Risky Business (829): Sneaky lobsters: Why AI is the new insider threat

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

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

  • Iran’s Intune-based wiper attack on medical device maker Stryker
  • Qihoo 360’s AI publishes its own wildcard TLS cert private key
  • Instagram is canning its end-to-end encrypted messaging
  • What’s going on with mobile internet access in Moscow?
  • The Xbox One’s bootloader gets voltage glitched into submission
  • Oh Qualys! We love you! (At least, whoever is in the basement writing these beautiful .txt files…)

This week’s episode is sponsored by browser-based detection and response company, Push Security. Researcher Dan Green and Field CTO Mark Orlando join Pat to talk through the InstallFix variant of the *Fix attack technique.

Show Notes:

Iranian Hacktivists Strike Medical Device Maker Stryker in “Severe” Attack that Wiped Systems https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/iranian-hacktivists-strike-medical-device-maker-stryker-in-severe-attack-that-wiped-systems/

Stryker says it’s restoring systems after pro-Iran hackers wiped thousands of employee devices | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/17/stryker-says-its-restoring-systems-after-pro-iran-hackers-wiped-thousands-of-employee-devices/

Stryker attack raises concerns about role of device management tool | Cybersecurity Dive https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/stryker-attack-device-management-microsoft-iran/814816/

Stryker tells SEC that timeline for recovery from cyberattack unknown | The Record from Recorded Future News https://therecord.media/stryker-tells-sec-unknown-timeline-recovery

How ‘Handala’ Became the Face of Iran’s Hacker Counterattacks | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/handala-hacker-group-iran-us-israel-war/

U.S Strikes Killed Iranian Cyber Chiefs, But The Hacks Continued https://www.forbes.com/sites/the-wiretap/2026/03/17/us-strikes-killed-iranian-cyber-chiefs-but-the-hacks-continued/

Risky Business Features: Being a Wartime CISO https://risky.biz/RBFEATURES4/

Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/03/supply-chain-attack-using-invisible-code-hits-github-and-other-repositories/

China’s biggest cybersecurity company, Qihoo 360 just leaked their own wildcard SSL private key https://x.com/intcyberdigest/status/2033547961976639890

Emergent Cyber Behavior: When AI Agents Become Offensive Threat Actors - Irregular https://www.irregular.com/publications/emergent-offensive-cyber-behavior-in-ai-agents

Risky Business Features: MCP is Dead https://risky.biz/RBFEATURES7

Measuring AI Agents’ Progress on Multi-Step Cyber Attack Scenarios https://www.aisi.gov.uk/research/measuring-ai-agents-progress-on-multi-step-cyber-attack-scenarios

Measuring AI Agents’ Progress on Multi-Step Cyber Attack Scenarios https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.11214

What is end-to-end encryption on Instagram | Instagram Help Center https://help.instagram.com/491565145294150

US Lawmakers Move to Kill the FBI’s Warrantless Wiretap Access | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/us-lawmakers-move-to-kill-the-fbis-warrantless-wiretap-access/

Website “whitelists” launched in Moscow | Forbes.ru https://www.forbes.ru/tekhnologii/557184-v-moskve-zarabotali-belye-spiski-sajtov

Exclusive: Foreign hacker in 2023 compromised Epstein files held by FBI, source and documents show | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/us/foreign-hacker-2023-compromised-epstein-files-held-by-fbi-source-documents-show-2026-03-11/

Feds say another DigitalMint negotiator ran ransomware attacks and helped extort $75 million | CyberScoop https://cyberscoop.com/digitalmint-ransomware-negotiator-arrest-angelo-martino-extortion/

Researchers disclose vulnerabilities in IP KVMs from four manufacturers - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/03/researchers-disclose-vulnerabilities-in-ip-kvms-from-4-manufacturers/

RE//verse 2026: Hacking the Xbox One by Markus ‘doom’ Gaasedelen - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTFn4UZsA5U

CrackArmor: Multiple vulnerabilities in AppArmor https://cdn2.qualys.com/advisory/2026/03/10/crack-armor.txt