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UPDATED AUDIO: An earlier version of this podcast audio contained an editing mistake that desynchronised Patrick and Tom’s audio.

In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about the cyber espionage implications of Chinese AI firm DeepSeek’s recently released models. They will certainly be picked up by various APT crews to try and accelerate their campaigns.

They also discuss the UK NCSC’s attempt to quantify ‘comedy bugs’ and whether EU sanctions against Russian military intelligence officers for a five-year-old cyber espionage campaign targeting Estonia are pointless.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

 
 
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Srsly Risky Biz: DeepSeek a boon for Chinese APTs

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.

 
 
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 Risky Bulletin: Supply chain attack at AdsPower browser platform

Risky Bulletin: Browser extension supply chain attack hits AdsPower

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about Israeli spyware vendor Paragon, how and why it positions itself to sell to the US market, and how its capabilities might work.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

 
 
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 TechCrunch report
 
 The tweet we discuss
 
 Dropping Italy as a customer

Between Two Nerds: A Paragon of virtue

In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about Apple’s refusal to obey a UK government order to provide the capability to access to encrypted iCloud data. Its the latest round in the ongoing government vs technology fights over warrant-proof encryption, and again it looks like governments will lose.

They also talk about good news in the fight against ransomware. Government actions are putting pressure on the cyber criminal ecosystem, splintering groups and even making it hard to for crooks to convert cryptocurrency to hard cash.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

 
 
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Srsly Risky Biz: Governments are losing the crypto wars

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Jimmy Mesta, CTO and Co-Founder of Rad Security (formerly KSOC). Jimmy talks about how companies adopting new AI-based technologies may accidentally expose their infrastructure and data to new threats.

 
 
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 I discovered a fun party trick for the next time you get an AI phone call

Risky Bulletin: Sandworm deploys Tor nodes on hacked networks

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about the United State’s Vulnerabilities Equities Program, which balances the need for intelligence collection with the need to protect the public. The government recently revealed that in 2023 it released 39 vulnerabilities, but what does this really tell us?

This episode is also available on Youtube.

 
 
 Show notes
 
 
 The unclassified VEP appendix
 
 Kim Zetter's Zero Day substack

Between Two Nerds: Is 39 vulnerabilities a lot?

VC giant Insight Partners gets social engineered, OpenSSH patches an attacker-in-the-middle bug, Ecuador’s parliament hit by cyberattacks, and a Monero zero-day awaits a patch.

 
 
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Risky Bulletin: Insight Partners discloses security breach

In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about the idea of launching a retaliatory campaign to hack Chinese telcos in response to Salt Typhoon’s targeting of US ones. US Senator Mark Warner floated the idea as a way to persuade the Chinese government to pull back Salt Typhoon, but we think that kind of campaign has merit regardless.

They also discuss how Samoa’s CERT calling out APT40 is a big deal. It’s striking to see a small country of 200,000 people calling out Chinese hacking.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

 
 
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Srsly Risky Biz: Why America needs its own Salt Typhoon

The BlackBasta ransomware group implodes, Russian military hackers target Signal with QR codes, Microsoft patches a Power Pages zero-day, and Meta sues a man who hacked accounts and extorted users.

 
 
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Risky Bulletin: BlackBasta implodes, internal chats leak online

In this Risky Bulletin sponsor interview Ed Currie from Kroll Cyber talks to Tom Uren about the recent hack of the Gravy Analytics geolocation data provider. He explains the hack and how geolocation data can be used by malicious actors.

 
 
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 Kroll's report on the risks of geolocation hacks

Sponsored: Why hacked geolocation data is worrying

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