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  • Risky Business #780 -- ASD torched Zservers data while admins were drunk

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

    • Australian spooks scrubbed Medibank data off Zservers bulletproof hosting
    • Why device code phishing is the latest trick in confusing poor users about cloud authentication
    • Cloudflare gets blocked in Spain, but only on weekends and because of… football?
    • Palo Alto has yet another dumb bug
    • Adam gushes about Qualys’ latest OpenSSH vulns
    • Enterprise browser maker Island is this week’s sponsor and Chief Customer Officer Bradon Rogers joins the show to talk about how the adoption of AI everywhere is causing headaches.

      This episode is also available on Youtube.

      Show notes
      • Five Russians went out drinking. When they got back, Australia had struck
      • Dutch police say they took down 127 servers used by sanctioned hosting service | The Record from Recorded Future News
      • Further cyber sanctions in response to Medibank Private cyberattack | Defence Ministers
      • What is device code phishing, and why are Russian spies so successful at it? - Ars Technica
      • Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website
      • Piracy Crisis: Cloudflare Says LaLiga Knew Dangers, Blocked IP Address Anyway (Update) * TorrentFreak
      • Palo Alto Networks warns firewall vulnerability is under active exploitation | Cybersecurity Dive
      • Qualys TRU Discovers Two Vulnerabilities in OpenSSH: CVE-2025-26465 & CVE-2025-26466 | Qualys Security Blog
      • China’s Salt Typhoon hackers targeting Cisco devices used by telcos, universities | The Record from Recorded Future News
      • RedMike Exploits Unpatched Cisco Devices in Global Telecommunications Campaign
      • A Hacker Group Within Russia’s Notorious Sandworm Unit Is Breaching Western Networks | WIRED
      • How Phished Data Turns into Apple & Google Wallets – Krebs on Security
      • New hack uses prompt injection to corrupt Gemini’s long-term memory
      • Arizona woman pleads guilty to running laptop farm for N. Korean IT workers, faces 9-year sentence | The Record from Recorded Future News
      • US reportedly releases Russian cybercrime figure Alexander Vinnik in prisoner swap | The Record from Recorded Future News
      • EXCLUSIVE: A Russia-linked Telegram network is inciting terrorism and is behind hate crimes in the UK – HOPE not hate
      • Remembering David Jorm - fundraising for Mental Health research
      • 1 hr 1 min
      • Risky Biz Soap Box: Run your own open source IDP with Authentik

        In this SoapBox edition of the show Patrick Gray chats to Fletcher Heisler, the CEO of open-source identity provider Authentik.

        The whole idea of Authentik is you can take control of an essential IT and security function: identity. Because Authentik is open source it’s extremely flexible, and if you’re running it yourself, you get to decide where your IDP should sit in your architecture. You can run it on prem if you’re an emergency call centre or you’re operating an airgapped network, or you can spin it up in your cloud environment if you’re a typical enterprise.

        Fletcher talks through the reasons Authentik users are decoupling themselves from the major SaaS Identity Providers, and the flexibility that comes from being able to assemble exactly what you need.

        This episode is also available on Youtube.

        Show notes
          39 min
        • Risky Business #779 -- DOGE staffer linked to The Com

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

          • Musk’s DOGE kid has a history with The Com
          • Paragon fires Italy as a spyware customer
          • Thailand cuts power to scam compounds…
          • … and arrests Phobos/8Base Russian cybercrims
          • The CyberCX DFIR report shows non-U2F MFA is well and truly over
          • And much, much more.
          • This week’s episode is sponsored by Dropzone.AI. They make an AI SOC analysis platform that relieves your analysts of the necessary but tedious work, so they can focus on the value of human insight. Dropzone’s founder and CEO Edward Wu joins to talk about how they approach the problem.

            This episode is also available on Youtube.

            Show notes
            • Teen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’ – Krebs on Security
            • ACLU Warns DOGE’s ‘Unchecked’ Access Could Violate Federal Law | WIRED
            • Lawsuit accuses Trump administration of violating federal information security law | The Record from Recorded Future News
            • The Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk’s DOGE Army | WIRED
            • States prepare privacy lawsuit against DOGE over access to federal data | The Record from Recorded Future News
            • Union groups sue Treasury over giving DOGE access to sensitive data | The Record from Recorded Future News
            • Student group sues Education Department over reported DOGE access to financial aid databases | The Record from Recorded Future News
            • Hackers exploiting bug in popular Trimble Cityworks tool used by local gov’ts | The Record from Recorded Future News
            • DeepSeek iOS app sends data unencrypted to ByteDance-controlled servers - Ars Technica
            • DeepSeek Is a Win for Chinese Hackers - Risky Business
            • Owner of spyware used in alleged WhatsApp breach ends contract with Italy | WhatsApp | The Guardian
            • Another person targeted by Paragon spyware comes forward | TechCrunch
            • Apple fixes security flaw allowing third-party access to locked devices | The Record from Recorded Future News
            • U.S. sanctions bulletproof hosting provider for supplying LockBit infrastructure | CyberScoop
            • Thailand cuts power supply to Myanmar scam hubs | The Record from Recorded Future News
            • 8Base ransomware site taken down as Thai authorities arrest 4 connected to operation | The Record from Recorded Future News
            • Two Russian nationals arrested in takedown of Phobos ransomware infrastructure | The Record from Recorded Future News
            • The Company Man: Binance exec detained in Nigeria breaks his silence | The Record from Recorded Future News
            • Deloitte pays $5M in connection with breach of Rhode Island benefits site | Cybersecurity Dive
            • DFIR - Threat Report 2025 | CyberCX
            • Request a Demo | Dropzone AI
            • 59 min
            • Risky Business #778 -- Musk's child soldiers seize control of FedGov IT systems

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

              • DeepSeek leaves an unauthed database on the internet
              • Russia hacked UK prime minister’s personal mail
              • Australia sanctions a Telegram group… which is more sensible than it sounds
              • Medical device backdoor turns out to be just poorly thought out upgrade feature
              • Google abuses weak hashing to patch AMD CPU microcode
              • And much, much more.
              • This week’s episode is sponsored by email security boffins Sublime. Their co-founder and CEO Josh Kamdjou joins to talk about how attackers’ abuse of legitimate services like Docusign is a challenge for email security vendors.

                This episode is also available on Youtube.

                Show notes
                • Exclusive: Musk aides lock workers out of OPM computer systems | Reuters
                • Wiz Research Uncovers Exposed DeepSeek Database Leaking Sensitive Information, Including Chat History | Wiz Blog
                • Криптостилер SparkCat в магазинах Google Play и App Store | Securelist
                • Russian hackers suspected of compromising British PM’s personal email account | The Record from Recorded Future News
                • PowerSchool hack: missed basic security step resulted in data breach
                • Australia sanctions ‘Terrorgram’ white supremacist online group | The Record from Recorded Future News
                • ‘Paid actors’ could be behind some antisemitic attacks, Albanese says | Australian security and counter-terrorism | The Guardian
                • Interview with James Glenday, ABC News Breakfast | Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs
                • WhatsApp says spyware company Paragon Solutions targeted journalists
                • Spyware maker Paragon confirms US government is a customer | TechCrunch
                • Former Polish justice minister arrested in sprawling spyware probe | The Record from Recorded Future News
                • Sweden releases suspected ship, says cable break ‘clearly’ not sabotage | The Record from Recorded Future News
                • Backdoor found in two healthcare patient monitors, linked to IP in China
                • Attackers exploit zero-day vulnerability in Zyxel CPE devices | Cybersecurity Dive
                • AMD: Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability · Advisory · google/security-research · GitHub
                • 22-year-old math wiz indicted for alleged DeFI hack that stole $65M - Ars Technica
                • A method to assess 'forgivable' vs 'unforgivable'... - NCSC.GOV.UK
                • Living Off the Land: Credential Phishing via Docusign abuse
                • Living Off the Land: Callback Phishing via Docusign comment
                • B2B freight-forwarding scams on the rise to evade financial fraud crackdowns
                • Callback phishing via invoice abuse and distribution list relays
                • Enhanced message groups: Improving efficiency in email incident response
                • 57 min
                • Risky Business #777 -- It's SonicWall's turn

                  Coming to you from the same room in Risky Business headquarters Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They talk through:

                  • Sonicwall firewalls hand out remote code exec like candy
                  • Mastercard make a slapstick-grade mistake with their DNS
                  • The data breach at PowerSchool and other niche SaaS providers
                  • Academic research proposes taking down Europe’s power grid
                  • Apple CPUs get a new speculative execution side channel
                  • And much, much more.
                  • This week’s episode is sponsored by Push Security, who make an identity security product that runs inside browsers. Luke Jennings joins to discuss some of the pitfalls of federated authentication, like attackers using unexpected identity providers to log in to your apps.

                    This episode is also available on Youtube.

                    Show notes
                    • SonicWall warns hackers targeting critical vulnerability in SMA 1000 series appliances | Cybersecurity Dive
                    • MasterCard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years – Krebs on Security
                    • Data breach hitting PowerSchool looks very, very bad - Ars Technica
                    • OpenAI rival DeepSeek limits registration after ‘large-scale malicious attacks’ | The Record from Recorded Future News
                    • Hackers imitate Kremlin-linked group to target Russian entities | The Record from Recorded Future News
                    • UK to examine undersea cable vulnerability as Russian spy ship spotted in British waters | The Record from Recorded Future News
                    • Questions grow over whether Baltic Sea cable damage was sabotage or accidental | The Record from Recorded Future News
                    • Researchers say new attack could take down the European power grid - Ars Technica
                    • At least $69 million stolen from crypto platform Phemex in suspected cyberattack | The Record from Recorded Future News
                    • BreachForums admin to be resentenced after appeals court slams supervised release | The Record from Recorded Future News
                    • Apple chips can be hacked to leak secrets from Gmail, iCloud, and more - Ars Technica
                    • Apple fixes zero-day flaw affecting all devices | TechCrunch
                    • I’m Lovin’ It: Exploiting McDonald’s APIs to hijack deliveries and order food for a penny
                    • Government websites vanish under Trump, from the Constitution to DEI
                    • Trail of Bits: Director, Technical Marketing
                    • Push Security: Security Researcher (remote in the USA)
                    • A new class of phishing: Verification phishing and cross-IdP impersonation
                    • 52 min
                    • Risky Business #776 -- Trump will flex American cyber muscles

                      Risky Business returns for its 19th year! Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news and there is a whole bunch of it. They discuss:

                      • The incoming Trump administration guts the CSRB
                      • Biden’s last cyber Executive Order has sensible things in it
                      • China’s breach of the US Treasury gets our reluctant admiration
                      • Ross Ulbricht - the Dread Pirate Roberts of Silk Road fame - gets his Trump pardon
                      • New year, same shameful comedy Forti- and Ivanti- bugs
                      • US soldier behind the Snowflake hacks faces charges after a solid Krebs-ing
                      • And much, much (much! after a month off) more.
                      • This week’s episode is sponsored by Sandfly Security, who make a Linux EDR solution. Founder Craig Rowland joins to talk about how the Linux ecosystem struggles with its lack of standardised approaches to detection and response. If you’ve got a telco full of unix, and people are asking how much Salt Typhoon you’ve got in there… Sandfly’s tools are probably what you’re looking for.

                        If you like your Business like us… - Risky - then we’re hiring! We’re looking for someone to help with audio and video production for our work, manage our socials, and if you’re also into the Cybers… even better. Position is remote, with a preference for timezones amenable to Australia/NZ. Drop us a line: editorial at risky.biz.

                        This episode is also available on Youtube.

                        Show notes
                        • POLITICO Pro | Article | Acting DHS chief ousts CSRB experts, other department advisers
                        • Treasury’s sanctions office hacked by Chinese government, officials say
                        • Strengthening America’s Resilience Against the PRC Cyber Threats | CISA
                        • AT&T, Verizon say they evicted Salt Typhoon from their networks
                        • Risky Bulletin: Looking at Biden's last cyber executive order - Risky Business
                        • Internet-connected devices can now have a label that rates their security | Reuters
                        • US sanctions prominent Chinese cyber company for role in Flax Typhoon attacks
                        • FCC ‘rip and replace’ provision for Chinese tech tops cyber provisions in defense bill
                        • CIA nominee tells Senate he, too, wants to go on cyber offense | CyberScoop
                        • Trump tells Justice Department not to enforce TikTok ban for 75 days
                        • Judge rules NSO Group is liable for spyware hacks targeting 1,400 WhatsApp user devices | The Record from Recorded Future News
                        • Unpacking WhatsApp’s Legal Triumph Over NSO Group | Lawfare
                        • Time to check if you ran any of these 33 malicious Chrome extensions
                        • Console Chaos: A Campaign Targeting Publicly Exposed Management Interfaces on Fortinet FortiGate Firewalls - Arctic Wolf
                        • Ongoing attacks on Ivanti VPNs install a ton of sneaky, well-written malware
                        • Researchers warn of active exploitation of critical Apache Struts 2 flaw
                        • DOJ deletes China-linked PlugX malware off more than 4,200 US computers
                        • Russian internet provider confirms its network was ‘destroyed’ following attack claimed by Ukrainian hackers | The Record from Recorded Future News
                        • Ukraine restores state registers after suspected Russian cyberattack | The Record from Recorded Future News
                        • Hackers claim to breach Russian state agency managing property, land records | The Record from Recorded Future News
                        • U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions – Krebs on Security
                        • 1 hr 4 min
                        • Risky Biz Soap Box: Cool compliance tricks with the Island enterprise browser

                          In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the show Patrick Gray talks to Island CEO Michael Fey about some of the cool tricks in the Island enterprise browser. You can use it to tick off so many compliance boxes, and not just cybersecurity boxes.

                          This is largely a conversation about compliance, but it’s actually interesting and fun. These are words we never thought we’d type!

                          You can find Island at https://island.io/

                          This episode is also available on Youtube.

                          Show notes
                            27 min
                          • Risky Business #775 -- Cl0p is back, SEC hack disclosures disappoint

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

                            • The SEC’s cyber incident reporting isn’t very exciting after all
                            • China Telecom on the way to being thrown out of the US
                            • The NSA/Cybercom might get two separate hats
                            • The Cl0p ransomware crew are back and taking responsibility for the Cleo hacks
                            • (Yet another) File upload bug in Struts makes Java admins weep
                            • And much, much more.
                            • This episode is sponsored by SpecterOps, who run a pretty top notch offsec/pentest team when they’re not busy making the Bloodhound Enterprise identity attack path enumeration software. SpecterOps’ Robby Winchester joins to talk about how pentest has changed, and how their customers get value from their testing.

                              This episode is also available Youtube.

                              Show notes
                              • SEC cyber incident reporting rule generates 71 filings in 11 months | Cybersecurity Dive
                              • US senators, green groups call for accountability over hacking of Exxon critics | Reuters
                              • Biden Administration Takes First Step to Retaliate Against China Over Hack - The New York Times
                              • Unfinished business for Trump: Ending the Cyber Command and NSA 'dual hat' | The Record from Recorded Future News
                              • EU opens investigation into TikTok and the Romanian election – POLITICO
                              • Clop ransomware claims responsibility for Cleo data theft attacks
                              • CISA warns of ransomware gangs exploiting Cleo, CyberPanel bugs | The Record from Recorded Future News
                              • CVE-2024-55956 | AttackerKB
                              • Apache issues patches for critical Struts 2 RCE bug • The Register
                              • Japanese game and anime publisher reportedly pays $3 million ransom to Russia-linked hackers | The Record from Recorded Future News
                              • Israeli spyware firm Paragon acquired by US investment group, report says | Reuters
                              • How Cryptocurrency Turns to Cash in Russian Banks – Krebs on Security
                              • Arizona man arrested for alleged involvement in violent online terror networks | CyberScoop
                              • Russia bans Viber, claiming app facilitates terrorism and drug trafficking | The Record from Recorded Future News
                              • 1 hr 2 min
                              • Wide World of Cyber: SentinelOne's Chris Krebs on Chinese cyber operations

                                In this edition of the Wild World of Cyber podcast Patrick Gray sits down with SentinelOne’s Chief Intelligence and Public Policy Officer Chris Krebs to talk all about Chinese cyber operations.

                                They look at the Salt Typhoon and Volt Typhoon campaigns, the last 20 years of Chinese operations, and the evolution of the cyber roles of China’s Ministry of State Security and People’s Liberation Army.

                                It’s a very dense hour of conversation!

                                This podcast was recorded in front of an audience at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.

                                This episode is also available on Youtube.

                                Show notes
                                  51 min
                                • Risky Business #774 -- Cleo file transfer appliances under widespread attack

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

                                  • Cleo file transfer products have a remote code exec, here we go again!
                                  • Snowflake phases out password-based auth
                                  • Chinese Sophos-exploit-dev company gets sanctioned
                                  • Romania’s election gets rolled back after Tiktok changed the outcome
                                  • AMD’s encrypted VM tech bamboozled by RAM with one extra address bit
                                  • Some cool OpenWRT research
                                  • And much, much more.
                                  • This week’s episode is sponsored by Thinkst, who love sneaky canary token traps. Jacob Torrey previews an upcoming Blackhat talk filled with interesting operating system tricks you can use to trigger canaries in your environment. You wont believe the third trick! Attackers hate him!

                                    This episode is also available on Youtube.

                                    Show notes
                                    • Cleo Software Actively Being Exploited in the Wild CVE-2024-50623 | Huntress
                                    • Blue Yonder investigating data leak claim following ransomware attack | Cybersecurity Dive
                                    • Snowflake to phase out single-factor authentication by late 2025 | Cybersecurity Dive
                                    • Treasury Sanctions Cybersecurity Company Involved in Compromise of Firewall Products and Attempted Ransomware Attacks | U.S. Department of the Treasury
                                    • Another teenage hacker charged as feds continue Scattered Spider crackdown | The Record from Recorded Future News
                                    • Germany arrests suspected admin of country’s largest criminal marketplace | The Record from Recorded Future News
                                    • FCC, for first time, proposes cybersecurity rules tied to wiretapping law | CyberScoop
                                    • Russian state hackers abuse Cloudflare services to spy on Ukrainian targets | The Record from Recorded Future News
                                    • Cloudflare’s pages.dev and workers.dev Domains Increasingly Abused for
                                    • Romania annuls presidential election over alleged Russian interference | The Record from Recorded Future News
                                    • EU demands TikTok 'freeze and preserve data' over alleged Russian interference in Romanian elections | The Record from Recorded Future News
                                    • Research Note: Meta’s Role in Romania’s 2024 Presidential Election - CheckFirst
                                    • Key electricity distributor in Romania warns of ‘cyber attack in progress’ | The Record from Recorded Future News
                                    • Backdoor slipped into popular code library, drains ~$155k from digital wallets - Ars Technica
                                    • AMD’s trusted execution environment blown wide open by new BadRAM attack - Ars Technica
                                    • New dog, old tricks: DaMAgeCard attack targets memory directly thru SD card reader – PT SWARM
                                    • Telegram partners with child safety group to scan content for sexual abuse material
                                    • Apple hit with $1.2B lawsuit after killing controversial CSAM-detecting tool - Ars Technica
                                    • Compromising OpenWrt Supply Chain via Truncated SHA-256 Collision and Command Injection - Flatt Security Research
                                    • How do I turn on the Do Not Track feature? | Firefox Help
                                    • 1 hr 3 min

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