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Between Two Nerds: The fate of nations
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In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss whether cyber operations can be ‘strategic’, that is, can they affect the fate of nations.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
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In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss whether cyber operations can be ‘strategic’, that is, can they affect the fate of nations.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
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1 Risky Bulletin: France says Russia's influence operations are achieving results 6:03
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France says Russia’s influence operations are achieving results, Crowdstrike lays off 5% of its staff, a hacker dumps LockBit’s ransomware database, and a ransomware attack slows production at a major US medical device maker. Show notes

1 Srsly Risky Biz: US Cyber Command to be unleashed 21:24
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Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about how the US is planning to take the gloves off in cyberspace and conduct much more aggressive offensive cyber operations. US responses to cyber espionage have not been very aggressive to date, but Tom is not convinced that cyber punches are required, so much as blows that really hurt. The pair also discuss TeleMessage, the Signal clone the Trump cabinet has been using. The app managed to sidestep certification and assessment processes and ended up being used by various agencies in the US government. And the White House. It’s a mystery how this happened. This episode is also available on Youtube . Show notes…

1 Risky Bulletin: NSO ordered to pay Meta $167 million in WhatsApp lawsuit 5:37
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NSO Group ordered to pay Meta $167 million dollars, the White House tells N-S-A to cut 8% of its civilian staff, the US sanctions a Myanmar militia group leader for cyber scams, and one of the Nomad Bridge hackers gets arrested in Israel. Show notes
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about an in-depth report on a Ukrainian hacking control panel. The panel shows how the Ukrainian group thinks about hacking operations and the pair discuss why the report exists and what it achieves. This episode is also available on Youtube . Show notes Bulldog backdoor web panel analysis…

1 Risky Bulletin: Trump admin's Signal clone gets hacked, messages exposed 7:52
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The Trump admin’s Signal clone gets hacked, a six-year-old backdoor comes to life to hijack online stores, a Phishing kingpin identified as a 24-year-old Chinese man, and Ireland fines TikTok for transferring EU user data to China. Show notes

1 Sponsored: Why security is a data search problem 13:12
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In this Risky Bulletin sponsor interview Mike Wiaceck, CEO and founder of Stairwell, explains why he believes security is really a data storage and retrieval problem. He demonstrates how that pays off with in the analysis of new malware. Show notes

1 Risky Bulletin: New Microsoft accounts will be passwordless by default 5:44
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New Microsoft accounts will be passwordless by default, a Chinese APT is hijacking software updates, the US dominates EU cybersecurity market, and Commvault discloses a breach. Show notes

1 Srsly Risky Biz: Security vendors are constantly attacked 20:47
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Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about a SentinelOne report about how it is constantly targeted by both cybercriminal and state-backed hackers. Security firms are high-value targets, so constant attacks on them are the new normal. They also discuss an article that calls Signal “a kind of dark matter of American politics and media”. Many policy discussions occur on the app, and this explains the Trump administration’s extensive use of the app. This episode is also available on Youtube . Show notes…

1 Risky Bulletin: French government grows spine, calls out Russian hacks 8:49
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The French government calls out Russian hacks for the first time, Marks & Spencer sends staff home after a ransomware attack, China accuses America of hacking a major cryptography provider, and AirBorne vulnerabilities impact Apple’s AirPlay. Show notes

1 Between Two Nerds: Releasing the hounds on scam compounds 31:23
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In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss the Southeast Asian criminal syndicates that run online scam compounds. Should organisations like US Cyber Command or the UK’s National Cyber Force target these gangs with disruption operations? This episode is also available on Youtube . Show notes UN Office of Drugs and Crime on Southeast Asian transnational cyber scammers…

1 Risky Bulletin: Top AI models all fall to new prompt injection technique 5:25
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A new prompt injection attack is effective against all the big AI models, Poland says Facebook is failing to remove malicious ads, Africa’s largest telco discloses a security breach, and hackers breach Malaysian brokerage accounts. Show notes

1 Dropzone AI on AI's impact and role for SOC teams 18:43
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In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Edward Wu, founder and CEO of Dropzone AI. Edward talks about the impact AI in modern-day SOC teams and how its role slowly becomes a force multiplier and productivity boost rather than workforce replacement. Show notes

1 Risky Bulletin: Cybercriminals stole more than $16 billion last year 6:21
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Cybercriminals stole more than $16 billion last year, Iran tries to hack an EU official, the Lazarus Groups pulls off a successful watering hole and zero-day attack, and WhatsApp adds new chat privacy features. Show notes
Tom Uren and Adam Boileau talk about how scam compound criminal syndicates are responding to strong government action by moving operations overseas. It’s good they are being affected, but they are shifting into new countries that don’t have the ability to counter industrial-scale transnational organised crime. They also discuss CISA’s Secure by Design initiative and that key people behind the program have left the organisation. Given prospective job cuts at CISA it is hard to see the initiative getting a lot of love, but international cyber security authorities should pick up the slack. This episode is also available on Youtube . Show notes Cyberfraud in the Mekong reaches inflection point, UNODC reveals…

1 Risky Bulletin: Russian military personnel targeted with Android spyware 6:09
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Russian military personnel targeted with Android spyware, Trump defends Hegseth after second Signalgate scandal, CISA’s Secure by Design leaders depart the agency, and forced-labour cyber scam compounds expand globally. Show notes
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