Risky Business #810 -- Data extortion attacks have a silver lining

Presented by

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Co-host at large

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

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

  • FBI intervenes in Scattered Spider Salesforce leaksite
  • Clop loots Oracle E-Biz deployments
  • Plus so much more data extortion.. At least it’s not ransomware … we guess?
  • The US still can’t decide who’s gonna be in charge of NSA & Cybercom
  • Cambodian scam compounds get sanctioned and $15b in crypto is seized
  • NSO gets sold for pocket-lint-grade money
  • Bugs! Redis CVSS 10, Ivanti, Crowdstrike and… Internet Explorer?! zeroday?! In the wild?!!!?

This week’s episode is sponsored by Stairwell. Founder Mike Wiacek talks about how Stairwell brings VirusTotal-like visibility to private files, and about integrating the insights that brings into your SOC workflow.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Risky Business #810 -- Data extortion attacks have a silver lining
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Show notes

FBI takedown banner appears on BreachForums site as Scattered Spider promotes leak | The Record from Recorded Future News

Dozens of Oracle customers impacted by Clop data theft for extortion campaign | CyberScoop

Well, Well, Well. It’s Another Day. (Oracle E-Business Suite Pre-Auth RCE Chain - CVE-2025-61882)

Clop is a Big Fish, But Not Worth Hunting - Risky Business Media

ShinyHunters Wage Broad Corporate Extortion Spree – Krebs on Security

The company Discord blamed for its recent breach says it wasn't hacked

Qantas confirms cybercriminals released stolen customer data | The Record from Recorded Future News

Red Hat confirms breach of GitLab instance, which stored company’s consulting data | CyberScoop

Risky Bulletin: Microsoft revamps Edge's "IE Mode" after zero-day attacks - Risky Business Media

Teenagers arrested in England over cyberattack on nursery chain Kido | The Record from Recorded Future News

Acting US Cyber Command, NSA chief won’t be nominated for the job, sources say | The Record from Recorded Future News

Layoffs, reassignments further deplete CISA | Cybersecurity Dive

Trump’s scandalous directive to AG Pam Bondi reached the public by accident

Feds sanction Cambodian conglomerate over cyber scams, seize $15 billion from chairman | The Record from Recorded Future News

US Congress committee investigating Musk-owned Starlink over Myanmar scam centres | Myanmar | The Guardian

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data | WIRED

Netherlands invokes special powers against Chinese-owned semiconductor company Nexperia | The Record from Recorded Future News

Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors | TechCrunch

Apple Announces $2 Million Bug Bounty Reward for the Most Dangerous Exploits | WIRED

Wiz Finds Critical Redis RCE Vulnerability: CVE‑2025‑49844 | Wiz Blog

SonicWall admits attacker accessed all customer firewall configurations stored on cloud portal | CyberScoop

SonicWall SSLVPN devices compromised using valid credentials | Cybersecurity Dive

Issues Affecting CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor for Windows

ZDI Drops 13 Unpatched Ivanti Endpoint Manager Vulnerabilities - SecurityWeek

Jaguar Land Rover launches phased restart at factories after cyber-attack | Jaguar Land Rover | The Guardian

Windows 10 support ends today — here's who's affected and what you need to do