Risky Business

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

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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.

    Show notes
    • 'You'll never need to work again': Criminals offer reporter money to hack BBC
    • Government to guarantee £1.5bn Jaguar Land Rover loan after cyber shutdown
    • Feds Tie ‘Scattered Spider’ Duo to $115M in Ransoms – Krebs on Security
    • UK authorities arrest man in connection with cyberattack against aviation vendor | Cybersecurity Dive
    • Chinese scammer pleads guilty after UK seizes nearly $7 billion in bitcoin
    • Cyberattack on Japanese beer giant Asahi limits shipping, call center operations | The Record from Recorded Future News
    • Afghanistan plunged into nationwide internet blackout, disrupting air travel, medical care | The Record from Recorded Future News
    • Tile trackers are a stalker's dream, say Georgia Tech researchers
    • Intel and AMD trusted enclaves, the backbone of network security, fall to physical attacks - Ars Technica
    • Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware - Ars Technica
    • China-linked hackers use ‘BRICKSTORM’ backdoor to steal IP | The Record from Recorded Future News
    • Another BRICKSTORM: Stealthy Backdoor Enabling Espionage into Tech and Legal Sectors
    • Federal agencies given one day to patch exploited Cisco firewall bugs | The Record from Recorded Future News
    • Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software SNMP Denial of Service and Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
    • Is This Bad? This Feels Bad. (Fortra GoAnywhere CVE-2025-10035)
    • It Is Bad (Exploitation of Fortra GoAnywhere MFT CVE-2025-10035) - Part 2
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