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Regular cybersecurity news updates from the Risky Business team...

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Publishes	Daily	Episodes	100	Founded	4 years ago
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Risky Bulletin: Anthropic agents went hacking again

Anthropic agents went hacking again, South Korea increases its data breach fines, Apple notifies three Turkish ministers of mercenary spyware attacks, and CISA is ready to hire 250 staff. Show notes

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Yesterday • 10 min

Srsly Risky Biz: America's drivers licence breach is a national security disaster

Tom Uren and James Wilson talk about how Chinese intelligence services will take advantage of a massive breach of 150 million American drivers licences.

They also discuss the steps the US military is taking to counter adtech device tracking. It’s t... more

10 Sep 2026 • 24 min • Most popular

Risky Bulletin: Ukraine's top prosecutor resigns amid scam call center scandal

Ukraine’s top prosecutor resigns amid a scam call center scandal, the US accuses Chinese AI companies of industrial-scale distillation, a cyberattack hits medical practices in Luxembourg, and the Liquid Network attacker returns some stolen Bitcoin, b... more

9 Sep 2026 • 7 min • Popular

Between Two Nerds: Can AI defend critical infrastructure?

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about whether AI will help cyber defence in critical infrastructure and organisations that are below the cyber poverty line.

This episode is also available on YouTube. Show notes

... more

7 Sep 2026 • 27 min

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The Grugq

Security researcher and speaker

Episode: Between Two Nerds: Attribution is dead, long live attribution

Luke Jennings

VP of Research at Push

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Michael Leland

Field CTO at Enterprise Browser Maker Ireland

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Episode: Sponsored: Why Sublime doesn’t toss AI at every email

Vijit Nair

VP of Product

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Episode: Sponsored: Corelight’s blueprint for AI-era defence

Brandon Dixon

Co-founder and CTO of Ent AI

Ent AI

Episode: Sponsored: Ent on using AI to track human behavior on the endpoint

Jared Atkinson

CTO of SpecterOps

SpecterOps

Episode: Sponsored: Understanding CI/CD attack paths

Dylan Ayrey

Founder and CEO of Truffle Security

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Episode: Sponsored: Inside CISA's disastrous secrets leak

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Claire Aird

Host of Risky Bulletin segment + involvement in broader show coverage

James Wilson

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Tom Uren

Co-host, discusses Seriously Risky Biz newsletter topics; host of various segments

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4.8 out of 5 stars from 229 ratings

Claire is wonderful
I find her speech extremely easy to understand, even at 1.5 (that’s my normal setting, and the Bulletin is over before I remember that😅).
Not your problem I believe but although one thing she does well is phrase sentences and paragraphs, the AI transcription (which is remarkably accurate at the word and sentence levels) invariably breaks paragraphs one sentence too early. Maybe you can put a bug in Apple’s ear on this?
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Standards Geek
Japan9 months ago
Love the podcast!
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bmbeverst
2 years ago
Professional and interesting
Does exactly what it promises - a regular short summary of key cyber security news, with some fantastic analysis of the bigger events from experts in the field. Well worth your time!
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5
Kel-nage
United Kingdom2 years ago
Great podcast but…
They produce great shows but it gets to be a hard listen when Patrick Gray always talks over everyone. He never lets them finish their thoughts without interjecting all the time. Very annoying to say the least. He clearly wants to be the star.
Apple Podcasts
3
formersmoker1360
United States2 years ago
Very informative
Very informative podcast. Love the content. Thank you.
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United States3 years ago

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Guests and topics skew toward security governance, AI, and enterprise risk.

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Srsly Risky Biz: China's AI-Enabled APT Operations Are Getting Interesting

Q: What's your take on AI being added to critical infrastructure, and what does your prognosis look like for this designation actually solving problems?

AI as critical infrastructure is currently more hype than practical problem-solving; designation would be meaningful when AI becomes boring and no one cares anymore, implying a mature, low-friction integration rather than sensational attention.

Srsly Risky Biz: China's AI-Enabled APT Operations Are Getting Interesting

Q: What did the investigation actually find that made the use of AI in development so interesting, and how did Silk Parasite attribute so much to AI?

There were fingerprints and caveats in the report, including AI-written style placeholders and two separate malware pieces with similar high-level specifications but different implementations, which points to AI-assisted development rather than AI controlling the attacks.

Srsly Risky Biz: China's AI-Enabled APT Operations Are Getting Interesting

Q: Now, what does this tell us about the landscape here, is this different cyber actors or contractors, and is this a natural evolution?

It suggests there is room for both approaches: some actors run broad, loosely coordinated experiments with a framework, while others are more cautious, pursuing targeted, covert operations, especially against governments.

Sponsored: Passkeys won’t stop authorisation phishing

Q: What distinguishes authorization phishing from traditional authentication phishing?

Authorization phishing targets the post-authentication phase, abusing OAuth consent and device code flows to gain long-lasting access, rather than stealing credentials at login.

Sponsored: What npm 12 fixes… and what it doesn’t

Q: So you've obviously had a lot of experience and a lot of visibility on how this has all kind of evolved over the years. But then on top of that, there's a lot of growth that Socket's experienced and that gives you a lot of insight into what's happening in the wild. Can you go into that a bit more?

We discussed how Socket flags attacks quickly and monitors the ecosystem to identify new exploitation chains, how attackers shifted from pre-install scripts to self-executing code, and the importance of a multi-layered defense that combines provenance, behavior analysis, and broad ecosystem monitoring to reduce risk.

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