Episodes

  • Risky Business #836 -- You can't patch the bugpocalypse

    Risky Business #836 -- You can't patch the bugpocalypse
    May 6 2026

    On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest co-host Brad Arkin. They discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

    • The US Government says we just have to patch faster, but…
    • Bugs in cPanel, MoveIt and all Linux distributions this week show that patching alone isn’t enough
    • James gets mad about lame AI Agent adoption advice from the US and Australian Governments
    • James Kettle and Niels Provos both showed us that any model can find 0day like Mythos
    • And the cyber-assisted theft of cargo results in an astonishing loss of $725 million dollars

    This week’s show is sponsored by SpecterOps. Their CTO, Jared Atkinson, chats to Pat about the big changes in the threat landscape, brought about by AI, that are causing a pivot away from detection and remediation, and toward prevention.

    This episode is also available on Youtube.

    Show notes
    • Exclusive: US officials weigh cutting deadlines to fix digital flaws amid worries over AI-powered hacking, sources say | Reuters
    • British cyber agency warns of looming ‘patch wave’ as AI speeds flaw discovery | The Record from Recorded Future News
    • Federal agencies must patch cPanel bug by Sunday, CISA says | The Record from Recorded Future News
    • cPanel zero-day exploited for months before patch release (CVE-2026-41940) - Help Net Security
    • The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed - Ars Technica
    • New MOVEit vulnerabilities prompt urgent patch warning | Cybersecurity Dive
    • US and allies urge ‘careful adoption’ of AI agents | Cybersecurity Dive
    • careful_adoption_of_agentic_ai_services.pdf
    • User just tricked Grok and Bankrbot to send tokens with Morse code - Cryptopolitan
    • Finding Zero-Days with Any Model
    • (1872) Sponsored: James Kettle built an AI hacker - YouTube
    • Feature Interview: Nicholas Carlini, Anthropic - Risky Business Media
    • Trellix investigating breach of source code repository | Cybersecurity Dive
    • Popular DAEMON Tools software compromised | Securelist
    • Komari Red: The Monitoring Tool with a Built-in Reverse Shell | Huntress
    • Hackers earning millions from hijacked cargo, FBI says | The Record from Recorded Future News
    • Congress punts FISA renewal to June | The Record from Recorded Future News
    • Cops Use Apple Data And Car Bluetooth To Identify Crypto Robbery Suspect
    • Stewart Baker, outspoken voice on cybersecurity and national security law, dies at 78 | IAPP
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Snake Oilers: Ent AI, Spacewalk and Mondoo

    Snake Oilers: Ent AI, Spacewalk and Mondoo
    May 1 2026

    In this edition of the Snake Oilers podcast three vendors stop by to pitch the audience on their products:

    • Ent AI: Co-founder Brandon Dixon pitched Ent, an intent-aware, AI-powered endpoint security control.

    • Spacewalk AI: Founders Chris Fuller and Tim Wenzlau pitch Spacewalk, an AI-powered incident response platform.

    • Mondoo: Co-founder Dominik Richter pitches Mondoo, an AI-powered “service as software” in the vulnerability management space.

    This episode is also available on YouTube.

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    • Risky Business #835 -- Why the Fast16 malware is badass

      Risky Business #835 -- Why the Fast16 malware is badass
      Apr 29 2026
      On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest-host Dmitri Alperovitch. They discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: The US government is mad as hell about Chinese firms stealing American AI technologyDmitri has an opinion or two about the US selling Nvidia chips to ChinaSpeaking of Chinese AI, Kimi’s new 2.6 is very interestingThe US sanctions a Cambodian senator for earning mega bucks through scam compoundsAnd a ransomware family is promoting itself as being … quantum-safe? This week’s show is sponsored by Trail of Bits. CEO and co-founder Dan Guido chats to Pat about how private inference works and Trail of Bits’ audit of WhatsApp’s private AI setup. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Exclusive: US State Dept orders global warning about alleged AI thefts by DeepSeek, other Chinese firms | Reutersmoonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 · Hugging FaceDiscord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic’s Mythos | WIREDNewly Deciphered Sabotage Malware May Have Targeted Iran’s Nuclear Program—and Predates Stuxnet | WIREDHackers deployed wiper malware in destructive attacks on Venezuela’s energy sector | The Record from Recorded Future NewsMystery Around Venezuelan Cyberattack Deepens, with New Discovery of "Highly Destructive" WiperRisky Business #819 -- Venezuela (credibly?!) blames USA for wiper attack - Risky Business MediaAI Tools Are Helping Mediocre North Korean Hackers Steal Millions | WIREDCISA: US agency breached through Cisco vulnerability, FIRESTARTER backdoor allowed access through March | The Record from Recorded Future NewsUS, UK authorities warn that Firestarter backdoor malware survives patching | Cybersecurity DiveSurveillance campaigns use commercial surveillance tools to exploit long-known telecom vulnerabilities | CyberScoopUK regulator closes loophole that allowed rogue companies to track phone users' location | ReutersUS sanctions Cambodian senator for millions earned through scam compounds | The Record from Recorded Future NewsVercel says some of its customers' data was stolen prior to its recent hack | TechCrunchSupply Chain Security Incident UpdateApple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones | TechCrunchKyle Daigle on X: "Wanted to provide more clarity about this. Yesterday, we had a regression in merge queue behavior where, in some cases, squash or rebase commits were generated from the wrong base state, making earlier changes appear reverted in branch history. 2,804 pull requests out of over 4M" / XSecuring the git push pipeline: Responding to a critical remote code execution vulnerability - The GitHub BlogOne ransomware crew now drives half of all cyber claims: At-Bay | Insurance BusinessIn a first, a ransomware family is confirmed to be quantum-safe - Ars TechnicaWhat we learned about TEE security from auditing WhatsApp's Private Inference
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      1 hr and 6 mins
    • Risky Business #834 -- Vercel gets owned, Mozilla dumps hundreds of Mythos bugs

      Risky Business #834 -- Vercel gets owned, Mozilla dumps hundreds of Mythos bugs
      Apr 22 2026
      On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest The Grugq. They discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Vercel got owned, and there’s a few infostealer and compromised employee dots to connectMozilla used Mythos to find 271 bugs, which feels like a sign of the bug-pocalypseSpeaking of the bug-pocalypse, is that why NIST is noping out of enriching a bunch of bugs?The NSA is using Mythos even though the government did that whole Anthropic blacklisting thingAnd DDos attacks hit a couple of smaller-player socials This week’s episode is sponsored by Permiso. Ian Ahl chats to Pat about the subtle signals Permiso uses to detect ShinyHunters-style activity in cloud and on-prem environments. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Vercel April 2026 Security incidentVercel breach linked to infostealer infection at Context.aiVercel confirms breach as hackers claim to be selling stolen dataMatt Johansen: “This is not a good look” | XNIST limits vulnerability analysis as CVE backlog swells | Cybersecurity DiveCISA Cyber on XRansomware attack continues to disrupt healthcare in London nearly two years later | The Record from Recorded Future NewsLawmakers ponder terrorism designations, homicide charges over hospital ransomware attacks | CyberScoopIn defeat for Trump, House extends electronic spying program for just 10 days | The Record from Recorded Future NewsCrypto infrastructure company blames $290 million theft on North Korean hackers | The Record from Recorded Future NewsUS-sanctioned currency exchange says $15 million heist done by "unfriendly states" - Ars TechnicaHackers are abusing unpatched Windows security flaws to hack into organizations | TechCrunchMozilla Used Anthropic’s Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox | WIREDNSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklistBeyond the breach: inside a cargo theft actor’s post-compromise playbook | Proofpoint USBeware scam messages offering ships safe transit through Hormuz Strait, says security firm | The Straits TimesNew Jersey men given lengthy sentences for running North Korean laptop farms | The Record from Recorded Future NewsTurns Out We’re Not Alone - Volodymyr StyranUS joins nearly two dozen other countries in striking back against DDoS-for-hire platforms | Cybersecurity DiveBluesky blames app outage on ‘sophisticated’ DDoS attack | The Record from Recorded Future NewsMastodon says its flagship server was hit by a DDoS attack | TechCrunchAn IT expert explained under what conditions using a VPN can cause a smartphone to explode
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    • Risky Business #833 -- The Great Mythos Freakout of 2026

      Risky Business #833 -- The Great Mythos Freakout of 2026
      Apr 15 2026
      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 yetCISA adds a 2009 Excel bug to the KEV list, u wot?Adobe also parties like it’s the 2000s, and fixes an Acrobat Reader bugDisgraced former Trenchant exec Peter Williams’ sob story fails to resonate with … anyoneRemember 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. Show notes Lab SpaceThe “AI Vulnerability Storm”: Building a “Mythosready” Security ProgramPolymarket on X: "JUST IN: Goldman Sachs is reportedly ramping up its cyber defenses in preparation for Claude Mythos." Ananay on X: "Marcus Hutchins probably has the best take on Mythos doing vulnerability research"solst/ICE of Astarte on X: "Th vast majority of CISOs do not work at Google-sized companies, and will not have to worry about 0days"Charlie Miller on X: "we’ve gone through this before with early fuzzers, afl, etc"James Kettle on X: "'Can AI Do Novel Security Research? Meet the HTTP Terminator' will premiere at Blackhat"jeffrey lee funk on X: "We've been tricked, again. Many of the thousands of bugs and vulnerabilities Mythos found are in older software are impossible to exploit."Claude is getting worse, according to Claude • The RegisterYour Agent Is Mine: Measuring Malicious Intermediary Attacks on the LLM Supply ChainOpenAI's Mac apps need updates thanks to the Axios hack | CyberScoopHack at Anodot leaves over a dozen breached companies facing extortion | TechCrunchSnowflake customers hit in data theft attacks after SaaS integrator breachBooking.com confirms hackers accessed customers’ dataCPUID hijacked to serve malware as HWMonitor downloads • The RegisterKnown Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISAAdobe fixes PDF zero-day security bug that hackers have exploited for months | TechCrunchThe Sad Decline of Trenchant Exec Who Had Everything, Before Deciding to Steal and Sell Zero Days to Russian BuyerFBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification DatabaseUS operation evicts Russia from hacked SOHO routers used to breach critical infrastructure | Cybersecurity DiveTelegram Is Still Hosting a Sanctioned $21 Billion Crypto Scammer Black Market | WIREDThe Dumbest Hack of the Year Exposed a Very Real Problem | WIRED
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    • Snake Oilers: Burp AI, Sondera and Truffle Security

      Snake Oilers: Burp AI, Sondera and Truffle Security
      Apr 9 2026

      In this edition of the Snake Oilers podcast three vendors stop by to pitch the audience on their products:

      • Burp AI and DAST: The founder of PortSwigger and creator of legendary security software Burp Suite, Dafydd Stuttard, drops by to pitch listeners on Burp AI and Burp Suite DAST.

      • Sondera: Josh Devon talks about Sondera, a technology designed to intervene when AI models start doing the wrong thing by statefully tracking their trajectories. This isn’t a permissions suite for AI agents, it’s a way to stick agents in a harness and make sure they adhere to hard policy boundaries.

      • Truffle Security: Dylan Ayrey, the founder of Truffle Security, joins Risky Business again to talk through the latest bells and whistles in Trufflehog, a security tool that searches for exposed secrets and validates them. The Truffle team has done a lot of work on the remediation part of their product over the last few years, and Dylan tells us all about it!

      This episode is also available on YouTube

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        48 mins
      • Risky Business #832 -- Anthropic unveils magical 0day computer God

        Risky Business #832 -- Anthropic unveils magical 0day computer God
        Apr 8 2026
        On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover: Anthropic’s new Mythos model hunts bugs and chains exploits together so well that… you cant have it……Unless you’re one of their Project Glasswing partnersThe world isn’t short on bugs, though. F5, Fortinet, Progress ShareFile, and TrueConf are all getting rekt by humansGPU Rowhammering goes in the GPU, past the IOMMU and back into the host-side Nvidia driverNorth Korea is spending serious time and money on its crypto hackingJust when the US needs CISA most, they slash its budget some more! This week’s episode is sponsored by identity verification firm, Persona. Tying digital actions to actual human identities isn’t just for banking know-your-customer any more. Persona’s Benjamin Chait says know-your-staff checks belong in high-value flows inside your organisation, too. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Claude Mythos Preview \ red.anthropic.comAnthropic Claims Its New A.I. Model, Mythos, Is a Cybersecurity ‘Reckoning’ - The New York TimesAnthropic Teams Up With Its Rivals to Keep AI From Hacking Everything | WIREDFFmpeg on X: "Thank you to @AnthropicAI for sending FFmpeg patches" / XCritical flaw in F5 BIG-IP faces wide exploitation risk | Cybersecurity DiveReact2Shell vulnerability helps hackers steal credentials, AI platform keys and other sensitive data | Cybersecurity DiveCritical flaw in FortiClient EMS under exploitation | Cybersecurity DiveResearchers warn of critical flaws in Progress ShareFile | Cybersecurity DiveCISA gives agencies two weeks to patch video conferencing bug exploited by Chinese hackers | The Record from Recorded Future NewsNew Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs - Ars TechnicaNorth Korea's hijack of one of the web's most used open source projects was likely weeks in the making | TechCrunchDrift crypto platform confirms $280 million stolen in hack as researchers point finger at North Korea | The Record from Recorded Future NewsDrift on X: "Drift Protocol — Incident Background Update " / XTrump’s FY2027 budget again targets CISA | Cybersecurity DiveCISA’s vulnerability scans, field support on chopping block in Trump budget | Cybersecurity DiveIranian hackers break into U.S. industrial systems, agencies warnFBI labels suspected China hack of law enforcement data 'a major cyber incident'Russia Hacked Routers to Steal Microsoft Office Tokens – Krebs on SecurityMassachusetts hospital turning ambulances away after cyberattack | The Record from Recorded Future NewsExclusive | 'Ghost Murmur,' a never-used secret tool, deployed to find lost airman in Iran in daring missionA Secure Chat App’s Encryption Is So Bad It Is ‘Meaningless’
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      • How the World Got Owned Episode 2: The 1990s, Part One

        How the World Got Owned Episode 2: The 1990s, Part One
        Apr 3 2026

        In this special documentary episode, Patrick Gray and Amberleigh Jack take a look back at hacking throughout the 1990s, from the feel-good vibes of the early hacking communities to the antics of young hackers who wound up on the run from the FBI.

        Part one features recollections from:

        • Jeff Moss (The Dark Tangent), DefCon and Black Hat founder
        • Chris Wysopal (Weld Pond), L0pht member, co-founder, @Stake
        • Kevin Poulsen (Dark Dante), 1990s hacker turned journalist
        • Elias Levy (Aleph One), author of Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit, Phrack, 1996

        How the World Got Owned is produced in partnership with SentinelOne.

        Show notes
        • Elias Levy (Aleph1), Former Principle Engineer, Google
        • Kevin Poulsen, Journalist
        • Jeff Moss, DefCon founder
        • Chris Wysopal, @Stake founder, L0pht member
        • Hackers testifying at the United States Senate, May 19, 1998
        • Hackers May ‘Net’ Good PR for Studio
        • DefCon Archives | DefCon 1
        • A Not So Terribly Brief History of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
        • Innocent Hackers Want Their Computers Back
        • Breakdowns in Computer Security
        • Unsolved Mysteries, Season 3, Episode 4
        • The Last Hacker: He Called Himself Dark Dante. His Compulsion Led Him to Secret Files and, Eventually, The Bar of Justice
        • Justia appeal summary, Kevin Poulsen, 1994
        • Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit, Phrack Magazine, November 1996
        • From subversives to CEOs: How radical hackers built today’s cybersecurity industry
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        47 mins