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A Chinese APT exploits the SS7 and Diameter protocols, a remote code execution bug hits Apache, Brazil’s largest port suffers a cyberattack, and Europol takes down three malware operations. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Chinese APT uses SS7, Diameter attacks...
Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about the French government attributing freezer hacks to cyber units within the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp. This surprises Tom, because the hacks were entirely consistent with Russian sabotage operations across...
France blames Iran for supermarket freezer hacks, the White House nominates Palantir’s CISO as CISA director, another Russian cloud provider gets hacked, and N-able takes down its SaaS platform after a researcher discloses 33 vulnerabilities in it. Show...
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about why PHP2Shell failed to live up to its hype. A critical bug in a very widely used web scripting language amounted to… not much. The pair dissect the reasons why. Show notes Zack Korman...
Pro-Kremlin hacktivists dox EU politicians and law enforcement personnel a Deepfake gang arrested on US charges, SonicWall patches a zero-day, and SSHole is being exploited in the wild. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Pro-Kremlin hacktivists dox EU politicians,...
In this Risky Business sponsored interview Tom Uren talks to Airlock Digital’s CTO and CSO Peter Baussmann about how the Essential Eight is evolving into ASD’s Essentials framework. The pair discuss why the change was needed and how Essentials is a broader...
An OpenSSH authentication bypass bug hits Alpine Linux and OpenWRT, hackers attempt to raise fridge temperatures at French blood banks, a French bank gets hacked for $133 million, and the Thai opposition has been targeted with spyware. Show notes Risky...
Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about North Korea’s hack of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange. Binance’s founder CZ says it is a wake up call for real banks, but he’s wrong. Even though they are probably just as hackable as crypto exchanges, real banks...
Hackers brick Chinese EVs in Russia, a second wave of hacks defrost European supermarket freezers, the US boots Acronis from government networks and the major distros patch a Linux kernel RCE. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Hackers lock out and extort Li Auto...
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss CISO’s expectations and priorities regarding budgets and what they will spend their money on. AI features heavily in 2027 priorities, but what will it deliver? This episode is also...
The FBI links the Binance hack to North Korea, game developers are being extorted with game-cloning threats, the Belarusian CyberPartisans hack Russia’s statistics service and Apple sends new mercenary spyware notifications. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Game...
In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Luke Wescott, Threat Detection Engineer at Sublime Security. Luke talks through the rise of calendar-based phishing campaigns over the past year and the reasons behind it. Show notes...
Billions stolen from Binance in a crypto hack, Last week’s PHP2Shell bugs are being exploited to hack Palo Alto Networks firewalls, The Brotli bugs also get a run, Belarusian state hackers carry out a wiper attack, and a hacker leaks the data of 41,000 DHS...
Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about new research that shows that Chinese open-weight AI models can be reeducated to remove pro-CCP bias. Good news for American businesses that want cheap AI, but we suspect that many knives will still be out for Chinese...
Moldova takes down more than 80 public services after a cyberattack, the White House launches a new cybersecurity pilot program, South Korea arrests an AI-assisted cybercrime ring, and the Electrum wallet patches a crypto-stealing bug. Show notes Risky...
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about security culture. The PHP foundation seems to have had a change of heart about security, but what are the chances that OpenAI or other frontier AI labs will start to take it seriously?...
While everyone was distracted by PHP, another RCE has been wrecking the internet, Australia’s ABC wipes some staff devices, a third PHP RCE is incoming and researchers discover a new DDoS attack vector in HTTP/3. Show notes Risky Bulletin: While everyone...
In this Risky Business sponsored interview James Wilson chats to Nebulock’s Head of Detection Strategy Alex Hurtado about the company’s threat hunting evaluation framework, GATES. The pair talk through the five steps of Nebulock’s new acronym, and how they...
A ransomware group used a supply chain compromise to hack around 40 shipping companies, the Pentagon assembles a technology sabotage unit, PHP2Shell exploitation gets underway and GoDaddy revokes 400,000 certs. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Supply chain...
Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about the weird bugging incident at OpenAI. It doesn’t look at all like it was normal state-backed espionage, but there are still good reasons the frontier labs should ensure that their crown jewels are safe. They also...
A hacker hijacks more than 10% of Tor’s exit nodes, a second ransomware negotiator has been linked to ShinyHunters, a Chinese crime ring hacked Staples, and a hacker leaks emails from German far-right party AfD. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Hacker hijacks...
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss whether the rise of AI coding will result in more or less bugs and whether it will ultimately make software more secure. This episode is also available on YouTube . Show notes
A serious vulnerability lets attackers escape Kernel-based virtual machines, OpenCode users become collateral damage in a distillation attack, supply chain incidents hit AOMEI and ConnectWise and Intel will discontinue SGX. Show notes Risky Bulletin:...
In this Risky Business sponsored interview James Wilson chats with Sondera co-founder and CEO, Josh Devon, about how AI agents are highly capable, but they’re not the best rule followers or decision makers. The pair find themselves in the philosophical...
Three DataSuckers hacking group suspects arrested in Russia, Al Jazeera employees targeted with Candiru spyware, the US disrupts 40 North Korean laptop farms, and an OpenAI employee was arrested for planting a spy device. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Russia...
Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about Russian targeting of Ukrainian data centres. That’s not good, but it looks like Russia is very poorly prepared for Ukraine’s retaliatory strikes. Karma! They also discuss how open-weight models are getting good at...
Spyware chips found inside Ledger crypto-wallets, a cyberattack defrosts supermarket freezers across France, Dutch-owned supermarkets go offline in multiple countries following a cyberattack, and the EU wants smart glasses to beep loudly when they’re...
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq examine how ShinyHunters and the FBI both deceived themselves into believing they were immune to cyber threats. This episode is also available on YouTube . Show notes Krebs On Security FBI...
Two ShinyHunters suspects arrested in Jordan and the US, hackers breach TLD registrars to get valid Google certs, Japanese authorities arrest a Qilin ransomware member and Google suspends its open-source bug bounty program after a flood of AI bug reports....
In this Risky Business sponsored interview James Wilson chats with Prowler’s founder and CEO Toni de la Fuente about how AI now allows pretty much anyone to vibe-code “killer apps”. These custom apps are often internal for organisations and hosted on the...