Podcasts

The FBI links the Binance hack to North Korea, game developers are being extorted with game-cloning threats, the Belarusian CyberPartisans hack Russia’s statistics service and Apple sends new mercenary spyware notifications.

In this podcast Patrick Gray and The Grugq chat to Nazar Tymoshyk about Russia’s use of AI in recent state-back cyberattacks against Ukraine.

Nazar is the founder and CEO of Ukraine-based cybersecurity firm UnderDefence. He also spent the first few years of the war working for Ukraine’s CERT.

The three discuss the speed and impact of these automated attacks and how organisations can best prepare themselves against AI-scaled attacks.

This episode is also available on YouTube.

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Luke Wescott, Threat Detection Engineer at Sublime Security. Luke talks through the rise of calendar-based phishing campaigns over the past year and the reasons behind it.

Billions stolen from Binance in a crypto hack, Last week’s PHP2Shell bugs are being exploited to hack Palo Alto Networks firewalls, The Brotli bugs also get a run, Belarusian state hackers carry out a wiper attack, and a hacker leaks the data of 41,000 DHS employees.

In this edition of the Snake Oilers podcast, three vendors drop by to pitch their products.

Minimal.dev: A sandbox for AI agents! Co-Founder and CEO Jake King explains what the company is and how it works.

Request Rocket: Runtime access control for AI agents and APIs. Founder and CTO Alex Ferguson drops by to talk about the problem the company is trying to solve.

TRM Labs: All-source threat intelligence. Global Strategic Accounts Director Simon Warren talks about the company’s platform Ardence.

This episode is also available on YouTube.

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about new research that shows that Chinese open-weight AI models can be reeducated to remove pro-CCP bias. Good news for American businesses that want cheap AI, but we suspect that many knives will still be out for Chinese open-weight models.

They also discuss the near-misses from the PHP and Brotli bugs. We collectively dodged the bullet so that we only got grazed, but the good luck won’t last forever.

Finally, Tom looked at CISA’s 2030 strategy. Amazingly, it doesn’t really mention AI at all. Bizarre!

This episode is also available on YouTube.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest co-host Alex Stamos to talk through the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

• Everyone’s still panicking about “misbehaving” AI models that are pretty much just doing what they’re being told to do
• Americans are giving AI agents unfettered access to their bank accounts. What could go wrong?
• Last week’s PHP meteor seems to have missed Earth
• This week’s Brotli HTTP/2 critical flaw is this week’s meteor
• The private key is always 4. This time it’s TLS bugs in GoAhead
• Much, much more!

This week’s show is brought to you by Truffle Security. Co-founder and CEO Dylan Ayrey joins James Wilson to chat about scanning GitHub repos and finding more than half a million unique credentials that were never revoked. As Dylan explains, the problem of exposed keys exists everywhere and is only getting worse.

This episode is also available on YouTube

Moldova takes down more than 80 public services after a cyberattack, the White House launches a new cybersecurity pilot program, South Korea arrests an AI-assisted cybercrime ring, and the Electrum wallet patches a crypto-stealing bug.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about security culture. The PHP foundation seems to have had a change of heart about security, but what are the chances that OpenAI or other frontier AI labs will start to take it seriously?

This episode is also available on YouTube.

While everyone was distracted by PHP, another RCE has been wrecking the internet, Australia’s ABC wipes some staff devices, a third PHP RCE is incoming and researchers discover a new DDoS attack vector in HTTP/3.