Risky Bulletin

The source code for the Shai-Hulud worm has been released online, a dark web market admin was charged after a major OPSEC failure, France investigates an Israeli disinfo firm, and ‘Composer’ rushes to fix a GitHub token leak.

Tom Uren and James Wilson talk about the argy bargy within the Trump administration about AI regulation. They cover who is fighting, what is at stake and what the real areas of concern are.

They also cover low earth orbit satellite constellations. Russia’s building one, the EU has plans and China is building two. They are the new must-have accessory for any country with global ambitions.

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RubyGems disables sign-ups after an attack on staff, Instructure paid the ransom, the Gentlemen ransomware operation gets hacked, and another major supply chain attack on npm (yawn).

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss why it makes even more sense for criminal organisations to adopt AI as compared to regular businesses.

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The FCC relaxes its foreign router ban to allow for security updates, the ShinyHunters group disrupts schools across the globe, a 21-year-old remote code execution bug turns up in FreeBSD, and another Linux privilege escalation bug was disclosed… without a patch.

In this sponsored interview Patrick Gray chats with Knocknoc CEO Adam Pointon about their Greynoise integration.

Knocknoc allowlists network connections from users’ IPs after they’ve been through an SSO challenge. It’s great for protecting vulnerable or risky assets that your org has to connect to the internet. But what happens when one of your users tries to authenticate from a bad IP? You probably don’t want to add that one to your allowlist!

Thanks to Knocknoc’s new Greynoise integration, you don’t have to!

Palo Alto Networks patches a firewall zero-day, Google patches an Android remote takeover bug, Ivanti also patches one, and a leak exposes Russia’s spy and hacker school.

Tom Uren and James Wilson talk about the sudden drive to put regulation around the releases of new AI models because of their cyber security implications. A standardised approach is desirable, but clamping down too hard won’t achieve as much as might be hoped. Experts with older or even open models can get just as far as novices with the latest models.

They also discuss Australia’s new Cyber Incident Review Board. It has been hamstrung and won’t be as successful as it could be because it can’t assign blame.

This episode is also available on YouTube

The DAEMON Tools website was hit in a targeted supply chain attack, Australia gets its own CSRB, the US arrests a wanted VOIP server hacker after 17 years, and Oracle switches to monthly security updates.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss the breakdown of cyber norms. What would have been an unthinkable cyber operation just a few years ago is now a regular occurrence.

This episode is also available on YouTube.