Gray and Amberleigh Jack take a look back at hacking throughout the 1990s, from the feel-good vibes of the early hacking communities to the antics of young hackers who wound up on the run from the FBI.
Part one features recollections from:
Jeff Moss (The Dark Tangent), DefCon and Black Hat founder
Chris Wysopal (Weld Pond), L0pht member, co-founder, @Stake
Kevin Poulsen (Dark Dante), 1990s hacker turned journalist
Elias Levy (Aleph One), author of Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit, Phrack, 1996
How the World Got Owned is produced in partnership with SentinelOne.
Show notes
Elias Levy (Aleph1), Former Principle Engineer, Google
Kevin Poulsen, Journalist
Jeff Moss, DefCon founder
Chris Wysopal, @Stake founder, L0pht member
Hackers testifying at the United States Senate, May 19, 1998
Hackers May ‘Net’ Good PR for Studio
DefCon Archives | DefCon 1
A Not So Terribly Brief History of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Innocent Hackers Want Their Computers Back
Breakdowns in Computer Security
Unsolved Mysteries, Season 3, Episode 4
The Last Hacker: He Called Himself Dark Dante. His Compulsion Led Him to Secret Files and, Eventually, The Bar of Justice
Justia appeal summary, Kevin Poulsen, 1994
Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit, Phrack Magazine, November 1996
From subversives to CEOs: How radical hackers built today’s cybersecurity industry
Risky Business #831 -- The AI bugpocalypse begins
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:
Those pesky North Koreans shim a backdoor into a 100M-downloads-a-week npm package
TeamPCP appear to have ransacked Cisco’s source and cloud environments
AI is getting legitimately good at being told to “just go find some 0day in this”
Kaspersky says Coruna and Triangulation do share code lineage
Iranian hackers dump Kash Patel’s gmail spool
Oh, and of course there’s a Citrix Netscaler memory leak being exploited in the wild
This week’s episode is sponsored by Dropzone AI, who make automated AI SOC analysts. Head honcho Ed Wu explains how they’ve built pre-canned ‘hunt packs’ to lead the AI off into your environment to find weird, interesting and security relevant things.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes
Google links axios supply chain attack to North Korean group | The Record from Recorded Future News
Cisco source code stolen in Trivy-linked dev environment breach
chiefofautism on X: "someone at ANTHROPIC just showed CLAUDE finding ZERO DAY vulnerabilities in a live conference demo"
h0mbre on X: "Claude is somehow better at kernel exploitation than creating meal plans."
Vulnerability Research Is Cooked — Quarrelsome
MAD Bugs: vim vs emacs vs Claude - Calif
MAD Bugs: Claude Wrote a Full FreeBSD Remote Kernel RCE with Root Shell (CVE-2026-4747)
A Risky Biz Experiment: Hunting for iOS 0day with AI - Risky Business Media
Security leaders say the next two years are going to be 'insane' | CyberScoop
Coruna framework: an exploit kit and ties to Operation Triangulation | Securelist
Apple says no one using Lockdown Mode has been hacked with spyware | TechCrunch
Reverse engineering Apple’s silent security fixes - Calif
Jury finds Meta's platforms are harmful to children in 1st wave of social media addiction lawsuits | PBS News
Meta and YouTube found liable in social media addiction trial
Iranian hackers publish emails allegedly stolen from Kash Patel
Iran Us War: 'Legitimate targets': Iran issues warning to US tech firms including Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia - The Times of India
Drop Site on X: "IRGC: From now on, for every assassination, an American company will be destroyed"
OSINTtechnical on X: "Starlink shutdowns are forcing Russian troops even deeper into Ubiquiti’s ecosystem. "
Citrix NetScaler products confirmed to be under exploitation | Cybersecurity Dive
CISA tells federal agencies to patch Citrix NetScaler bug by Thursday | The Record from Recorded Future News
Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying | WIRED
Post reporters called the White House. Their phones showed ‘Epstein Island.’ - The Washington Post
Soap Box: Red teaming AI systems with SpecterOps
In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the show, Patrick Gray and James Wilson talk about red teaming AI systems with Russel Van Tuyl, Vice President of Services at elite penetration testing firm SpecterOps.
SpecterOps is the company behind attack path enumeration tool Bloodhound and Bloodhound Enterprise, but they’re also a pentest and red teaming shop with world class expertise in popping shells on all sorts of interesting systems in all sorts of interesting places.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes
Risky Business #830 -- LiteLLM and security scanner supply chains compromised
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James WIlson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They talk through:
TeamPCP’s supply chain attack on Github, and they threw in an anti-Iran wiper, because why not?!
Anthropic hooks up its models to just… use your whole computer
After Stryker’s Very Bad Day, CISA says maybe add some more controls around your Intune?
Another iOS exploit kit shows up in the cyber bargain-bin
The FTC decides to ban… all new home routers?! U wot m8?!
Supermicro founder was personally sanction-busting Nvidia GPUs into China?!
This week’s episode is sponsored by enterprise browser maker, Island. Chief Customer Officer Bradon Rogers joins Pat to explain how its customers are using Island to control the use of personal AI services in regulated industries.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes
‘CanisterWorm’ Springs Wiper Attack Targeting Iran
TeamPCP deploys CanisterWorm on NPM following Trivy compromise
Andrej Karpathy on X: "Software horror: litellm PyPI supply chain" attack
Checkmarx KICS GitHub Action Compromised: Malware Injected in All Git Tags
Felix Rieseberg on X: "Today, we’re releasing a feature that allows Claude to control your computer"
A Top Google Search Result for Claude Plugins Was Planted by Hackers
Lockheed Martin targeted in alleged breach by pro-Iran hacktivist
CISA urges companies to secure Microsoft Intune systems after hackers mass-wipe Stryker devices
FBI seems to seize website tied to Iranian cyberattack on Stryker
Stryker confirms cyberattack is contained and restoration underway
Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild
Someone has publicly leaked an exploit kit that can hack millions of iPhones
Russia-linked hackers use advanced iPhone exploit to target Ukrainians
Apple rolls out first 'background security' update for iPhones, iPads, and Macs to fix Safari bug
Post by @wartranslated.bsky.social — Bluesky
Signal’s Creator Is Helping Encrypt Meta AI
Hacker says they compromised millions of confidential police tips held by US company
Millions of 'anonymous' crime tips exposed in massive Crime Stoppers hack
Feds Disrupt IoT Botnets Behind Huge DDoS Attacks
FCC bans import of consumer-grade routers amid national security concerns
White House pours cold water on cyber ‘letters of marque’ speculation
Google launches threat disruption unit, stops short of calling it ‘offensive'
Supermicro’s cofounder was just arrested for allegedly smuggling $2.5 billion in GPUs to China
Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded across the US
Man pleads guilty to $8 million AI-generated music scheme
Two Israelis AI generated "intelligence" and sold it to Iran
Risky Business #829 -- Sneaky lobsters: Why AI is the new insider threat
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James WIlson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They discuss:
Iran’s Intune-based wiper attack on medical device maker Stryker
Qihoo 360’s AI publishes its own wildcard TLS cert private key
Instagram is canning its end-to-end encrypted messaging
What’s going on with mobile internet access in Moscow?
The Xbox One’s bootloader gets voltage glitched into submission
Oh Qualys! We love you! (At least, whoever is in the basement writing these beautiful .txt files…)
This week’s episode is sponsored by browser-based detection and response company, Push Security. Researcher Dan Green and Field CTO Mark Orlando join Pat to talk through the InstallFix variant of the *Fix attack technique.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes
Iranian Hacktivists Strike Medical Device Maker Stryker in "Severe" Attack that Wiped Systems
Stryker says it's restoring systems after pro-Iran hackers wiped thousands of employee devices | TechCrunch
Stryker attack raises concerns about role of device management tool | Cybersecurity Dive
Stryker tells SEC that timeline for recovery from cyberattack unknown | The Record from Recorded Future News
How ‘Handala’ Became the Face of Iran’s Hacker Counterattacks | WIRED
U.S Strikes Killed Iranian Cyber Chiefs, But The Hacks Continued
Risky Business Features: Being a Wartime CISO
Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories - Ars Technica
China's biggest cybersecurity company, Qihoo 360 just leaked their own wildcard SSL private key
Emergent Cyber Behavior: When AI Agents Become Offensive Threat Actors - Irregular
Risky Business Features: MCP is Dead
Measuring AI Agents’ Progress on Multi-Step Cyber Attack Scenarios
Measuring AI Agents' Progress on Multi-Step Cyber Attack Scenarios
What is end-to-end encryption on Instagram | Instagram Help Center
US Lawmakers Move to Kill the FBI’s Warrantless Wiretap Access | WIRED
Website "whitelists" launched in Moscow | Forbes.ru
Exclusive: Foreign hacker in 2023 compromised Epstein files held by FBI, source and documents show | Reuters
Feds say another DigitalMint negotiator ran ransomware attacks and helped extort $75 million | CyberScoop
Researchers disclose vulnerabilities in IP KVMs from four manufacturers - Ars Technica
RE//verse 2026: Hacking the Xbox One by Markus 'doom' Gaasedelen - YouTube
CrackArmor: Multiple vulnerabilities in AppArmor
Risky Biz Soap Box: It took a decade, but allowlisting is cool again
In this Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray sits down with Airlock Digital co-founders Daniel Schell and David Cottingham to talk about the role AI models could play in managing enterprise allowlists.
They also talk about the durability of allowlisting as a control. After 12 years in business, the Airlock product hasn’t really changed all that much. That’s a good thing! It also means the Airlock team have been able to spend some time doing deep engineering instead of chasing the latest attacker TTPs and writing detection rules for them.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes
Risky Business #828 -- The Coruna exploits are truly exquisite
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James WIlson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:
The Coruna exploits were L3 Harris, but it seems Triangulation… was not!
Iran’s cyber HQ hit by Israeli (kinetic) strikes
Trump’s cyber “strategy” is … well, all we’ve got is jokes cause there’s no serious content
NSA and CyberCom finally get a leader after Lt Gen Joshua Rudd gets Senate nod
DOGE (remember them?!) employee walked a social security database out on a USB stick
This episode is sponsored by open source cloud security scanner Prowler. Creator and CEO Toni de la Fuente talks to Pat about some of the enterprise features Prowler is growing, while remaining true to its open source roots.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes
Inside Coruna: Reverse Engineering a Nation-State iOS Exploit Kit From JavaScript
GitHub - matteyeux/coruna: deobfuscated JS and blobs
US military contractor likely built iPhone hacking tools used by Russian spies in Ukraine
APT36: A Nightmare of Vibeware
State-linked actors targeted US networks in lead-up to Iran war
Iranian cyber warfare HQ allegedly hit by Israel
Last 2 names of 6 US soldiers who died in Kuwait attack identified by the Pentagon
Signal, WhatsApp users face Russian phishing push, Dutch warn
Samuel Bendett on X: "Russian military told it couldn't use Telegram messaging app"
FBI investigating ‘suspicious’ cyber activities on critical surveillance network
Risky Bulletin: New White House EO prioritizes fight against scams and cybercrime
President Trump’s CYBER STRATEGY for America
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Combats Cybercrime, Fraud, and Predatory Schemes Against American Citizens
UK plans to shift fraud fight onto telecoms, tech companies
Trump to hit Anthropic with executive order to remove "woke" AI Claude
Anthropic launches code review tool to check flood of AI-generated code
CrowdStrike reports record quarter amid investor concerns about AI impact
Critical defect in Java security engine poses serious downstream security risks
Gen. Joshua Rudd confirmed as NSA, Cyber Command head
Plankey’s nomination as CISA director now in jeopardy
DOGE employee stole Social Security data and put it on a thumb drive, report says
Taming Agentic Browsers: Vulnerability in Chrome Allowed Extensions to Hijack New Gemini Panel
Cel mai mare exportator român de carne, deținătorul brandului Cocorico, a intrat în restructurări, alături de Casa de Insolvență Transilvania
Risky Business #827 -- Iranian cyber threat actors are down but not out
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James WIlson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:
The US-Israeli attack on Iran had a whole lot of cyber. It’s clearly in the playbook now!
The NSA Triangulation / L3 Harris Trenchant iOS exploit kit is on the loose, and being used by Chinese crypto scammers
So long Maddhu Gottumukkala, but CISA’s annus horribilis continues
Adam “humbug” Boileau complains about the Airsnitch wifi attack just being three ethernets in a trenchcoat
ASD’s Cisco SD-WAN threat hunting guide is clearly borne of … experience
This week’s episode is sponsored by AI threat hunting platform Nebulock. Sydney Marrone joins to talk about how useful AI models are on the hunt, and her work building out an open source framework and maturity model. It’s methodology agnostic, so you can adapt it for your environment, and the github link is in the show notes!
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes
Inside the plan to kill Ali Khamenei
Hacked traffic cams and hijacked TVs: How cyber operations supported the war against Iran | TechCrunch
Matthew Prince 🌥 on X: "Counter to what some cyber vendors are saying, there’s been a dramatic drop in Iranian cyber operations. Likely as the operators are sheltering. They may pick back up, but right now there’s a noticeable lull." / X
Cyber Command disrupted Iranian comms, sensors, top general says | The Record from Recorded Future News
Iranian Hackers Use Elon Musk’s Starlink To Stay Online
Exclusive | U.S. Smuggled Thousands of Starlink Terminals Into Iran After Protest Crackdown - WSJ
Attacks on GPS Spike Amid US and Israeli War on Iran | WIRED
Amazon Data Centers on Fire After Iranian Missile Strikes on Dubai
A Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit Is Now in the Hands of Foreign Spies and Criminals | WIRED
Canceled contracts, a failed polygraph and personal disputes: Inside the turbulent tenure of Noem’s former cyber czar - POLITICO
CISA CIO Robert Costello exits agency | CyberScoop
OpenAI alters deal with Pentagon as critics sound alarm over surveillance
Inside Anthropic’s Killer-Robot Dispute With the Pentagon - The Atlantic
Read the full transcript of our interview with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei - CBS News
CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements
Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs
Hackers Weaponize Claude Code in Mexican Government Cyberattack - SecurityWeek
New AirSnitch attack bypasses Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises - Ars Technica
CISA orders agencies to patch Cisco devices now under attack | Cybersecurity Dive
CISCO SD-WAN THREAT HUNT GUIDE
ClawJacked attack let malicious websites hijack OpenClaw to steal data
Area Man Accidentally Hacks 6,700 Camera-Enabled Robot Vacuums | WIRED
Intellexa founder, three others sentenced to 8 years in prison over Greek spyware scandal | The Record from Recorded Future News
Moscow man accused of posing as FSB officer to extort Conti ransomware gang | The Record from Recorded Future News
Farewell, Felix · The Recurity Lablog
Atmos Sphere 2026 | Atmos
The Agentic Threat Hunting Framework | Nebulock blog
GitHub - Nebulock-Inc/agentic-threat-hunting-framework: ATHF is a framework for agentic threat hunting - building systems that can remember, learn, and act with increasing autonomy. · GitHub
Risky Business #826 -- A week of AI mishaps and skulduggery
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James WIlson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:
Low skill actors compromise 600 Fortinets with AI-generated playbooks
Anthropic calls out Chinese AI firms over model distillation
Meta’s director of AI safety tells her ClawdBot not to delete her mail… so of course it does
Peter Williams cops 7 years in jail for selling L3 Harris Trenchant’s exploits to Russia
Ivanti got hacked in 2021 via… bugs in Ivanti
This episode is sponsored by line-rate network capture system Corelight. CEO Brian Dye joins to discuss what AI can do for defenders, and what it can’t.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes
AI-augmented threat actor accesses FortiGate devices at scale
"this reads to me like: they ran existing tools.... but with a cool dashboard :D"
Anthropic accuses Chinese labs of trying to illicitly take Claude’s capabilities | CyberScoop
Detecting and preventing distillation attacks
Hegseth warns Anthropic to let the military use the company’s AI tech as it sees fit, AP sources say
Anthropic Rolls Out Embedded Security Scanning for Claude
AWS's AI Coding Bot Kiro Caused a 13-Hour Outage
Running OpenClaw safely: identity, isolation, and runtime risk
Former Adobe, Cisco and Salesforce CISO talks AI pentesting
History Repeats: Security in the AI Agent Era
Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox
Microsoft says Office bug exposed customers' confidential emails to Copilot AI | TechCrunch
The (tangential) fix: Microsoft adds Copilot data controls to all storage locations
Ex-L3Harris executive sentenced to 87 months in prison for selling zero-day exploits to Russian broker
Treasury Sanctions Exploit Broker Network for Theft and Sale of U.S. Government Cyber Tools
Risky Bulletin: Russia starts criminal probe of Telegram founder Pavel Durov
Ukraine pushes tighter Telegram regulation, citing Russian recruitment of locals
The watchers: how openai, the US government, and persona built an identity surveillance machine that files reports on you to the feds
Persona emails customers saying they don’t work with ICE or DHS amid ‘surveillance’ claims
Inside the Fix: Analysis of In-the-Wild Exploit of CVE-2026-21513
Ivanti hacked in 2021 via its own product
Fed agencies ordered to patch Dell bug by Saturday after exploitation warning | The Record from Recorded Future News
From BRICKSTORM to GRIMBOLT: UNC6201 Exploiting a Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines Zero-Day