Risky Business #845 -- OpenAI's Skynet moment

Presented by

James Wilson
James Wilson

Technology Editor

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

On this week’s show special guest co-host Chris Krebs joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:

  • Oopsie daisy! OpenAI agents went rogue and hacked Hugging Face
  • US and China trade AI model ban threats
  • Iran has been using SS7 queries to locate and target US troops
  • Scattered Spider is having a hard time, not just because of Microsoft’s GDID
  • And much, much more!

This week’s show is brought to you by Push Security. Luke Jennings joins Patrick this week to talk about the rise in authorisation phishing, like device code phishing, and what companies like Push are doing about it.

This episode is also available on YouTube.

Risky Business #845 -- OpenAI's Skynet moment
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Show notes

OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation | openai.com

Security incident disclosure — July 2026 | Social Signals

Hugging Face confirms breach affected internal datasets and credentials, urges users to take action | TechCrunch Security

Cheating behaviour in frontier model evaluations | AISI Work | Social Signals

JADEPUFFER: Agentic ransomware for automated database extortion | Sysdig | Social Signals

Secret Claude tracker shocks users after Anthropic's anti-surveillance stance | Ars Technica

EXCLUSIVE: Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say | reuters.com

https://www.axios.com/2026/07/20/ai-us-china-open-source-kimi |

Alibaba to ban employees from using Anthropic's coding tool, source says | reuters.com

Iran abused mobile networks’ vulnerabilities to locate U.S. military in the Middle East, report says | TechCrunch Security

Apps Marketed to US Troops Are Shipping Chinese and Russian Code | wired.com

Trump calls for new election security measures | NBC News Tech

Scattered Spider hackers sentenced to 5.5 years over £29 million Transport for London hack | therecord.media

Alleged longstanding member of Scattered Spider extradited to US | CyberScoop

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/media/1450651/dl?inline |

Tracking Peter Stokes and The Com: Allison Nixon and Her Work Unmasking Cybercriminals | zetter-zeroday.com

764 splinter group leader sentenced to 40 years in jail | cyberscoop.com

Interpol cybercrime crackdown nets 5,800 arrests across 97 countries | cyberscoop.com

White House details ‘Gold Eagle’ clearinghouse for AI cyber threats | cyberscoop.com

Attackers vote themselves $20 million in BONK cryptocurrency | The Record

CISA: Microsoft SharePoint RCE flaw now actively exploited | BleepingComputer

Critical SharePoint RCE flaw exploited to steal machine keys | BleepingComputer

Hackers are exploiting recently patched WordPress bugs, putting millions of websites at risk | TechCrunch Security

Critical ServiceNow code execution flaw now exploited in attacks | BleepingComputer

Critical Palo Alto VPN bug now exploited by Qilin ransomware gang | BleepingComputer

Anubis ransomware claims Coca-Cola Fairlife attack, threatens data leak | BleepingComputer

IPhone Hacking Firm Sues Ex-Worker Over Alleged Theft of Secrets | bloomberg.com

Apple says former employee exploited ‘rare’ bug to download confidential files after leaving for OpenAI | TechCrunch Security

Pegasus Spyware European Parliament Pega Committee Member | The Record

Amazon fixing bug that billed some AWS customers billions of dollars | TechCrunch Security

Risky Bulletin: Hacker wipes Romania's entire land registry database - Risky Business Media | Social Signals

Microsoft Entra ID gets passkeys default authentication starting September | BleepingComputer

On-demand Webinar: Device code phishing in 2026 | Push Security | Push Security