Risky Business Podcast
October 01, 2025
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
Chinese scammer pleads guilty after UK seizes nearly $7 billion in bitcoin
Tile trackers are a stalker's dream, say Georgia Tech researchers
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
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