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22:28

Srsly Risky Biz: Data brokers are a killer's best friend

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/06/19

Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about a Minnesota man who used people-search services to locate, stalk and eventually murder political targets.They also discuss purported hacktivist group Predatory Sparrow weighing in on the Iran-Israel conflict. It has attacked Iran’s financial system including a bank associated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp and also burnt USD$90 million worth of cryptocurrency from an Iranian exchange This episode is also available on

7:03

Risky Bulletin: Israel-linked hackers claim Iran bank...

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/06/18

An Israeli-linked hacktivist group claims attack on Iranian bank, Chrome gets a new prompt to prevent local network attacks, a Century-old German napkin company goes under following ransomware attack, and Europol takes down the Archetyp dark web market.Show notes

30:21

Between Two Nerds: Why modern influence operations suck

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/06/16

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq take a look at a new AI-powered covert influence campaign and compare it to World War 2 efforts. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes

5:48

Risky Bulletin: Washington Post email accounts hacked

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/06/16

Email accounts compromised at the Washington Post, shady email provider Cock.li gets hacked, hackers steal data from a French university, and the EU invests €145 million in hospital cybersecurity. Show notes

12:42

Sponsored: Hardening the browser

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2025/06/15

In this Risky Bulletin sponsor interview Michael Leland, Field CTO of Island, talks about how Island manages risks from extensions, phishing and infostealers. Even when credentials are stolen, it is still not game over and there are still ways to prevent data loss and breaches. Show notes

7:47

Risky Bulletin: Predator spyware alive despite US...

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2025/06/13

Intellexa is alive and well despite US sanctions, Paragon spyware used a zero-click iMessage exploit, South Korea’s largest online bookstore gets ransomwared, and law enforcement takes down several cybercrime operations.Show notes

19:26

Srsly Risky Biz: Trump scales back Biden product...

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/06/12

Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about how a Trump executive order has scaled back the government’s cyber security ambitions. The carrots and sticks that would have been used to encourage organisations to adopt stricter security standards are gone. They also discuss North Korea’s use of AI in its IT worker scam and the emergence of espionage-as-a-service… perhaps. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes

5:13

Risky Bulletin: SentinelOne dodges a Chinese APT hack

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2025/06/11

SentinelOne dodges a Chinese APT hack, anonymous sources point to more Salt Typhoon victims, a cyberattack disrupts grocery deliveries in the US, and 140 arrested in Kazakhstan for selling citizens’ data. Show notes

37:05

Between Two Nerds: How Russia's sabotage team got...

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/06/09

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq take a look at the hackers of Unit 29155, Russian military intelligence’s sabotage and assassination group. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes The Insider 'Hidden Bear' investigation Japanese Tokuryū Ukraine

6:12

Risky Bulletin: EU launches its own DNS service

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2025/06/09

The EU launches its own DNS service, Trump revises previous administrations’ cyber executive orders, a supply chain attack hits popular NPM packages, and mysterious iOS attacks spotted in the wild. Show notes

18:19

Sponsored: Phishing crews have gotten really good at...

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/06/09

In this sponsored interview, Casey Ellis interviews Push Security co-founder and Chief Product Officer Jacques Louw about how good phishing crews have gotten at evading detection. Attackers are hiding their payloads behind legitimate bot-detection tools to stop things like email security gateways from seeing them, as well as locking up phishing pages behind OAuth challenges. Push sees all this because it’s installed as a browser plugin and sees what users see.

7:02

Risky Bulletin: APTeens go after Salesforce data

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2025/06/06

A hacking group goes after Salesforce data, the FBI takes down the BidenCash carding forum, China offers rewards for Taiwanese military hackers, and high risk bugs are patched in enterprise software from HPE and Infoblox.Show notes

18:43

Srsly Risky Biz: Law Enforcement Is Finally Making...

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/06/05

Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about how Operation Endgame, the multinational law enforcement effort to tackle ransomware is approaching the problem holisitically. It’s tackling the enablers of ransomware and although it won’t eliminate the crime, it’ll make it harder for criminals.They also discuss the spyware app that helped to dismantle the Syrian regime, at least maybe a little bit, and how Russian military intelligence’s sabotage and assasination unit got into

8:20

Risky Bulletin: Syrian Army infected with spyware...

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2025/06/04

A spyware app infected the Syrian Army’s soldiers before the regime collapsed, NSO appeals its WhatsApp verdict, Chrome and Qual-comm patch zero-days, and an emergency services information sharing group shuts down.Show notes

31:08

Between Two Nerds: NSA's thinking on information warfare

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2025/06/02

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq look at NSA’s take on information warfare, all the way back from 1997. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Cryptolog, The Journal of Technical Health, from NSA in 1997

6:16

Risky Bulletin: Law enforcement takes down AVCheck

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/06/02

Law enforcement agencies take down A-V-Check, four US Senators urge for the reinstatement of the Cyber Safety Review Board, Germany identifies the leader of the TrickBot gang, and an AI-vibe-coding platform leaks user data and API keys.Show notes

15:21

Sponsored: HD Moore on why vuln scanners are awful...

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2025/06/01

In this sponsored interview, Risky Business Media’s brand new interviewer Casey Ellis chats with runZero founder and CEO HD Moore about why vuln scanning tech is awful and broken. He also talks about how they’re trying to do something better by glueing their own discovery product to the nuclei open source vulnerability scanner. Show notes

6:05

Risky Bulletin: Windows Update will patch third party...

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/05/30

Windows Update will deliver third party app updates, a public database exposed Russia’s nuclear secrets, US banks ask the SEC to rescind cyber breach disclosure rule, and ConnectWise discloses an APT breach. Show notes

16:27

Srsly Risky Biz: Russia's cybercriminals and spies...

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/05/29

Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about Russian DanaBot malware developers making a tailored variant of their malware specifically for espionage. This fills in some of the blanks on the exact relationship between Russian criminals and the country’s intelligence services.They also discuss a US Director of National Intelligence initiative to centralise the purchase of commercially acquired information. Although this information can be used maliciously, having a

5:27

Risky Bulletin: Dutch intelligence discovers a new...

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/05/28

Dutch intelligence discovers a new Russian APT, a ransomware attack hits the maker of MATLAB, 20 arrested in Nigeria over hacking exam results, and an Iranian pleads guilty for the Robbinhood ransomware attacks.Show notes

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