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33:20

Between Two Nerds: How China's cyber militia make sense

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/07/21

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss whether China’s ‘cyber militia’ make sense and what they could be good for. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Mobilizing Cyber Power: The Growing Role of Cyber Militias in China’s Network Warfare Force Structure

6:07

Risky Bulletin: Iranian security firm behind airline...

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/07/21

An Iranian security firm is behind an airline hacking spree, Chinese hackers breach Singapore’s critical infrastructure, new SharePoint and CrushFTP zero-days are being used in the wild, and Japan releases free ransomware decrypters.Show notes

20:53

Sponsored: Haroon Meer's secret to business success...

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/07/20

In this Risky Business sponsored interview, Thinkst Canary CEO Haroon Meer chats to Casey Ellis about the company’s impressive growth over the past decade, and how it approached that path a little differently to other firms. Haroon’s advice for young startup founders: Is your problem worth solving? And can you actually solve it? And… Love your customers. Show notes

8:03

Risky Bulletin: New phishing technique bypasses FIDO...

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2025/07/18

Hackers bypass FIDO keys with a new phishing technique, a mobile surveillance vendor deploys an SS7 exploit, ransomware hits South Korea’s largest insurance provider, and law enforcement agencies dismantle a pro-Kremlin DDoS group. Show notes

21:23

Srsly Risky Biz: Spain leaves key under mat for Huawei

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2025/07/17

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about Huawei’s contract to manage storage for Spain’s lawful intercept system. News broke this week that Spain had signed a €12 million contract, but it turns out Huawei has been involved in the system since 2004!They also discuss arrests in the UK of four individuals associated with Scattered Spider. The criminal resumés of two of the suspects support the idea that there are key individuals with outsize impact. But they also

7:08

Risky Bulletin: China breaches US National Guard

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2025/07/16

Salt Typhoon breaches a US state’s National Guard, Ukrainian hackers wipe the servers of a Russian drone maker, the UK relocates Afghans caught up in a data leak, and Microsoft outsources some US government work to China.Show notes

31:30

Between Two Nerds: Is US cyber espionage too careful?

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2025/07/14

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq examine whether US cyber operations are too stealthy. Could they get more bang for the buck if they adopted a devil may care attitude to getting busted? This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Should US spies steal Chinese commercial secrets?

7:12

Risky Bulletin: Radio equipment vulnerability can...

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/07/14

A radio equipment vulnerability can bring trains to sudden stops, researchers prevent a Lazarus crypto attack, Spain hands Huawei control over its phone wiretapping system, and CISA warns of ongoing CitrixBleed 2 attacks. Show notes

14:19

Sponsored: Should we ever trust AI?

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/07/13

In this Risky Business sponsored interview, Zero Networks Field CTO, Chris Boehm discusses the everyone-gets-an-AI future with Casey Ellis. Zero Networks makes network microsegmentation achievable without simply handing an AI control of the network. Will generative artificial intelligence ever be trusted to make hard access control decisions? Show notes

8:20

Risky Bulletin: Two billion eSIMs receive crucial...

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2025/07/11

Two billion eSIMs receive crucial security patches, China’s cyber militias go on the offensive, four Scattered Spider members detained over UK retail attacks, and a Russian basketball player is arrested in a ransomware case.Show notes

17:07

Srsly Risky Biz: Four key players drive Scattered Spider

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/07/10

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about our developing understanding of the group that people call Scattered Spider. Independent security firms agree that there are a small number of key people that are driving the group’s outrageous success. That gives us hope that targeted action might stem the bleeding. They also talk about data leaks from China’s cyber espionage ecosystem that are for sale on a data leak site. These look to contain actionable information from a

7:20

Risky Bulletin: Chinese APT member arrested in Italy

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/07/09

Italy arrests a Chinese APT hacker, a Russian drone software group gets wiped, the SatanLock ransomware operation shuts down, and browser extensions power a web scraping botnet.Show notes

32:13

Between Two Nerds: The opportunity in Asia

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/07/07

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about how there is an opportunity for the US to expand its 0day and talent acquisition pool to Asia. They revisit a paper comparing the Chinese and American 0day acquisition strategies and have some quibbles. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Crash (exploit) and burn: Securing

5:08

Risky Bulletin: Chinese researchers claim to find new...

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/07/07

Chinese security researchers claim to have found a new American APT, the SEC and SolarWinds are seeking a settlement, a company insider was behind Brazil’s bank hack, and Luis Vuitton discloses a security breach. Show notes

11:39

Sponsored: Making Zero Trust work with non-critical,...

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2025/07/06

In this sponsored interview, Patrick Gray chats with the CEO of Knocknoc, Adam Pointon. They talk about the woeful state of internal enterprise networks and how many control system networks aren’t appropriately segmented. Adam also explains why Knocknoc released a very simple identity aware proxy: For too long the Zero Trust “industry” has focussed on securing access to critical applications, while everything else is left behind to get owned. This is Zero Trust for

7:21

Risky Bulletin: Hunters International ransomware...

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2025/07/04

A ransomware operation shuts down and releases free decryption keys, the FBI investigates a ransomware negotiator for taking kickbacks, Spain arrests two over government hacks, and hackers steal $185 million from Brazilian financial institutions.Show notes

17:27

Srsly Risky Biz: Why Iran is a scaredy cat cyber chicken

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/07/03

Tom Uren and Patrick Gray discuss warnings about Iranian cyber attacks on US critical infrastructure. Despite many many warnings, there have been no actual attacks and they discuss the reasons why Iran would want to avoid escalatory cyber attacks.They also talk about how the FBI is struggling to deal with the democratisation of surveillance and data analysis, what the agency calls Ubiquitous Technical Surveillance (UTS). A Department of Justice audit of the FBI’s

6:39

Risky Bulletin: The US sanctions another Russian...

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/07/02

The US sanctions another Russian bulletproof hosting provider, the International Criminal Court discloses a security breach, the US dismantles 29 North Korean laptop farms, and a Chinese student gets jailed in the UK for SMS blasting.Show notes

22:13

Between Two Nerds: Microsoft embraces digital...

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/06/30

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about how Microsoft has embraced digital sovereignty and is bending over backwards to satisfy European tech supply chain concerns. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes The New York Times on the ICC Microsoft's 30 April Brad Smith

8:31

Risky Bulletin: Scattered Spider targets the aviation...

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/06/30

The Scattered Spider group targets the aviation sector, Russia throttles traffic from Cloudflare, a Mexican cartel hired hackers to track an FBI official, and Canada tells Hikvision to cease operations.Show notes

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