On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest co-host Alex Stamos to talk through the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

• Everyone’s still panicking about “misbehaving” AI models that are pretty much just doing what they’re being told to do
• Americans are giving AI agents unfettered access to their bank accounts. What could go wrong?
• Last week’s PHP meteor seems to have missed Earth
• This week’s Brotli HTTP/2 critical flaw is this week’s meteor
• The private key is always 4. This time it’s TLS bugs in GoAhead
• Much, much more!

This week’s show is brought to you by Truffle Security. Co-founder and CEO Dylan Ayrey joins James Wilson to chat about scanning GitHub repos and finding more than half a million unique credentials that were never revoked. As Dylan explains, the problem of exposed keys exists everywhere and is only getting worse.

This episode is also available on YouTube

Show notes

• OpenAI AI agents demonstrate VM escapes and secret cross-sandbox communication
• OpenAi agents disabled safety monitoring, one lied about it
• solst/ICE of Astarte (@IceSolst) on X
• What I learned from cheating clankers
• Unvetted AI agents are accessing US bank accounts
• Hiding Capabilities in AI Models
• AI is finding bugs faster. Let the market find the fixes
• AI Guardrails Aren’t Stopping Criminal Hackers
• Andromeda October 2026 Security Incident
• Developer platform Railway urges ‘all users’ to revoke secret keys after cyberattack
• Exclusive: bipartisan bill would develop federal guidance for distillation attacks, convene industry on defensive cyber
• Hackers got a four-day head start on the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities
• Critical HTTP2Shell flaw in Brotli triggers emergency patches
• Senators say targeted ads are a security risk. Ad groups say the critics are off base
• Alleged Israeli spy company heavily targeted Starlink users, sources say
• LiteLLM release pipeline hacked to distribute info-stealer malware
• CISA warns attackers are chaining Plex flaws in active Plex2Shell attacks
• Abandoned Popcorn Time app exposed millions of devices to RCE attacks
• Chrome adds Gemini-powered scam detection and ClickFix warnings
• Microsoft Teams is getting context-aware phishing detection
• China-nexus actor linked to attack on ConnectWise cloud backup
• University of New Mexico hospital diverts ambulances after cyberattack
• solst/ICE of Astarte (@IceSolst) on X
• GitHub Repos Exposed 543,699 Credentials. Nobody Revoked Them

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest co-host security engineer Mark El-Khoury to talk through the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

• The PHP foundation is about to release patches for a couple of critical bugs… We’re watching to see if the internet burns down
• 8 private keys underpinning some CA certs got compromised. The keys only had 8 bits of entropy!
• Is the breach-polcalypse upon us?
• OpenAI’s inside spy, Anthropic’s safety bill and election influence campaigns are coming for your chatbots
• Ukraine drone strikes hit more Russian data centres, this time VK’s in the firing line
• Much, much more!

This week’s show is brought to you by Trail of Bits. Principal Security Engineer Anish Naik joins James Wilson to chat about two agent skills plugins, Patching Bugs and Regression Hunt, that the company is releasing off the back of its joint initiative with Open AI, Patch the Planet.

This episode is also available on YouTube

Show notes

• The PHP Foundation (@ThePHPF) on X
• The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs
• OpenCode breach exposes users' external AI-provider API keys
• DHS to ban DeepSeek from federal civilian agencies
• Rob Joyce (@RGB_Lights) on X
• OpenAI engineer accused of spying on executives remains in custody
• An OpenAI Employee Allegedly Used a Chatbot to Help Plant a Recording Device at the Office
• Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers
• The next election influence campaign will target your AI chatbot
• Feds Suspect Ransom Negotiator Ran ShinyHunters Extortion Site
• Thousands of refrigerator devices remain exposed following French cyberattack
• AI agents navigated unfamiliar OT systems and moved equipment within minutes
• Microsoft and partners disrupt vast Chinese-language phishing kit ecosystem
• Feds crack down on North Korean IT-worker schemes with new raids, charges and arrests
• Federal bankruptcy courts dealing with outages after contractor cyberattack
• Russian social media giant VK faces disruptions after data center drone strike
• Data Centers Are War Targets Now
• How a Massive Chinese Crime Ring Hacked Staples to Steal Millions
• Microsoft Patches More Than 1,400 Security Flaws
• GitHub expands malware advisories across eight package ecosystems
• Hackers breach Microsoft 365 tenants via ConnectWise supply-chain attack
• AdFection: How mercenary spyware invades victims’ devices through targeted advertising
• CISA warns of new Ivanti bug being exploited as latest Patch Tuesday breaks records
• Suspected Chinese espionage attackers abusing BeyondTrust IT support zero-day
• Drupal patches critical RCE flaws and warns exploits may emerge soon
• Palo Alto Networks patches PAN-OS zero-day exploited for root-level code execution
• Eight US states sue OpenAI over alleged harms to users
• Cyberattack halts work on the Denmark–Germany Fehmarnbelt tunnel
• Ransomware groups expand targeting of Palo Alto Networks vulnerability
• DHS Said They Searched Man Who Wiped GrapheneOS Phone for Child Abuse Material. They Lied
• Trail of Bits skills plugins

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

• Sacré bleu! Hackers turn up the heat at French supermarket freezers
• ShinyHunters enters “find out” stage
• Netscaler, Zimbra, SharePoint, Atlassian…. So many bugs exploited in the wild
• More models “behave badly” (by… doing exactly what we’re telling them to do)
• Ukraine hit another Yandex data centre in Russia and all those Texan patriots with numbers in their usernames have gone super quiet
• Much, much more…

This week’s show is brought to you by Corelight. Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Gregory Bell joins James Wilson to chat about the company’s new white paper that looks into whether a sophisticated model or nicely structured data is more important with automated SOC work.

This episode is also available on YouTube

Show notes

• Cyberattack disrupts refrigeration at hundreds of French supermarkets | therecord.media
• Dangerous flaws in refrigeration equipment were disclosed months before retail attacks | Cybersecurity Dive
• Retail giant Ahold Delhaize takes systems offline after cyberattack | BleepingComputer
• Hacked FBI data has sensitive information about employees' intelligence roles | reuters.com
• Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch Security
• ShinyHunters uses WAF bypass trick in Oracle PeopleSoft attacks | BleepingComputer
• Dutch Police Arrest ‘Reformed’ Hacker in Shiny Hunters Investigation | krebsonsecurity.com
• Key ShinyHunters hacker detained in Jordan, is cooperating, sources say | reut.rs
• FBI Arrests Founder of Ransomware Negotiation Firm | krebsonsecurity.com
• Ransomware recovery CEO charged over secret ransom payments | BleepingComputer
• Citrix urges immediate upgrades of NetScaler amid widespread exploitation attempts | Cybersecurity Dive
• Citrix confirms two NetScaler RCE zero-days exploited in attacks | BleepingComputer
• Kiteworks urges customers to stop using platform after warning from federal intelligence agencies | therecord.media
• Attackers have been exploiting critical Zimbra flaw to steal emails | arstechnica.com
• FBI, Secret Service add to warnings of FortiBleed credential stealing campaign | therecord.media
• Check Point warns of hackers exploiting Security Gateway VPN RCE flaw | BleepingComputer
• Microsoft SharePoint Flaw CVE-2026-65660 Now Exploited in Attacks | securityweek.com
• Hackers exploit critical Atlassian flaw after public PoC release | BleepingComputer
• CISA: Ransomware gangs now exploiting critical TeamCity flaw | BleepingComputer
• Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept. Website | nytimes.com
• An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police | TechCrunch
• OpenAI bots meddled with US government agencies, including SEC and Census | bbc.com
• OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government | wired.com
• Anthropic Says Its A.I. Agents Attempted to Access a Range of Government Sites | nytimes.com
• OpenAI agent breached Australian government health website, Albanese says | therecord.media
• Doubts grow over claims OpenAI agent hacked Australian Medicare portal | therecord.media
• OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic | arstechnica.com
• OpenAI Ignored Employees' Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models | nytimes.com
• AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter |
• South Korean officials believe AI agents were used to hack several banks | therecord.media
• JadePuffer agentic AI attacks target Azure, destroy cloud resources | BleepingComputer
• GLM-5.3 and the Spread of Advanced Cyber Capabilities | anthropic.com
• New bill would create federal investigative body for AI-driven hacks | cyberscoop.com
• Court rules Trump can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features | Ars Technica
• Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents | arstechnica.com
• Google Gemini could soon get full access to your Mac’s files, apps and the web | BleepingComputer
• Bitget hacked via zero-day in third-party security products | BleepingComputer
• Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts | BleepingComputer
• Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets? | zetter-zeroday.com
• Suspected TraderTraitor Group Uses Trojanized Terraform Provider to Deliver Cross-Platform Malware | zscaler.com
• New Spectre v2 attack variant leaks Linux root password hash in minutes | BleepingComputer
• Data breach at Denmark’s national population register exposes 8.8 million people | therecord.media
• Shares in British clothing company ASOS dive after hackers apparently send push notification | therecord.media
• Google halts open-source bug bounty program amid AI spam surge | BleepingComputer
• International coalition seizes tools used by cyber firm behind Flax Typhoon | therecord.media
• Hackers hijack Google domains after breaching ccTLD registries | BleepingComputer
• GoBalance Flaw Lets Attackers Hijack.onion Addresses by Recovering Tor-Format Keys | The Hacker News
• Ukraine strikes third Yandex data center, disrupting digital services across Russia | therecord.media
• Provably Better Data | Corelight

In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray chats with industry legend HD Moore about how his company runZero wound up being used heavily to discover OT devices in enterprise networks.

They also talk about the vulnpocalypse and how frontier lab fearmongering is reminiscent of the collective freakout when HD released the Metasploit exploit framework back in 2003.

This episode is also available on YouTube.

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THE RISKY BUSINESS WEEKLY SHOW IS NOW ON HIATUS FOR TWO WEEKS AND WILL RETURN OCTOBER 14

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by Adam Boileau to talk through the week’s news, including:

• Google’s Gemini finally did some crimes
• OpenAI admits more agents did silly things because “alignment”
• US Treasury’s Scott Bessent rules out a liability waiver for the frontier labs, saying, roughly: “Lol. Lmao even.”
• Jev is Silicon Valley’s “hot dog/not hotdog” app brought to life, and it will really improve security tooling
• The FBI and Coast Guard boarded oil tankers after they were allegedly hacked
• Much, much more…

This week’s show is brought to you by Thinkst Canary. Founder Haroon Meer joins Patrick to talk about Thinkst’s new deception tools that trick the AI agents that are targeting you. It’s actually hilarious how well deception tech works against hacking agents.

This episode is also available on YouTube

Show notes

• Google says its AI model gained unauthorized access to three outside systems | NBC News Tech
• OpenAI details more cases of AI agents taking unauthorized actions | BleepingComputer
• Researchers escape OpenAI Codex sandbox to run commands on host | BleepingComputer
• Hackers breached OpenAI, adding to fever pitch of security and safety concerns | NBC News Tech
• Treasury’s Scott Bessent says no liability exemptions for AI labs | Social Signals
• Scott Bessent meets with Chinese official on AI safety | NBC News Tech
• U.S. proposes exchanging AI safety alerts with China, Bessent says | NBC News Tech
• Trump says he’s creating an AI force and appointing a czar amid concerns over the rapidly developing tech | NBC News Tech
• AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack | Ars Technica
• Cybersecurity experts say AI giants are shutting them out of safety plans | nbcnews.to
• What Is Jev? A Guide to TypeSafe AI’s System One Model |
• FBI and Coast Guard boarded US-bound oil tankers after signs the ships were hit with cyberattacks | apnews.com
• Brevo supply-chain attack injected ClickFix scripts on customer sites | BleepingComputer
• Cisco alerts customers to second actively exploited zero-day in as many days | cyberscoop.com
• Hacking group ‘NightEagle’ targeting China’s high-tech sector expands operations to Russia | therecord.media
• Nations take action on North Korean IT workers after UN report | therecord.media
• North Korean hackers infect thousands of devices across 100 countries as part of ‘WaterPlum’ campaign | therecord.media
• An Undercover Google Analyst Infiltrated a Notorious Supply Chain Hacking Gang | wired.com
• Two arrested in UK after Microsoft takedown of ‘Eviltokens’ AI-chatbot for cybercriminals | therecord.media
• NightmareStresser DDoS Service Disrupted in International Operation | securityweek.com
• Brevo Supply Chain Attack Injects Malware Into 100,000 Websites | securityweek.com
• WordPress Click2Shell flaw lets hackers execute PHP on the server | BleepingComputer
• ShinyHunters cybercrime gang takes over Cl0p ransomware site, demands extortion payment | therecord.media
• Hacking group ShinyHunters claims it breached the FBI, stole agents’ and applicants’ data | TechCrunch Security
• Early Scattered Spider member pleads guilty to cybercrime spree | cyberscoop.com
• CISA promotes a fresh way to deter cyberattackers: Lie to them | Social Signals
• Getting agents to tell on themselves

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by former US Cyber Command executive director turned PwC’s Cyber, Data & Technology Risk leader Morgan Adamski to talk through the week’s news, including:

• More tech guys penned more open letters and AI will destroy us all!
• Another Wednesday, another congregation of OpenAI agents on wikis… yawn
• OpenAI agents were behind the headscratching RubyGems hacking campaign in May
• The FBI will disrupt more adversary operations, NSA is creating more mission centres, lawmakers want sanctions on hackers-for-hire… Release more hounds!
• So many platforms, so many bugs, so many patches breaking other stuff
• Much, much more…

This week’s show is brought to you by Airlock Digital. Its co-founders Daniel Schell and David Cottingham join Patrick to talk about how Airlock has integrated itself with Crowdstrike via its Falcon Foundry platform.

This episode is also available on YouTube

Show notes

• AI researcher says there is 'substantial probability' AI could kill all humans in next decade | NBC News Tech
• Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier | Social Signals
• China spy chief points at US AI models in cyber threat warning | therecord.media
• Weixin Official Accounts Platform |
• Trump calls concerns over A.I. destroying humanity a “hoax” | NBC News Tech
• Dr_Gingerballs (@Dr_Gingerballs) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
• Sam Altman backs Anthropic CEO's call to slow down the global AI race | NBC News
• Anthropic: Detecting and countering misuse of AI, September 2026 | anthropic.com
• AI lets small actors run state-level hacking campaigns, Anthropic report finds | cyberscoop.com
• Users in Houthi-held Yemen tried to develop advanced weapons with AI, Anthropic says | apnews.com
• Anthropic caught Russia-linked spies using Claude in hacking operations | therecord.media
• OpenAI's rogue agents used at least 10 more sites for unauthorized comms, researchers say | reuters.com
• Researchers say OpenAI agents were behind May hacking campaign targeting RubyGems | cyberscoop.com
• Anthropic claims Moonshot, DeepSeek secretly diverted user requests to Claude | South China Morning Post
• WeWorm | Social Signals
• Hackers exploit Tencent app flaw to deploy GrayRabbit malware | BleepingComputer
• New FBI cyber strategy promises increase in adversary disruptions | Cybersecurity Dive
• US disrupts Xinbi Guarantee marketplace fueling the cyber scam economy | therecord.media
• Thorough reorganization at NSA will create five 'mission centers,' including cyber and AI | therecord.media
• Lawmakers call on Treasury to sanction hackers-for-hire | cyberscoop.com
• CISA: WatchGuard RCE flaw now exploited in ransomware attacks | BleepingComputer
• Dutch NCSC: Critical Check Point VPN flaws exploitation is imminent | BleepingComputer
• GitLab’s critical flaw is already drawing internet-wide probes | cyberscoop.com
• Cisco warns customers of actively exploited zero-day in email gateways | cyberscoop.com
• 4 groups caught using the same Chrome and Windows exploit kit | Ars Technica
• September Windows Server updates break Remote Desktop Services | BleepingComputer
• Microsoft confirms KB5002914 Excel update breaks copy and paste | BleepingComputer
• Microsoft: September updates break audio on some Windows PCs | BleepingComputer
• ClickFix attacks infecting PCs and Macs are going viral | arstechnica.com
• Passkey-themed phishing attacks lead to Microsoft 365 data theft | BleepingComputer

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

• watchTowr: We’re all familiar with watchTowr’s research, but what do they actually do?
• XBOW: The AI pentesting company pitches its approach
• CoreView: Your M365 tenant is probably a security disaster. Tame it with CoreView!

This episode is also available on YouTube.

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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by guest co-host Robby Winchester from SpecterOps to talk through the week’s news, including:

• ID verification company IDScan was breached and 153m driver licenses wound up for sale online. Cue the barrage of lawsuits
• The US government plans to pay private contractors to conduct military hacks
• The US accuses China of distillation attacks, a.k.a. forbidden training
• It’s Wednesday, so OpenAI’s agents escaped sandboxes again and passed notes around on a German Wiki
• Much, much more…

This week’s show is brought to you by Sublime Security. Sublime’s head of detection engineering Randy Pargman joins the show to chat about how the company is preparing for prompt injection attacks to move from being largely theoretical to commonplace.

This episode is also available on YouTube

Show notes

• FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses | Krebs on Security
• IDScan sued over alleged data breach affecting 153 million drivers | BleepingComputer
• Senate Considers Allowing Contractors to Conduct Military Hacks | bloomberg.com
• Feds accuse China of ‘systematic’ distillation of U.S. AI models | cyberscoop.com
• Dropbox accounts breached through Lenovo email verification flaw | BleepingComputer
• FBI raises alarm over deceptive phishing campaign targeting prominent people | cyberscoop.com
• Microsoft warns of TerminalFix attacks deploying reverse tunnels | BleepingComputer
• OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki | arstechnica.com
• OpenAI releases new model that it says triggered internal security measures | NBC News Tech
• Trump may be forced to reveal secret rules feds use for AI safety testing | Social Signals
• Microsoft posts nearly 1,000 bugs for Patch Tuesday as CISA warns two being exploited | therecord.media
• Security Incident – BGP Hijacking – Virtualizor |
• Coder's registry infrastructure compromised to push malicious modules | BleepingComputer
• Pegasus, NoviSpy variant spyware found on devices of Serbian activists | cyberscoop.com
• European parliament members call for slowdown of Serbia’s EU entry over spyware use | CyberScoop
• New pro-Ukraine hacker group targets Russian companies with custom ransomware | therecord.media
• US military disabled ad tracking on troops’ devices following reports of targeted attacks | TechCrunch Security
• New CrowdStrike 'FalconFlank' zero-day grants SYSTEM privileges | BleepingComputer
• A hacker stole $340M in a crypto heist, then returned most of it | TechCrunch Security
• ‘White hat’ hackers take $47 million bounty after $320 million crypto theft | therecord.media

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by guest co-host The Grugq to talk through the week’s news, including:

• Two alleged TeamPCP hackers got arrested in Australia
• The White House has a plan to boost security for water facilities, but we can’t see it working
• OpenAI keeps the ol’ Hugging Face discourse going for another week with an incident debrief
• Tech companies write another open letter about AI… we’re getting CISA Shields Up flashbacks, but for robots
• Much, much more…

This week’s show is brought to you by Ent AI. Co-founder Brandon Dixon joins Pat to talk through some of the absolutely wild fraud and abuse the company’s endpoint security tool is finding when it’s deployed inside large organisations.

This episode is also available on YouTube

Show notes

• Two Alleged ‘TeamPCP’ Hackers Arrested in Australia | krebsonsecurity.com
• How Brian Krebs doxxed TeamPCP - Risky Business Media | Social Signals
• FIRST ON FOX: Texas becomes testing ground for new defense against attacks on America’s water systems | Social Signals
• OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack Debrief Raises More Questions Than It Answers | wired.com
• The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations |
• clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
• Matthew Zeitlin (@MattZeitlin) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
• 100-plus companies call for ‘global surge’ in AI-powered cyber defense | CyberScoop
• China's AI-Enabled APT Operations Are Getting Interesting - Risky Business Media |
• SilkParasite: Tracking a China-Nexus APT Across Central Asia |
• DoD confirms ‘refrigeration disruption’ at military commissaries | Military Times
• Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks | arstechnica.com
• Ukraine to give Britain access to battlefield data to train AI | therecord.media
• Anthropic warns infostealer malware is hijacking Claude sessions to drain usage | BleepingComputer
• White House bans foreign-made equipment for power generation over cyber backdoor concerns | therecord.media
• Large DDoS attack knocks Norwegian public services offline | The Record
• Researchers warn about chained SharePoint sequence | Cybersecurity Dive
• PaperCut warns of hackers using printer management software flaw in attacks | therecord.media
• AnonyMousKIT PhaaS uses voice AI agents to phish iPhone passcodes | BleepingComputer
• Slovenian casinos reopen after cyberattack knocked gaming systems offline | therecord.media
• DOJ firearms agency says hackers breached system containing investigation targets | therecord.media

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by guest co-host Ollie Whitehouse, the CTO of the UK’s NCSC, to talk through the week’s news, including:

• Iranian hackers take down a small-scale power generator in the UK
• Siemens PLCs in critical US sectors are also being targeted… We’re stumped on who could be behind that one, too.
• Microsoft fixed a CVSS 10 deserialisation bug in Entra before someone else found it and owned the planet
• Prompt injection isn’t going away
• LLMs are deceiving us meat sacks and it’s a worry
• Much, much more…

This week’s show is brought to you by Okta. VP of Threat Intel Brett Winterford joins the show in this week’s sponsor interview to talk James through how the company is turning its plethora of accumulated data into free alerting for its customers. They also chat about Okta’s new threat intelligence product line.

This episode is also available on YouTube

Show notes

• Iran-linked hackers blamed for cyber-attack that shut down UK power plant | theguardian.com
• Hackers using AI to target Siemens PLCs in critical US sectors | securityweek.com
• Defending Against an Active Threat to Siemens S7 Series PLCs | IC3.gov Industry Alerts
• US charges Iranians for sprawling hacking campaign on government agencies, universities | therecord.media
• T-Mobile ‘chopped a cable’ to expel Chinese hackers from its network | techcrunch.com
• The long tail of Clop’s PTC hack is just beginning to emerge | cyberscoop.com
• CISA: Medusa ransomware hit over 500 critical infrastructure orgs | BleepingComputer
• Ransomware disproportionately targets medium-sized firms, straining customer relationships | Cybersecurity Dive
• Microsoft warns of max severity Entra ID flaw exploited in attacks | BleepingComputer
• Critical RCE flaw in Windows IKE Extension now actively exploited | BleepingComputer
• Rust supply chain attack linked to North Korean hackers | securityweek.com
• Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted | arstechnica.com
• New phishing toolkit uses passkeys to maintain access after password resets | securityweek.com
• Password spraying attacks surge 155x as hackers exploit MFA gaps | BleepingComputer
• Hackers compromise 14,500 Dahua web cameras in 35-day campaign | BleepingComputer
• Hackers infect Android car head units with proxy botnet malware | BleepingComputer
• ToxicPanda Android malware uses VPN permissions to block Google Play | BleepingComputer
• New Manic Android malware can exfiltrate data through nearby devices | BleepingComputer
• Citrix urges admins to patch new NetScaler flaws as soon as possible | BleepingComputer
• AliExpress caught fingerprinting visitors after sending inaudible sounds to browsers | arstechnica.com
• EXCLUSIVE: How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt | reuters.com
• Detections and customer notifications | Okta Threat Intelligence

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by guest co-host Dmitri Alperovitch to talk through the week’s news, including:

Trump’s memo authorising the private sector to release the cyber hounds is fine, don’t worry! OpenAI finally decides to add a few safety measures after the whole “oopsie we committed some felonies” thing Anthropic’s models start a turf war when given the same task, surprising… nobody We can’t figure out whether a device that can hack a 737 is showboating stunt hacking or … something more real-world cool. Or both. Or something. Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by threat hunt and detection platform Nebulock. Founder and CEO Damien Lewke joins Pat to chat about what it looks like when you try to reinvent the SIEM in 2026 on a clean sheet of paper.

This episode is also available on YouTube

Show notes

• Trump signs memo authorizing private sector to launch cyberattacks | washingtonpost.com
• Trump taps cyber firms to go on offensive against criminals | therecord.media
• OpenAI Overhauls Safety Protocols After Its AI Agents Went Rogue | wired.com
• Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities |
• Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war. | TechCrunch Security
• Researchers observe first ‘near-autonomous’ AI attack on government target in Taiwan | cyberscoop.com
• Researchers find AI-powered hacking tools for sale in underground forums | Cybersecurity Dive
• Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack | arstechnica.com
• Trivy, Not LiteLLM Behind the 2,500 Org Compromise | securityweek.com
• Ukraine says cyberattack hit Russian e-commerce giant Wildberries amid drone strikes | The Record
• ‘Unprecedented’ number of Apple users received recent spyware alert, say investigators | TechCrunch Security
• This Coin-Sized Device Can Hack a Boeing 737 | wired.com
• "City-Forum" data-theft attacks target Salesforce, ServiceNow portals | BleepingComputer
• Max severity SAP Commerce Cloud flaw now targeted in attacks | BleepingComputer
• Shell investigates 'potential incident' after Clop data theft claims | BleepingComputer
• Philips and GE investigating Clop ransomware data theft claims | BleepingComputer
• Uber Freight reportedly investigating after hacking group claims data breach | TechCrunch Security
• Details emerge on BlackFile’s recent attacks on financial companies | cyberscoop.com
• After Microsoft threatened legal action, a security researcher publishes a new Windows zero-day bug | TechCrunch Security
• Kimwolf botnet rebuilt to survive takedowns, researchers say | cyberscoop.com
• Hundreds of fake Chrome VPN extensions route traffic through a proxy | BleepingComputer
• Deepfake hiccup unmasks suspected digital certificate fraudster | theregister.com
• Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation | arstechnica.com
• Critical VMware vCenter RCE flaw exploited for reverse SSH access | BleepingComputer
• Poland probes MyDr healthcare software breach potentially affecting 19 million people | therecord.media
• Crypto hardware wallet owners face fresh security risks after recent spate of personal data thefts | TechCrunch Security
• [un]prompted.au — AI × Cybersecurity Conference · Sydney, 18–19 September 2026 | [un]prompted.au