Risky Business Features
Join reformed CTO James Wilson as he dives deep on cybersecurity topics through an enterprise lens. From solo content and interviews with CISOs and researchers to vendor and startup deep dives, James does a bit of everything.
Episodes
How to launder illicit Bitcoin
In this podcast episode, investigative journalist Geoff White joins James Wilson to talk about what happens to the money after ransomware gangs get a payday.
The payment itself might be in the millions, but it’s difficult for gangs to convert their ill-gotten crypto gains into cash they can actually spend. Geoff explains the role of professional launderers and why c
Hunting software supply chain malware
In this podcast episode, OpenSourceMalware founder Paul McCarty joins James Wilson to explain how researchers find and analyse malicious packages, GitHub repositories and developer tools.
Paul walks James through static analysis, deobfuscation and reconstructing multi-stage kill chains to identify what attackers are trying to steal. They also discuss how LLMs make m
Who gets to hack the hackers?
In this podcast episode, Brad Arkin joins James Wilson to chat about the Trump administration’s call to let private entities conduct cyber operations against criminal groups.
Brad’s firsthand experience responding to cyber incidents alongside US law enforcement gives him a unique perspective on how government and private sector relationships work, and how this progr
How Brian Krebs doxxed TeamPCP
In this podcast episode, James Wilson chats with Brian Krebs about the investigation that led him from recycled cybercrime handles and old forum records to the true identity of TeamPCP’s alleged leader in Perth.
TeamPCP is the hacker group that has gone berserk in the software supply chain over the last year or so, stealing credentials to compromise developers, thei
James Kettle on inventing new attack techniques with LLMs
In this podcast episode, James Wilson chats with PortSwigger’s Director of Research James Kettle about using an LLM to develop genuinely new attack techniques.
Kettle has built what he calls the HTTP Terminator, an autonomous research system that generates and tests tens of thousands of potentially new HTTP desync techniques. The Terminator, which makes use of Kettl
How private LLM inference actually works
In this podcast episode James Wilson chats with Tinfoil co-founder Tanya Verma about how you can run a powerful LLM in the cloud without the inference provider seeing your prompts.
Tanya talks James through how private inference works, from trusted execution environments and hardware attestation, to TLS termination and GPU isolation. Customers can verify the exact c
Benchmarks, borders and the true cost of AI regulation
The US government is flirting with the idea of regulating most open weight models out of existence. What would that mean for everyone who’s currently using them?
Policymakers who just look at the benchmarks and token costs might think frontier and open weight AI models are all interchangeable. That they can just banhammer them without causing any disruption. That’s
Fortibleed: The bleeding edge of AI cybercrime
In this podcast episode SOCRadar CISO Ensar Seker and James Wilson chat about the company’s deep dive into the Fortibleed campaign. A small investigation into a curiously open directory on an unknown server expanded into the discovery of an attack that targeted 400,000 Fortinet devices.
As Ensar says, each time the SOCRadar team pulled a single thread, it led to a t
What to do 'til the bugpocalypse gets here
In this podcast episode Brad Arkin joins James Wilson to discuss how defenders can get ahead of the late-running bugpocalypse. While we’re confident the offensive cybersecurity capabilities of frontier and open-weight LLMs are real, attackers don’t yet seem able to fully utilise them. This creates a window of opportunity for defenders to tackle the threat.
There are
Mythos on your desk? Using local LLMs for code reviews
In this podcast episode James Wilson chats with Karsten Nohl about his research into using local LLMs to replace cloud AI in security code reviews.
In essence, Karsten created a hybrid code reviewing system where both cloud and local models are used to orchestrate, triage outputs, and write reports. In this system, only the local LLMs have source code access, with t
Pitching security startups to VCs in the AI era
In this podcast Patrick Gray and James Wilson chat with Decibel Partners founder and Managing Partner Jon Sakoda to talk about pitching cybersecurity startups to VC firms in the AI age.
Coding agents and large language models have made it easier than ever to create software products, but despite this, the bar for what interests an investor is still largely the same.
How using open weight models can blow up in your face
In this podcast episode James Wilson and Brad Arkin talk about how to safely use open weight large language models in the enterprise. The cost of frontier models was already driving interest in freely available open weight models like DeepSeek, Kimi and Qwen. But now the US government is forcing Anthropic to pull its Fable and Mythors models from the market, the argu
The state of the art in AI model jailbreaks
In this solo podcast episode, James Wilson breaks down the current state of AI model jailbreaks.
If you’ve somehow missed the story, last week Anthropic released its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models to the public. In the name of safety, both models were guardrailed up the wazoo, but that didn’t stop a bunch of jailbreakers from figuring out how to bypass at least some of
Why NPM v12 won’t stop supply chain attacks
In this podcast episode, James Wilson is joined by Open Source Malware Security co-founder Paul McCarty to talk about the supply chain attack mitigations coming in NPM v12.
NPM disabling (by default) auto-run install scripts and dynamic dependencies is a positive step forward… but it’ll take years for this new version to be adopted, and these changes do nothing to p
Everything is getting much worse, much faster
In this podcast Brad Arkin joins James Wilson to talk about how the fear of being left behind in the AI era means enterprises are taking risks that would have been considered insane just a couple of years ago.
Fears around outages or being hacked have been trumped by fears of being labelled an AI laggard.
So where are we all going? Say hello to tech debt-riddled, v
Solo podcast: A deep dive on TeamPCP
In this solo episode, James Wilson takes a detailed look at TeamPCP.
It started off by launching clumsy attacks against misconfigured Kubernetes clusters in September 2025. But by February this year, TeamPCP had skilled up and was smashing global software supply chains in the highest profile attacks of 2026.
TeamPCP upskilled and turned the software development eco
How to survive supply chain attacks
In this podcast James Wilson chats with Brad Arkin about why software supply chain attacks have gone from rare, once-in-a-while disasters to an operational problem affecting mainstream enterprises almost daily.
AI has made attackers faster, and “vibe coding” means the number of environments pulling packages from the internet has gone to the moon. It also means legac
How the CopyFail disclosure went sideways
In this episode, Theori’s Brian Pak and Andrew Wesie join James Wilson to discuss why the CopyFail exploit was publicly disclosed before Linux distributions had their patches ready. As you’ll hear in this episode, mistakes were made and lessons learned. It’s worth a podcast, too, because in our opinion this incident foreshadows the inevitable problems that open sourc
NCSC’s Ollie Whitehouse on surviving the "bugpocalypse"
In this edition of Risky Business Features Ollie Whitehouse, the CTO of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to talk about why “patch faster” will only get organisations so far in the face of the AI “bugpocalypse”.
As Ollie explains, organisations will need to reduce internet-facing attack surface and make better architecture
What a great agentic AI deployment plan looks like
In this podcast James Wilson and Brad Arkin workshop the advice they think the industry needs to hear when it comes to deploying agentic AI in the enterprise.
Relegating agentic AI to non-sensitive and low-risk tasks doesn’t deliver value, and avoiding all risk stalls progress. James and Brad discuss the phases of AI adoption and contrast what a great plan looks lik
Mythos smythos! How to find 0day with lesser models
In this podcast James Wilson chats with Niels Provos about his research into using older AI models to successfully hunt for 0day vulnerabilities. Niels has had a long and prolific career in cybersecurity, having worked as a Distinguished Engineer at Google and then heading up security at Stripe.
His interest in AI bug hunting was piqued recently when one of the Myth
Solving the AI agent identity problem
In this podcast James Wilson and Brad Arkin chat about emerging trends in AI agent identity and credential management. Brad was formerly the CISO of Adobe, Cisco and Salesforce, and is now working with all sorts of companies that are deploying AI.
With everyone now in at least a large-scale pilot of agentic AI, the issue of how to manage agent identities and credent
A deep dive on AI model distillation attacks
In this solo episode of Risky Business Features James Wilson explores how distillation techniques are both a legitimate way to train smaller models, as well as a way to steal model capabilities. It’s not just a problem for frontier labs! Any LLM-based product could have its competitive advantage stolen through these attacks.
James covers:
High-level concept of d
Feature Interview: Nicholas Carlini, Anthropic
In this episode, Anthropic’s Nicholas Carlini joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to talk about advancements in AI-driven vulnerability research and exploit development.
Nicholas’ talk at the recent [un]prompted conference demonstrated how Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 could find and exploit vulnerabilities in popular open source projects. In the short few weeks since then,
A builder's perspective on Mythos and frontier models
In this episode, James Wilson is joined by entrepreneur and investor Yaniv Bernstein to discuss Anthropic’s Mythos through the lens of startups and growing businesses. Yaniv is Google’s former VP of Engineering, and is former VP Eng and COO at Airtasker. He’s now an investor and advisor to startups and he co-hosts The Startup Podcast.
Mythos and 0day: Fixing exploits is not safety
In this episode, James Wilson is joined by Brad Arkin who provides a CISO’s perspective on Anthropic’s Mythos. As former CISO at Adobe, Cisco and Salesforce, Brad’s perspective challenges the notion that finding and fixing exploits makes us safer.
Show notes
Mythos and 0day: A hacker’s perspective
In this episode of Risky Business Features, James Wilson chats to professional hacker Jamieson O’Reilly about Anthropic’s Mythos and the impact it could have on offensive security. Jamieson is CEO of DVULN and co-founder of Aether AI. He’s been hacking into organisations for more than a decade, and knows a thing or two about combining AI and offensive security.
What happens after North Korea infiltrates?
In this episode, investigative journalist Geoff White joins James Wilson for a look into the complex machine that is North Korea’s IT worker infiltration scheme. They discuss the interview process, what happens once the workers are actually hired, how value is maximised for the regime, and how the money moves around. It’s even more diabolical than the headlines divul
Why CISOs need to be more flexible in the AI era
In this episode, James Wilson chats with Brad Arkin (former CISO of Adobe, Cisco and Salesforce) to talk about the mounting pressure that CISOs are under in the AI era. Attackers are operating at unprecedented scale, and internal users are adopting AI faster than security teams can keep up. This requires CISOs to bend on things that would have otherwise been a hard-n
A Risky Biz Experiment: Hunting for iOS 0day with AI
In this sort-of-solo episode, James Wilson is “joined” by one of his OpenClaw AI agents for a chat about whether or not an LLM can understand, modify or even create a sophisticated nation-state grade iOS exploit kit. Technically this podcast is James having a conversation with himself, but the exchange is illuminating. It turns out LLMs can really help with finding 0
Interview: Former NSA and CIA cyber leaders on offensive AI
In this interview you’ll hear former NSA executive Rob Joyce and former CIA cyber intelligence leader Andy Boyd talk to host Patrick Gray about how AI is changing the state of art in offensive security.
Recorded in front of a live audience at the Decibel Oasis side event next door to the RSA Conference in San Francisco, the trio also talk about why a series of iOS e
When disaster strykes
In this episode of Risky Business Features, James Wilson and Brad Arkin discuss the attack that devastated medtech company Stryker. It turns out the attackers used Microsoft’s inTune to wipe the company’s devices, but what else could they have weaponised?
This podcast basically turned into an incident review of the Stryker incident. Enjoy!
MCP is Dead
James Wilson delivers his take on the state of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in this solo episode of Risky Business Features. Despite MCP being the technology that made Large Language Models useful and AI Agents possible, the models have shown us they want to use something else instead. They want to use the shell directly, and that is going to have serious cyberse
They don't break in, they log in. What's an enterprise to do?
In this podcast James Wilson chats with Brad Arkin about how enterprises can better deal with attackers logging in with valid credentials. Stolen identities, weak special-use credentials, and over-scoped API keys are the new zero-day and they’re abundantly available to attackers. Sadly, the solution here isn’t as simple as deploying phishing resistant MFA. Fixing thi
A ridiculously deep dive into the Coruna Exploits
Join James Wilson in this solo podcast as he takes a (ridiculously) deep dive into the Coruna exploit kit. James was a software engineer and senior manager at Apple for many years, so he has an intimate knowledge of iOS internals. He even worked alongside the people who wrote the software that the Coruna kit exploits!
This long-form solo podcast follows the chain of
Being a wartime CISO
In this edition of Risky Business Features James Wilson chats with cohost Brad Arkin about what it’s like being a CISO for a global company when a war starts.
How do you deal with a branch office full of important key material being abandoned? What about cloud infrastructure that’s in a data centre that falls into enemy hands? And if your staff are okay, are any of
What to do about North Korean remote workers
In this podcast James Wilson chats with Brad Arkin about North Korea’s sprawling fake IT worker ecosystem. From fake interviews, to stolen identities, basement laptop farms and IP-KVM tricks, the North Koreans are operating a whole employment fraud industry.
Brad and James discuss how the scheme works in practice and the technical detection challenges defenders now
Former Adobe, Cisco and Salesforce CISO talks AI pentesting
In this debut feature conversation in the Risky Business Features feed James Wilson sits down with Brad Arkin, the former CSO of Adobe, Cisco, and Salesforce, to talk all about AI pentesting.
Finding and fixing bugs is great, but does it materially improve the overall security of a product? What’s the point of a pentest if the tester can’t walk you through their fin
History Repeats: Security in the AI Agent Era
AI agents are being deployed with the same trust-by-default architecture the early internet had. Same mistakes, MUCH faster timeline.
OpenClaw has hit 180K+ GitHub stars. But in the past week:
341 malicious skills on ClawHub were distributing Atomic Stealer
ZeroPath disclosed a Browser Relay vuln enabling cross-tab cookie theft
CrowdStrike, Cisco, and Bitdef
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