Risky Business Video
October 15, 2025
Risky Business Weekly (810): Data extortion attacks have a silver lining
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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 compounds get sanctioned and $15b in crypto is seized
- NSO gets sold for pocket-lint-grade money
- Bugs! Redis CVSS 10, Ivanti, Crowdstrike and… Internet Explorer?! zeroday?! In the wild?!!!?
This week’s episode is sponsored by Stairwell. Founder Mike Wiacek talks about how Stairwell brings VirusTotal-like visibility to private files, and about integrating the insights that brings into your SOC workflow.
Show Notes:
FBI takedown banner appears on BreachForums site as Scattered Spider promotes leak https://therecord.media/breachforums-fbi-france-takedown-banner-scattered-spider-salesforce-leak
Oracle customers impacted by Clop data theft for extortion campaign https://cyberscoop.com/oracle-customers-attacks-clop-google-mandiant/
Oracle E-Business Suite Pre-Auth RCE Chain - CVE-2025-61882 https://labs.watchtowr.com/well-well-well-its-another-day-oracle-e-business-suite-pre-auth-rce-chain-cve-2025-61882well-well-well-its-another-day-oracle-e-business-suite-pre-auth-rce-chain-cve-2025-61882/
Clop is a Big Fish, But Not Worth Hunting https://risky.biz/clop-is-a-big-fish-but-not-worth-hunting/
ShinyHunters Wage Broad Corporate Extortion Spree https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/10/shinyhunters-wage-broad-corporate-extortion-spree/
Company Discord blamed for its recent breach says it wasn’t hacked https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/the-company-discord-blamed-for-its-recent-breach-says-it-wasnt-hacked-175536278.html
Qantas confirms cybercriminals released stolen data https://therecord.media/qantas-cybercriminals-stolen-data
Red Hat confirms breach of GitLab instance https://cyberscoop.com/red-hat-gitlab-attack-consulting-data/
Microsoft revamps Edge’s “IE Mode” after zero-day attacks https://risky.biz/microsoft-revamps-edges-ie-mode-after-zero-day-attacks/
Teenagers arrested in England over cyberattack on nursery chain Kido https://therecord.media/kido-nursery-school-chain-hack-arrests-britain
Acting US Cyber Command, NSA chief won’t be nominated for the job, sources say https://therecord.media/william-hartman-not-nominee-nsa-cyber-command
Layoffs, reassignments further deplete CISA https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-layoffs-reassignments-dhs-white-house-government-shutdown/802723/
Trump’s scandalous directive to AG Pam Bondi reached the public by accident https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-scandalous-directive-ag-pam-bondi-reached-public-accident-rcna236927
Feds sanction Cambodian conglomerate over cyber scams, seize $15 billion from chairman https://therecord.media/feds-sanction-cambodian-conglomerate-scams-seize-15-billion
US Congress committee investigating Musk-owned Starlink over Myanmar scam centres https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/14/us-congress-committee-investigating-musk-owned-starlink-over-myanmar-scam-centres
Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data https://www.wired.com/story/satellites-are-leaking-the-worlds-secrets-calls-texts-military-and-corporate-data/
Netherlands invokes special powers against Chinese-owned semiconductor company Nexperia https://therecord.media/netherlands-special-powers-chinese-owned-semiconductor
Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/10/spyware-maker-nso-group-confirms-acquisition-by-us-investors/
Apple Announces $2 Million Bug Bounty Reward for the Most Dangerous Exploits https://www.wired.com/story/apple-announces-2-million-bug-bounty-reward/
Wiz Finds Critical Redis RCE Vulnerability: CVE‑2025‑49844 https://www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-research-redis-rce-cve-2025-49844
SonicWall admits attacker accessed all customer firewall configurations stored on cloud portal https://cyberscoop.com/sonicwall-customer-firewall-configurations-exposed/
SonicWall SSLVPN devices compromised using valid credentials https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/sonicwall-sslvpn-devices-compromised/802716/
Issues Affecting CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor for Windows https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/security-advisories/issues-affecting-crowdstrike-falcon-sensor-for-windows/
ZDI Drops 13 Unpatched Ivanti Endpoint Manager Vulnerabilities https://www.securityweek.com/zdi-drops-13-unpatched-ivanti-endpoint-manager-vulnerabilities/
Jaguar Land Rover launches phased restart at factories after cyber-attack https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/07/jaguar-land-rover-restart-production-suppliers-cyber-attack
Windows 10 support ends today https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-10-is-no-longer-safe-to-run-heres-whos-affected-and-what-you-need-to-do