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Risky Bulletin
by Risky Business Media · English
Regular cybersecurity news updates from the Risky Business team...
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Risky Bulletin: Chinese APT exploits SS7, Diameter to spy on targets
This Risky Bulletin episode covers: a Chinese APT (“Silent Air”) hacking six Asian telcos and using SS7 and Diameter protocol weaknesses to intercept calls/SMS and track device locations, targeting a…
13 Nov 2026 · 12m · 25 chaptersSrsly Risky Biz: Iranian hacks with Russian characteristics
France attributes recent “freezer/fridge” temperature-manipulation hacks to Iran, but the hosts argue the broader pattern looks more like Russia; they also compare Chinese hacking approaches (Vapor…
12 Nov 2026 · 22m · 6 chaptersRisky Bulletin: France blames Iran for supermarket freezer hacks
This Risky Bulletin episode covers: France’s investigation into Iranian IRGC-linked Shahid Kaveh/Cyber Avengers hacking refrigeration controllers at French supermarkets, allegedly raising freezer…
11 Nov 2026 · 9m · 6 chaptersBetween Two Nerds: Why PHP2Shell fizzled
The hosts revisit the “PHP 2-Shell” PHP core vulnerability (high CVSS ~9.8) and why it did not trigger mass exploitation.
9 Nov 2026 · 24m · 12 chaptersRisky Bulletin: Pro-Kremlin hacktivists dox EU politicians, law enforcement
This Risky Bulletin covers multiple cybercrime and security incidents.
9 Nov 2026 · 9m · 6 chaptersSponsored: The evolution of ASD's Essential Eight
Risky Business sponsor interview on ASD’s evolution from the “Top Four” to Essential Eight and now the ASD Essentials framework.
8 Nov 2026 · 16m · 7 chaptersOpenSSH auth bypass bug hits Alpine Linux, OperWRT
This Risky Bulletin episode (Nov 6) covers a major OpenSSH auth bypass affecting Linux distros using the “musl” C library, including Alpine Linux, OpenWrt, Buildroot, and Yocto.
6 Nov 2026 · 10m · 11 chaptersSrsly Risky Biz: The ritual bitcoin sacrifices will continue until security improves
North Korea’s continued cyber theft against crypto, focusing on the Binance $6.3B Binance hack chain (malicious Homebrew via malvertising, then a successful fake two-round interview with coding…
5 Nov 2026 · 18m · 7 chaptersRisky Bulletin: Hackers brick Chinese EVs in Russia
This Risky Bulletin episode (Nov 4) covers: Li Auto EV ransomware-like theft in Russia, where hackers take over linked online accounts and demand $500–$600 to restore access; a second wave of…
4 Nov 2026 · 9m · 8 chaptersBetween Two Nerds: Finding bugs does not mean security
Discussion of A16Z’s “CISOs told us about AI budgets” security agenda and whether AI will materially improve real-world defense.
2 Nov 2026 · 31m · 15 chaptersFBI confirms North Korea behind Binance hack
This Risky Bulletin episode says the FBI and partners linked last week’s Binance hack to North Korea’s TraderTrader, an “elite” crypto-heist group.
2 Nov 2026 · 10m · 18 chaptersSponsored: Sublime Security on the rise of ISC calendar phishing
Luke Wescott (Sublime Security) discusses rising ISC calendar phishing: attackers send calendar invites (often via ICS attachments) that prompt victims to authenticate on a phishing page or download…
1 Nov 2026 · 12m · 9 chaptersBillions stolen in Binance hack
This Risky Bulletin episode covers major cybersecurity incidents: hackers stole billions from Binance, with analysts tracking funds moving into attacker-controlled wallets; some assets were frozen by…
30 Oct 2026 · 10m · 9 chaptersSrsly Risky Biz: Chinese AI can learn to love the West
Discussion of whether Chinese open-weight AI models can be “unlearned” to remove CCP-linked bias; implications for bans on Chinese models; and analysis of recent PHP and Brotli vulnerabilities, plus…
29 Oct 2026 · 19m · 7 chaptersRisky Bulletin: Moldovan public services crippled by cyberattack
A rapid roundup of major cyber incidents and security actions worldwide, spanning government service outages, ransomware, AI-assisted hacking, crypto wallet flaws, data theft, and new defensive…
28 Oct 2026 · 8m · 1 chapterBetween Two Nerds: Why frontier lab security will always suck
The episode argues that “frontier lab” (OpenAI/Anthropic) security will keep “sucking” because incentives favor speed and innovation over proactive security, unlike PHP’s security culture shift.
26 Oct 2026 · 27m · 14 chaptersRisky Bulletin: Brotli RCE is wrecking what's left of the internet
This Risky Bulletin episode covers multiple security incidents and vulnerabilities.
26 Oct 2026 · 8m · 6 chaptersSponsored: Should your threat hunt become a detection?
Nebulok head of detection strategy Alex Hurtado explains the Gates framework for deciding whether a successful threat hunt should be promoted into a durable detection, and how to evolve detections…
25 Oct 2026 · 19m · 10 chaptersRisky Bulletin: Supply chain attack lets ransomware group inside 40 shipping companies
This Risky Bulletin episode says a ransomware/data-extortion group breached around 40 maritime and global shipping companies by compromising a shared IT service provider and then pivoting into…
23 Oct 2026 · 10m · 7 chaptersSrsly Risky Biz: OpenAI's Kazoo-Grade Spying Incident
Two cybersecurity intelligence/policy stories: (1) alleged OpenAI insider spying via a hidden USB audio bug in a San Francisco conference room; (2) Norfolk report on autonomous “CAN” (autonomous…
22 Oct 2026 · 19m · 10 chaptersRisky Bulletin: Hacker hijacks 10% of Tor exit nodes
This Risky Bulletin episode covers a rapid set of cybercrime and security incidents.
21 Oct 2026 · 10m · 5 chaptersBetween Two Nerds: Why AI will mean infinite bugs
AI will accelerate vulnerability discovery and exploitation, leading to an ongoing “vulnpocalypse” rather than a one-time “deep clean,” so bugs may effectively feel infinite.
19 Oct 2026 · 24m · 7 chaptersRisky Bulletin: Linux patches PwnEscape KVM vulnerability
Linux kernel patch for the “Pwn Escape” KVM vulnerability; plus a rapid roundup of cyber incidents and security updates (account takeovers, ransomware arrests, supply-chain malware, breaches,…
19 Oct 2026 · 12m · 6 chaptersSponsored: Agents don’t care about human ideas of right and wrong
The episode argues that “rogue/misaligned” agent behavior is largely agents executing human-specified goals while exploiting gaps in incomplete policies, because LLMs don’t inherently care about…
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