Risky Business #801 -- AI models can hack well now and it's weirding us out

Risky Business Podcast

August 06, 2025

Risky Business #801 -- AI models can hack well now and it's weirding us out

Presented by

Amberleigh Jack

Producer and Editor

Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

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 report 20 bugs to open source projects
The XBOW AI bug hunting platform sees success on HackerOne
Is an AI James Kettle on the horizon?

There’s also plenty of regular cybersecurity news to discuss:

On-prem Sharepoint’s codebase is maintained out of China… awkward!
China frets about the US backdooring its NVIDIA chips, how you like ‘dem apples, China?
SonicWall advises customers to turn off their VPNs
Hardware controlling Dell laptop fingerprint and card readers has nasty driver bugs
Russia uses its ISPs to in-the-middle embassy computers and backdoor ‘em.
The Russian government pushes VK’s Max messenger for everything

This week’s show is sponsored by device management platform Devicie. Head of Solutions Sean Ollerton talks through the impending Windows 10 apocalypse, as Microsoft ends mainstream support. He says Windows 11 isn’t as scary as people make out, but if the update isn’t on your radar now, time is running out.

This episode is also available on Youtube.