On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news: Australian airline Qantas looks like it got a Scattered Spider-ing Microsoft works towards blunting the next CrowdStrike disaster Changes are coming for Microsoft’s default enterprise app consenting setup Synology downplays hardcoded passwords for its M365 cloud backup agent The next Citrix Netscaler memory disclosure looks nasty Drug cartels used technical surveillance to find, fix and finish FBI informants...
Jul 02, 2025•1 hr 2 min
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news: We roll our eyes over the “16 billion credentials” leak hitting mainstream news Some interesting cyber angles emerge from the conflict in Iran Opensource maintainer of libxml2 is fed up with this hacker crap Shockingly, there are yet more ways to trick people into pasting commands into Windows Veeam “patches” its backup software RCE like it’s 2002 … by breaking the public PoC This week’s episode is sponsored...
Jun 25, 2025•1 hr 2 min
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau are joined by special guest Chris Krebs to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They talk through: Israeli “hacktivists” take out an Iranian state-owned bank Scattered-spider and friends pivot into attacking insurers Securing identities in a cloud-first world keeps us awake at night Microsoft takes the “aas” out of SaaS for Europe, leaving us with just software! An AI prompt injection into M365 exfils corporate data This week’s episode is spons...
Jun 18, 2025•1 hr 1 min
In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray chats with Dropzone AI founder Ed Wu about the role of LLMs in the SOC. The debate about whether AI agents are going to wind up in the SOC is over, they’ve already arrived. But what are they good for? What are they NOT good for? And where else will we see AI popping up in security? This episode is also available on Youtube . Show notes...
Jun 16, 2025•31 min
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news: New York Times gets a little stolen Russian FSB data as a treat iVerify spots possible evidence of iOS exploitation against the Harris-Walz campaign Researcher figures out a trick to get Google account holders’ full names and phone numbers Major US food distributor gets ransomwared The Com’s social engineering of Salesforce app authorisations is a harbinger of our future problems Australian Navy forgets New ...
Jun 11, 2025•1 hr 8 min
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news: Cyber firms agree to deconflict and cross-reference hacker group names Russian nuclear facility blueprints gathered from public procurement websites Someone audio deepfaked the White House Chief of Staff, but for the dumbest reasons Germany identifies the Trickbot kingpin Google spots China’s MSS using Calendar events for malware C2 Meta apps abuse localhost listeners to track web sessions. This week’s episo...
Jun 04, 2025•58 min
In this week’s edition of Risky Business Dmitri Alperovitch and Adam Boileau join Patrick Gray to talk through the week’s news, including: EXCLUSIVE: A Scattered Spider-style crew is hijacking DNS MX entries and compromising enterprises within minutes The SVG format brings the all horrors of HTML+JS to image files, and attackers have noticed Brian Krebs eats a 6.3Tbps DDoS … ‘cause that’s how you demo your packet cannon Law enforcement takes out Lumma Stealer, Qakbot, Danabot and some dark web d...
May 28, 2025•1 hr 5 min
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news: TeleMessage memory dumps show up on DDoSecrets Coinbase contractor bribed to hand over user data Telegram does seem to be actually cooperating with law enforcement Britain’s legal aid service gets 15 years worth of applicant data stolen Shocking no one, Ivanti were weaseling when they blamed latest bugs on a third party library This week’s episode is sponsored by Prowler, who make an open source cloud securi...
May 21, 2025•53 min
In this wholly sponsored Soap Box edition of the show, Patrick Gray chats with Adam Bateman and Luke Jennings from Push Security. Push has built an identity security platform that collects identity information and events from your users’ browsers. It can detect phish kits and shut down phishing attempts, protect SSO credentials, and find shadow/personal account that a user has spun up. It’s extremely difficult to bypass. That’s because when you’re in the browser it doesn’t matter how a phishing ...
May 15, 2025•34 min
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news: Struggling to find that pesky passwords.xlsx in Sharepoint? Copilot has your back! The ransomware ecosystem is finding life a bit tough lately SAP Netweaver bug being used by Chinese APT crew Academics keep just keep finding CPU side-channel attacks And of course… bugs! Asus, Ivanti, Fortinet… and a Nissan LEAF? This week’s episode is sponsored by Resourcely, who will soothe your Terraform pains. Founder and...
May 14, 2025•58 min
In this edition of the Wide World of Cyber podcast Patrick Gray talks to SentinelOne’s Steve Stone and Alex Stamos about how foreign adversaries are targeting security vendors, including them. From North Korean IT workers to Chinese supply chain attacks, SentinelOne and its competitors are constantly fending off sophisticated hacking campaigns. This edition of the Wide World of Cyber was recorded in front of a live audience in San Francisco, with Patrick attending via Zoom. The Wide World of Cyb...
May 09, 2025•53 min
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news: White House’s off-brand Israeli Signal fork logs cleartext messages with hard coded creds while getting hacked (twice). Just … Wow. Ransomware attacks on UK retailers are linked, and Marks & Spencer has it extra bad After six years dormant, a Magento eCommerce platform backdoor comes to life The North Korean IT worker scam is truly webscale NSO group owes Meta $168m for hacking WhatsApp This week’s episo...
May 07, 2025•56 min
In this extended interview the Vice Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senator Mark Warner, joins Risky Business host Patrick Gray to talk about: The latest developments in the Signalgate scandal Why America needs to be more aggressive in responding to Volt Typhoon How tariffs are affecting American alliances Why the Five Eyes alliance is sacrosanct This episode is available on Youtube Show notes...
May 06, 2025•50 min
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news: British retail stalwart Marks & Spencer gets cybered South Korean telco sets out to replace all its subscriber SIMs after (we assume) it lost the keymat It’s a good exploit week! Bugs in Apple Airplay, SAP webservers, Erlang SSH and CommVault backups Juice jacking! No, really! Some researchers actually did it (so still not in the wild, then) Anti-DOGE whistleblower sure sounds like he has a point This we...
Apr 30, 2025•1 hr 3 min
In this edition of the Snake Oilers podcast, three sponsors come along to pitch their products: LimaCharlie : A public cloud for SecOps Honeywell Cyber Insights : An OT security/discovery solution Fortra’s CobaltStrike and Outflank : Security tooling for red teamers This episode is also available on Youtube . Show notes...
Apr 28, 2025•39 min
In this edition of Snake Oilers three vendors pitch host Patrick Gray on their tech: Pangea: Guardrails and security for AI agents and applications (https://pangea.cloud) Worried about your AI apps going rogue, being mean to your customers or even disclosing sensitive information? Pangea exists to address these risks. Fascinating stuff. Cosive: A threat intelligence company that can host your MISP server in AWS. CloudMISP! (https://www.cosive.com/snakeoilers) Are you running a MISP server on som...
Apr 17, 2025•48 min
On this week’s show Patrick Gray talks to former NSA Cybersecurity Director Rob Joyce about Donald Trump’s unprecedented, unwarranted and completely bonkers political persecution of Chris Krebs and his employer SentinelOne. They also talk through the week’s cybersecurity news, covering: Mitre’s stewardship of the CVE database gets its funding DOGE’d The US signs on to the Pall Mall anti-spyware agreement China tries to play the nationstate cyber-attribution game, but comedically badly Hackers ru...
Apr 16, 2025•54 min
In this podcast, Patrick Gray chats with SentinelOne’s Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos about the huge changes afoot in the United States government and what they mean for the threat environment. From the director of NSA being fired to massive job cuts at CISA and huge foreign policy shifts, tomorrow’s threat environment is going to be very different to today’s. Tune in to hear analysis from two of the best in the business! This episode is also available on Youtube . Show notes...
Apr 10, 2025•43 min
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news: Oracle quietly cops to being hacked, but immediately pivots into pretending it didn’t matter NSA and CyberCom leaders fired for not being MAGA enough US Treasury had some dusty corners it hadn’t found China in yet, looked, found China in them …which is a great time to discuss slashing CISA’s staffing Ransomware crews and bullet proof hosting providers are getting rekt, and we love it And Microsoft patches ye...
Apr 09, 2025•53 min
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news: Yes, Oracle Health and Oracle Cloud did get hacked The fallout from Signalgate continues North Korean IT workers pivot to Europe Honeypot data suggests a storm is brewing for Palo Alto VPNs Canadian Anon gets arrested for hacking Texas GOP This week’s episode is sponsored by Trail of Bits. Tjaden Hess, a Principal Security Engineer at Trail of Bits who specialises in cryptography, joins the show this week to...
Apr 02, 2025•55 min
In this Soap Box edition of Risky Business host Patrick Gray talks to Knocknoc CEO Adam Pointon about how to easily rein in attack surface by glueing your single sign-on service to your network controls. Do your Palo Alto and Fortinet devices really need to be discoverable by ransomware crews? Does your file transfer appliance need to be open to the whole world? What about your SSH and RDP? Your Citrix? Your (gasp) Exchange Online servers?? You can do a lot with IP allowlisting and simple Identi...
Mar 26, 2025•31 min
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news: Yes, the Trump admin really did just add a journo to their Yemen-attack-planning Signal group The Github actions hack is smaller than we thought, but was targeting crypto Remote code exec in Kubernetes, ouch Oracle denies its cloud got owned, but that sure does look like customer keymat Taiwanese hardware maker Clevo packs its private keys into bios update zip US Treasury un-sanctions Tornado Cash, party tim...
Mar 26, 2025•59 min
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news: Github Actions supply chain attack loots keys and secrets from 23k projects Why a VC fund now owns a minority stake in Risky Business Media (!?!?) China doxes Taiwanese military hackers Microsoft thinks .lnk file whitespace trick isn’t worth patching but APTs sure love it CISA delivers government efficiency by re-hiring fired staff… to put them on paid leave …and Google acquires Wiz for $32bn This week’s sho...
Mar 19, 2025•57 min
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news with special guest Rob Joyce, a Former Special Assistant to the US President and Director of Cybersecurity for NSA. They talk through: A realistic bluetooth-proximity phishing attack against Passkeys A very patient ransomware actor encrypts an entire enterprise with a puny linux webcam processor The ESP32 backdoor that is neither a door nor at the back The X DDoS that Elon said was Ukraine is claimed by pro-P...
Mar 12, 2025•1 hr 4 min
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news: Did the US decide to stop caring about Russian cyber, or not? Adam stans hard for North Korea’s massive ByBit crypto-theft Cellebrite firing Serbia is an example of the system working Starlink keeps scam compounds in Myanmar running Biggest DDoS botnet yet pushes over 6Tbps This week’s episode is sponsored by network visibility company Corelight. Vincent Stoffer, field CTO at Corelight joins to talk through ...
Mar 05, 2025•50 min
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news: North Korea pulls off a 1.5 billion dollar crypto heist Apple pulls Advanced Data Protection from the UK Black Basta ransomware gang’s internal chats leak Russians snoop on Signal with QR codes And Myanmar ships thousands of freed scam compound workers to Thailand Regular guest Lina Lau joins to discuss her work reading Chinese incident response reports on WeChat, and how that has people thinking that … she ...
Feb 26, 2025•1 hr 3 min
In this episode of the Wide World of Cyber podcast Risky Business host Patrick Gray chats with SentinelOne’s Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos about AI, DeepSeek, and regulation. From its bad transport security to its Chinese ownership and the economic implications of China “entering the chat”, everyone’s freaking out over this new model. But should they be? Pat, Alex and Chris dissect the model’s significance, the politics of it all and how AI regulation in Europe, the US and China will shape the fut...
Feb 21, 2025•41 min
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Australian spooks scrubbed Medibank data off Zservers bulletproof hosting Why device code phishing is the latest trick in confusing poor users about cloud authentication Cloudflare gets blocked in Spain, but only on weekends and because of… football? Palo Alto has yet another dumb bug Adam gushes about Qualys’ latest OpenSSH vulns Enterprise browser maker Island is this week’s sponsor and Chief Cu...
Feb 19, 2025•1 hr 1 min
In this SoapBox edition of the show Patrick Gray chats to Fletcher Heisler, the CEO of open-source identity provider Authentik. The whole idea of Authentik is you can take control of an essential IT and security function: identity. Because Authentik is open source it’s extremely flexible, and if you’re running it yourself, you get to decide where your IDP should sit in your architecture. You can run it on prem if you’re an emergency call centre or you’re operating an airgapped network, or you ca...
Feb 14, 2025•38 min
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Musk’s DOGE kid has a history with The Com Paragon fires Italy as a spyware customer Thailand cuts power to scam compounds… … and arrests Phobos/8Base Russian cybercrims The CyberCX DFIR report shows non-U2F MFA is well and truly over And much, much more. This week’s episode is sponsored by Dropzone.AI. They make an AI SOC analysis platform that relieves your analysts of the necessary but tedious ...
Feb 12, 2025•59 min