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Between Two Nerds: The cyber resistance!
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about examples of cyber resistance and whether they achieve their goals. This epsiode is also available on YouTube (https://youtu.be/eRJWUKLQK6M). Show notes • The Record on t
Risky Bulletin: Two law firms pay giant ransoms
Two American law firms pay multi-million dollar ransoms, a Metabase zero-day is being used in data theft attacks, Russian hackers disrupted a second power plant in Poland, and there’s a remote code execution bug in WordPress… again! Show no
Sponsored: Island's expansion to SASE and enterprise AI
In this Risky Business sponsored interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Michael Leland, Field CTO at Island, about the company’s seamless expansion into SASE and enterprise AI. Show notes • About Michael Leland (https://www.island.io/author/
Risky Bulletin: A Meta AI model also escaped a testing sandbox
A Meta AI model also escaped a testing sandbox, a cyberattack disrupts ports in North Carolina, the Philippines will establish a cybersecurity agency, and a Ransom Cartel admin gets 16 years in prison. Show notes • Risky Bulletin: Meta's AI
Srsly Risky Biz: Being a North Korean hacker is about to be less fun
Tom Uren and James Wilson talk about North Korea losing control over some of its hacker workforce. Expect some tightening of controls and oversight, and perhaps even a reduction in the country’s ransomware operations. They also discuss esca
Risky Bulletin: Hacker breaches Hungary's State Treasury
A hacker breached Hungary’s State Treasury, Russia will mandate 40 apps on all smartphones next year, hackers steal Liechtenstein’s business database, and an AI agent got real CVEs for hallucinated vulnerability reports. Show notes • Risky
Between Two Nerds: Hackers vs the state
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about whether hacker culture is inherently anti-authoritarian and how different states get their country’s hackers to work for the state. This episode is also available on You
Risky Bulletin: Anthropic models also did the hacky-hacky
Anthropic models also did the hacky-hacks, Coldcard was hacked for $70 million in Bitcoin, npm adds publish-time malware scanning, and Russia is behind the recent hotel WiFi hacks. Show notes • Risky Bulletin: Russia is behind the recent ho
Sponsored: The intrusion signals hiding in plain sight
In this sponsored interview James Wilson chats with Permiso CTO Ian Ahl about detecting ShinyHunters-style attackers as they move through cloud and SaaS environments. Ian explains how ordinary-looking events such as a password reset, a new
Risky Bulletin: Crime Stoppers puts bounty on INC ransomware group
A non-profit puts a $22,000 bounty on the INC ransomware group, hackers breach the UK Department for Education, Russia charges Telegram founder Pavel Durov, and the FCC bans foreign robots and power inverters. Show notes • Risky Bulletin: N
Srsly Risky Biz: Chipping away at Chinese AI risks
Tom Uren and James Wilson talk about open-weight AI models and distillation. These topics have been subject to a lot of US government attention in recent weeks, but let’s not forget that America’s overriding goal is to remain ahead of China
Risky Bulletin: Cyberattack disrupts Minnesota water utilities
A cyberattack has disrupted water utilities in more than 30 communities in Minnesota, Denmark tests a secondary banking system in case of a cyberattack, North Korea arrests bank hackers, and a new Chinese cyber contractor has been identifie
Between Two Nerds: Cyber is people
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss how important people are to cyber power and whether the rise of AI is changing that. This episode is also available on YouTube (https://youtu.be/EK9INfhlHDI). Show notes •
Risky Bulletin: A JSON RCE bug is about to rock the Java world
A JSON bug is about to rock the Java world, scam compounds continue in Myanmar despite the junta crackdown, and Google has a new APT naming scheme. Show notes • Risky Bulletin: A JSON RCE bug is about to rock the Java world (https://risky.b
Sponsored: How AI is putting pressure on EDR
In this sponsored interview James Wilson chats with Airlock Digital co-founders David Cottingham and Daniel Schell about how attackers are using LLMs to enumerate EDR detections. LLMs dramatically reduce the time and specialist labour neede
Risky Bulletin: Western cyber agencies warn of Russian hacks of Zimbra servers
A Russian hacking campaign targets Zimbra servers, the US accuses Moonshot AI of distillation attacks, Iran targets more PLC vendors, and Google adds selfie video to its login options. Show notes • Risky Bulletin: Western cyber agencies war
Srsly Risky Biz: Knives are out for open-weight AI models
Tom Uren and James Wilson talk about the future of open-weight models. For different reasons, both the Chinese and American governments have reasons to crack down on them. They also talk about arrests of several members of the Scattered Spi
Risky Bulletin: Rogue OpenAI models were behind the Hugging Face breach
Rogue OpenAI models were behind last week’s Hugging Face breach, the Linux kernel discloses 442 vulnerabilities as the AI bugpocalypse settles in, France becomes the first EU country to pass a social media age limit, and Germany takes down
Between Two Nerds: What China gets wrong about Russia's cyber war in Ukraine
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss what mainland Chinese analysts think about Russia’s use of cyber operations in the war in Ukraine. This episode is also available on YouTube (https://youtu.be/tYAjjgCJrv0).
Risky Bulletin: Hacker wipes Romania's entire land registry database
A hacker wipes Romania’s entire land registry database, Magnet Forensics sues a former employee for leaking an iPhone exploit, an autonomous AI agent hacked Hugging Face, and an unauthenticated remote code execution bug was finally found in
Sponsored: Thinkst on building companies that don’t suck
In this Risky Business sponsor interview Casey Ellis chats with Haroon Meer from Thinkst about building companies customers don’t hate. Haroon explains why Thinkst still offers Canary tokens for free and why it has avoided annual price hike
Srsly Risky Biz: Ransomware uses AI to amp up negotiations
Tom Uren and James Wilson talk about different ways ransomware groups are taking advantage of AI. The relatively new FulcrumSec group uses simple techniques to breach companies and then uses AI to get more leverage over victims in its extor
Between Two Nerds: Exploits are not cyber power
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss just how important exploits are for cyber operations using data published in a new paper authored by two members of Ukraine’s cyber security agency. This episode is also av
Risky Bulletin: NSA Tailored Access Operations is back
The NSA’s Tailored Access Operations team is back, India bans an app used to hack e-rickshaws, Accenture has another data breach, and a leak exposes a suspected Chinese cyber contractor. The Risky Bulletin newsletter and podcast will be on
Sponsored: Why Sublime doesn’t toss AI at every email
In this Risky Business sponsored interview, Tom Uren chats with Sublime Security Product Manager AJ Williams about how the company targets its AI use. Rather than throwing its AI agents at everything, Sublime gives them the time-consuming e
Srsly Risky Biz: US Supreme Court undermines Section 702 intel
Tom Uren and James Wilson talk about a new US Supreme Court decision that puts the current EU-US data sharing agreement at risk. American intelligence collection efforts have been at the centre of legal challenges of these on-again off-agai
Risky Bulletin: DHS IG investigates forced CISA reassignments
The DHS inspector general will investigate forced CISA reassignments, Canada hacked a ransomware gang, Taiwan charges two executives with helping Chinese hackers, and new vulnerabilities can disable Hoymiles solar panels. Show notes • Risky
Between Two Nerds: Why AI has not meant more hacks. Yet.
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about why we haven’t seen an explosion of devastating hacks even though AI has been used to discover lots and lots of bugs. This episode is also available on YouTube (https://
Risky Bulletin: EU official’s phone infected with Pegasus
A European MP’s phone was infected by Pegasus spyware, Android drops its PIN guessing limit from 1,800 attempts to 20, Alibaba bans employees from using Claude at work, and there’s a new vulnerability in the Linux kernel. Show notes • Risky
Risky Bulletin: FatFs bugs enable physical access attacks on a load of devices
FatFs bugs enable physical access attacks on industrial equipment, a clever password spraying attack bypasses M365 MFA, an AI agent is deploying ransomware in live attacks, and a webinar platform sues two security firms over bad IOCs. Show
