Risky Business

On this week’s show Patrick Gray is on holiday so Amberleigh Jack and Adam Boileau hijack the studio to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Hackers learn that trying to coerce a journalist just makes for … a great story? A man in his 40s gets arrested over the European airport chaos. Yep, we’re surprised, too. Adam fanboys over Watchtowr Labs while bemoaning Fortra. Academics pick ap...

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and special guest Rob Joyce discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Secret Service raids a SIM farm in New York MI6 launches a dark web portal Are the 2023 Scattered Spider kids finally getting their comeuppance? Production halt continues for Jaguar Land Rover GitHub tightens its security after Shai-Hulud worm This week’s episode is sponsored by Sublime S...

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Shai-Hulud worm propagates via npm and steals credentials Jaguar Land Rover attack may put smaller suppliers out of business Leaked data emerges from the vendor behind the Great Firewall of China Vastaamo hacker walks free while appeal is underway Why is a senator so mad about Kerberos? This week’s...

In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast, industry legend HD Moore joins the show to talk about runZero’s major push into vulnerability management. With its new Nuclei integration, runZero is now able to get a very accurate picture of what’s vulnerable in your environment, without spraying highly privileged credentials at attackers on your network. It can also integrate wit...

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Apple ruins exploit developers’ week with fresh memory corruption mitigations Feross Aboukhadijeh drops by to talk about the big, dumb npm supply chain attack Salesloft says its GitHub was the initial entry point for its compromise Sitecore says people should “patch” its using-the-keymat-from-the-do...

In this edition of the Snake Oilers podcasts, three vendors pop in to pitch you all on their wares: Automated, AI-powered threat hunting with Nebulock Damien Lewke from Nebulock joins the show to talk about how its agentic AI platform can surface attacker activity out of all those “low” and “informational” findings your detection team doesn’t have time to look at. Runtime security for hypervisors...

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: The Salesloft breach and why OAuth soup is a problem The Salt Typhoon telco hackers turn out to be Chinese private sector, but state-directed Google says it will stand up a “disruption unit” Microsoft writes up a ransomware gang that’s all-in on the cloud future Aussie firm hot-mics its work-from-ho...

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Australia expels Iranian ambassador Hackers sabotage Iranian shipping satcoms APT hacker got doxxed in Phrack. Kind of. They’re probably Chinese, not DPRK? Trail of Bits uses image-downscaling to sneak prompts into Google Gemini The Com’s King Bob gets ten years in the slammer It’s a day that ends i...

The Wide World of Cyber podcast is back! In this episode host Patrick Gray chats with Alex Stamos and Chris Krebs about Microsoft’s entanglement in China. Redmond has been using Chinese engineers to do everything from remotely support US DoD private cloud systems to maintain the on premise version of the SharePoint code base. It’s all blown up in the press over the last month, but how did we get h...

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Oracle’s long term CSO departs, and we’re not that sad about it Canada’s House of Commons gets popped through a Microsoft bug Russia degrades voice calls via Whatsapp and Telegram to push people towards Max South-East Asian scam compounds are also behind child sextortion Reports that the UK has back...

In this Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray chats with Socket founder Feross Aboukhadijeh about how to measure the reachability of vulnerabilities in applications. It’s great to know there’s a CVE in a library you’re using, but it’s even better if you can say whether or not that vulnerability actually impacts your application. They also talk about how Socket started out as...

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: CISA warns about the path from on-prem Exchange to the cloud Microsoft awards a crisp zero dollar bill for a report about what a mess its internal Entra-authed apps are Everyone and their dog seems to have a shell in US Federal Court information systems Google pays $250k for a Chrome sandbox escape...

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. Google security engineering VP Heather Adkins drops by to talk about their AI bug hunter, and Risky Business producer Amberleigh Jack makes her main show debut. This episode explores the rise of AI-powered bug hunting: Google’s Project Zero and Deepmind team up to find and report 20 bugs to open source project...

In this Soap Box edition of the show Patrick Gray chats with the CEO of email security company Sublime Security, Josh Kamdjou. They talk about where AI is useful, where it isn’t, and why AI can’t save vendors from their bad product design choices. This episode is also available on Youtube . Show notes

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news: Did the SharePoint bug leak out of the Microsoft MAPP program? Expel retracts its FIDO bypass writeup The mess surrounding the women-only dating-safety app Tea gets worse Broadcom customers struggle to get patches for VMWare hypervisor escapes Aeroflot gets hacked by the Cyber Partisans, disrupting flights Thi...

Risky Biz returns after two weeks off, and there sure is cybersecurity news to catch up on. Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss: Microsoft tried to make outsourcing the Pentagon’s cloud maintenance to China okay (it was not) She shells Sharepoint by the sea-shore (by ‘she’ we mean ‘China’) Four (alleged) Scattered Spider members arrested (and bailed) in the UK Hackers spend $2700 to buy creds fo...

In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray chats with Toni de la Fuente, founder of open source multi-cloud security product Prowler. Toni explains how Prowler came to be, and how its journey followed his own learning about the cloud. The pair also discuss Prowler’s successful transition from an open-source project into a community, and now a growing business wit...

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news: Australian airline Qantas looks like it got a Scattered Spider-ing Microsoft works towards blunting the next CrowdStrike disaster Changes are coming for Microsoft’s default enterprise app consenting setup Synology downplays hardcoded passwords for its M365 cloud backup agent The next Citrix Netscaler memory di...

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news: We roll our eyes over the “16 billion credentials” leak hitting mainstream news Some interesting cyber angles emerge from the conflict in Iran Opensource maintainer of libxml2 is fed up with this hacker crap Shockingly, there are yet more ways to trick people into pasting commands into Windows Veeam “patches”...

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau are joined by special guest Chris Krebs to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They talk through: Israeli “hacktivists” take out an Iranian state-owned bank Scattered-spider and friends pivot into attacking insurers Securing identities in a cloud-first world keeps us awake at night Microsoft takes the “aas” out of SaaS for Europe, leaving us wit...

In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray chats with Dropzone AI founder Ed Wu about the role of LLMs in the SOC. The debate about whether AI agents are going to wind up in the SOC is over, they’ve already arrived. But what are they good for? What are they NOT good for? And where else will we see AI popping up in security? This episode is also available on Youtu...

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news: New York Times gets a little stolen Russian FSB data as a treat iVerify spots possible evidence of iOS exploitation against the Harris-Walz campaign Researcher figures out a trick to get Google account holders’ full names and phone numbers Major US food distributor gets ransomwared The Com’s social engineering...

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news: Cyber firms agree to deconflict and cross-reference hacker group names Russian nuclear facility blueprints gathered from public procurement websites Someone audio deepfaked the White House Chief of Staff, but for the dumbest reasons Germany identifies the Trickbot kingpin Google spots China’s MSS using Calenda...

In this week’s edition of Risky Business Dmitri Alperovitch and Adam Boileau join Patrick Gray to talk through the week’s news, including: EXCLUSIVE: A Scattered Spider-style crew is hijacking DNS MX entries and compromising enterprises within minutes The SVG format brings the all horrors of HTML+JS to image files, and attackers have noticed Brian Krebs eats a 6.3Tbps DDoS … ‘cause that’s how you...

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news: TeleMessage memory dumps show up on DDoSecrets Coinbase contractor bribed to hand over user data Telegram does seem to be actually cooperating with law enforcement Britain’s legal aid service gets 15 years worth of applicant data stolen Shocking no one, Ivanti were weaseling when they blamed latest bugs on a t...