Risky Business Podcast

Analysis and news podcasts published weekly

Risky Business #836 -- You can't patch the bugpocalypse

Presented by

James Wilson
James Wilson

Enterprise 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 Brad Arkin. They discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

  • The US Government says we just have to patch faster, but…
  • Bugs in cPanel, MoveIt and all Linux distributions this week show that patching alone isn’t enough
  • James gets mad about lame AI Agent adoption advice from the US and Australian Governments
  • James Kettle and Niels Provos both showed us that any model can find 0day like Mythos
  • And the cyber-assisted theft of cargo results in an astonishing loss of $725 million dollars

This week’s show is sponsored by SpecterOps. Their CTO, Jared Atkinson, chats to Pat about the big changes in the threat landscape, brought about by AI, that are causing a pivot away from detection and remediation, and toward prevention.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Risky Business #836 -- You can't patch the bugpocalypse
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Snake Oilers: Ent AI, Spacewalk and Mondoo

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

In this edition of the Snake Oilers podcast three vendors stop by to pitch the audience on their products:

  • Ent AI: Co-founder Brandon Dixon pitched Ent, an intent-aware, AI-powered endpoint security control.

  • Spacewalk AI: Founders Chris Fuller and Tim Wenzlau pitch Spacewalk, an AI-powered incident response platform.

  • Mondoo: Co-founder Dominik Richter pitches Mondoo, an AI-powered “service as software” in the vulnerability management space.

This episode is also available on YouTube.

Snake Oilers: Ent AI, Spacewalk and Mondoo
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Risky Business #835 -- Why the Fast16 malware is badass

Presented by

James Wilson
James Wilson

Enterprise Technology Editor

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest-host Dmitri Alperovitch. They discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

  • The US government is mad as hell about Chinese firms stealing American AI technology
  • Dmitri has an opinion or two about the US selling Nvidia chips to China
  • Speaking of Chinese AI, Kimi’s new 2.6 is very interesting
  • The US sanctions a Cambodian senator for earning mega bucks through scam compounds
  • And a ransomware family is promoting itself as being … quantum-safe?

This week’s show is sponsored by Trail of Bits. CEO and co-founder Dan Guido chats to Pat about how private inference works and Trail of Bits’ audit of WhatsApp’s private AI setup.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Risky Business #835 -- Why the Fast16 malware is badass
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Risky Business #834 -- Vercel gets owned, Mozilla dumps hundreds of Mythos bugs

Presented by

James Wilson
James Wilson

Enterprise Technology Editor

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

The Grugq
The Grugq

Independent Security Researcher

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest The Grugq. They discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

  • Vercel got owned, and there’s a few infostealer and compromised employee dots to connect
  • Mozilla used Mythos to find 271 bugs, which feels like a sign of the bug-pocalypse
  • Speaking of the bug-pocalypse, is that why NIST is noping out of enriching a bunch of bugs?
  • The NSA is using Mythos even though the government did that whole Anthropic blacklisting thing
  • And DDos attacks hit a couple of smaller-player socials

This week’s episode is sponsored by Permiso. Ian Ahl chats to Pat about the subtle signals Permiso uses to detect ShinyHunters-style activity in cloud and on-prem environments.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Risky Business #834 -- Vercel gets owned, Mozilla dumps hundreds of Mythos bugs
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Risky Business #833 -- The Great Mythos Freakout of 2026

Presented by

James Wilson
James Wilson

Enterprise Technology Editor

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:

  • Everyone has an opinion about Claude Mythos… even though almost nobody has used it yet
  • CISA adds a 2009 Excel bug to the KEV list, u wot?
  • Adobe also parties like it’s the 2000s, and fixes an Acrobat Reader bug
  • Disgraced former Trenchant exec Peter Williams’ sob story fails to resonate with … anyone
  • Remember those crosswalk buttons hacked to play audio mocking Trump and Zuck? They were “secured” by the password: 1234.

This week’s episode is sponsored by mobile network operator, Cape. Ajit Gokhale talks with James about the ways to get being a telco right when you’re starting from scratch and solving the security problems of 2026.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Risky Business #833 -- The Great Mythos Freakout of 2026
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Snake Oilers: Burp AI, Sondera and Truffle Security

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

In this edition of the Snake Oilers podcast three vendors stop by to pitch the audience on their products:

  • Burp AI and DAST: The founder of PortSwigger and creator of legendary security software Burp Suite, Dafydd Stuttard, drops by to pitch listeners on Burp AI and Burp Suite DAST.

  • Sondera: Josh Devon talks about Sondera, a technology designed to intervene when AI models start doing the wrong thing by statefully tracking their trajectories. This isn’t a permissions suite for AI agents, it’s a way to stick agents in a harness and make sure they adhere to hard policy boundaries.

  • Truffle Security: Dylan Ayrey, the founder of Truffle Security, joins Risky Business again to talk through the latest bells and whistles in Trufflehog, a security tool that searches for exposed secrets and validates them. The Truffle team has done a lot of work on the remediation part of their product over the last few years, and Dylan tells us all about it!

This episode is also available on YouTube

Snake Oilers: Burp AI, Sondera and Truffle Security
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Risky Business #832 -- Anthropic unveils magical 0day computer God

Presented by

James Wilson
James Wilson

Enterprise Technology Editor

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:

  • Anthropic’s new Mythos model hunts bugs and chains exploits together so well that… you cant have it…
  • …Unless you’re one of their Project Glasswing partners
  • The world isn’t short on bugs, though. F5, Fortinet, Progress ShareFile, and TrueConf are all getting rekt by humans
  • GPU Rowhammering goes in the GPU, past the IOMMU and back into the host-side Nvidia driver
  • North Korea is spending serious time and money on its crypto hacking
  • Just when the US needs CISA most, they slash its budget some more!

This week’s episode is sponsored by identity verification firm, Persona. Tying digital actions to actual human identities isn’t just for banking know-your-customer any more. Persona’s Benjamin Chait says know-your-staff checks belong in high-value flows inside your organisation, too.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Risky Business #832 -- Anthropic unveils magical 0day computer God
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How the World Got Owned Episode 2: The 1990s, Part One

Presented by

Amberleigh Jack
Amberleigh Jack

Producer and Editor

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

In this special documentary episode, Patrick Gray and Amberleigh Jack take a look back at hacking throughout the 1990s, from the feel-good vibes of the early hacking communities to the antics of young hackers who wound up on the run from the FBI.

Part one features recollections from:

  • Jeff Moss (The Dark Tangent), DefCon and Black Hat founder
  • Chris Wysopal (Weld Pond), L0pht member, co-founder, @Stake
  • Kevin Poulsen (Dark Dante), 1990s hacker turned journalist
  • Elias Levy (Aleph One), author of Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit, Phrack, 1996

How the World Got Owned is produced in partnership with SentinelOne.

How the World Got Owned Episode 2: The 1990s, Part One
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Risky Business #831 -- The AI bugpocalypse begins

Presented by

James Wilson
James Wilson

Enterprise Technology Editor

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:

  • Those pesky North Koreans shim a backdoor into a 100M-downloads-a-week npm package
  • TeamPCP appear to have ransacked Cisco’s source and cloud environments
  • AI is getting legitimately good at being told to “just go find some 0day in this”
  • Kaspersky says Coruna and Triangulation do share code lineage
  • Iranian hackers dump Kash Patel’s gmail spool
  • Oh, and of course there’s a Citrix Netscaler memory leak being exploited in the wild

This week’s episode is sponsored by Dropzone AI, who make automated AI SOC analysts. Head honcho Ed Wu explains how they’ve built pre-canned ‘hunt packs’ to lead the AI off into your environment to find weird, interesting and security relevant things.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Risky Business #831 -- The AI bugpocalypse begins
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Soap Box: Red teaming AI systems with SpecterOps

Presented by

James Wilson
James Wilson

Enterprise Technology Editor

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the show, Patrick Gray and James Wilson talk about red teaming AI systems with Russel Van Tuyl, Vice President of Services at elite penetration testing firm SpecterOps.

SpecterOps is the company behind attack path enumeration tool Bloodhound and Bloodhound Enterprise, but they’re also a pentest and red teaming shop with world class expertise in popping shells on all sorts of interesting systems in all sorts of interesting places.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Soap Box: Red teaming AI systems with SpecterOps
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