Risky Business #859 -- ARTEX damage approaches crisis levels

Presented by

James Wilson
James Wilson

Technology Editor

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest co-host Chris Krebs to talk through the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

  • Everyone’s using the ARTEX pentesting framework to hack the planet and it has the makings of an actual crisis
  • The French government attributes freezer hacks to Iran’s IRGC
  • Rob Joyce was right and the breachpocalypse has exhausted global IR resources
  • The White House has nominated Palintir’s CISO to lead CISA. It’s certainly a choice!
  • Much, much more!

This week’s show is brought to you by SpecterOps. Consultant Raj Patel joins Patrick Gray to talk through his work in finding some serious weaknesses that made NTLM relay attacks practical again. Raj used OpenAI LLMs to bypass that SMB signing and come up with some unnatural ldap tricks as well. Those techniques are now patched, but Raj learned a lot about parallel discovery in the AI age.

This episode is also available on YouTube

Risky Business #859 -- ARTEX damage approaches crisis levels
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Show notes

WorkOS says attacker used ARTEX AI to breach internal sales app

Russia's AI-powered hacks are causing chaos in Ukraine

Microsoft November 2026 Patch Tuesday

OpenAI says GPT-6 Cyber found 81 Firefox flaws and 948 Linux bugs

Attacker abuses Microsoft Entra ID to target downstream MSP clients

Pat Opet (@patopet) on X

Hackers enlist Artex to scan GitHub repositories for exposed secrets

Nearly 1.5 million exposed secrets targeted in new revocation program

ARTEX exposed hosts

Claude Code settings files expose thousands of secrets on GitHub

Chainalysis breach

AI-fueled hacking is getting worse — top cyber companies are turning away some victims

SI impersonation fraud indictment (Soall, Hazan, Sheetrit)

Cyberattack disrupts blood-storage refrigeration systems in France

FBI and CISA warn of cyberattacks targeting refrigeration systems

France blames Iran for fridge cyberattacks, says some caused fires

Lesley Carhart - Let’s Talk About Why all This OT Stuff is Connected

OpenSSH flaw lets attackers log into password-disabled Linux accounts

GhostMap: The Android flaw that crashes your phone before you open the app Labs

Want to Rent an Internet Address at the White House?

French bank confirms cyber heist, hackers suspected to have stolen an estimated $133 million

GOPAX suspends withdrawals and trading following hacking threats

FBI agent pleads guilty to stealing $2.4 million in crypto from nation-state hackers

What Democratic control of Congress means for cybersecurity

Palantir exec nominated to lead CISA; lame-duck Senate vote is uncertain

Japan announces emergency cybersecurity package following a wave of attacks

Iris Ohyama data cloud breach exposes info of 7.7 million customers

APT29 watering hole (Plerdy, America250)

Pro-Russian hackers target European officials, offer rewards for personal information

Nvidia probes whether Chinese intelligence targeted its CEO

The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) on X

NTLM relay made new again!