Risky Business #809 -- Hackers try to pay a journalist for access to the BBC

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 apart Tile trackers and find them lacking

• CISA tells agencies to patch their damn Cisco gear

This episode is also available on YouTube (youtu.be/klnGOkUmguo).

Show notes

• 'You'll never need to work again': Criminals offer reporter money to hack BBC (bbc.com/news/articles/c3w5n903447o)

• Government to guarantee £1.5bn Jaguar Land Rover loan after cyber shutdown (bbc.com/news/articles/cgl15ykerlro)

• Feds Tie ‘Scattered Spider’ Duo to $115M in Ransoms – Krebs on Security (krebsonsecurity.com/2025/09/feds-tie-scattered…)

• UK authorities arrest man in connection with cyberattack against aviation vendor | Cybersecurity Dive (cybersecuritydive.com/news/uk-arrest-cyberatta…)

• Chinese scammer pleads guilty after UK seizes nearly $7 billion in bitcoin (therecord.media/chinese-scammer-guilty-seizure…)

• Cyberattack on Japanese beer giant Asahi limits shipping, call center operations | The Record from Recorded Future News (therecord.media/asahi-japan-cyberattack-limits…)

• Afghanistan plunged into nationwide internet blackout, disrupting air travel, medical care | The Record from Recorded Future News (therecord.media/afghanistan-plunged-into-natio…)

• Tile trackers are a stalker's dream, say Georgia Tech researchers (theregister.com/2025/09/30/tile_trackers_unenc…)

• Intel and AMD trusted enclaves, the backbone of network security, fall to physical attacks - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com/security/2025/09/intel-and-amd…)

• Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com/security/2025/09/supermicro-se…)

• China-linked hackers use ‘BRICKSTORM’ backdoor to steal IP | The Record from Recorded Future News (therecord.media/china-linked-hackers-brickstor…)

• Another BRICKSTORM: Stealthy Backdoor Enabling Espionage into Tech and Legal Sectors (cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligen…)

• Federal agencies given one day to patch exploited Cisco firewall bugs | The Record from Recorded Future News (therecord.media/cisco-asa-firewall-bugs-cisa-f…)

• Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software SNMP Denial of Service and Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/conten…)

• Is This Bad? This Feels Bad. (Fortra GoAnywhere CVE-2025-10035) (labs.watchtowr.com/is-this-bad-this-feels-bad-…)

• It Is Bad (Exploitation of Fortra GoAnywhere MFT CVE-2025-10035) - Part 2 (labs.watchtowr.com/it-is-bad-exploitation-of-f…)