Episodes

  • Wide World of Cyber: How the Trump admin is changing the cybersecurity landscape

    Wide World of Cyber: How the Trump admin is changing the cybersecurity landscape
    Apr 10 2025

    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.

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    • Snake Oilers: Pangea, Cosive and Sysdig

      Snake Oilers: Pangea, Cosive and Sysdig
      Apr 17 2025

      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/capabilities/cloud-misp)

      Are you running a MISP server on some old hardware under a desk in your SOC? There’s a better way! Cosive can run it for you on AWS so you can just use it instead of wrestling with maintaining it. They also do some CTI consulting to help you get better use out of MISP.

      • Sysdig: A Linux runtime security platform (https://sysdig.com/)

      The modern Windows network is an all-singing, all-dancing, perfectly orchestrated, EDR-protected ballet. The modern Linux production environment… isn’t. Find out how Sysdig can help you get some visibility and control over your Linux fleet.

      This episode is also available on Youtube.

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      • Risky Business #788 -- Trump targets Chris Krebs, SentinelOne

        Risky Business #788 -- Trump targets Chris Krebs, SentinelOne
        Apr 16 2025

        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 run their malware inside the Windows sandbox, for security against EDR

        This week’s episode is sponsored by open source identity provider Authentik. CEO Fletcher Heisler joins to talk through the increasing sprawl of the identity ecosystem.

        This episode is also available on Youtube.

        Show notes
        • Cybersecurity industry falls silent as Trump turns ire on SentinelOne | Reuters
        • U.S. cyber defenders shaken by Trump's attack on their former boss
        • Trump Revenge Tour Targets Cyber Leaders, Elections – Krebs on Security
        • Wyden to block Trump's CISA nominee until agency releases report on telecoms’ ‘negligent cybersecurity’ | The Record from Recorded Future News
        • Gabbard sets up DOGE-style team to cut costs, uncover intel ‘weaponization’
        • MITRE Warns CVE Program Faces Disruption Amid US Funding Uncertainty
        • US to sign Pall Mall pact aimed at countering spyware abuses | The Record from Recorded Future News
        • Court document reveals locations of WhatsApp victims targeted by NSO spyware | TechCrunch
        • Spyware Maker NSO Group Is Paving a Path Back Into Trump’s America | WIRED
        • NCSC shares technical details of spyware targeting Uyghur, Tibetan and Taiwanese groups | The Record from Recorded Future News
        • Risky Bulletin: Chinese APT abuses Windows Sandbox to go invisible on infected hosts
        • China escalates cyber fight with U.S., names alleged NSA hackers
        • Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs - Ars Technica
        • China-based SMS Phishing Triad Pivots to Banks – Krebs on Security
        • Risky Bulletin: CA/B Forum approves 47-days TLS certs
        • Ransomware in het mkb: Cybercriminelen verhogen losgeld bij cyberverzekering
        • 4chan Is Down Following What Looks to Be a Major Hack Spurred By Meme War
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        54 mins
      • Risky Business #787 -- Trump fires NSA director, CISA cuts inbound

        Risky Business #787 -- Trump fires NSA director, CISA cuts inbound
        Apr 9 2025
        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 matterNSA and CyberCom leaders fired for not being MAGA enoughUS 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 staffingRansomware crews and bullet proof hosting providers are getting rekt, and we love itAnd Microsoft patches yet another logging 0-day being used in the wild. This episode is sponsored by Yubico, makers of Yubikey hardware authentication tokens. Yubico’s Vice President of Solutions Architecture and Alliances Derek Hanson joins to discuss how the consumer-centric passkey ecosystem has become a real challenge for enterprises. One that Yubico is actually ideally positioned to solve. Show notes Oracle privately confirms Cloud breach to customers Oracle have finally issued a written notification to customers about their cybersecurity incident. Head of NSA and US Cyber Command reportedly fired | Cybersecurity Dive Trump fires numerous National Security Council staff - The Washington Post Trump administration under scrutiny as it puts major round of CISA cuts on the table | Cybersecurity Dive Hackers Spied on US Bank Regulators’ Emails for Over a Year - Bloomberg This is how Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the Signal chat Cybercriminals are trying to loot Australian pension accounts in new campaign | The Record from Recorded Future News $500,000 stolen in Australian super fund data breach | Superannuation | The Guardian Australian regulator pulls licenses of 95 companies in effort to crack down on investment scams | The Record from Recorded Future News Everest ransomware group’s darknet site offline following defacement | The Record from Recorded Future News On March 28, 2025, a threat actor leaked internal data from Medialand, a major bulletproof hosting (BPH) provider long linked to Yalishanda (LARVA-34). There's a ransomware group named DragonForce going around hacking its rivals. After Mamona and BlackLock, the group has now hacked RansomHub The DragonForce ransomware group hacked two rivals this month CISA, experts warn of Crush file transfer attacks as ransomware gang makes threats | The Record from Recorded Future News Kill Security Campaign Targets CrushFTP Servers National Vulnerability Database | NIST Microsoft patches zero-day actively exploited in string of ransomware attacks | CyberScoop Exploitation of CLFS zero-day leads to ransomware activity | Microsoft Security Blog Is The Sofistication In The Room With Us? - X-Forwarded-For and Ivanti Connect Secure (CVE-2025-22457)
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        53 mins
      • Risky Business #786 -- Oracle is lying

        Risky Business #786 -- Oracle is lying
        Apr 2 2025
        On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news: Yes, Oracle Health and Oracle Cloud did get hackedThe fallout from Signalgate continuesNorth Korean IT workers pivot to EuropeHoneypot data suggests a storm is brewing for Palo Alto VPNsCanadian 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 talk about what a responsible crypto-currency exchange cold wallet setup looks like, and … contrasts that with Bybit. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Oracle Health breach compromises patient data at US hospitalsFBI probes Oracle hack tied to healthcare extortion: Report - Becker's Hospital Review | Healthcare News & AnalysisOracle Still Denies Breach as Researchers PersistHacker linked to Oracle Cloud intrusion threatens to sell stolen data | Cybersecurity DivePublius on X: "🚨 SIGNAL SCANDAL: Katherine Maher, the leftist NPR CEO, is currently the Chair of the Board of Signal! WHAT ARE THE ODDS? https://t.co/jWNTeAt3Jz" / XMike Waltz Is Losing Support Inside the White House - WSJWaltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say - The Washington PostPete Hegseth, Mike Waltz, Tulsi Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online - DER SPIEGELEven More Venmo Accounts Tied to Trump Officials in Signal Group Chat Left Data Public | WIREDYou Need to Use Signal's Nickname FeatureSignalGate Is Driving the Most US Downloads of Signal Ever | WIREDWickr - WikipediaWhen Getting Phished Puts You in Mortal Danger – Krebs on SecurityDPRK IT Workers Expanding in Scope and Scale | Google Cloud BlogHow the FBI Tracked, and Froze, Millions Sent to Criminals in Massive Caesars Casino HackDefense contractor to pay $4.6 million over third-party provider’s security weakness | The Record from Recorded Future NewsSurge in Palo Alto Networks Scanner Activity Indicates Possible Upcoming ThreatsCISA warns new malware targeting Ivanti zero-day vulnerability | Cybersecurity DiveCanadian hacker arrested for allegedly stealing data from Texas Republican Party | The Record from Recorded Future NewsBritish intel intern pleads guilty to smuggling top secret data out of protected facility | The Record from Recorded Future News
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        55 mins
      • Soap Box: Knocknoc glues your SSO to your firewalls for Just-in-Time network access

        Soap Box: Knocknoc glues your SSO to your firewalls for Just-in-Time network access
        Mar 26 2025

        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 Identity Aware Proxies (IAPs) to minimise your exposure.

        Knocknoc is a bit of a “Risky Business special”, too. Pat helped Knocknoc to raise a seed round through Decibel Partners where he’s a founder advisor. He also serves on Knocknoc’s board of directors.

        This episode is also available on Youtube.

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        • Risky Business #785 -- Signal-gate is actually as bad as it looks

          Risky Business #785 -- Signal-gate is actually as bad as it looks
          Mar 26 2025

          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 time in Pyongyang?

          This week’s episode is sponsored by runZero. Long time hackerman HD Moore joins to talk about how network vulnerability scanning has atrophied, and what he’s doing to bring it back en vogue. Do you miss early 2000s Nessus? HD knows it, he’s got you fam.

          This episode is also available on Youtube.

          Show notes
          • The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans - The Atlantic
          • Using Starlink Wi-Fi in the White House Is a Slippery Slope for US Federal IT | WIRED
          • Coinbase Initially Targeted in GitHub Actions Supply Chain Attack; 218 Repositories' CI/CD Secrets Exposed
          • GitHub Actions Supply Chain Attack: A Targeted Attack on Coinbase Expanded to the Widespread tj-actions/changed-files Incident: Threat Assessment (Updated 3/21)
          • Critical vulnerabilities put Kubernetes environments in jeopardy | Cybersecurity Dive
          • Researchers back claim of Oracle Cloud breach despite company’s denials | Cybersecurity Dive
          • The Biggest Supply Chain Hack Of 2025: 6M Records Exfiltrated from Oracle Cloud affecting over 140k Tenants | CloudSEK
          • Capital One hacker Paige Thompson got too light a sentence, appeals court rules | CyberScoop
          • US scraps sanctions on Tornado Cash, crypto ‘mixer’ accused of laundering North Korea money | Reuters
          • Tornado Cash Delisting | U.S. Department of the Treasury
          • Major web services go dark in Russia amid reported Cloudflare block | The Record from Recorded Future News
          • Clevo Boot Guard Keys Leaked in Update Package
          • Six additional countries identified as suspected Paragon spyware customers | CyberScoop
          • The Citizen Lab’s director dissects spyware and the ‘proliferating’ market for it | The Record from Recorded Future News
          • Malaysia PM says country rejected $10 million ransom demand after airport outages | The Record from Recorded Future News
          • Hacker defaces NYU website, exposing admissions data on 1 million students | The Record from Recorded Future News
          • Notre Dame uni students say outage creating enrolment, graduation, assignment mayhem - ABC News
          • DNA of 15 Million People for Sale in 23andMe Bankruptcy
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          59 mins
        • Risky Business #784 -- GitHub supply chain attack steals secrets from 23k projects

          Risky Business #784 -- GitHub supply chain attack steals secrets from 23k projects
          Mar 19 2025
          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 projectsWhy a VC fund now owns a minority stake in Risky Business Media (!?!?)China doxes Taiwanese military hackersMicrosoft thinks .lnk file whitespace trick isn’t worth patching but APTs sure love itCISA delivers government efficiency by re-hiring fired staff… to put them on paid leave…and Google acquires Wiz for $32bn This week’s show is sponsored by Zero Networks, and they have sent along a happy customer to talk about their experience. Aaron Steinke is Head of Infrastructure at La Trobe Financial, an asset management firm in Australia. Aaron talks through bringing modern zero-trust goodness to the reality of a technology environment that’s been around 40 years. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Risky Bulletin: GitHub supply chain attack prints everyone's secrets in build logs - Risky Business MediaChina says Taiwan's military is behind PoisonIvy APTChina identifies Taiwanese hackers allegedly behind cyberattacks and espionage | The Record from Recorded Future NewsCrypto exchange OKX shuts down tool used by North Korean hackers to launder stolen funds | The Record from Recorded Future NewsLazarus Group deceives developers with 6 new malicious npm packages | CyberScoopPoisoned Windows shortcuts found to be a favorite of Chinese, Russian, N. Korean state hackers | The Record from Recorded Future News'Mora_001' ransomware gang exploiting Fortinet bug spotlighted by CISA in January | The Record from Recorded Future NewsBlack Basta uses brute-forcing tool to attack edge devices | Cybersecurity DiveAlleged Russian LockBit developer extradited from Israel, appears in New Jersey court | The Record from Recorded Future NewsCISA works to contact probationary employees for reinstatement after court order - Nextgov/FCW‘People Are Scared’: Inside CISA as It Reels From Trump’s Purge | WIREDThe Wiretap: CISA Staff Are Cautiously Optimistic About Trump’s Pick For DirectorWhite House instructs agencies to avoid firing cybersecurity staff, email says | ReutersSignal no longer cooperating with Ukraine on Russian cyberthreats, official says | The Record from Recorded Future NewsTelegram CEO Pavel Durov allowed to leave France amid investigationAppellate court upholds sentence for former Uber cyber executive Joe Sullivan | The Record from Recorded Future NewsGoogle buys cloud security provider Wiz for $32 billion | The Record from Recorded Future NewsPat Gray, Founder of Risky Business, Joins Decibel as Founder Advisor - Decibel
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          57 mins
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