Risky Bulletin

China has breached all of Singapore’s major telcos, Microsoft announces two new security features, a hacktivist leaks data from a stalkerware provider, and researchers map out “GRU information warfare units” based on their insignia.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about why the world is destined to be perpetually insecure.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

A software company gets hacked through vulnerabilities in its own product, European agencies are hacked via recent Ivanti zero-days, Senegal is being extorted by hackers, and a state actor is behind a Signal phishing campaign in Germany.

In this Risky Business sponsored interview, Tom Uren talks to Trail of Bits CEO Dan Guido about how Trail of Bits is reworking its business processes to take advantage of AI. Dan talks about what it takes to make AI agents reliable and trustworthy and how that will give the company an edge by making its work both better and faster.

Denmark recruits hackers for offensive cyber operations, CISA tells agencies to remove old edge devices, Coinbase has another insider breach, and Microsoft appoints a new security chief.

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about Google’s cyber disruption unit taking aim at the IPIDEA residential proxy network. The network was a cybercrime enabler that was used by hundreds of threat actors for crime and espionage. More of this kind of disruption please.

They also discuss SpaceX’s rapid action to stop the Russian military using Starlink terminals to guide drones deep into Ukrainian territory.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

The Plone CMS stops a supply-chain attack, French cops raid the X Paris office;

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss the recent Russian attack on Polish electricity infrastructure.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

ICE tracking app blames a recent hack on a government agent, Microsoft will disable NTLM in the next release of Windows, Poland bans Chinese cars from military bases, and Ivanti patches two new zero-days.

In this sponsored interview, Casey Ellis chats to Edward Wu, founder of Dropzone AI about a recent Vanderbilt University report that reveals that foreign adversaries’ resources are growing. Edward says AI capabilities are critical to the future of cyber defence, because the west can’t hire itself out of the shortfall.