Risky Business

Risky Business #812 -- Alleged Trenchant exploit mole is ex-ASD

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In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

  • L3Harris Trenchant boss accused of selling exploits to Russia once worked at the Australian Signals Directorate
  • Microsoft WSUS bug being exploited in the wild
  • Dan Kaminsky DNS cache poisoning comes back because of a bad PRNG
  • SpaceX finally starts disabling Starlink terminals used by scammers
  • Garbage HP update deletes certificates that authed Windows systems to Entra

    • This week’s episode is sponsored by automation company Tines. Field CISO Matt Muller joins to discuss how Tines has embraced LLMs and the agentic-AI future into their workflow automation.

    This episode is also available on Youtube.

    Show notes
    • US accuses former L3Harris cyber boss of stealing and selling secrets to Russian buyer | TechCrunch
    • Attackers bypass patch in deprecated Windows Server update tool | CyberScoop
    • CVE-2025-59287 WSUS Unauthenticated RCE | HawkTrace
    • CVE-2025-59287 WSUS Remote Code Execution | HawkTrace
    • Catching Credential Guard Off Guard - SpecterOps
    • Cache poisoning vulnerabilities found in 2 DNS resolving apps - Ars Technica
    • Uncovering Qilin attack methods exposed through multiple cases
    • Safety on X: "By November 10, we’re asking all accounts that use a security key as their two factor authentication (2FA) method to re-enroll their key to continue accessing X. You can re-enroll your existing security key, or enroll a new one. A reminder: if you enroll a new security key, any" / X
    • SpaceX disables more than 2,000 Starlink devices used in Myanmar scam compounds | The Record from Recorded Future News
    • SpaceX: Update Your Inactive Starlink Dishes Now or They'll Be Bricked
    • How we linked ForumTroll APT to Dante spyware by Memento Labs | Securelist
    • Former Polish official indicted over spyware purchase | The Record from Recorded Future News
    • HP OneAgent Update Broke Entra Trust on HP AI Devices
    • Windows' Built-in OpenSSH for Offensive Security
    • How Hacked Card Shufflers Allegedly Enabled a Mob-Fueled Poker Scam That Rocked the NBA | WIRED
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