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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July 8, 202635 min
Soap Box: Using threat hunting to drive detection
In this wholly sponsored Soap Box edition of the podcast Patrick Gray chats with Damien Lewke, the CEO and founder of Nebulock, about the future of threat hunting and detection.
Damien spent a decade in the EDR and MDR space before founding Nebulock in 2024. It started off as an AI-powered threat hunt platform but has evolved into a broader security data platform that can answer questions, drive hunts and drive detections.
This product is engineered around the idea that a lot of security is a data problem. So, if we accept this premise, how do we solve security? And how much of that solution is about agents, vs building a good graph? And if you’re going to build a good graph, do you want to build it for a person to use, or an agent to use?
This is truly a conversation for the security nerd’s nerd. Enjoy!
This episode is also available on YouTube
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July 1, 20261 hr 0 min
Risky Business #844 -- China closes AI vulndev gap as USA lifts Fable ban
On this week’s show Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:
Anthropic’s Fable 5 returning while OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 gets thrown in model jail
Distillation, cheap tokens, and AI chat harvesting is an industry in China
Edge becomes a lolbin via a new malicious extension
An Iranian APT boss’s vacation in a beautiful place goes wrong
Much, much more!
In this week’s sponsor interview Daf Stuttard and Katie Warren from Portswigger pop along to talk about how they built an AI security testing product that people would actually feel comfortable using.
This episode is also available on YouTube.
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Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
Howard Lutnick (@howardlutnick) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
U.S. government gives Anthropic green light for limited re-release of Mythos 5 | NBC News Tech
OpenAI limits GPT-5.6 rollout after government request | TechCrunch
The U.S. government will decide who gets to use the latest American AI technology | washingtonpost.com
Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities | reut.rs
How to Buy Cheap Claude Tokens in China |
Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
Synthesis of Exploitarium Mass Zero-Day Disclosure | detections.ai
Mythos on your desk? Using local LLMs for code reviews | Risky Business Media
Beyond Fable: Can a Local LLM Replace Cloud AI for Security Code Reviews | Security Research Labs
Accelerating EDR Evasion with LLM-Driven Analysis | SpecterOps
CISA: Windows BlueHammer flaw now exploited by ransomware gangs | BleepingComputer
When cybercriminals hire burglars: Inside an alleged Russian effort to infiltrate multibillion-dollar US law firms | CNN Politics | Social Signals
Microsoft quietly extends free Windows 10 ESU support to October 2027 | BleepingComputer
Edgecution: Malicious Edge Extension Backdoor | ThreatLabz | Social Signals
Bluekit phishing kit adopts browser-in-the-middle for login theft | BleepingComputer
New macOS malware embeds fake errors to confuse AI analysis tools | BleepingComputer
DraftKings hacker 'Snoopy' sentenced to 18 months in prison | BleepingComputer
Polymarket says hackers stole users’ funds | TechCrunch Security
Australia's spy chief warns of rising terror and cyber threats | japantimes.co.jp
Russian hackers were behind $2.5 billion hack of Jaguar Land Rover: Report | TechCrunch Security
Iranian national sought by US on hacking charges arrested in Montenegro | apnews.com
[un]prompted.au - AI x CyberSecurity: Notes from the Field: Call for Speakers |
June 24, 20261 hr 3 min
Risky Business #843 -- Fortibleed is kinda awesome, actually
On this week’s show special guest co-host Rob Joyce joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. Rob served as an advisor to Donald Trump during his first term as president and also served at NSA for 34 years. While at the agency, Joyce led Tailored Access Operations (TAO), and later became NSA’s Director of Cybersecurity.
They cover:
The surprisingly well done Fortibleed campaign
Stolen Klue OAuth tokens lead to Salesforce data theft
OpenAI wants to patch the planet
runZero gets acquired by Accenture, congrats HD Moore!
Much, much more!
This episode is also available on YouTube.
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FortiBleed campaign used custom FortiGate sniffer to steal credentials | BleepingComputer
FortiBleed: Fortinet device credential compromise expands into broader credential-attack guidance | unit42.paloaltonetworks.com
Cybercriminals allegedly hacked tens of thousands of Fortinet firewalls used by major companies all over the world | TechCrunch Security
Klue OAuth breach linked to 'Icarus' Salesforce data theft attacks | BleepingComputer
Polymarket (@Polymarket) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic’s Mythos controversy | wrd.cm
Beyond Fable: Can a Local LLM Replace Cloud AI for Security Code Reviews - SRLabs Research | SRLabs
OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos | wired.com
Sponsored: Trail of Bits and OpenAI patch the planet | Risky Bulletin
Intel agencies: Frontier AI models will reshape cybersecurity faster than expected | cyberscoop.com
Embedding Forbidden Text in Spyware to Discourage AI Analysis | Schneier on Security
A new unpatchable flaw in Apple chips opens the door to an iPhone jailbreak | TechCrunch Security
USB worm spreads crypto-stealing malware via Windows shortcut files | BleepingComputer
Android verification is coming: Google confirms timeline and supported app stores | Ars Technica
California water utility probes breach claim by Iran-linked actor | Cybersecurity Dive
Suspected cyberattack triggers false emergency alerts across parts of Brazil | The Record
Tesco moving 40,000 server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's "abusive conduct" | Ars Technica
Trump directs federal agencies to protect US data from quantum threats | therecord.media
Accenture shells out $4.18B on three companies in big industrial cybersecurity push | cyberscoop.com
June 17, 202659 min
Risky Business #842 -- Anthropic needs an adult in the C suite
On this week’s show Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:
Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 get nuked by the US government four days after launch “because security”
Why “guardrails” won’t keep the world safe from your AI doomsday machine
The FISA 702 statute expired, but the spying can (probably) continue!
NPM v12 delivers some protection against supply chain attacks, but not enough.
Microsoft has a series of bugs that prevent Windows Update from … updating
Much, much more!
This episode is also available on YouTube
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Anthropic suspends new AI models after government directive | NBC News Tech
Anthropic rankles users with safety-first Fable release | NBC News Tech
How a 90-minute White House deadline sparked Silicon Valley’s biggest AI fight | washingtonpost.com
Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
David Sacks (@DavidSacks) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
DoW CIO Kirsten Davies (@DoWCIODavies) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
David Shulman (@DavidShulmanFL) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
Controversial FISA spying law expires tonight. The spying will continue. | Ars Technica
GitHub announces npm security changes to tackle supply-chain attacks | BleepingComputer
Why NPM v12 won’t stop supply chain attacks - Risky Business Media | Social Signals
Oracle PeopleSoft servers hacked in ShinyHunters data theft attacks | BleepingComputer
Microsoft patches Exchange Server zero-day exploited in attacks | BleepingComputer
Max severity Ivanti Sentry vulnerability now exploited in attacks | BleepingComputer
CISA warns of another cPanel plugin flaw exploited in attacks | BleepingComputer
Critical Fortinet FortiSandbox flaws now exploited in attacks | BleepingComputer
CISA orders feds to patch actively exploited Ivanti flaw by Sunday | BleepingComputer
CISA to require federal agencies to patch some cyber vulnerabilities within 3 days | therecord.media
Path traversal flaw in AI dev platform Langflow exploited in attacks | BleepingComputer
Microsoft: Some Windows PCs fail to install latest monthly updates | BleepingComputer
Microsoft fixes BitLocker recovery bug on Windows Server 2025 | BleepingComputer
Microsoft fixes Windows update failures linked to WUSA installer | BleepingComputer
New attack turned Microsoft 365 Copilot into 1-click data theft tool | BleepingComputer
Over 73,000 French govt employees affected in Tchap messenger breach | BleepingComputer
Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps | wired.com
FBI disrupts massive AI-powered phishing service using a million URLs | BleepingComputer
Cyberattack shuts down major Australian sugar mills, disrupting harvest | The Record
Drug Sites Hijacked Spotify’s Search Ranking Through Fake Podcasts, Report Finds | wired.com
It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests | 404.feed.press
Who Runs the Ransomware Group ‘The Gentlemen?’ | krebsonsecurity.com
:brdKnife: (@cR0w@infosec.exchange) | Infosec Exchange
June 10, 20261 hr 3 min
Risky Business #841 -- Microsoft gets owned and 0day'd
On this week’s show special guest co-host Chris Wade, the founder of Corellium turned Cellebrite CTO, joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news.
They cover:
Microsoft has repos owned, GitHub tokens popped, and a new 0day dropped on them
Meanwhile, researchers are choosing full disclosure instead of engaging MSRC
Meta’s AI support agent allowed a staggering 20,000 accounts to be stolen!
Apple pulls Russia’s MAX messenger from the App Store and disables notifications
Anthropic gives the public our first Mythos-class model but it won’t do cybersecurity work
Stripe and Google Tag Manager used in eCommerce website hack campaign
And much, much more!
This week’s show is brought to you by runZero. HD Moore, runZeros’ founder, drops by in this week’s sponsor interview to talk about the AI vibe shift. Everyone is very worried about getting owned all of a sudden, and it’s really changing the cybersecurity business.
This episode is also available on YouTube.
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Microsoft Hacked to Deliver Malware to Claude and Gemini Users | 404.feed.press
Researcher publishes GitHub token-stealing exploit, blames Microsoft’s disclosure process | therecord.media
Microsoft Defender 'RoguePlanet' zero-day grants SYSTEM privileges | BleepingComputer
Microsoft breaks Patch Tuesday record with 206 vulnerabilities | CyberScoop
chompie1337 | X
WhatsApp says NSO targeted users with spearfishing attacks in violation of court order | therecord.media
Over 20,000 Instagram accounts stolen in Meta AI support hack | BleepingComputer
New Apple feature automatically changes your compromised passwords | BleepingComputer
Apple removes Russia’s state-backed messaging app Max from its store | therecord.media
Exclusive: Anthropic's Mythos can exploit new flaws in hours |
Anthropic’s new model is Mythos on a leash | CyberScoop
Anthropic Offers Mythos Upgrade for Cyber Partners and a ‘Safe’ Version for the Rest of You | wired.com
OpenClaw AI agent found falling for phishing attacks, spills user data | BleepingComputer
OpenAI unveils Lockdown Mode to protect sensitive data from prompt injection attacks | TechCrunch Security
Hands on with Intelligent Terminal, an AI-powered Windows Terminal | BleepingComputer
Seeking Counsel: Ongoing Targeted Campaign Against US Law Firms | Mandiant
Check Point warns of zero-day flaw targeted by ransomware affiliate | Cybersecurity Dive
ServiceNow discloses security incident exposing customer data | BleepingComputer
Credit card theft campaign abuses Stripe to host stolen payment info | BleepingComputer
CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks defy estimates as AI fuels cyber demand | Cybersecurity Dive
The U.S. Military Quietly Turned GPS Into a Global ‘Numbers Station,’ Evidence Suggests | 404.feed.press
New 'HTTP/2 Bomb' DoS attack crashes web servers in under a minute | BleepingComputer
Google has quietly cut staff across its Cloud business | businessinsider.com
June 5, 202636 min
Soap Box: Detection and response in the AI age
In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray chats with Edward Wu, founder of Dropzone, about what AI is doing to detection, response and the SOC more generally.
Dropzone makes AI agents that conduct alert investigations in your SOC, but will the SOC as we know it even exist in the future?
Ed has a deep expertise in SOC tech, having previously led AI/ML detection engineering at Extrahop. This interview is a fantastic look at what the future may bring for detection and response professionals.
This episode is also available on YouTube
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June 3, 20261 hr 6 min
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.
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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
May 27, 20261 hr 0 min
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
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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 |
May 20, 20261 hr 2 min
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.
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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'
May 15, 202633 min
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.
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