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8:04

Risky Bulletin: Microsoft restricts Chinese firms’...

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2025/08/21

Microsoft restricts Chinese firms’ access to its MAPP program, Apple patches a zero-day used in the wild, a Scattered Spider member gets 10 years in prison, and a new exploit broker pops up in the UAE. Show notes Risky Bulletin: A decade later, Russian hackers are still using SYNful Knock, and it's still working

19:17

Srsly Risky Biz: Russian cyber security picked a side

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2025/08/21

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about a new report that looks at how Russian cyber security firms have adapted since the country’s invasion of Ukraine. These firms are doing surprisingly well financially. It turns out that in an era of great power competition, picking sides is not just necessary, it is also a winning strategy.They also discuss Russia effectively killing foreign messenger services to promote its own WeChat-like service and claims that the UK has

7:16

Risky Bulletin: Child sextortion cases linked to scam...

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2025/08/20

Almost 500 child sextortion cases have been linked to scam compounds, Oracle’s CSO departs after 37 years, Europol offers a reward for the Qilin ransomware group, and the UK drops its demand for an Apple backdoor.Show notes Risky Bulletin: NIST releases face-morphing detection guideline

26:21

Between Two Nerds: Cyber myopia

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2025/08/18

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about whether the cyber industry and intelligence agencies focus too much on technical details and ignore the bigger picture. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Director-General ASIO speech on Counting the Cost of Espionage

7:36

Risky Bulletin: Academics pull off novel 5G attack

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2025/08/17

Academics develop a 5G downgrade attack, ransomware hits car salvage yards across North America, multiple VPN apps share the same hardcoded password, and Bangladesh spent $190 million on hacking and surveillance tools. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Academics pull off novel 5G attack

8:03

Risky Bulletin: HTTP2 flaw enables massive DDoS attacks

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2025/08/15

An HTTP-2 vulnerability enables DDoS attacks, Russia blocks Telegram and WhatsApp voice calls, attackers abuse a zero-day in N-able servers, and the US government is adding trackers to chip shipments.Show notes Risky Bulletin: MadeYouReset vulnerability enables unlimited HTTP/2 DDoS attacks

16:41

Srsly Risky Biz: Drug cartels are the new APTs

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2025/08/14

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about a recent hack of the US courts document management system. It’s about as bad as can be, with multiple threat actors including states and possibly even drug cartels rummaging around in there, possibly for years.They also discuss Microsoft’s involvement in an Israeli surveillance system and the head of Australia’s security organisation’s blunt warning about espionage. This episode is also available on Youtube.

8:18

Risky Bulletin: Russia suspected of US Courts hack

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2025/08/13

Russia suspected of hacking a US Court system, researchers break the DarkBit ransomware’s encryption, a new attack can leak sensitive data from AMD processors, and a brute-force campaign targets Fortinet devices.Show notes Risky Bulletin: Crypto-thieves turn their sights to Open VSX

7:22

Risky Bulletin: Researcher scores $250,000 for Chrome...

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2025/08/11

A security researcher scores $250,000 for a Chrome bug, WinRAR patches another zero-day, new vulnerabilities found in the Tetra communications protocol, and a researcher gains access to Microsoft’s internal network for fun… and no profit. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Researcher scores $250,000 for Chrome bug

15:54

Sponsored: The phishing-resistant employee

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2025/08/10

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview Tom Uren talks to Derek Hanson, Yubico’s Field CTO about making account recovery and onboarding for employees phishing-resistant. They also discuss the problems and opportunities of syncable passkeys. Show notes

8:27

Risky Bulletin: CISA tells federal agencies to...

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2025/08/08

Federal agencies told to patch a new Exchange flaw, millions of sites are vulnerable to HTTP desync attacks, Trend Micro patches a zero-day, and the Salesforce data breaches continue. Show notes Risky Bulletin: CISA tells federal agencies to mitigate on-prem-to-cloud Exchange attack

7:37

Risky Bulletin: Russia's war on foreign software...

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2025/08/06

Russian companies must migrate to domestic ERP systems, Ohio’s public sector will have to approve ransom payments in public, Chanel and Cisco disclose data breaches, and a Thai hospital gets fined over the the dumbest data breach ever.Show notes Risky Bulletin: Russia to designate ERPs as "critical information infrastructure"

29:28

Between Two Nerds: The Aeroflot hack

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2025/08/04

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq dissect the Belarusian Cyber Partisans hack of Russian airline Aeroflot. Despite the short-term impact, the airline will likely bounce back quite quickly. But it is still a big win for the Cyber Partisans. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes The Belarusian Cyber Partisans post on the

6:35

Risky Bulletin: China with the accusations again

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2025/08/04

China accuses the US of new cyberattacks, a $14.5b crypto hack discovered five years later, the US National Cyber Director is named, and Lovense considers legal action over a security flaw disclosure. Show notes Risky Bulletin: China with the accusations again

12:40

Sponsored: Tines shines at solving interesting problems

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2025/08/03

In this week’s sponsor interview, Tines’ Field CISO, Matt Muller, chats to Casey Ellis about the interesting and out-of-the-box ways they’ve seen people using the platform. Tines is a platform designed to automate repetitive tasks for IT and security teams. And, as it turns out, it can be used to … gamify shift handover? Show notes

8:05

Risky Bulletin: Russia spies on local embassies via ISPs

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2025/08/01

Russia spies on local embassies via ISPs, a Canadian man jailed for stealing Internet Apes, Signal threatens to leave Australia, and Russian pharmacies go down after a cyberattack. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Russia spies on foreign embassies using local ISPs

17:07

Srsly Risky Biz: The West's tepid China deterrence is...

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2025/07/31

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about how recent SharePoint exploitation is a blow-by-blow repeat of the 2021 Microsoft Exchange mass compromise event. The international response to that clearly didn’t deter Chinese hackers, so it is time to try something different.They also talk about recent cases where outsourcing IT services has come with increased risk. Convenient, cheap, secure, pick any two. This episode is also available on Youtube.

6:37

Risky Bulletin: Russia's Aeroflot cancels flights...

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2025/07/30

Russia’s national airline cancels more than 100 flights following a cyberattack, the FBI seizes $2.4 million from the Chaos ransomware, Kazakhstan arrests a ransomware suspect, and Kyrgyzstan nationalizes internet access.Show notes Risky Bulletin: US seizes Chaos ransomware funds

5:23

Risky Bulletin: Microsoft investigates MAPP leak

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2025/07/27

Microsoft investigates a MAPP leak as the source of the SharePoint zero-day, US law enforcement takes down the BlackSuit ransomware portal, an Arizona woman is imprisoned for running a North Korean laptop farm, and Allianz life insurance suffers a security breach. Show notes

19:14

Sponsored: Nucleus Security on the evolution of...

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2025/07/27

In this sponsored interview, Nucleus Security co-founder and COO, Scott Kuffer joins Casey Ellis to chat about how vulnerability management evolved into quite a lot more than just patch prioritization. Show notes

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