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6:23

Risky Bulletin: Hacktivists claim cyber-sabotage of...

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/03/21

Hacktivists sabotage over 100 Iranian ships, Iran calls out China for hacking,six new Paragon customers come to light, and North Korea creates a new cyber unit. Show notes

19:10

Srsly Risky Biz: China's MSS gets personal

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/03/20

Tom Uren and Patrick Gray discuss how China’s Ministry of State Security is increasingly doxxing and threatening Taiwanese APT operators. In some ways this mirrors the US strategy of naming and shaming Chinese cyber operators in indictments that contain lots of supporting information. But although MSS statements are filled with propaganda rather than technical detail, naming Taiwanese military hackers has some bite. They also discuss Russia’s ‘shadow war’ sabotage

5:44

Risky Bulletin: Google buys Wiz for $32 billion

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/03/19

Google buys Wiz for $32 billion, China attributes the Poison Ivy APT group to the Taiwanese Military, APT groups abuse a Windows zero-day and a judge tells CISA to reinstate fired workers. Show notes

27:00

Between Two Nerds: Sowing discord by being nice!

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/03/17

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about how offensive cyber operations could do so much more than just ‘deny, disrupt, degrade and destroy’. Grugq thinks this thinking is rooted in military culture and he wonders why cyber operations are always so mean. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes

8:28

Risky Bulletin: GitHub supply chain attack leaks secrets

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/03/16

A GitHub supply chain attack leaks secrets, the White House tells federal agencies to stop firing cyber staff, Germany exempts cybersecurity from debt limits, and the RCS standard adds support for end-to-end encryption. Show notes

13:15

Sponsored: Using carrots and sticks to get more...

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2025/03/16

In this Risky Bulletin sponsor interview Matt Muller, field CISO of Tines, explains how governments are using carrots and sticks to improve the security of enterprise software. Matt discusses CISA’s ‘Secure by Design’ pledge and the UK NCSC’s effort to quantify ‘unforgivable bugs’ Show notes

6:45

Risky Bulletin: FBI says online file converters are...

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/03/14

The FBI warns of online file converters that distribute malware, China backdoors Juniper router, a wave of ransomware hits Taiwan, and North Korean spyware slips into the Play Store. Show notes

15:23

Srsly Risky Biz: Outside America, Musk's X is a...

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/03/13

Tom Uren and Patrick Gray discuss how X is actively engaging in political interference outside the US. The risks mirror those of TikTok. American legislators moved against TikTok because it could potentially be a powerful tool for the Chinese government to interfere with American political discourse. X is a realised threat, not a potential one, so we expect that foreign governments will start to consider a ban. They also explore why mass firing of probationary

4:40

Risky Bulletin: Pro-Palestinian hacktivists claim X DDoS

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/03/12

A Pro Palestinian group claims credit for the X DDoS, CISA gets a new director as DOGE fires its red teams, and Asian scam compounds keep growing. Show notes

33:33

Between Two Nerds: A European cyber command

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/03/10

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about what Europe should do given that US security guarantees are evaporating. Should Europe grow its cyber capabilities, what it would get out of it and how should it go about doing it? This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Zero Day on the Trump Administration order that US Cyber

7:42

Risky Bulletin: Major browsers patch passkey phishing...

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/03/10

Mobile browsers patch a passkey phishing vector, researchers find undocumented commands in a common IoT chip, the US government cuts election security funding, and a hacker steals – and then returns – funds from DeFi platform 1inch. Show notes

12:38

Sponsored: GreyNoise on 2024's mass internet scan trends

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2025/03/09

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Andrew Morris, founder of security firm GreyNoise. Andrew talks about the major trends in mass internet scanning and exploitation, as per GreyNoise’s yearly threat report. Show notes GreyNoise 2025 Mass Internet Exploitation Report: Attackers Are Moving Faster Than Ever — Are You

5:24

Risky Bulletin: US indicts i-Soon and APT27 hackers

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/03/07

The US indicts the i-Soon and APT27 hackers, the BADBOX botnet gets disrupted again,authorities seize the Garantex crypto exchange, and the FBI arrests hackers who stole Taylor Swift concert tickets.Show notes

22:03

Srsly Risky Biz: Starlink an internet lifeline for...

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/03/06

In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray discuss how Starlink is providing an internet lifeline for scam compounds that have had their internet access cut by Thai authorities. Starlink has a very poor track record dealing with unauthorised use, but it is time for the company to develop the processes to keep on top of these problems. They also discuss how President Trump’s actions that favour Russia will make Five Eyes partners take stock, particularly when it comes

5:54

Risky Bulletin: Research turns any Bluetooth device...

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/03/05

Researchers turn any Bluetooth device into an AirTag tracker, VMware patches three ESXi zero-days, France debates encryption backdoors, and a fifth of the stolen Bybit funds are now untraceable. Show notes

25:06

RBTALKS6: Will Thomas on the Black Basta leaks

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/03/04

In this Risky Business Talks interview we invited Will Thomas to talk about the recent leak of internal chats from the Black Basta ransomware group. Will is a SANS Instructor, co-author of the SANS FOR589 course, and the co-founder of a community research project for CTI analysts called Curated Intelligence. Will walks us through the Black Basta leak and uses the group’s attack on US healthcare provider Ascension to break down how the gang operated.

35:29

Between Two Nerds: NSA's 9 to 5 hacking campaign

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/03/03

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq take a deep dive into incident response reports from Chinese cybersecurity firms that attribute the hack of one of the country’s top seven defence universities to the US National Security Agency. These reports were collated and translated into English by the security researcher known as Inversecos (https://x.com/inversecos). This episode is also available on Youtube.

7:33

Risky Bulletin: Trump admin halts Russia cyber...

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/03/03

The Trump administration stops treating Russian hackers as a threat, Meta seeks a permanent NSO injunction, new Cellebrite zero-days come to light, and big name Russian cyber criminals get … home detention. Show notes

13:53

Sponsored: Prowler on the Open Cloud Security Movement

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/03/02

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Toni de la Fuente, founder and CEO of cloud security firm Prowler. Toni talks about his company’s latest effort, the Open Cloud Security Movement, an initiative to get more cloud security vendors to open-source their core projects. Show notes Open Cloud Security

6:44

Risky Bulletin: Cellebrite fires Serbia as a customer

Risky Bulletin ·

2025/02/28

Cellebrite bans Serbia from using its products, Chinese hackers breached the Belgian security service, the Republican National Committee hid a Chinese hack and Microsoft removes malicious extensions from the VSCode Marketplace.Show notes

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