Risky Business Podcast

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

• Github Actions supply chain attack loots keys and secrets from 23k projects
• Why a VC fund now owns a minority stake in Risky Business Media (!?!?)
• China doxes Taiwanese military hackers
• Microsoft thinks .lnk file whitespace trick isn’t worth patching but APTs sure love it
• CISA delivers government efficiency by re-hiring fired staff… to put them on paid leave
• …and Google acquires Wiz for $32bn

This week’s show is sponsored by Zero Networks, and they have sent along a happy customer to talk about their experience. Aaron Steinke is Head of Infrastructure at La Trobe Financial, an asset management firm in Australia. Aaron talks through bringing modern zero-trust goodness to the reality of a technology environment that’s been around 40 years.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news with special guest Rob Joyce, a Former Special Assistant to the US President and Director of Cybersecurity for NSA.

They talk through:

• A realistic bluetooth-proximity phishing attack against Passkeys
• A very patient ransomware actor encrypts an entire enterprise with a puny linux webcam processor
• The ESP32 backdoor that is neither a door nor at the back
• The X DDoS that Elon said was Ukraine is claimed by pro-Palestinian hacktivists
• Years later, LastPass hackers are still emptying crypto-wallets
• …and it turns out North Korea nailed {Safe}Wallet with a malicious docker image. Nice!

Rob Joyce recently testified to the US House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, and he explains why DOGE kicking probationary employees to the curb is “devastating” for the national security staff pipeline.

This week’s episode is sponsored by SpecterOps, makers of the BloodHound identity attack path mapping tool. Chief Product Officer Justin Kohler and Principal Security Researcher Lee Chagolla-Christensen discuss their pragmatic approach to disabling NTLM authentication in Active Directory using BloodHound’s insight.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

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

• Did the US decide to stop caring about Russian cyber, or not?
• Adam stans hard for North Korea’s massive ByBit crypto-theft
• Cellebrite firing Serbia is an example of the system working
• Starlink keeps scam compounds in Myanmar running
• Biggest DDoS botnet yet pushes over 6Tbps

This week’s episode is sponsored by network visibility company Corelight. Vincent Stoffer, field CTO at Corelight joins to talk through where eyes on your network can spot attackers like Salt and Volt Typhoon.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

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

• North Korea pulls off a 1.5 billion dollar crypto heist
• Apple pulls Advanced Data Protection from the UK
• Black Basta ransomware gang’s internal chats leak
• Russians snoop on Signal with QR codes
• And Myanmar ships thousands of freed scam compound workers to Thailand

Regular guest Lina Lau joins to discuss her work reading Chinese incident response reports on WeChat, and how that has people thinking that … she outed the NSA?

This week’s episode is sponsored by Airlock Digital, and allow-listing tragics Daniel Schell and David Cottingham are along with an amusing tale of using Windows’ own allow-listing software to block EDR from loading.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

In this episode of the Wide World of Cyber podcast Risky Business host Patrick Gray chats with SentinelOne’s Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos about AI, DeepSeek, and regulation.

From its bad transport security to its Chinese ownership and the economic implications of China “entering the chat”, everyone’s freaking out over this new model. But should they be?

Pat, Alex and Chris dissect the model’s significance, the politics of it all and how AI regulation in Europe, the US and China will shape the future of LLMs.

This episode is also available on [Youtube](

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

• Australian spooks scrubbed Medibank data off Zservers bulletproof hosting
• Why device code phishing is the latest trick in confusing poor users about cloud authentication
• Cloudflare gets blocked in Spain, but only on weekends and because of… football?
• Palo Alto has yet another dumb bug
• Adam gushes about Qualys’ latest OpenSSH vulns

Enterprise browser maker Island is this week’s sponsor and Chief Customer Officer Bradon Rogers joins the show to talk about how the adoption of AI everywhere is causing headaches.

In this SoapBox edition of the show Patrick Gray chats to Fletcher Heisler, the CEO of open-source identity provider Authentik.

The whole idea of Authentik is you can take control of an essential IT and security function: identity. Because Authentik is open source it’s extremely flexible, and if you’re running it yourself, you get to decide where your IDP should sit in your architecture. You can run it on prem if you’re an emergency call centre or you’re operating an airgapped network, or you can spin it up in your cloud environment if you’re a typical enterprise.

Fletcher talks through the reasons Authentik users are decoupling themselves from the major SaaS Identity Providers, and the flexibility that comes from being able to assemble exactly what you need.

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

• Musk’s DOGE kid has a history with The Com
• Paragon fires Italy as a spyware customer
• Thailand cuts power to scam compounds…
• … and arrests Phobos/8Base Russian cybercrims
• The CyberCX DFIR report shows non-U2F MFA is well and truly over
• And much, much more.

This week’s episode is sponsored by Dropzone.AI. They make an AI SOC analysis platform that relieves your analysts of the necessary but tedious work, so they can focus on the value of human insight. Dropzone’s founder and CEO Edward Wu joins to talk about how they approach the problem.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

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

• DeepSeek leaves an unauthed database on the internet
• Russia hacked UK prime minister’s personal mail
• Australia sanctions a Telegram group… which is more sensible than it sounds
• Medical device backdoor turns out to be just poorly thought out upgrade feature
• Google abuses weak hashing to patch AMD CPU microcode
• And much, much more.

This week’s episode is sponsored by email security boffins Sublime. Their co-founder and CEO Josh Kamdjou joins to talk about how attackers’ abuse of legitimate services like Docusign is a challenge for email security vendors.

Coming to you from the same room in Risky Business headquarters Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They talk through:

• Sonicwall firewalls hand out remote code exec like candy
• Mastercard make a slapstick-grade mistake with their DNS
• The data breach at PowerSchool and other niche SaaS providers
• Academic research proposes taking down Europe’s power grid
• Apple CPUs get a new speculative execution side channel
• And much, much more.

This week’s episode is sponsored by Push Security, who make an identity security product that runs inside browsers. Luke Jennings joins to discuss some of the pitfalls of federated authentication, like attackers using unexpected identity providers to log in to your apps.

This episode is also available on Youtube.