Risky Business

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Risky Business is a weekly information security podcast featuring news and in-depth interviews with industry luminaries. Launched in February 2007, Risky Business is a must-listen digest for information security pros. With a running time of approximately 50-60 minutes, Risky Business is pacy; a security podcast without the waffle.

  1. 16h ago

    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

    1h 6m

  2. May 27

    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 |

    1 hr

  3. May 20

    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'

    1h 3m

  4. May 15

    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

    34 min

  5. May 13

    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

    1h 5m

  6. May 6

    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

    1h 2m

  7. May 1

    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

    44 min

  8. Apr 29

    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

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Risky Business is a weekly information security podcast featuring news and in-depth interviews with industry luminaries. Launched in February 2007, Risky Business is a must-listen digest for information security pros. With a running time of approximately 50-60 minutes, Risky Business is pacy; a security podcast without the waffle.

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    2007 - 2026
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