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Risky Business #796 -- With special guest co-host Chris Krebs

Presented by

Chris Krebs
Chris Krebs

Funemployed

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau are joined by special guest Chris Krebs to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They talk through:

  • Israeli “hacktivists” take out an Iranian state-owned bank
  • Scattered-spider and friends pivot into attacking insurers
  • Securing identities in a cloud-first world keeps us awake at night
  • Microsoft takes the “aas” out of SaaS for Europe, leaving us with just software!
  • An AI prompt injection into M365 exfils corporate data

This week’s episode is sponsored by Kroll’s Cyber practice. Kroll Cyber Associate Managing Director George Glass is based in London and talks through his experiences helping organisations in the UK deal with the Scattered Spider attacks.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Risky Business #796 -- With special guest co-host Chris Krebs
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Risky Bulletin: Israel-linked hackers claim Iran bank disruption

Presented by

Catalin Cimpanu
Catalin Cimpanu

News Editor

Claire Aird
Claire Aird

Newsreader

An Israeli-linked hacktivist group claims attack on Iranian bank, Chrome gets a new prompt to prevent local network attacks, a Century-old German napkin company goes under following ransomware attack, and Europol takes down the Archetyp dark web market.

Risky Bulletin: Israel-linked hackers claim Iran bank disruption
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Between Two Nerds: Why modern influence operations suck

Presented by

The Grugq
The Grugq

Independent Security Researcher

Tom Uren
Tom Uren

Policy & Intelligence

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq take a look at a new AI-powered covert influence campaign and compare it to World War 2 efforts.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Between Two Nerds: Why modern influence operations suck
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Risky Bulletin: Washington Post email accounts hacked

Presented by

Catalin Cimpanu
Catalin Cimpanu

News Editor

Claire Aird
Claire Aird

Newsreader

Email accounts compromised at the Washington Post, shady email provider Cock.li gets hacked, hackers steal data from a French university, and the EU invests €145 million in hospital cybersecurity.

Risky Bulletin: Washington Post email accounts hacked
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Soap Box: AI has entered the SOC, and it ain't going anywhere

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray chats with Dropzone AI founder Ed Wu about the role of LLMs in the SOC.

The debate about whether AI agents are going to wind up in the SOC is over, they’ve already arrived. But what are they good for? What are they NOT good for? And where else will we see AI popping up in security?

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Soap Box: AI has entered the SOC, and it ain't going anywhere
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Sponsored: Hardening the browser

Presented by

Tom Uren
Tom Uren

Policy & Intelligence

In this Risky Bulletin sponsor interview Michael Leland, Field CTO of Island, talks about how Island manages risks from extensions, phishing and infostealers. Even when credentials are stolen, it is still not game over and there are still ways to prevent data loss and breaches.

Sponsored: Hardening the browser
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Risky Bulletin: Predator spyware alive despite US sanctions

Presented by

Catalin Cimpanu
Catalin Cimpanu

News Editor

Claire Aird
Claire Aird

Newsreader

Intellexa is alive and well despite US sanctions, Paragon spyware used a zero-click iMessage exploit, South Korea’s largest online bookstore gets ransomwared, and law enforcement takes down several cybercrime operations.

Risky Bulletin: Predator spyware alive despite US sanctions
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Srsly Risky Biz: Trump scales back Biden product security demands

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Tom Uren
Tom Uren

Policy & Intelligence

Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about how a Trump executive order has scaled back the government’s cyber security ambitions. The carrots and sticks that would have been used to encourage organisations to adopt stricter security standards are gone.

They also discuss North Korea’s use of AI in its IT worker scam and the emergence of espionage-as-a-service… perhaps.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Srsly Risky Biz: Trump scales back Biden product security demands
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Risky Business #795 -- How The Com is hacking Salesforce tenants

Presented by

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news:

  • New York Times gets a little stolen Russian FSB data as a treat
  • iVerify spots possible evidence of iOS exploitation against the Harris-Walz campaign
  • Researcher figures out a trick to get Google account holders’ full names and phone numbers
  • Major US food distributor gets ransomwared
  • The Com’s social engineering of Salesforce app authorisations is a harbinger of our future problems
  • Australian Navy forgets New Zealand has computers, zaps Kiwis with their giant radar.

This week’s episode is sponsored by identity provider Okta. Long-time friend of the show Alex Tilley is Okta’s Global Threat Research Coordinator, and he joins to discuss how organisations can use both human and technical signals to spot North Koreans in their midst.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Risky Business #795 -- How The Com is hacking Salesforce tenants
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Risky Bulletin: SentinelOne dodges a Chinese APT hack

Presented by

Catalin Cimpanu
Catalin Cimpanu

News Editor

SentinelOne dodges a Chinese APT hack, anonymous sources point to more Salt Typhoon victims, a cyberattack disrupts grocery deliveries in the US, and 140 arrested in Kazakhstan for selling citizens’ data.

Risky Bulletin: SentinelOne dodges a Chinese APT hack
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