Risky Business Podcast
September 16, 2026
Risky Business #853 -- We're all gonna die, apparently
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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by former US Cyber Command executive director turned PwC’s Cyber, Data & Technology Risk leader Morgan Adamski to talk through the week’s news, including:
- More tech guys penned more open letters and AI will destroy us all!
- Another Wednesday, another congregation of OpenAI agents on wikis… yawn
- OpenAI agents were behind the headscratching RubyGems hacking campaign in May
- The FBI will disrupt more adversary operations, NSA is creating more mission centres, lawmakers want sanctions on hackers-for-hire… Release more hounds!
- So many platforms, so many bugs, so many patches breaking other stuff
- Much, much more…
This week’s show is brought to you by Airlock Digital. Its co-founders Daniel Schell and David Cottingham join Patrick to talk about how Airlock has integrated itself with Crowdstrike via its Falcon Foundry platform.
This episode is also available on YouTube
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Show notes
Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier | Social Signals
China spy chief points at US AI models in cyber threat warning | therecord.media
Weixin Official Accounts Platform |
Trump calls concerns over A.I. destroying humanity a “hoax” | NBC News Tech
Dr_Gingerballs (@Dr_Gingerballs) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
Sam Altman backs Anthropic CEO's call to slow down the global AI race | NBC News
Anthropic: Detecting and countering misuse of AI, September 2026 | anthropic.com
AI lets small actors run state-level hacking campaigns, Anthropic report finds | cyberscoop.com
Users in Houthi-held Yemen tried to develop advanced weapons with AI, Anthropic says | apnews.com
Anthropic caught Russia-linked spies using Claude in hacking operations | therecord.media
Researchers say OpenAI agents were behind May hacking campaign targeting RubyGems | cyberscoop.com
Hackers exploit Tencent app flaw to deploy GrayRabbit malware | BleepingComputer
New FBI cyber strategy promises increase in adversary disruptions | Cybersecurity Dive
US disrupts Xinbi Guarantee marketplace fueling the cyber scam economy | therecord.media
Lawmakers call on Treasury to sanction hackers-for-hire | cyberscoop.com
CISA: WatchGuard RCE flaw now exploited in ransomware attacks | BleepingComputer
Dutch NCSC: Critical Check Point VPN flaws exploitation is imminent | BleepingComputer
GitLab’s critical flaw is already drawing internet-wide probes | cyberscoop.com
Cisco warns customers of actively exploited zero-day in email gateways | cyberscoop.com
4 groups caught using the same Chrome and Windows exploit kit | Ars Technica
September Windows Server updates break Remote Desktop Services | BleepingComputer
Microsoft confirms KB5002914 Excel update breaks copy and paste | BleepingComputer
Microsoft: September updates break audio on some Windows PCs | BleepingComputer
ClickFix attacks infecting PCs and Macs are going viral | arstechnica.com
Passkey-themed phishing attacks lead to Microsoft 365 data theft | BleepingComputer