Risky Business Podcast
April 29, 2026
Risky Business #835 -- Why the Fast16 malware is badass
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On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest-host Dmitri Alperovitch. They discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
- The US government is mad as hell about Chinese firms stealing American AI technology
- Dmitri has an opinion or two about the US selling Nvidia chips to China
- Speaking of Chinese AI, Kimi’s new 2.6 is very interesting
- The US sanctions a Cambodian senator for earning mega bucks through scam compounds
- And a ransomware family is promoting itself as being … quantum-safe?
This week’s show is sponsored by Trail of Bits. CEO and co-founder Dan Guido chats to Pat about how private inference works and Trail of Bits’ audit of WhatsApp’s private AI setup.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
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Show notes
moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 · Hugging Face
Discord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic’s Mythos | WIRED
Mystery Around Venezuelan Cyberattack Deepens, with New Discovery of "Highly Destructive" Wiper
Risky Business #819 -- Venezuela (credibly?!) blames USA for wiper attack - Risky Business Media
AI Tools Are Helping Mediocre North Korean Hackers Steal Millions | WIRED
US, UK authorities warn that Firestarter backdoor malware survives patching | Cybersecurity Dive
UK regulator closes loophole that allowed rogue companies to track phone users' location | Reuters
Vercel says some of its customers' data was stolen prior to its recent hack | TechCrunch
Supply Chain Security Incident Update
Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones | TechCrunch
One ransomware crew now drives half of all cyber claims: At-Bay | Insurance Business
In a first, a ransomware family is confirmed to be quantum-safe - Ars Technica
What we learned about TEE security from auditing WhatsApp's Private Inference