Podcast appearances and mentions of Patrick Gray

In this week's edition of Risky Business Dmitri Alperovitch and Adam Boileau join Patrick Gray to talk through the week's news, including: EXCLUSIVE: A Scattered Spider-style crew is hijacking DNS MX entries and compromising enterprises within minutes The SVG format brings the all horrors of HTML+JS to image files, and attackers have noticed Brian Krebs eats a 6.3Tbps DDoS … ‘cause that's how you demo your packet cannon Law enforcement takes out Lumma Stealer, Qakbot, Danabot and some dark web drug traffickers Iranian behind 2019 Baltimore ransomware mysteriously appears in North Carolina and pleads guilty CISA's leadership is fleeing in droves, even though the US needs them more than ever. This week's episode is sponsored by Thinkst Canary. Long time friend of the show Haroon Meer joins and talks through where he feels the industry is at, having just returned home from the AI-fueled hype at this year's RSA conference. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes China-linked ‘Silk Typhoon' hackers accessed Commvault cloud environments, person familiar says - Nextgov/FCW Risky Bulletin: SVG use for phishing explodes in 2025 - Risky Business Media KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Near-Record 6.3 Tbps DDoS – Krebs on Security Midwestern telco Cellcom confirms cyber incident after days of service outages | The Record from Recorded Future News Microsoft leads international takedown of Lumma Stealer | Cybersecurity Dive Who said what? on X: "Message from the administrator of Lumma Stealer on the forums about the recent events

On this week's show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week's cybersecurity news: TeleMessage memory dumps show up on DDoSecrets Coinbase contractor bribed to hand over user data Telegram does seem to be actually cooperating with law enforcement Britain's legal aid service gets 15 years worth of applicant data stolen Shocking no one, Ivanti were weaseling when they blamed latest bugs on a third party library This week's episode is sponsored by Prowler, who make an open source cloud security tool. Founder and original project developer Toni de la Fuente joins to talk through the flexibility that open tooling brings. Prowler is also adding support for SaaS platforms like M365, and of course, an AI assistant to help you write checks! This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes TeleMessage - Distributed Denial of Secrets How the Signal Knockoff App TeleMessage Got Hacked in 20 Minutes | WIRED Coinbase says thieves stole user data and tried to extort $20M Hack could cost Coinbase up to $400M: filing | Cybersecurity Dive Severed Fingers and ‘Wrench Attacks' Rattle the Crypto Elite Money Stuff: US Debt Rates Itself | NewsletterHunt 2 massive black market services blocked by Telegram, messaging app says | Reuters Telegram Gave Authorities Data on More than 20,000 Users GovDelivery, an email alert system used by governments, abused to send scam messages | TechCrunch ATO warning as hackers steal $14,000 in tax returns: ‘Be wary' Hack of SEC social media account earns 14-month prison sentence for Alabama man | The Record from Recorded Future News 19-year-old accused of largest child data breach in U.S. agrees to plead guilty Beach mansion, Benz and Bitcoin worth $4.5m seized from League of Legends hacker Shane Stephen Duffy | 7NEWS Pegasus spyware maker rebuffed in efforts to get off trade blacklist - The Washington Post Ransomware attack hits supplier of refrigerated groceries to British supermarkets | The Record from Recorded Future News UK government confirms massive data breach following hack of Legal Aid Agency | The Record from Recorded Future News Ivanti Endpoint Mobile Manager customers exploited via chained vulnerabilities | Cybersecurity Dive Expression Payloads Meet Mayhem - Ivanti EPMM Unauth RCE Chain (CVE-2025-4427 and CVE-2025-4428)

In this wholly sponsored Soap Box edition of the show, Patrick Gray chats with Adam Bateman and Luke Jennings from Push Security. Push has built an identity security platform that collects identity information and events from your users' browsers. It can detect phish kits and shut down phishing attempts, protect SSO credentials, and find shadow/personal account that a user has spun up. It's extremely difficult to bypass. That's because when you're in the browser it doesn't matter how a phishing link arrives, or how a threat actor has concealed it from your detection stack – if the user sees it, Push sees it. There are solutions for protecting your users SSO credentials, like passkeys. But what about all the SaaS in your environment? Even if it's enrolled into your SSO, are you sure that's how your users are authenticating to it? What about the automation platforms your developers and admins use? What about data platforms like Snowflake? Are your using setting up passkeys for those accounts? How would you know, and what problems can it cause if those accounts are vulnerable? This is a fun one! This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes

In this special edition of the Seriously Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray speaks with former NSA Cybersecurity Director Rob Joyce and former director of the CIA's Center for Cyber Intelligence Andy Boyd. The talk about what offensive cyber could look like under Trump 2.0, and the shake-up the intelligence community is going through under various White House initiatives. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes

On this week's show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week's cybersecurity news: Struggling to find that pesky passwords.xlsx in Sharepoint? Copilot has your back! The ransomware ecosystem is finding life a bit tough lately SAP Netweaver bug being used by Chinese APT crew Academics keep just keep finding CPU side-channel attacks And of course… bugs! Asus, Ivanti, Fortinet… and a Nissan LEAF? This week's episode is sponsored by Resourcely, who will soothe your Terraform pains. Founder and CEO Tracis McPeak joins to talk about how to get from a very red dashboard full of cloud problems to a workable future. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Exploiting Copilot AI for SharePoint | Pen Test Partners MrBruh's Epic Blog Ransomware group Lockbit appears to have been hacked, analysts say | Reuters "CONTI LEAK: Video they tried to bury! 6+ Conti members on a private jet. TARGET's birthday — $10M bounty on his head. Filmed by TARGET himself. Original erased — we kept a copy." Mysterious hackers who targeted Marks and Spencer's computer systems hint at political allegiance as they warn other tech criminals not to attack former Soviet states The organizational structure of ransomware groups is evolving rapidly. SAP NetWeaver exploitation enters second wave of threat activity China-Nexus Nation State Actors Exploit SAP NetWeaver (CVE-2025-31324) to Target Critical Infrastructures DOGE software engineer's computer infected by info-stealing malware Hackers hijack Japanese financial accounts to conduct nearly $2 billion in trades FBI and Dutch police seize and shut down botnet of hacked routers Poland arrests four in global DDoS-for-hire takedown School districts hit with extortion attempts after PowerSchool breach EU launches vulnerability database to tackle cybersecurity threats Training Solo - vusec Branch Privilege Injection: Exploiting Branch Predictor Race Conditions – Computer Security Group Remote Exploitation of Nissan Leaf: Controlling Critical Body Elements from the Internet PSIRT | FortiGuard Labs EPMM Security Update | Ivanti

In this edition of the Wide World of Cyber podcast Patrick Gray talks to SentinelOne's Steve Stone and Alex Stamos about how foreign adversaries are targeting security vendors, including them. From North Korean IT workers to Chinese supply chain attacks, SentinelOne and its competitors are constantly fending off sophisticated hacking campaigns. This edition of the Wide World of Cyber was recorded in front of a live audience in San Francisco, with Patrick attending via Zoom. The Wide World of Cyber podcast series is a wholly sponsored co-production between SentinelOne and Risky Business Media. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes

Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about how the US is planning to take the gloves off in cyberspace and conduct much more aggressive offensive cyber operations. US responses to cyber espionage have not been very aggressive to date, but Tom is not convinced that cyber punches are required, so much as blows that really hurt. The pair also discuss TeleMessage, the Signal clone the Trump cabinet has been using. The app managed to sidestep certification and assessment processes and ended up being used by various agencies in the US government. And the White House. It's a mystery how this happened. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes

On this week's show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week's cybersecurity news: White House's off-brand Israeli Signal fork logs cleartext messages with hard coded creds while getting hacked (twice). Just … Wow. Ransomware attacks on UK retailers are linked, and Marks & Spencer has it extra bad After six years dormant, a Magento eCommerce platform backdoor comes to life The North Korean IT worker scam is truly webscale NSO group owes Meta $168m for hacking WhatsApp This week's episode is sponsored by vulnerability management wranglers, Nucleus Security. Aaron Unterberger joins to talk through the complexities of tracking vulnerabilities in cloud components - left to the source, right to the deployments, and …sideways into the sidecars? This week's show also features an excerpt from Pat's interview with Senator Mark Warner - Scoot back one in your podcast feed to check out the full chat, or find it on Youtube. This episode is available on Youtube too. Show notes Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals Obscure App the Government Is Using to Archive Signal Messages Despite misleading marketing, Israeli company TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked App used by Mike Waltz suspends services after hacking claims Senator Demands Investigation into Trump Admin Signal Clone After 404 Media Investigation MG on X: "Looks like TeleMessage was probably procured and rolled out under Biden. There are public records for it. https://t.co/XCuZpi8PL3" / X Harrods becomes latest retailer to announce attempted cyberattack | The Record from Recorded Future News Co-op DragonForce cyber attack includes customer data, firm admits Co-op cyber attack: Staff told to keep cameras on in meetings Hundreds of e-commerce sites hacked in supply-chain attack - Ars Technica Microsoft's new “passwordless by default” is great but comes at a cost - Ars Technica Windows RDP lets you log in using revoked passwords. Microsoft is OK with that. - Ars Technica North Korean operatives have infiltrated hundreds of Fortune 500 companies | CyberScoop US wants to cut off key player in Southeast Asian cybercrime industry | The Record from Recorded Future News Myanmar militia leader sanctioned by US over cyber scam connections | The Record from Recorded Future News Trump proposes major cut to CISA's budget, citing false ‘censorship' claims | Cybersecurity Dive NSA to cut up to 2,000 civilian roles as part of intel community downsizing | The Record from Recorded Future News NSO Group owes $168M in damages to WhatsApp over spyware infections, jury says | CyberScoop

In this extended interview the Vice Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senator Mark Warner, joins Risky Business host Patrick Gray to talk about: The latest developments in the Signalgate scandal Why America needs to be more aggressive in responding to Volt Typhoon How tariffs are affecting American alliances Why the Five Eyes alliance is sacrosanct This episode is available on Youtube Show notes

Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about a SentinelOne report about how it is constantly targeted by both cybercriminal and state-backed hackers. Security firms are high-value targets, so constant attacks on them are the new normal. They also discuss an article that calls Signal “a kind of dark matter of American politics and media”. Many policy discussions occur on the app, and this explains the Trump administration's extensive use of the app. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes

On this week's show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week's cybersecurity news: British retail stalwart Marks & Spencer gets cybered South Korean telco sets out to replace all its subscriber SIMs after (we assume) it lost the keymat It's a good exploit week! Bugs in Apple Airplay, SAP webservers, Erlang SSH and CommVault backups Juice jacking! No, really! Some researchers actually did it (so still not in the wild, then) Anti-DOGE whistleblower sure sounds like he has a point This week's episode is sponsored by Knocknoc, who let you glue your firewalls to your single sign on. Knocknoc's CEO Adam Pointon talks about the joy that having end-to-end IPv6 would bring for zero-trust access control. He also touches on people using Knocknoc inside their network to isolate critical systems. Editors Note : Pat also gives Adam (Boileau) stick in the sponsor interview about the Risky Biz webserver not having IPv6 enabled, which fact-checking during the edit says is FAKE NEWS. Just uh, don't look at how fresh that AAAA record in the DNS is, friends

In this edition of Snake Oilers three vendors pitch host Patrick Gray on their tech: Pangea: Guardrails and security for AI agents and applications (https://pangea.cloud) Worried about your AI apps going rogue, being mean to your customers or even disclosing sensitive information? Pangea exists to address these risks. Fascinating stuff. Cosive: A threat intelligence company that can host your MISP server in AWS. CloudMISP! (https://www.cosive.com/snakeoilers) Are you running a MISP server on some old hardware under a desk in your SOC? There's a better way! Cosive can run it for you on AWS so you can just use it instead of wrestling with maintaining it. They also do some CTI consulting to help you get better use out of MISP. Sysdig: A Linux runtime security platform (https://sysdig.com/) The modern Windows network is an all-singing, all-dancing, perfectly orchestrated, EDR-protected ballet. The modern Linux production environment… isn't. Find out how Sysdig can help you get some visibility and control over your Linux fleet. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes

Tom Uren and Patrick Gray discuss Trump's order singling out Chris Krebs, former head of CISA, that requires investigations into Krebs and also punishes his employer. It is a move deliberately designed to chill dissent and they look at what the cyber security industry will likely do in response, which is probably not much. The pair also discuss what is being interpreted as an admission that Chinese senior leadership is behind the Volt Typhoon hacking of US critical infrastructure. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes

On this week's show Patrick Gray talks to former NSA Cybersecurity Director Rob Joyce about Donald Trump's unprecedented, unwarranted and completely bonkers political persecution of Chris Krebs and his employer SentinelOne. They also talk through the week's cybersecurity news, covering: Mitre's stewardship of the CVE database gets its funding DOGE'd The US signs on to the Pall Mall anti-spyware agreement China tries to play the nationstate cyber-attribution game, but comedically badly Hackers run their malware inside the Windows sandbox, for security against EDR This week's episode is sponsored by open source identity provider Authentik. CEO Fletcher Heisler joins to talk through the increasing sprawl of the identity ecosystem. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Cybersecurity industry falls silent as Trump turns ire on SentinelOne | Reuters U.S. cyber defenders shaken by Trump's attack on their former boss Trump Revenge Tour Targets Cyber Leaders, Elections – Krebs on Security Wyden to block Trump's CISA nominee until agency releases report on telecoms' ‘negligent cybersecurity' | The Record from Recorded Future News Gabbard sets up DOGE-style team to cut costs, uncover intel ‘weaponization' MITRE Warns CVE Program Faces Disruption Amid US Funding Uncertainty US to sign Pall Mall pact aimed at countering spyware abuses | The Record from Recorded Future News Court document reveals locations of WhatsApp victims targeted by NSO spyware | TechCrunch Spyware Maker NSO Group Is Paving a Path Back Into Trump's America | WIRED NCSC shares technical details of spyware targeting Uyghur, Tibetan and Taiwanese groups | The Record from Recorded Future News Risky Bulletin: Chinese APT abuses Windows Sandbox to go invisible on infected hosts China escalates cyber fight with U.S., names alleged NSA hackers Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs - Ars Technica China-based SMS Phishing Triad Pivots to Banks – Krebs on Security Risky Bulletin: CA/B Forum approves 47-days TLS certs Ransomware in het mkb: Cybercriminelen verhogen losgeld bij cyberverzekering 4chan Is Down Following What Looks to Be a Major Hack Spurred By Meme War

The first witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ were some of his female disciples. Mary Magdalene witnessed the empty tomb and was the first to encounter the risen Savior. Additionally, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and other unnamed women, who had come to the tomb to anoint the body of Jesus, saw the empty tomb and reported it to the apostles. In this episode, Professor Gaye Strathearn explores the profound impact of the Easter events through the experiences of the women who witnessed the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. She explains how Luke's narrative, with support from the other Gospels, connects these women to Jesus's ministry in Galilee and portrays them as dedicated disciples who ministered to Jesus and followed him to Jerusalem. Further, the discussion underscores the women's loyalty and sacrifice, emphasizing their presence at the Crucifixion and their discovery of the empty tomb. In exploring these narratives, we can increase our knowledge of the enduring hope and faith that the Easter events inspire and add our own witness that “he is risen” (Mark 16:6).      Publications: “Women Witnesses of the Easter Events” in He Was Seen: Witnessing the Risen Christ, David M. Calabro and George A. Pierce, ed., Religious Studies Center, 2024. "The Chosen's Amplification of Women's Voices in Scripture," in Watching The Chosen: History, Faith, and Biblical Interpretation, Robert K. Gtarcia, Paul Gondreau, Patrick Gray, and Douglas F. Huffman, ed., Eerdmans, 2025. “Experiencing the Doctrine of Christ,” Religious Educator, 25.3, 2024. Sacred Time: The Sabbath as a Perpetual Covenant, Religious Studies Center, 2023. “Discipleship in the Olivet Discourse in Mark's Gospel,” in “Behold the Lamb of God”: An Easter Celebration, Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Frank F. Judd Jr. , and Thomas A. Wayment, ed., Religious Studies Center, 2008.  “‘Holiness to the Lord' and Personal Temple Worship,” Religious Educator, 23.1, 2022.   Click here to learn more about Gaye Strathearn

In this podcast, Patrick Gray chats with SentinelOne's Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos about the huge changes afoot in the United States government and what they mean for the threat environment. From the director of NSA being fired to massive job cuts at CISA and huge foreign policy shifts, tomorrow's threat environment is going to be very different to today's. Tune in to hear analysis from two of the best in the business! This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes

Tom Uren and Patrick Gray discuss Trump's recent firing of General Timothy Haugh, the head of NSA and Cyber Command. Tom dives into the implications and thinks why this is not good news for the agencies. They also discuss Europe losing faith in the US intelligence commitments that underpin transatlantic data flows. That would be bad news for US tech companies. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes

On this week's show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week's cybersecurity news: Oracle quietly cops to being hacked, but immediately pivots into pretending it didn't matter NSA and CyberCom leaders fired for not being MAGA enough US Treasury had some dusty corners it hadn't found China in yet, looked, found China in them …which is a great time to discuss slashing CISA's staffing Ransomware crews and bullet proof hosting providers are getting rekt, and we love it And Microsoft patches yet another logging 0-day being used in the wild. This episode is sponsored by Yubico, makers of Yubikey hardware authentication tokens. Yubico's Vice President of Solutions Architecture and Alliances Derek Hanson joins to discuss how the consumer-centric passkey ecosystem has become a real challenge for enterprises. One that Yubico is actually ideally positioned to solve. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Oracle privately confirms Cloud breach to customers Oracle have finally issued a written notification to customers about their cybersecurity incident. Head of NSA and US Cyber Command reportedly fired | Cybersecurity Dive Trump fires numerous National Security Council staff - The Washington Post Trump administration under scrutiny as it puts major round of CISA cuts on the table | Cybersecurity Dive Hackers Spied on US Bank Regulators' Emails for Over a Year - Bloomberg This is how Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the Signal chat Cybercriminals are trying to loot Australian pension accounts in new campaign | The Record from Recorded Future News $500,000 stolen in Australian super fund data breach | Superannuation | The Guardian Australian regulator pulls licenses of 95 companies in effort to crack down on investment scams | The Record from Recorded Future News Everest ransomware group's darknet site offline following defacement | The Record from Recorded Future News On March 28, 2025, a threat actor leaked internal data from Medialand, a major bulletproof hosting (BPH) provider long linked to Yalishanda (LARVA-34). There's a ransomware group named DragonForce going around hacking its rivals. After Mamona and BlackLock, the group has now hacked RansomHub The DragonForce ransomware group hacked two rivals this month CISA, experts warn of Crush file transfer attacks as ransomware gang makes threats | The Record from Recorded Future News Kill Security Campaign Targets CrushFTP Servers National Vulnerability Database | NIST Microsoft patches zero-day actively exploited in string of ransomware attacks | CyberScoop Exploitation of CLFS zero-day leads to ransomware activity | Microsoft Security Blog Is The Sofistication In The Room With Us? - X-Forwarded-For and Ivanti Connect Secure (CVE-2025-22457)

Tom Uren and Patrick Gray discuss how North Korean IT worker scam is shifting towards Europe and employing tactics that make it more dangerous. They also discuss why Signalgate was a massive security failure. We learnt this week that US cabinet members were in multiple Signal groups discussing different topics. Phone hacking is not uncommon, an adversary states will be able to take advantage of the intelligence in these conversations. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes

On this week's show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week's cybersecurity news: Yes, Oracle Health and Oracle Cloud did get hacked The fallout from Signalgate continues North Korean IT workers pivot to Europe Honeypot data suggests a storm is brewing for Palo Alto VPNs Canadian Anon gets arrested for hacking Texas GOP This week's episode is sponsored by Trail of Bits. Tjaden Hess, a Principal Security Engineer at Trail of Bits who specialises in cryptography, joins the show this week to talk about what a responsible crypto-currency exchange cold wallet setup looks like, and … contrasts that with Bybit. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Oracle Health breach compromises patient data at US hospitals FBI probes Oracle hack tied to healthcare extortion: Report - Becker's Hospital Review | Healthcare News & Analysis Oracle Still Denies Breach as Researchers Persist Hacker linked to Oracle Cloud intrusion threatens to sell stolen data | Cybersecurity Dive Publius on X: "

Tom Uren and Patrick Gray discuss how the Signalgate messages betray an alarming lack of security nous at the highest levels of the US natsec leadership. It's head-scratchingly bad. They also discuss the possibility the Trump Administration will reconstitute the CSRB. The Board wasn't perfect, but in our view it is better to get it started again rather than waiting for reviews to determine its perfect form. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes

On this week's show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week's cybersecurity news: Yes, the Trump admin really did just add a journo to their Yemen-attack-planning Signal group The Github actions hack is smaller than we thought, but was targeting crypto Remote code exec in Kubernetes, ouch Oracle denies its cloud got owned, but that sure does look like customer keymat Taiwanese hardware maker Clevo packs its private keys into bios update zip US Treasury un-sanctions Tornado Cash, party time in Pyongyang? This week's episode is sponsored by runZero. Long time hackerman HD Moore joins to talk about how network vulnerability scanning has atrophied, and what he's doing to bring it back en vogue. Do you miss early 2000s Nessus? HD knows it, he's got you fam. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans - The Atlantic Using Starlink Wi-Fi in the White House Is a Slippery Slope for US Federal IT | WIRED Coinbase Initially Targeted in GitHub Actions Supply Chain Attack; 218 Repositories' CI/CD Secrets Exposed GitHub Actions Supply Chain Attack: A Targeted Attack on Coinbase Expanded to the Widespread tj-actions/changed-files Incident: Threat Assessment (Updated 3/21) Critical vulnerabilities put Kubernetes environments in jeopardy | Cybersecurity Dive Researchers back claim of Oracle Cloud breach despite company's denials | Cybersecurity Dive The Biggest Supply Chain Hack Of 2025: 6M Records Exfiltrated from Oracle Cloud affecting over 140k Tenants | CloudSEK Capital One hacker Paige Thompson got too light a sentence, appeals court rules | CyberScoop US scraps sanctions on Tornado Cash, crypto ‘mixer' accused of laundering North Korea money | Reuters Tornado Cash Delisting | U.S. Department of the Treasury Major web services go dark in Russia amid reported Cloudflare block | The Record from Recorded Future News Clevo Boot Guard Keys Leaked in Update Package Six additional countries identified as suspected Paragon spyware customers | CyberScoop The Citizen Lab's director dissects spyware and the ‘proliferating' market for it | The Record from Recorded Future News Malaysia PM says country rejected $10 million ransom demand after airport outages | The Record from Recorded Future News Hacker defaces NYU website, exposing admissions data on 1 million students | The Record from Recorded Future News Notre Dame uni students say outage creating enrolment, graduation, assignment mayhem - ABC News DNA of 15 Million People for Sale in 23andMe Bankruptcy

In this Soap Box edition of Risky Business host Patrick Gray talks to Knocknoc CEO Adam Pointon about how to easily rein in attack surface by glueing your single sign-on service to your network controls. Do your Palo Alto and Fortinet devices really need to be discoverable by ransomware crews? Does your file transfer appliance need to be open to the whole world? What about your SSH and RDP? Your Citrix? Your (gasp) Exchange Online servers?? You can do a lot with IP allowlisting and simple Identity Aware Proxies (IAPs) to minimise your exposure. Knocknoc is a bit of a “Risky Business special”, too. Pat helped Knocknoc to raise a seed round through Decibel Partners where he's a founder advisor. He also serves on Knocknoc's board of directors. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes

Tom Uren and Patrick Gray discuss how China's Ministry of State Security is increasingly doxxing and threatening Taiwanese APT operators. In some ways this mirrors the US strategy of naming and shaming Chinese cyber operators in indictments that contain lots of supporting information. But although MSS statements are filled with propaganda rather than technical detail, naming Taiwanese military hackers has some bite. They also discuss Russia's ‘shadow war' sabotage campaign across Europe. The Russian campaign mostly relies on traditional sabotage and finding local proxies to throw bombs. But it does make sense for Western governments to respond with destructive cyber operations. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes CSIS report on Russia's 'Shadow War'

On this week's show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week's cybersecurity news: Github Actions supply chain attack loots keys and secrets from 23k projects Why a VC fund now owns a minority stake in Risky Business Media (!?!?) China doxes Taiwanese military hackers Microsoft thinks .lnk file whitespace trick isn't worth patching but APTs sure love it CISA delivers government efficiency by re-hiring fired staff… to put them on paid leave …and Google acquires Wiz for $32bn This week's show is sponsored by Zero Networks, and they have sent along a happy customer to talk about their experience. Aaron Steinke is Head of Infrastructure at La Trobe Financial, an asset management firm in Australia. Aaron talks through bringing modern zero-trust goodness to the reality of a technology environment that's been around 40 years. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Risky Bulletin: GitHub supply chain attack prints everyone's secrets in build logs - Risky Business Media China says Taiwan's military is behind PoisonIvy APT China identifies Taiwanese hackers allegedly behind cyberattacks and espionage | The Record from Recorded Future News Crypto exchange OKX shuts down tool used by North Korean hackers to launder stolen funds | The Record from Recorded Future News Lazarus Group deceives developers with 6 new malicious npm packages | CyberScoop Poisoned Windows shortcuts found to be a favorite of Chinese, Russian, N. Korean state hackers | The Record from Recorded Future News 'Mora_001' ransomware gang exploiting Fortinet bug spotlighted by CISA in January | The Record from Recorded Future News Black Basta uses brute-forcing tool to attack edge devices | Cybersecurity Dive Alleged Russian LockBit developer extradited from Israel, appears in New Jersey court | The Record from Recorded Future News CISA works to contact probationary employees for reinstatement after court order - Nextgov/FCW ‘People Are Scared': Inside CISA as It Reels From Trump's Purge | WIRED The Wiretap: CISA Staff Are Cautiously Optimistic About Trump's Pick For Director White House instructs agencies to avoid firing cybersecurity staff, email says | Reuters Signal no longer cooperating with Ukraine on Russian cyberthreats, official says | The Record from Recorded Future News Telegram CEO Pavel Durov allowed to leave France amid investigation Appellate court upholds sentence for former Uber cyber executive Joe Sullivan | The Record from Recorded Future News Google buys cloud security provider Wiz for $32 billion | The Record from Recorded Future News Pat Gray, Founder of Risky Business, Joins Decibel as Founder Advisor - Decibel

Tom Uren and Patrick Gray discuss how X is actively engaging in political interference outside the US. The risks mirror those of TikTok. American legislators moved against TikTok because it could potentially be a powerful tool for the Chinese government to interfere with American political discourse. X is a realised threat, not a potential one, so we expect that foreign governments will start to consider a ban. They also explore why mass firing of probationary employees in NSA and intelligence agencies is particularly damaging. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes

On this week's show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week's cybersecurity news with special guest Rob Joyce, a Former Special Assistant to the US President and Director of Cybersecurity for NSA. They talk through: A realistic bluetooth-proximity phishing attack against Passkeys A very patient ransomware actor encrypts an entire enterprise with a puny linux webcam processor The ESP32 backdoor that is neither a door nor at the back The X DDoS that Elon said was Ukraine is claimed by pro-Palestinian hacktivists Years later, LastPass hackers are still emptying crypto-wallets …and it turns out North Korea nailed {Safe}Wallet with a malicious docker image. Nice! Rob Joyce recently testified to the US House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, and he explains why DOGE kicking probationary employees to the curb is “devastating” for the national security staff pipeline. This week's episode is sponsored by SpecterOps, makers of the Bloodhound identity attack path mapping tool. Chief Product Officer Justin Kohler and Principal Security Researcher Lee Chagolla-Christensen discuss their pragmatic approach to disabling NTLM authentication in Active Directory using Bloodhound's insight. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes CVE-2024-9956 - PassKey Account Takeover in All Mobile Browsers | Tobia Righi - Security Researcher Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks – Krebs on Security Camera off: Akira deploys ransomware via webcam Tarlogic detects a hidden feature in the mass-market ESP32 chip that could infect millions of IoT devices Alleged Co-Founder of Garantex Arrested in India – Krebs on Security 37K+ VMware ESXi instances vulnerable to critical zero-day | Cybersecurity Dive Apple patches 0-day exploited in “extremely sophisticated attack” - Ars Technica What Really Happened With the DDoS Attacks That Took Down X | WIRED Eleven11bot estimates revised downward as researchers point to Mirai variant | Cybersecurity Dive Previously unidentified botnet infects unpatched TP-Link Archer home routers | The Record from Recorded Future News Safe.eth on X: "Investigation Updates and Community Call to Action" / X How to verify Safe{Wallet} transactions on a hardware wallet | Safe{Wallet} Help Center and Support. US charges Chinese nationals in cyberattacks on Treasury, dissidents and more | The Record from Recorded Future News Former top NSA cyber official: Probationary firings ‘devastating' to cyber, national security | CyberScoop U.S. pauses intelligence sharing with Ukraine used to target Russian forces - The Washington Post

In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray discuss how Starlink is providing an internet lifeline for scam compounds that have had their internet access cut by Thai authorities. Starlink has a very poor track record dealing with unauthorised use, but it is time for the company to develop the processes to keep on top of these problems. They also discuss how President Trump's actions that favour Russia will make Five Eyes partners take stock, particularly when it comes to HUMINT intelligence sharing. Finally they examine the did-it-happen-or-not stand-down of US Cyber Command's Russian operations. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes

On this week's show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week's cybersecurity news: Did the US decide to stop caring about Russian cyber, or not? Adam stans hard for North Korea's massive ByBit crypto-theft Cellebrite firing Serbia is an example of the system working Starlink keeps scam compounds in Myanmar running Biggest DDoS botnet yet pushes over 6Tbps This week's episode is sponsored by network visibility company Corelight. Vincent Stoffer, field CTO at Corelight joins to talk through where eyes on your network can spot attackers like Salt and Volt Typhoon. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Sygnia Preliminary Bybit Investigation Report Verichains Bybit Incident Investigation Preliminary Report North Koreans finish initial laundering stage after more than $1 billion stolen from Bybit | The Record from Recorded Future News Risky Bulletin: Trump administration stops treating Russian hackers as a threat - Risky Business Did Trump Admin Order U.S. Cyber Command and CISA to Stand Down on Russia? (Story updated) Russia to redeploy resources freed up by end of war in Ukraine, warns Finnish intelligence | The Record from Recorded Future News FBI urges crypto community to avoid laundering funds from Bybit hack | The Record from Recorded Future News Risky Bulletin: Cellebrite bans bad boy Serbia - Risky Business Belgium probes suspected Chinese hack of state security service | The Record from Recorded Future News Gabbard: UK demand to Apple for backdoor access is 'grave concern' to US | The Record from Recorded Future News Elon Musk's Starlink Is Keeping Modern Slavery Compounds Online | WIRED U.S. Soldier Charged in AT&T Hack Searched “Can Hacking Be Treason” – Krebs on Security Google Password Manager finally syncs to iOS—here's how - Ars Technica Gmail Security Alert: Google To Ditch SMS Codes For Billions Of Users Massive Iran-linked botnet launches DDoS attacks against telecom, gaming platforms | Cybersecurity Dive Microsoft-signed driver used in ransomware attacks | Cybersecurity Dive London member of ‘Com' network convicted of making indecent images of children | The Record from Recorded Future News Volt Typhoon & Salt Typhoon Attackers Are Evading EDR: What Can You Do? | Corelight

Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about the White House apparently considering kicking Canada out of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance to apply pressure on the country. It's a terrible idea and even thinking about it undermines the strength of the alliance. They also discuss Sweden's proposed legislation that would order apps like WhatsApp and Signal to store messages so they could be provided under warrant to authorities. The story is a vignette of the ongoing encryption debate, but we think apps like Signal will leave the country rather than comply. Finally, they talk about how the illicit cryptocurrency ecosystem is evolving in response to government action such as takedowns and sanctions. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes

On this week's show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week's cybersecurity news: North Korea pulls off a 1.5 billion dollar crypto heist Apple pulls Advanced Data Protection from the UK Black Basta ransomware gang's internal chats leak Russians snoop on Signal with QR codes And Myanmar ships thousands of freed scam compound workers to Thailand Regular guest Lina Lau joins to discuss her work reading Chinese incident response reports on WeChat, and how that has people thinking that … she outed the NSA? This week's episode is sponsored by Airlock Digital, and allow-listing tragics Daniel Schell and David Cottingham are along with an amusing tale of using Windows' own allow-listing software to block EDR from loading. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Hackers drained $1.4 billion of cryptocurrency from Bybit exchange, CEO confirms | The Record from Recorded Future News CertiK - Bybit Incident Technical Analysis Hackers use ‘sophisticated' macOS malware to steal cryptocurrency, Microsoft says | The Record from Recorded Future News EU sanctions North Korean tied to Lazarus group over involvement in Ukraine war | The Record from Recorded Future News Sanctions: Iranians Flock to Crypto; Int'l Actions Target Russia - Chainalysis Apple turns off iCloud encryption feature in UK following reported government legal order | The Record from Recorded Future News Swedish authorities seek backdoor to encrypted messaging apps | The Record from Recorded Future News Leaked chat logs expose inner workings of secretive ransomware group - Ars Technica Russian state hackers spy on Ukrainian military through Signal app | The Record from Recorded Future News Meta Sues Alleged Violent Extortionist For Holding Instagram Accounts Hostage Weathering the storm: In the midst of a Typhoon Thailand to take in 7,000 rescued from illegal cyber scam hubs in Myanmar | The Record from Recorded Future News Genea confirms cyber breach after ‘unauthorised third party' accesses data | news.com.au — Australia's leading news site Managed healthcare defense contractor to pay $11 million over alleged cyber failings | The Record from Recorded Future News Botnet looks for quiet ways to try stolen logins in Microsoft 365 environments | The Record from Recorded Future News Director-General's Annual Threat Assessment 2025 | ASIO An inside look at NSA (Equation Group) TTPs from China's lense

In this episode of the Wide World of Cyber podcast Risky Business host Patrick Gray chats with SentinelOne's Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos about AI, DeepSeek, and regulation. From its bad transport security to its Chinese ownership and the economic implications of China “entering the chat”, everyone's freaking out over this new model. But should they be? Pat, Alex and Chris dissect the model's significance, the politics of it all and how AI regulation in Europe, the US and China will shape the future of LLMs. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes

In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about the idea of launching a retaliatory campaign to hack Chinese telcos in response to Salt Typhoon's targeting of US ones. US Senator Mark Warner floated the idea as a way to persuade the Chinese government to pull back Salt Typhoon, but we think that kind of campaign has merit regardless. They also discuss how Samoa's CERT calling out APT40 is a big deal. It's striking to see a small country of 200,000 people calling out Chinese hacking. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes

On this week's show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week's cybersecurity news, including: Australian spooks scrubbed Medibank data off Zservers bulletproof hosting Why device code phishing is the latest trick in confusing poor users about cloud authentication Cloudflare gets blocked in Spain, but only on weekends and because of… football? Palo Alto has yet another dumb bug Adam gushes about Qualys' latest OpenSSH vulns Enterprise browser maker Island is this week's sponsor and Chief Customer Officer Braden Rogers joins the show to talk about how the adoption of AI everywhere is causing headaches. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Five Russians went out drinking. When they got back, Australia had struck Dutch police say they took down 127 servers used by sanctioned hosting service | The Record from Recorded Future News Further cyber sanctions in response to Medibank Private cyberattack | Defence Ministers What is device code phishing, and why are Russian spies so successful at it? - Ars Technica Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website Piracy Crisis: Cloudflare Says LaLiga Knew Dangers, Blocked IP Address Anyway (Update) * TorrentFreak Palo Alto Networks warns firewall vulnerability is under active exploitation | Cybersecurity Dive Qualys TRU Discovers Two Vulnerabilities in OpenSSH: CVE-2025-26465 & CVE-2025-26466 | Qualys Security Blog China's Salt Typhoon hackers targeting Cisco devices used by telcos, universities | The Record from Recorded Future News RedMike Exploits Unpatched Cisco Devices in Global Telecommunications Campaign A Hacker Group Within Russia's Notorious Sandworm Unit Is Breaching Western Networks | WIRED How Phished Data Turns into Apple & Google Wallets – Krebs on Security New hack uses prompt injection to corrupt Gemini's long-term memory Arizona woman pleads guilty to running laptop farm for N. Korean IT workers, faces 9-year sentence | The Record from Recorded Future News US reportedly releases Russian cybercrime figure Alexander Vinnik in prisoner swap | The Record from Recorded Future News EXCLUSIVE: A Russia-linked Telegram network is inciting terrorism and is behind hate crimes in the UK – HOPE not hate Remembering David Jorm - fundraising for Mental Health research

In this SoapBox edition of the show Patrick Gray chats to Fletcher Heisler, the CEO of open-source identity provider Authentik. The whole idea of Authentik is you can take control of an essential IT and security function: identity. Because Authentik is open source it's extremely flexible, and if you're running it yourself, you get to decide where your IDP should sit in your architecture. You can run it on prem if you're an emergency call centre or you're operating an airgapped network, or you can spin it up in your cloud environment if you're a typical enterprise. Fletcher talks through the reasons Authentik users are decoupling themselves from the major SaaS Identity Providers, and the flexibility that comes from being able to assemble exactly what you need. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes

In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about Apple's refusal to obey a UK government order to provide the capability to access to encrypted iCloud data. Its the latest round in the ongoing government vs technology fights over warrant-proof encryption, and again it looks like governments will lose. They also talk about good news in the fight against ransomware. Government actions are putting pressure on the cyber criminal ecosystem, splintering groups and even making it hard to for crooks to convert cryptocurrency to hard cash. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes

On this week's show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week's cybersecurity news, including: Musk's DOGE kid has a history with The Com Paragon fires Italy as a spyware customer Thailand cuts power to scam compounds… … and arrests Phobos/8Base Russian cybercrims The CyberCX DFIR report shows non-U2F MFA is well and truly over And much, much more. This week's episode is sponsored by Dropzone.AI. They make an AI SOC analysis platform that relieves your analysts of the necessary but tedious work, so they can focus on the value of human insight. Dropzone's founder and CEO Edward Wu joins to talk about how they approach the problem. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Teen on Musk's DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com' – Krebs on Security ACLU Warns DOGE's ‘Unchecked' Access Could Violate Federal Law | WIRED Lawsuit accuses Trump administration of violating federal information security law | The Record from Recorded Future News The Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk's DOGE Army | WIRED States prepare privacy lawsuit against DOGE over access to federal data | The Record from Recorded Future News Union groups sue Treasury over giving DOGE access to sensitive data | The Record from Recorded Future News Student group sues Education Department over reported DOGE access to financial aid databases | The Record from Recorded Future News Hackers exploiting bug in popular Trimble Cityworks tool used by local gov'ts | The Record from Recorded Future News DeepSeek iOS app sends data unencrypted to ByteDance-controlled servers - Ars Technica DeepSeek Is a Win for Chinese Hackers - Risky Business Owner of spyware used in alleged WhatsApp breach ends contract with Italy | WhatsApp | The Guardian Another person targeted by Paragon spyware comes forward | TechCrunch Apple fixes security flaw allowing third-party access to locked devices | The Record from Recorded Future News U.S. sanctions bulletproof hosting provider for supplying LockBit infrastructure | CyberScoop Thailand cuts power supply to Myanmar scam hubs | The Record from Recorded Future News 8Base ransomware site taken down as Thai authorities arrest 4 connected to operation | The Record from Recorded Future News Two Russian nationals arrested in takedown of Phobos ransomware infrastructure | The Record from Recorded Future News The Company Man: Binance exec detained in Nigeria breaks his silence | The Record from Recorded Future News Deloitte pays $5M in connection with breach of Rhode Island benefits site | Cybersecurity Dive DFIR - Threat Report 2025 | CyberCX Request a Demo | Dropzone AI

UPDATED AUDIO: An earlier version of this podcast audio contained an editing mistake that desynchronised Patrick and Tom's audio. In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about the cyber espionage implications of Chinese AI firm DeepSeek's recently released models. They will certainly be picked up by various APT crews to try and accelerate their campaigns. They also discuss the UK NCSC's attempt to quantify ‘comedy bugs' and whether EU sanctions against Russian military intelligence officers for a five-year-old cyber espionage campaign targeting Estonia are pointless. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes

On this week's show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week's cybersecurity news, including: DeepSeek leaves an unauthed database on the internet Russia hacked UK prime minister's personal mail Australia sanctions a Telegram group… which is more sensible than it sounds Medical device backdoor turns out to be just poorly thought out upgrade feature Google abuses weak hashing to patch AMD CPU microcode And much, much more. This week's episode is sponsored by email security boffins Sublime. Their co-founder and CEO Josh Kamdjou joins to talk about how attackers' abuse of legitimate services like Docusign is a challenge for email security vendors. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Exclusive: Musk aides lock workers out of OPM computer systems | Reuters Wiz Research Uncovers Exposed DeepSeek Database Leaking Sensitive Information, Including Chat History | Wiz Blog Криптостилер SparkCat в магазинах Google Play и App Store | Securelist Russian hackers suspected of compromising British PM's personal email account | The Record from Recorded Future News PowerSchool hack: missed basic security step resulted in data breach Australia sanctions ‘Terrorgram' white supremacist online group | The Record from Recorded Future News ‘Paid actors' could be behind some antisemitic attacks, Albanese says | Australian security and counter-terrorism | The Guardian Interview with James Glenday, ABC News Breakfast | Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs WhatsApp says spyware company Paragon Solutions targeted journalists Spyware maker Paragon confirms US government is a customer | TechCrunch Former Polish justice minister arrested in sprawling spyware probe | The Record from Recorded Future News Sweden releases suspected ship, says cable break ‘clearly' not sabotage | The Record from Recorded Future News Backdoor found in two healthcare patient monitors, linked to IP in China Attackers exploit zero-day vulnerability in Zyxel CPE devices | Cybersecurity Dive AMD: Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability · Advisory · google/security-research · GitHub 22-year-old math wiz indicted for alleged DeFI hack that stole $65M - Ars Technica A method to assess 'forgivable' vs 'unforgivable'... - NCSC.GOV.UK Living Off the Land: Credential Phishing via Docusign abuse Living Off the Land: Callback Phishing via Docusign comment B2B freight-forwarding scams on the rise to evade financial fraud crackdowns Callback phishing via invoice abuse and distribution list relays Enhanced message groups: Improving efficiency in email incident response

Coming to you from the same room in Risky Business headquarters Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week's cybersecurity news. They talk through: Sonicwall firewalls hand out remote code exec like candy Mastercard make a slapstick-grade mistake with their DNS The data breach at PowerSchool and other niche SaaS providers Academic research proposes taking down Europe's power grid Apple CPUs get a new speculative execution side channel And much, much more. This week's episode is sponsored by Push Security, who make an identity security product that runs inside browsers. Luke Jennings joins to discuss some of the pitfalls of federated authentication, like attackers using unexpected identity providers to log in to your apps. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes SonicWall warns hackers targeting critical vulnerability in SMA 1000 series appliances | Cybersecurity Dive MasterCard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years – Krebs on Security Data breach hitting PowerSchool looks very, very bad - Ars Technica OpenAI rival DeepSeek limits registration after ‘large-scale malicious attacks' | The Record from Recorded Future News Hackers imitate Kremlin-linked group to target Russian entities | The Record from Recorded Future News UK to examine undersea cable vulnerability as Russian spy ship spotted in British waters | The Record from Recorded Future News Questions grow over whether Baltic Sea cable damage was sabotage or accidental | The Record from Recorded Future News Researchers say new attack could take down the European power grid - Ars Technica At least $69 million stolen from crypto platform Phemex in suspected cyberattack | The Record from Recorded Future News BreachForums admin to be resentenced after appeals court slams supervised release | The Record from Recorded Future News Apple chips can be hacked to leak secrets from Gmail, iCloud, and more - Ars Technica Apple fixes zero-day flaw affecting all devices | TechCrunch I'm Lovin' It: Exploiting McDonald's APIs to hijack deliveries and order food for a penny Government websites vanish under Trump, from the Constitution to DEI Trail of Bits: Director, Technical Marketing Push Security: Security Researcher (remote in the USA) A new class of phishing: Verification phishing and cross-IdP impersonation

Risky Business returns for its 19th year! Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week's cybersecurity news and there is a whole bunch of it. They discuss: The incoming Trump administration guts the CSRB Biden's last cyber Executive Order has sensible things in it China's breach of the US Treasury gets our reluctant admiration Ross Ulbricht - the Dread Pirate Roberts of Silk Road fame - gets his Trump pardon New year, same shameful comedy Forti- and Ivanti- bugs US soldier behind the Snowflake hacks faces charges after a solid Krebs-ing And much, much (much! after a month off) more. This week's episode is sponsored by Sandfly Security, who make a Linux EDR solution. Founder Craig Rowland joins to talk about how the Linux ecosystem struggles with its lack of standardised approaches to detection and response. If you've got a telco full of unix, and people are asking how much Salt Typhoon you've got in there… Sandfly's tools are probably what you're looking for. If you like your Business like us… - Risky - then we're hiring! We're looking for someone to help with audio and video production for our work, manage our socials, and if you're also into the Cybers… even better. Position is remote, with a preference for timezones amenable to Australia/NZ. Drop us a line: editorial at risky.biz. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes POLITICO Pro | Article | Acting DHS chief ousts CSRB experts, other department advisers Treasury's sanctions office hacked by Chinese government, officials say Strengthening America's Resilience Against the PRC Cyber Threats | CISA AT&T, Verizon say they evicted Salt Typhoon from their networks Risky Bulletin: Looking at Biden's last cyber executive order - Risky Business Internet-connected devices can now have a label that rates their security | Reuters US sanctions prominent Chinese cyber company for role in Flax Typhoon attacks FCC ‘rip and replace' provision for Chinese tech tops cyber provisions in defense bill CIA nominee tells Senate he, too, wants to go on cyber offense | CyberScoop Trump tells Justice Department not to enforce TikTok ban for 75 days Judge rules NSO Group is liable for spyware hacks targeting 1,400 WhatsApp user devices | The Record from Recorded Future News Unpacking WhatsApp's Legal Triumph Over NSO Group | Lawfare Time to check if you ran any of these 33 malicious Chrome extensions Console Chaos: A Campaign Targeting Publicly Exposed Management Interfaces on Fortinet FortiGate Firewalls - Arctic Wolf Ongoing attacks on Ivanti VPNs install a ton of sneaky, well-written malware Researchers warn of active exploitation of critical Apache Struts 2 flaw DOJ deletes China-linked PlugX malware off more than 4,200 US computers Russian internet provider confirms its network was ‘destroyed' following attack claimed by Ukrainian hackers | The Record from Recorded Future News Ukraine restores state registers after suspected Russian cyberattack | The Record from Recorded Future News Hackers claim to breach Russian state agency managing property, land records | The Record from Recorded Future News U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions – Krebs on Security

In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the show Patrick Gray talks to Island CEO Michael Fey about some of the cool tricks in the Island enterprise browser. You can use it to tick off so many compliance boxes, and not just cybersecurity boxes. This is largely a conversation about compliance, but it's actually interesting and fun. These are words we never thought we'd type! You can find Island at https://island.io/ This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes

On this week's show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week's cybersecurity news, including: The SEC's cyber incident reporting isn't very exciting after all China Telecom on the way to being thrown out of the US The NSA/Cybercom might get two separate hats The Cl0p ransomware crew are back and taking responsibility for the Cleo hacks (Yet another) File upload bug in Struts makes Java admins weep And much, much more. This episode is sponsored by SpecterOps, who run a pretty top notch offsec/pentest team when they're not busy making the Bloodhound Enterprise identity attack path enumeration software. SpecterOps' Robby Winchester joins to talk about how pentest has changed, and how their customers get value from their testing. This episode is also available Youtube. Show notes SEC cyber incident reporting rule generates 71 filings in 11 months | Cybersecurity Dive US senators, green groups call for accountability over hacking of Exxon critics | Reuters Biden Administration Takes First Step to Retaliate Against China Over Hack - The New York Times Unfinished business for Trump: Ending the Cyber Command and NSA 'dual hat' | The Record from Recorded Future News EU opens investigation into TikTok and the Romanian election – POLITICO Clop ransomware claims responsibility for Cleo data theft attacks CISA warns of ransomware gangs exploiting Cleo, CyberPanel bugs | The Record from Recorded Future News CVE-2024-55956 | AttackerKB Apache issues patches for critical Struts 2 RCE bug • The Register Japanese game and anime publisher reportedly pays $3 million ransom to Russia-linked hackers | The Record from Recorded Future News Israeli spyware firm Paragon acquired by US investment group, report says | Reuters How Cryptocurrency Turns to Cash in Russian Banks – Krebs on Security Arizona man arrested for alleged involvement in violent online terror networks | CyberScoop Russia bans Viber, claiming app facilitates terrorism and drug trafficking | The Record from Recorded Future News

In this edition of the Wild World of Cyber podcast Patrick Gray sits down with SentinelOne's Chief Intelligence and Public Policy Officer Chris Krebs to talk all about Chinese cyber operations. They look at the Salt Typhoon and Volt Typhoon campaigns, the last 20 years of Chinese operations, and the evolution of the cyber roles of China's Ministry of State Security and People's Liberation Army. It's a very dense hour of conversation! This podcast was recorded in front of an audience at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes

On this week's show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week's cybersecurity news, including: Cleo file transfer products have a remote code exec, here we go again! Snowflake phases out password-based auth Chinese Sophos-exploit-dev company gets sanctioned Romania's election gets rolled back after Tiktok changed the outcome AMD's encrypted VM tech bamboozled by RAM with one extra address bit Some cool OpenWRT research And much, much more. This week's episode is sponsored by Thinkst, who love sneaky canary token traps. Jacob Torrey previews an upcoming Blackhat talk filled with interesting operating system tricks you can use to trigger canaries in your environment. You wont believe the third trick! Attackers hate him! This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Cleo Software Actively Being Exploited in the Wild CVE-2024-50623 | Huntress Blue Yonder investigating data leak claim following ransomware attack | Cybersecurity Dive Snowflake to phase out single-factor authentication by late 2025 | Cybersecurity Dive Treasury Sanctions Cybersecurity Company Involved in Compromise of Firewall Products and Attempted Ransomware Attacks | U.S. Department of the Treasury Another teenage hacker charged as feds continue Scattered Spider crackdown | The Record from Recorded Future News Germany arrests suspected admin of country's largest criminal marketplace | The Record from Recorded Future News FCC, for first time, proposes cybersecurity rules tied to wiretapping law | CyberScoop Russian state hackers abuse Cloudflare services to spy on Ukrainian targets | The Record from Recorded Future News Cloudflare's pages.dev and workers.dev Domains Increasingly Abused for Romania annuls presidential election over alleged Russian interference | The Record from Recorded Future News EU demands TikTok 'freeze and preserve data' over alleged Russian interference in Romanian elections | The Record from Recorded Future News Research Note: Meta's Role in Romania's 2024 Presidential Election - CheckFirst Key electricity distributor in Romania warns of ‘cyber attack in progress' | The Record from Recorded Future News Backdoor slipped into popular code library, drains ~$155k from digital wallets - Ars Technica AMD's trusted execution environment blown wide open by new BadRAM attack - Ars Technica New dog, old tricks: DaMAgeCard attack targets memory directly thru SD card reader – PT SWARM Telegram partners with child safety group to scan content for sexual abuse material Apple hit with $1.2B lawsuit after killing controversial CSAM-detecting tool - Ars Technica Compromising OpenWrt Supply Chain via Truncated SHA-256 Collision and Command Injection - Flatt Security Research How do I turn on the Do Not Track feature? | Firefox Help

In this interview Patrick Gray talks to Yubico's COO and President Jerrod Chong about a new Yubikey feature: pre-registration. You can now ship pre-registered Yubikeys to your staff so you don't need to rely on your staff to enrol them. They've achieved this with really slick Okta and Entra ID integrations. Jerrod also talks about a recent trip to Singapore and concerns he has about the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure in the energy sector.

On this week's show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week's cybersecurity news, including: The FTC decides its time to take another look at Microsoft Exxon's opponents targeted by hackers Russian hackers keep getting sentenced and it confuses us The Feds recommend Signal, because throwing hackers out of telcos ain't gonna happen A South Korean set-top-box manufacturer shipped a DDoS client for corpo-combat And much, much more. This week's sponsor interview with Vijit Nair from Corelight. We talk to him about doing detection in cloud environments, and how the varied nature of cloud systems makes the old ways - network monitoring - useful in new and interesting ways. If you're in Sydney, Pat is recording a live episode of the Wide World of Cyber with Chris Krebs on 5 December. There might still be tickets left! This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes SentinelOne: Risky Business LIVE FTC opens Microsoft antitrust investigation | AP News Exclusive: Exxon lobbyist investigated over hack-and-leak of environmentalist emails, sources say | Reuters Costa Rica state energy company calls in US experts to help with ransomware attack | The Record from Recorded Future News Blue Yonder Security Rating, Vendor Risk Report, and Data Breaches ENGlobal IT systems impacted by ransomware attack | Cybersecurity Dive Ransomware suspect Wazawaka reportedly arrested by Russia | The Record from Recorded Future News Russia delivers historic life sentence to suspected founder of darknet marketplace | The Record from Recorded Future News Vodka maker Stoli says August ransomware attack contributed to bankruptcy filing | The Record from Recorded Future News Hacker in Snowflake Extortions May Be a U.S. Soldier – Krebs on Security Uganda confirms cyberattack on central bank but minimizes extent of breach | The Record from Recorded Future News Press Release: HOME > Announcements/News > Announcements > Press Release U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid cyberattack With Threats to Encryption Looming, Signal's Meredith Whittaker Says ‘We're Not Changing' | WIRED Japanese crypto service shuts down after theft of bitcoin worth $308 million | The Record from Recorded Future News He Got Banned From X. Now He Wants to Help You Escape, Too | WIRED cyberundergroundfeed on X: "

On this week's show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week's cybersecurity news, including: A ransomware attack has crippled US supply chain software provider Blue Yonder Russian spies hack nearby wifi to get to their targets, but that doesn't seem surprising? Salt Typhoon's attacks on telcos are hard to solve and big on impact China's surveillance state workers sell their access at home Palo Alto is bad and should feel bad And much, much more. In this week's sponsor interview Patrick Gray chats with Matt Muller from Tines about Gartner's “spicy take” that the SOAR category is dead. SOAR is dead! Long live SOAR! This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Retailers struggle after ransomware attack on supply chain tech provider Blue Yonder | The Record from Recorded Future News Customer Update Russian Spies Jumped From One Network to Another Via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack | WIRED China's Salt Typhoon hackers target telecom firms in Southeast Asia with new malware | The Record from Recorded Future News Emerging Details of Chinese Hack Leave U.S. Officials Increasingly Concerned Top senator calls Salt Typhoon “worst telecom hack in our nation's history” - The Washington Post Privacy-focused mobile phone launches for high-risk individuals | CyberScoop China's Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side Hustle | WIRED Former Verizon employee gets four-year sentence for sharing cyber secrets with Chinese government | The Record from Recorded Future News Surveillance Legislation (Confirmation of Application) Bill 2024 – Parliament of Australia ParlInfo - BILLS : Surveillance Legislation (Confirmation of Application) Bill 2024 : Second Reading ParlInfo - Surveillance Legislation (Confirmation of Application) Bill 2024 ParlInfo - Surveillance Legislation (Confirmation of Application) Bill 2024 Chris Bing: "Regarding the reported hack of the Gaetz-ethics committee report, the file storage platform (FileShare) that held the document said they weren't hacked. But rather: "this file was shared anonymously which allowed anyone to download. This was not a breach"" — Bluesky Tether Has Become a Massive Money Laundering Tool for Mexican Drug Traffickers, Feds Say Palo Alto Networks boasts as customers coalesce on its platforms | Cybersecurity Dive Palo Alto Networks pushes back as Shadowserver spots 2K of its firewalls exploited | Cybersecurity Dive RSF investigation: the Indian cyber-security giant silencing media outlets worldwide | RSF Patrick Gray (@patrick.risky.biz) — Bluesky metlstorm (@metlstorm.risky.biz) — Bluesky Catalin Cimpanu (@campuscodi.risky.biz) — Bluesky Tom Uren (@tom.risky.biz) — Bluesky

On this week's show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week's cybersecurity news, including: Microsoft introduces some sensible sounding post-Crowdstrike changes Palo Alto patches hella-stupid bugs in its firewall management webapp CISA head Jen Easterly to depart as Trump arrives AI grandma tarpits phone scammers in family-tech-support hell Academic research supports your gut-reaction; phishing training doesn't work And much, much more. This week's episode is sponsored by Greynoise. The always excitable Andrew Morris joins to remind us that the edge-device vulnerabilities Pat and Adam complain about on the show are in fact actually even worse than we make them out to be. Andrew also tells us about a zero-day Greynoise' AI system truffle-pigged out of their data set. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Windows security and resiliency: Protecting your business | Windows Experience Blog Microsoft revamps how it will disclose vulnerabilities | Cybersecurity Dive NIST says exploited vulnerability backlog cleared but end-of-year goal for full list unlikely Pots and Pans, AKA an SSLVPN - Palo Alto PAN-OS CVE-2024-0012 and CVE-2024-9474 Palo Alto Networks customers grapple with another actively exploited zero-day | Cybersecurity Dive Unpatched zero-days in Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks software Palo Alto Networks' customer migration tool hit by trio of CVE exploits | Cybersecurity Dive Readout of President Joe Biden's Meeting with President Xi Jinping of the People's Republic of China | The White House Easterly to step down from CISA director role on Inauguration Day | Cybersecurity Dive Top White House cyber official urges Trump to focus on ransomware, China Ransomware gang Akira leaks unprecedented number of victims' data in one day Hacker Is Said to Have Gained Access to File With Damaging Testimony About Gaetz 1,400 Pegasus spyware infections detailed in WhatsApp's lawsuit filings NSO Group admits cutting off 10 customers because they abused its Pegasus spyware, say unsealed court documents | TechCrunch Ransomware gang Akira leaks unprecedented number of victims' data in one day Ohio man behind Helix cryptocurrency mixer gets 3-year sentence O2 unveils Daisy, the AI granny wasting scammers' time - Virgin Media O2 Understanding the Efficacy of Phishing Training in Practice Bunnings facial recognition cameras breach Privacy Act, retailer to challenge ruling | news.com.au — Australia's leading news site Nudity, punches in newly released Bunnings CCTV as company found to breach Privacy Act | news.com.au — Australia's leading news site Bitfinex Hack Launderer Heather 'Razzlekhan' Morgan Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison

On this week's show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week's cybersecurity news, including: Apple frustrates law enforcement with iOS auto-reboot CISA says most KEV vulnerabilities in 2023 were first used as zero days Russians roll incident response on some sweet Linux spookware Regular users can create mailboxes in M365? Tor tracks down the source of its joe-job abuse complaints And much, much more. This week's feature guest is former FBI agent Chris Tarbell, who arrested Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht way back in 2013. As suggestions swirl that an incoming Trump administration might release Ulbricht, Chris talks about the reality of the Dread Pirate Roberts. This episode is sponsored by software supply chain security firm Socket.dev. Founder Feross Aboukhadijeh thinks that we need a CVE-like catalogue for supply-chain attacks, and he makes a solid argument. The show is also available on Youtube. Show notes Jason Koebler: "New: We've confirmed Apple quietly introduced a feature in the new iOS that is preventing cops from hacking iPhones that they have confiscated as evidence. Apple really did say ACAB www.404media.co/apple-quietl..." — Bluesky Apple Quietly Introduced iPhone Reboot Code Which is Locking Out Cops Exclusive | U.S. Agency Warns Employees About Phone Use Amid Ongoing China Hack - WSJ Surge in exploits of zero-day vulnerabilities is ‘new normal' warns Five Eyes alliance The Elusive GoblinRAT: How a Linux Backdoor Infiltrated Government Infrastructures Microsoft Bookings – Facilitating Impersonation | Cyberis Limited TrustedSec | EKUwu: Not just another AD CS ESC Russia's internet watchdog blocks thousands of websites that use Cloudflare's privacy service Defending the Tor network: Mitigating IP spoofing against Tor | The Tor Project Law enforcement operation takes down 22,000 malicious IP addresses worldwide - Ars Technica Press Conference - Parliament House, Canberra | Prime Minister of Australia DHS nominee Kristi Noem stood alone for rejecting department cyber grants to state, local governments | CyberScoop Patrick Gray: "Allies will feel comfortable until these guys get fired in their first 100 days for opposing Trump's proposed annexation of Iceland or something. People have forgotten… Trump is out of his gourd" — Bluesky