Risky Business Weekly (816): Copilot Actions for Windows is extremely dicey

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

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 rm -rf’ier than ever
  • SEC gives up on Solarwinds lawsuit
  • Dog eats cryptographer’s key material

This week’s episode is sponsored by runZero. HD Moore pops in to talk about how they’re integrating runZero with Bloodhound-style graph databases. He also discusses uses for driving runZero’s tools with an AI, plus the complexities of shipping AI when the company has a variety of deployment models.

Show notes:

Google says hackers stole data from 200 companies following Gainsight breach https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/21/google-says-hackers-stole-data-from-200-companies-following-gainsight-breach/

Gainsight Status https://status.gainsight.com/

Trust Status https://status.salesforce.com/generalmessages/20000233

CrowdStrike fires ‘suspicious insider’ who passed information to hackers https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/21/crowdstrike-fires-suspicious-insider-who-passed-information-to-hackers/

Salesforce cuts off access to third-party app after discovering ‘unusual activity’ https://therecord.media/salesforce-cuts-off-access-to-third-party-unusual-activity

Атаки разящей панды: APT31 сегодня https://ptsecurity.com/research/pt-esc-threat-intelligence/striking-panda-attacks-apt31-today/

Office of Public Affairs | Seven Hackers Associated with Chinese Government Charged with Computer Intrusions https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/seven-hackers-associated-chinese-government-charged-computer-intrusions-targeting-perceived

Australian federal MPs warned to turn off phones when Chinese delegation visits Parliament House https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/24/australian-parliament-warned-turn-off-phones-china-visit-security

Sha1-Hulud: The Second Coming of the NPM Worm is Digging For Secrets https://semgrep.dev/blog/2025/digging-for-secrets-sha1-hulud-the-second-coming-of-the-npm-worm/#3.-persistence-via-github-actions-runner

FCC eliminates cybersecurity requirements for telecom companies https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/fcc-eliminates-telecom-cybersecurity-requirements/806052/

Trade Associations Cybersecurity Practices Ex Parte https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/101663436912/1

SEC voluntarily dismisses SolarWinds lawsuit https://therecord.media/solawards-lawsuit-dismissed-sec

Record-breaking DDoS attack against Microsoft Azure mitigatedhttps://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/record-ddos-attack-microsoft-azure/805886/

The Cloudflare Outage May Be a Security Roadmap – Krebs on Security https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/the-cloudflare-outage-may-be-a-security-roadmap/

Critics scoff after Microsoft warns AI feature can infect machines and pilfer data https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/11/critics-scoff-after-microsoft-warns-ai-feature-can-infect-machines-and-pilfer-data/

vx-underground on X: “I’ve had a surprising amount of people ask me about Copilot” https://x.com/vxunderground/status/1992320900444643336

Researchers warn command injection flaw in Fortinet FortiWeb is under exploitation https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/command-injection-flaw-fortinet-fortiweb-exploitation/806027/

Two suspected Scattered Spider hackers plead not guilty over Transport for London cyberattack https://therecord.media/transport-for-london-hack-scattered-spider-suspects-plead-not-guilty

Russia arrests young cybersecurity entrepreneur on treason charges https://therecord.media/russia-arrests-tech-entrepreneur-treason

This campaign aims to tackle persistent security myths in favor of better advice https://cyberscoop.com/hacklore-org-cybersecurity-advice-bob-lord-security-myths/

Oops. Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key. https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/11/cryptography-group-cancels-election-results-after-official-loses-secret-key/

Uncovering network attack paths with runZeroHound https://www.runzero.com/blog/introducing-runzerohound/

Model Context Protocol https://help.runzero.com/docs/mcp/