Podcasts

ShinyHunters claim credit for the Vercel hack, a malware strain attempted to sabotage Israel’s water system, the US government wants access to Mythos, and a Supreme Court hacker gets probation.

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.

In this Risky Business sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Sydney Marrone, Head of Threat Hunting at Nebulock, about hunting shadow AI agents on corporate networks.

NIST says it won’t be enriching most CVEs, Russian hackers tried to disrupt a Swedish power plant, the EU releases its age verification app, and OpenAI announces its own private cyber model.

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.

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about a new Citizen Lab report into Webloc, a tool to identify and track mobile devices. It demonstrates how the collection and sale of mobile phone geolocation data presents privacy and national security risks.

They also discuss a deep-dive into how a single hacker was able to breach nine Mexican government agencies in just weeks using AI assistants. They enabled the attacker to move much faster.

Researchers find malicious LLM proxy routers, a fake Ledger crypto-wallet on the Mac App Store stole $10 million dollars, a ransomware crew leaks data from 38 law firms, and Google cracks down on back button hijacking.

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 Peter Williams’ sob story fails to resonate with … anyone
• Remember those crosswalk buttons hacked to play audio mocking Trump and Zuck? They were “secured” by the password: 1234.

This week’s episode is sponsored by mobile network operator, Cape. Ajit Gokhale talks with James about the ways to get being a telco right when you’re starting from scratch and solving the security problems of 2026.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss how the rise of AI, which is very good at vulnerability and exploit development, will change the cyber security industry and competition between states.

This episode is also available on YouTube

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.