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Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about the White House apparently considering kicking Canada out of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance to apply pressure on the country. It’s a terrible idea and even thinking about it undermines the strength of the alliance.

They also discuss Sweden’s proposed legislation that would order apps like WhatsApp and Signal to store messages so they could be provided under warrant to authorities. The story is a vignette of the ongoing encryption debate, but we think apps like Signal will leave the country rather than comply.

Finally, they talk about how the illicit cryptocurrency ecosystem is evolving in response to government action such as takedowns and sanctions.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

 
 
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Srsly Risky Biz: Canada's expulsion from Five Eyes would be a disaster

Cellebrite bans Serbia from using its products, Chinese hackers breached the Belgian security service, the Republican National Committee hid a Chinese hack and Microsoft removes malicious extensions from the VSCode Marketplace.

 
 
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Risky Bulletin: Cellebrite fires Serbia as a customer

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Toni de la Fuente, founder and CEO of cloud security firm Prowler. Toni talks about his company’s latest effort, the Open Cloud Security Movement, an initiative to get more cloud security vendors to open-source their core projects.

 
 
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 Open Cloud Security
 
 Prowler on Github
 
 Risky Biz Product demo: Prowler, the free and open source cloud security platform

Risky Bulletin: Trump admin halts Russia cyber operations

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq take a deep dive into incident response reports from Chinese cybersecurity firms that attribute the hack of one of the country’s top seven defence universities to the US National Security Agency. These reports were collated and translated into English by the security researcher known as Inversecos (https://x.com/inversecos).

This episode is also available on Youtube.

 
 
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 NSA (Equation Group) TTPs from a Chinese lens
 
 Northwestern Polytechnical University at the China Defence Universities tracker
 
 Risky Business podcast discussion with Inversecos

Between Two Nerds: NSA's 9 to 5 hacking campaign

In this Risky Business Talks interview we invited Will Thomas to talk about the recent leak of internal chats from the Black Basta ransomware group. Will is a SANS Instructor, co-author of the SANS FOR589 course, and the co-founder of a community research project for CTI analysts called Curated Intelligence. Will walks us through the Black Basta leak and uses the group’s attack on US healthcare provider Ascension to break down how the gang operated.

 
 
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 Risky Bulletin: BlackBasta implodes, internal chats leak online
 
 BlackBasta’s internal chats just got exposed
 
 BlackBasta Chat Logs
 
 BlackBastaGPT
 
 BlackBasta Leaks: Lessons from the Ascension Health attack
 
 Inside the Black Basta Leak: How Ransomware Operators Gain Access

RBTALKS6: Will Thomas on the Black Basta leaks

Researchers turn any Bluetooth device into an AirTag tracker, VMware patches three ESXi zero-days, France debates encryption backdoors, and a fifth of the stolen Bybit funds are now untraceable.

 
 
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Risky Bulletin: Research turns any Bluetooth device into an AirTag

In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray discuss how Starlink is providing an internet lifeline for scam compounds that have had their internet access cut by Thai authorities. Starlink has a very poor track record dealing with unauthorised use, but it is time for the company to develop the processes to keep on top of these problems.

They also discuss how President Trump’s actions that favour Russia will make Five Eyes partners take stock, particularly when it comes to HUMINT intelligence sharing.

Finally they examine the did-it-happen-or-not stand-down of US Cyber Command’s Russian operations.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

 
 
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Srsly Risky Biz: Starlink an internet lifeline for pig butchering compounds

The US indicts the i-Soon and APT27 hackers, the BADBOX botnet gets disrupted again,authorities seize the Garantex crypto exchange, and the FBI arrests hackers who stole Taylor Swift concert tickets.

 
 
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Risky Bulletin: US indicts i-Soon and APT27 hackers

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Andrew Morris, founder of security firm GreyNoise. Andrew talks about the major trends in mass internet scanning and exploitation, as per GreyNoise’s yearly threat report.

 
 
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 GreyNoise 2025 Mass Internet Exploitation Report: Attackers Are Moving Faster Than Ever — Are You Ready?

Risky Bulletin: Top AI models all fall to new prompt injection technique

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