Risky Business Podcast
April 15, 2026
Risky Business #833 -- The Great Mythos Freakout of 2026
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On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:
- Everyone has an opinion about Claude Mythos… even though almost nobody has used it yet
- CISA adds a 2009 Excel bug to the KEV list, u wot?
- Adobe also parties like it’s the 2000s, and fixes an Acrobat Reader bug
- Disgraced former Trenchant exec Peter Williams’ sob story fails to resonate with … anyone
- Remember those crosswalk buttons hacked to play audio mocking Trump and Zuck? They were “secured” by the password: 1234.
This week’s episode is sponsored by mobile network operator, Cape. Ajit Gokhale talks with James about the ways to get being a telco right when you’re starting from scratch and solving the security problems of 2026.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
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Show notes
The “AI Vulnerability Storm”: Building a “Mythosready” Security Program
Ananay on X: "Marcus Hutchins probably has the best take on Mythos doing vulnerability research"
Charlie Miller on X: "we’ve gone through this before with early fuzzers, afl, etc"
Claude is getting worse, according to Claude • The Register
Your Agent Is Mine: Measuring Malicious Intermediary Attacks on the LLM Supply Chain
OpenAI's Mac apps need updates thanks to the Axios hack | CyberScoop
Hack at Anodot leaves over a dozen breached companies facing extortion | TechCrunch
Snowflake customers hit in data theft attacks after SaaS integrator breach
Booking.com confirms hackers accessed customers’ data
CPUID hijacked to serve malware as HWMonitor downloads • The Register
Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA
Adobe fixes PDF zero-day security bug that hackers have exploited for months | TechCrunch
FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database
Telegram Is Still Hosting a Sanctioned $21 Billion Crypto Scammer Black Market | WIRED
The Dumbest Hack of the Year Exposed a Very Real Problem | WIRED