Risky Business Weekly (810): Data extortion attacks have a silver lining

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

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

  • FBI intervenes in Scattered Spider Salesforce leaksite
  • Clop loots Oracle E-Biz deployments
  • Plus so much more data extortion.. At least it’s not ransomware … we guess?
  • The US still can’t decide who’s gonna be in charge of NSA & Cybercom
  • Cambodian scam compounds get sanctioned and $15b in crypto is seized
  • NSO gets sold for pocket-lint-grade money
  • Bugs! Redis CVSS 10, Ivanti, Crowdstrike and… Internet Explorer?! zeroday?! In the wild?!!!?

This week’s episode is sponsored by Stairwell. Founder Mike Wiacek talks about how Stairwell brings VirusTotal-like visibility to private files, and about integrating the insights that brings into your SOC workflow.

Show Notes:

FBI takedown banner appears on BreachForums site as Scattered Spider promotes leak https://therecord.media/breachforums-fbi-france-takedown-banner-scattered-spider-salesforce-leak

Oracle customers impacted by Clop data theft for extortion campaign https://cyberscoop.com/oracle-customers-attacks-clop-google-mandiant/

Oracle E-Business Suite Pre-Auth RCE Chain - CVE-2025-61882 https://labs.watchtowr.com/well-well-well-its-another-day-oracle-e-business-suite-pre-auth-rce-chain-cve-2025-61882well-well-well-its-another-day-oracle-e-business-suite-pre-auth-rce-chain-cve-2025-61882/

Clop is a Big Fish, But Not Worth Hunting https://risky.biz/clop-is-a-big-fish-but-not-worth-hunting/

ShinyHunters Wage Broad Corporate Extortion Spree https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/10/shinyhunters-wage-broad-corporate-extortion-spree/

Company Discord blamed for its recent breach says it wasn’t hacked https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/the-company-discord-blamed-for-its-recent-breach-says-it-wasnt-hacked-175536278.html

Qantas confirms cybercriminals released stolen data https://therecord.media/qantas-cybercriminals-stolen-data

Red Hat confirms breach of GitLab instance https://cyberscoop.com/red-hat-gitlab-attack-consulting-data/

Microsoft revamps Edge’s “IE Mode” after zero-day attacks https://risky.biz/microsoft-revamps-edges-ie-mode-after-zero-day-attacks/

Teenagers arrested in England over cyberattack on nursery chain Kido https://therecord.media/kido-nursery-school-chain-hack-arrests-britain

Acting US Cyber Command, NSA chief won’t be nominated for the job, sources say https://therecord.media/william-hartman-not-nominee-nsa-cyber-command

Layoffs, reassignments further deplete CISA https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-layoffs-reassignments-dhs-white-house-government-shutdown/802723/

Trump’s scandalous directive to AG Pam Bondi reached the public by accident https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-scandalous-directive-ag-pam-bondi-reached-public-accident-rcna236927

Feds sanction Cambodian conglomerate over cyber scams, seize $15 billion from chairman https://therecord.media/feds-sanction-cambodian-conglomerate-scams-seize-15-billion

US Congress committee investigating Musk-owned Starlink over Myanmar scam centres https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/14/us-congress-committee-investigating-musk-owned-starlink-over-myanmar-scam-centres

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data https://www.wired.com/story/satellites-are-leaking-the-worlds-secrets-calls-texts-military-and-corporate-data/

Netherlands invokes special powers against Chinese-owned semiconductor company Nexperia https://therecord.media/netherlands-special-powers-chinese-owned-semiconductor

Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/10/spyware-maker-nso-group-confirms-acquisition-by-us-investors/

Apple Announces $2 Million Bug Bounty Reward for the Most Dangerous Exploits https://www.wired.com/story/apple-announces-2-million-bug-bounty-reward/

Wiz Finds Critical Redis RCE Vulnerability: CVE‑2025‑49844 https://www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-research-redis-rce-cve-2025-49844

SonicWall admits attacker accessed all customer firewall configurations stored on cloud portal https://cyberscoop.com/sonicwall-customer-firewall-configurations-exposed/

SonicWall SSLVPN devices compromised using valid credentials https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/sonicwall-sslvpn-devices-compromised/802716/

Issues Affecting CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor for Windows https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/security-advisories/issues-affecting-crowdstrike-falcon-sensor-for-windows/

ZDI Drops 13 Unpatched Ivanti Endpoint Manager Vulnerabilities https://www.securityweek.com/zdi-drops-13-unpatched-ivanti-endpoint-manager-vulnerabilities/

Jaguar Land Rover launches phased restart at factories after cyber-attack https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/07/jaguar-land-rover-restart-production-suppliers-cyber-attack

Windows 10 support ends today https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-10-is-no-longer-safe-to-run-heres-whos-affected-and-what-you-need-to-do