Risky Business
Risky Business is a weekly information security podcast featuring news and in-depth interviews with industry luminaries. Launched in February 2007, it is a must-listen digest for information security pros. With a running time of approximately 50-60 minutes, Risky Business is pacy; a security podcast without the waffle.
Episodes
Risky Business #849 -- Trump will unleash contractors on cybercriminals
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by guest co-host Dmitri Alperovitch to talk through the week’s news, including:
Trump’s memo authorising the private sector to release the cyber hounds is fine, don’t worry!
OpenAI finally decides to add a few safety measures after the whole “oopsie we committed some felonies” thing
Anthropic’s models star
Soap Box: Zero Trust(ish) Networks
In this Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast host Patrick Gray chats with Adam Pointon, CEO of Knocknoc, about the failure of Zero Trust as a comprehensive architecture.
Most networks look like they were designed in 1999, and most Zero Trust products look like they were designed for 2049.
Instead, Patrick and Adam pitch something in the middle: Zero Trust
Risky Business #848 -- OpenAI comes clean
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by guest co-host Brad Arkin to talk through the week’s news, including:
The AI-agent-hacks-stuff saga continues. This week we have one booting gymgoers from full classes to nab its owner a spot
Somehow OpenAI’s legal team allowed the company to spill all the Hugging Face tea at BlackHat and it’s hot a
Risky Business #847 -- Oops! Claude's accidental hacking spree
On this week’s show Patrick Gray, and James Wilson are joined by bearded man of leisure Adam Boileau to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
Accidental AI agent hacking sprees have the world’s media freaking out, but we think it’s all pretty funny
The bugpocalypse is so chaotic, Microsoft can’t patch fast enough
A ColdCard wallet flaw led to mill
Risky Business #846 -- OpenAI built a fireplace out of wood
On this week’s show special guest co-host Pete Ranks, the former director of the CIA’s Centre for Cyber Intelligence, joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:
Everyone signs the open weights open letter, except Anthropic… of course.
OpenAI had no idea it had hacked Hugging Face
Kimi K3 open weights released and
Risky Business #845 -- OpenAI's Skynet moment
On this week’s show special guest co-host Chris Krebs joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:
Oopsie daisy! OpenAI agents went rogue and hacked Hugging Face
US and China trade AI model ban threats
Iran has been using SS7 queries to locate and target US troops
Scattered Spider is having a hard time, not just
Soap Box: Using threat hunting to drive detection
In this wholly sponsored Soap Box edition of the podcast Patrick Gray chats with Damien Lewke, the CEO and founder of Nebulock, about the future of threat hunting and detection.
Damien spent a decade in the EDR and MDR space before founding Nebulock in 2024. It started off as an AI-powered threat hunt platform but has evolved into a broader security data platform th
Risky Business #844 -- China closes AI vulndev gap as USA lifts Fable ban
On this week’s show Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:
Anthropic’s Fable 5 returning while OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 gets thrown in model jail
Distillation, cheap tokens, and AI chat harvesting is an industry in China
Edge becomes a lolbin via a new malicious extension
An Iranian APT boss’s vacation in a be
Risky Business #843 -- Fortibleed is kinda awesome, actually
On this week’s show special guest co-host Rob Joyce joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. Rob served as an advisor to Donald Trump during his first term as president and also served at NSA for 34 years. While at the agency, Joyce led Tailored Access Operations (TAO), and later became NSA’s Director of Cybersecurity.
They cover
Risky Business #842 -- Anthropic needs an adult in the C suite
On this week’s show Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:
Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 get nuked by the US government four days after launch “because security”
Why “guardrails” won’t keep the world safe from your AI doomsday machine
The FISA 702 statute expired, but the spying can (probably) continu
Risky Business #841 -- Microsoft gets owned and 0day'd
On this week’s show special guest co-host Chris Wade, the founder of Corellium turned Cellebrite CTO, joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news.
They cover:
Microsoft has repos owned, GitHub tokens popped, and a new 0day dropped on them
Meanwhile, researchers are choosing full disclosure instead of engaging MSRC
Meta’s AI s
Soap Box: Detection and response in the AI age
In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray chats with Edward Wu, founder of Dropzone, about what AI is doing to detection, response and the SOC more generally.
Dropzone makes AI agents that conduct alert investigations in your SOC, but will the SOC as we know it even exist in the future?
Ed has a deep expertise in SOC tech, having
Risky Business #840 -- Microsoft walks back researcher threats
On this week’s show special guest co-host Andy Boyd joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. Andy is the CEO of REDLattice, which makes the Paragon “intelligence collection and reconnaissance” solution.
They cover:
Adversaries are tracking US troop locations with commercially available location data
A new Signal phishing ca
Risky Business #839 -- TeamPCP stole GitHub's internal repos
On this week’s show Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:
TeamPCP breached GitHub’s internal repos. Now what?
Some absolute plonker glued Coruna to a hijacked npm package
CISA is worried about about open source and wants third party submissions for KEV
AI infrastructure is “systemically” insecure
Mu
Risky Business #838 -- GitHub investigates possible breach
On this week’s show Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news.
They cover:
GitHub announced a possible breach
CISA leaks important creds, keys in public repo
Awful vulnerability in Bitlocker renders it useless without a PIN
So. Many. Patches.
Polish Government urges officials to ditch Signal for mSzyfr
Much, much
Soap Box: Where does AI fit into cloud security?
In this sponsored soap box edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray chats with Toni de la Fuente, the founder of Prowler.
Prowler started off as a bunch of scripts in a trenchcoat, then became an open source cloud security tool, and it’s now a venture-funded cloud security business. In this interview Toni talks us through how AI is changing the game for hi
Risky Business #837 -- GitHub Actions footgun claims TanStack
On this week’s show Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news.
They cover:
Mini Shai-Hulud and the TanStack compromise using Github Actions
Instructure pays Canvas elearning platform data extortionists
More Linux privilege escalation 0days!
CISA helping critical infrastructure operators rearchitect their networks so
Risky Business #836 -- You can't patch the bugpocalypse
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
Snake Oilers: Ent AI, Spacewalk and Mondoo
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 Do
Risky Business #835 -- Why the Fast16 malware is badass
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 ver
Risky Business #834 -- Vercel gets owned, Mozilla dumps hundreds of Mythos bugs
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 N
Risky Business #833 -- The Great Mythos Freakout of 2026
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 P
Snake Oilers: Burp AI, Sondera and Truffle Security
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
Risky Business #832 -- Anthropic unveils magical 0day computer God
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
How the World Got Owned Episode 2: The 1990s, Part One
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 (Wel
Risky Business #831 -- The AI bugpocalypse begins
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”
Kaspers
Soap Box: Red teaming AI systems with SpecterOps
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 cl
Risky Business #830 -- LiteLLM and security scanner supply chains compromised
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James WIlson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They talk through:
TeamPCP’s supply chain attack on Github, and they threw in an anti-Iran wiper, because why not?!
Anthropic hooks up its models to just… use your whole computer
After Stryker’s Very Bad Day, CISA says maybe add some more controls around yo
Risky Business #829 -- Sneaky lobsters: Why AI is the new insider threat
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?
Risky Biz Soap Box: It took a decade, but allowlisting is cool again
In this Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray sits down with Airlock Digital co-founders Daniel Schell and David Cottingham to talk about the role AI models could play in managing enterprise allowlists.
They also talk about the durability of allowlisting as a control. After 12 years in business, the Airlock product hasn’t really changed all tha
Risky Business #828 -- The Coruna exploits are truly exquisite
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James WIlson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:
The Coruna exploits were L3 Harris, but it seems Triangulation… was not!
Iran’s cyber HQ hit by Israeli (kinetic) strikes
Trump’s cyber “strategy” is … well, all we’ve got is jokes cause there’s no serious content
NSA and CyberCom finally get
Risky Business #827 -- Iranian cyber threat actors are down but not out
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James WIlson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:
The US-Israeli attack on Iran had a whole lot of cyber. It’s clearly in the playbook now!
The NSA Triangulation / L3 Harris Trenchant iOS exploit kit is on the loose, and being used by Chinese crypto scammers
So long Maddhu Gottumukkala, but CIS
Risky Business #826 -- A week of AI mishaps and skulduggery
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James WIlson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:
Low skill actors compromise 600 Fortinets with AI-generated playbooks
Anthropic calls out Chinese AI firms over model distillation
Meta’s director of AI safety tells her ClawdBot not to delete her mail… so of course it does
Peter Williams cops
Risky Biz Soap Box: The lethal trifecta of AI risks
There’s a lethal trifecta of AI risks: access to private data, exposure to untrusted content, and external communication. In this conversation, Risky Business host Patrick Gray chats with Josh Devon, the co-founder of Sondera, about how to best address these risks.
There is no magic solution to this problem. AI models mix code and data, are non-deterministic, and ar
Risky Business #825 -- Palo Alto Networks blames it on the boogie
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James WIlson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:
Palo Alto threat researchers want to attribute to China, but management says shush
An increasing proportion of ransomware is data extortion. Is this good?
Cambodia says it’s going to dismantle scam compounds
CISA sufferers through yet another
Risky Business #824 -- Microsoft's Secure Future is looking a bit wobbly
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
Microsoft reshuffles security leadership. It doesn’t spark joy.
Russia is hacking the Winter Olympics. Again. But y tho?
China-linked groups are keeping busy, hacking telcos in Norway, Singapore and dozens of others
Campaigns underway targeting Ivanti, Beyond
Risky Business #823 -- Humans impersonate clawdbots impersonating humans
Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau are joined by the newest guy on the Risky Business Media team, James WIlson. They discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
Notepad++ update supply chain attack has been attributed to China
The AI agent future is even more stupid than expected; behold the OpenClaw/Clawdbot/Moltbook mess
The Epstein files claim he had a pe
Risky Business #822 -- France will ditch American tech over security risks
In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They discuss:
La France is tres sérieux about ditching US productivity software
China’s Salt Typhoon was snooping on Downing Street
Trump wields the mighty DISCOMBOBULATOR
ESET says the Polish power grid wiper was Russia’s GRU Sandworm crew
US cyber institutions CISA
Risky Business #821 -- Wiz researchers could have owned every AWS customer
In this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, joined by a special guest. BBC World Cyber Correspondent Joe Tidy is a long time listener and he pops in for a ride-along in the news segment plus a chat about his new book.
This week news includes:
Did the US cyber Venezuela’s power grid, or do they just want us to think th
Risky Business #820 -- Asian fraud kingpin will face Chinese justice (pew pew!)
Risky Business returns for 2026! Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau talk through the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
Santa brings hackers MongoDB memory leaks for Christmas
Vercel pays out a million bucks to improve its React2Shell WAF defences
39C3 delivers; the pink Power Ranger deletes nazis, while a catgirl ruins GnuPG
Cambodian scam compound kingpin g
How the World Got Owned Episode 1: The 1980s
In this special documentary episode, Patrick Gray and Amberleigh Jack take a historical dive into hacking in the 1980s. Through the words of those that were there, they discuss life on the ARPANET, the 414s hacking group, the Morris Worm, the vibe inside the NSA and a parallel hunt for German hackers happening at a similar time to Cliff Stoll’s famous Cuckoo’s Egg st
Risky Business #819 -- Venezuela (credibly?!) blames USA for wiper attack
In the final show of 2025, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
React2Shell attacks continue, surprising no one
The unholy combination of OAuth consent phishing, social engineering and Azure CLI
Venezuela’s state oil firm gets ransomware’d, blames US… but what if it really is a US cyber op?!
Russian junk-hacktivist
Risky Biz Soap Box: Graph the planet!
In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast, Patrick Gray chats with Jared Atkinson, CTO of SpecterOps, about BloodHound OpenGraph.
OpenGraph enumerates attack paths across platforms and services, not just your primary directories.
A compromised GitHub account to on-prem AD compromise attack path? It’s a thing, and OpenGraph will find it.
Cros
Risky Business #818 -- React2Shell is a fun one
In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
There’s a CVSS 10/10 remote code exec in the React javascript server. JS server? U wot mate?
China is out popping shells with it
Linux adds support for PCIe bus encryption
Amnesty International says Intellexa can just TeamViewer into its customers’ surveillan
Risky Business #817 -- Less carnage than your usual Thanksgiving
In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. It’s a quiet week with Thanksgiving in the US, but there’s always some cyber to talk about:
Airbus rolls out software updates after a cosmic ray bitflips an A320 into a dive
Krebs tracks down a Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters teen through the usual poor opsec…
… as Wired publis
Risky Business #816 -- Copilot Actions for Windows is extremely dicey
In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
Salesforce partner Gainsight has customer data stolen
Crowdstrike fires insider who gave hackers screenshots of internal systems
Australian Parliament turns off wifi and bluetooth in fear of of visiting Chinese bigwigs
Shai-Hulud npm/Github worm is back, and
Risky Biz Soap Box: Greynoise knows when bad bugs are coming
In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the podcast, Andrew Morris joins Patrick Gray to talk about how Greynoise can often get a 90 day heads up on serious vulnerabilities. Whether it’s malicious actors doing reconnaissance or the affected vendors trying to understand the scope of the problem, it seems that mass scanning activity lines up pretty nicely with typical 90
Risky Business #815 -- Anthropic's AI APT report is a big deal
In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
Anthropic says a Chinese APT orchestrated attacks using its AI
It’s a day ending in -y, so of course there are shamefully bad Fortinet exploits in the wild
Turns out slashing CISA was a bad idea, now it’s time for a hiring spree
Researchers brute force entire
Risky Business #814 -- It's a bad time to be a scam compound operator
In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
The KK Park scam compound in Myanmar gets blasted with actual dynamite
China sentences more scammers TO DEATH
While Singapore is opting to lash them with the cane
Chinese security firm KnownSec leaks a bunch of documents
Necromancy continues on NSO Group, w
Risky Business #813 -- FFmpeg has a point
In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
We love some good vulnerability reporting drama, this time FFmpeg’s got beef with Google
OpenAI announces its Aardvark bug-gobbling system
Two US ransomware responders get arrested for… ransomware
Memento (nee HackingTeam) CEO says: Sì, those are totally our
Risky Business #812 -- Alleged Trenchant exploit mole is ex-ASD
In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
L3Harris Trenchant boss accused of selling exploits to Russia once worked at the Australian Signals Directorate
Microsoft WSUS bug being exploited in the wild
Dan Kaminsky DNS cache poisoning comes back because of a bad PRNG
SpaceX finally starts disabling St
Risky Business #811 -- F5 is the tip of the crap software iceberg
In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
China has been rummaging in F5’s networks for a couple of years
Meanwhile China tries to deflect by accusing the NSA of hacking its national timing system
Salesforce hackers use their stolen data trove to dox NSA, ICE employees
Crypto stealing, proxy-deployin
Wide World of Cyber: A deep dive on the F5 hack
In this edition of the Wide World of Cyber podcast Patrick Gray talks to Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos about the F5 incident. They talk about what happened, whether it’s a big deal, and why private equity ownership of mid-tier cybersecurity companies is often a red flag.
Show notes
Risky Biz Soap Box: Why Mastercard is scaling its cybersecurity business
In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast, host Patrick Gray chats with Mastercard’s Executive Vice President and Head of Security Solutions, Johan Gerber, about how the card brand thinks about cybersecurity and why it’s aggressively investing in the space.
After listening to this interview you’ll understand why the credit card company spent $
Risky Business #810 -- Data extortion attacks have a silver lining
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 co
Snake Oilers: Realm Security, Horizon3 and Persona
In this edition of the Snake Oilers podcast, three vendors pop in to pitch you all on their wares:
Realm Security: A security focussed, AI-first data pipeline platform
Horizon3: AI hackers! Pentesting robots!! They’re coming fer yur jerbs!
Persona: Verify customer and staff identities with live capture
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Risky Business #809 -- Hackers try to pay a journalist for access to the BBC
On this week’s show Patrick Gray is on holiday so Amberleigh Jack and Adam Boileau hijack the studio to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
Hackers learn that trying to coerce a journalist just makes for … a great story?
A man in his 40s gets arrested over the European airport chaos. Yep, we’re surprised, too.
Adam fanboys over Watchtowr Labs wh
Risky Business #808 -- Insane megabug in Entra left all tenants exposed
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and special guest Rob Joyce discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
Secret Service raids a SIM farm in New York
MI6 launches a dark web portal
Are the 2023 Scattered Spider kids finally getting their comeuppance?
Production halt continues for Jaguar Land Rover
GitHub tightens its security after Shai-Hulud worm
Risky Business #807 -- Shai-Hulud npm worm wreaks old-school havoc
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
Shai-Hulud worm propagates via npm and steals credentials
Jaguar Land Rover attack may put smaller suppliers out of business
Leaked data emerges from the vendor behind the Great Firewall of China
Vastaamo hacker walks free while appeal is underway
Why is a
Risky Biz Soap Box: runZero shakes up vulnerability management
In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast, industry legend HD Moore joins the show to talk about runZero’s major push into vulnerability management.
With its new Nuclei integration, runZero is now able to get a very accurate picture of what’s vulnerable in your environment, without spraying highly privileged credentials at attackers on your ne
Risky Business #806 -- Apple's Memory Integrity Enforcement is a big deal
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
Apple ruins exploit developers’ week with fresh memory corruption mitigations
Feross Aboukhadijeh drops by to talk about the big, dumb npm supply chain attack
Salesloft says its GitHub was the initial entry point for its compromise
Sitecore says people should
Snake Oilers: Nebulock, Vali Cyber and Cape
In this edition of the Snake Oilers podcasts, three vendors pop in to pitch you all on their wares:
Automated, AI-powered threat hunting with Nebulock
Damien Lewke from Nebulock joins the show to talk about how its agentic AI platform can surface attacker activity out of all those “low” and “informational” findings your detection team doesn’t have time to look
Risky Business #805 -- On the Salesloft Drift breach and "OAuth soup"
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
The Salesloft breach and why OAuth soup is a problem
The Salt Typhoon telco hackers turn out to be Chinese private sector, but state-directed
Google says it will stand up a “disruption unit”
Microsoft writes up a ransomware gang that’s all-in on the cloud fut
Risky Business #804 -- Phrack's DPRK hacker is probably a Chinese APT guy
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
Australia expels Iranian ambassador
Hackers sabotage Iranian shipping satcoms
APT hacker got doxxed in Phrack. Kind of. They’re probably Chinese, not DPRK?
Trail of Bits uses image-downscaling to sneak prompts into Google Gemini
The Com’s King Bob gets ten
Wide World of Cyber: Microsoft's China Entanglement
The Wide World of Cyber podcast is back! In this episode host Patrick Gray chats with Alex Stamos and Chris Krebs about Microsoft’s entanglement in China.
Redmond has been using Chinese engineers to do everything from remotely support US DoD private cloud systems to maintain the on premise version of the SharePoint code base. It’s all blown up in the press over the
Risky Business #803 -- Oracle's CSO Mary Ann Davidson quietly departs
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
Oracle’s long term CSO departs, and we’re not that sad about it
Canada’s House of Commons gets popped through a Microsoft bug
Russia degrades voice calls via Whatsapp and Telegram to push people towards Max
South-East Asian scam compounds are also behind chil
Risky Biz Soap Box: How to measure vulnerability reachability
In this Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray chats with Socket founder Feross Aboukhadijeh about how to measure the reachability of vulnerabilities in applications.
It’s great to know there’s a CVE in a library you’re using, but it’s even better if you can say whether or not that vulnerability actually impacts your application.
They also talk
Risky Business #802 -- Accessing internal Microsoft apps with your Hotmail creds
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
CISA warns about the path from on-prem Exchange to the cloud
Microsoft awards a crisp zero dollar bill for a report about what a mess its internal Entra-authed apps are
Everyone and their dog seems to have a shell in US Federal Court information systems
Googl
Risky Business #801 -- AI models can hack well now and it's weirding us out
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. Google security engineering VP Heather Adkins drops by to talk about their AI bug hunter, and Risky Business producer Amberleigh Jack makes her main show debut.
This episode explores the rise of AI-powered bug hunting:
Google’s Project Zero and Deepmind team up to find and re
Soap Box: Why AI can't fix bad security products
In this Soap Box edition of the show Patrick Gray chats with the CEO of email security company Sublime Security, Josh Kamdjou. They talk about where AI is useful, where it isn’t, and why AI can’t save vendors from their bad product design choices.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes
Risky Business #800 — The SharePoint bug may have leaked from Microsoft MAPP
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news:
Did the SharePoint bug leak out of the Microsoft MAPP program?
Expel retracts its FIDO bypass writeup
The mess surrounding the women-only dating-safety app Tea gets worse
Broadcom customers struggle to get patches for VMWare hypervisor escapes
Aeroflot gets hacked by
Risky Business #799 -- Everyone's Sharepoint gets shelled
Risky Biz returns after two weeks off, and there sure is cybersecurity news to catch up on. Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss:
Microsoft tried to make outsourcing the Pentagon’s cloud maintenance to China okay (it was not)
She shells Sharepoint by the sea-shore (by ‘she’ we mean ‘China’)
Four (alleged) Scattered Spider members arrested (and bailed) in the
Risky Biz Soap Box: Prowler, the open cloud security platform
In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray chats with Toni de la Fuente, founder of open source multi-cloud security product Prowler.
Toni explains how Prowler came to be, and how its journey followed his own learning about the cloud. The pair also discuss Prowler’s successful transition from an open-source project into a community
Risky Business #798 -- Mexican cartel surveilled the FBI to identify, kill witnesses
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news:
Australian airline Qantas looks like it got a Scattered Spider-ing
Microsoft works towards blunting the next CrowdStrike disaster
Changes are coming for Microsoft’s default enterprise app consenting setup
Synology downplays hardcoded passwords for its M365 cloud backup
Risky Business #797 -- Stuxnet vs Massive Ordnance Penetrators
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news:
We roll our eyes over the “16 billion credentials” leak hitting mainstream news
Some interesting cyber angles emerge from the conflict in Iran
Opensource maintainer of libxml2 is fed up with this hacker crap
Shockingly, there are yet more ways to trick people into pasti
Risky Business #796 -- With special guest co-host Chris Krebs
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau are joined by special guest Chris Krebs to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They talk through:
Israeli “hacktivists” take out an Iranian state-owned bank
Scattered-spider and friends pivot into attacking insurers
Securing identities in a cloud-first world keeps us awake at night
Microsoft takes the “aa
Soap Box: AI has entered the SOC, and it ain't going anywhere
In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray chats with Dropzone AI founder Ed Wu about the role of LLMs in the SOC.
The debate about whether AI agents are going to wind up in the SOC is over, they’ve already arrived. But what are they good for? What are they NOT good for? And where else will we see AI popping up in security?
This e
Risky Business #795 -- How The Com is hacking Salesforce tenants
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news:
New York Times gets a little stolen Russian FSB data as a treat
iVerify spots possible evidence of iOS exploitation against the Harris-Walz campaign
Researcher figures out a trick to get Google account holders’ full names and phone numbers
Major US food distributor gets
Risky Business #794 -- Psychic Panda outgunned by Fluffy Lizard and UNC56728242
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news:
Cyber firms agree to deconflict and cross-reference hacker group names
Russian nuclear facility blueprints gathered from public procurement websites
Someone audio deepfaked the White House Chief of Staff, but for the dumbest reasons
Germany identifies the Trickbot kingp
Risky Business #793 -- Scattered Spider is hijacking MX records
In this week’s edition of Risky Business Dmitri Alperovitch and Adam Boileau join Patrick Gray to talk through the week’s news, including:
EXCLUSIVE: A Scattered Spider-style crew is hijacking DNS MX entries and compromising enterprises within minutes
The SVG format brings the all horrors of HTML+JS to image files, and attackers have noticed
Brian Krebs eats
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