A major vulnerability has been found in the ancient TACACS+ networking protocol, Australia’s Prime Minister claims an OpenAI agent hacked the country’s Medicare website, OpenAI gives Ukraine access to its Daybreak cyber-defense program and the UK will establish an anti-disinformation center.
Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ruling out liability exemptions for AI companies. Its a good move. Leaving the companies on the hook keeps the pressure on them to do better with their cyber security and testing controls.
They also discuss a Russian AI-powered cyberespionage campaign run by a group known as Midnight Blizzard. It used AI workflows to run the entire campaign so they got a lot more hacking done and accepted AI mistakes. This makes sense given that they want more intelligence from Ukrainian targets and don’t care at all about getting caught.
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A network of 10,000 AI servers is masking malicious Chinese AI activity, Ukrainian hackers leak Russia’s naval secrets, ShinyHunters hacks the FBI, and the EvilTokens phishing service is disrupted by tech companies.
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about whether there is such a thing as real-time cyber defence. Will agentic AI save us from hacking AI?
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Google’s Gemini hacked three companies, hackers claim a breach of Russia’s election commission, OpenAI was behind RubyGems’ May incident, and the Coast Guard and FBI board two ships to investigate cyberattacks.
In this Risky Business sponsored interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Justin Kohler, Chief Product Officer at SpecterOps. Justin explains how Entra Agent ID can introduce new identity relationships and potential attack paths.
Anthropic agents went hacking again, South Korea increases its data breach fines, Apple notifies three Turkish ministers of mercenary spyware attacks, and CISA is ready to hire 250 staff.
Tom Uren and James Wilson talk about how Chinese intelligence services will take advantage of a massive breach of 150 million American drivers licences.
They also discuss the steps the US military is taking to counter adtech device tracking. It’s too slow and not enough.
Finally, they talk about how often cryptocurrency hackers claim to be white hat hackers. Its ludicrous, but suprisingly often it is a successful strategy.
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Ukraine’s top prosecutor resigns amid a scam call center scandal, the US accuses Chinese AI companies of industrial-scale distillation, a cyberattack hits medical practices in Luxembourg, and the Liquid Network attacker returns some stolen Bitcoin, but keeps a $50 million bounty.
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about whether AI will help cyber defence in critical infrastructure and organisations that are below the cyber poverty line.
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Hackers steal €35 million euros from French notaries, OpenAI agents hacked a German wiki, a new bill will allow the Pentagon to use cyber contractors, and the Five Eyes members tell hacked companies to drop PR spin.
In this Risky Business sponsored interview, James Wilson chats with Authentik Security CEO Fletcher Heisler about how AI is driving a need for privileged access management to adapt.
Fletcher explains Authentik’s approach: each agent has its own identity, begins with no permissions and is tied to a human.
They also discuss transferring ownership when employees leave, mitigating risks of agents creating identities for each other, and whether task-based access could eventually be a better fit than clock-controlled access.
Russia tells data centers to deploy drone defenses, Dropbox discloses a security breach, a new spyware wave hits Serbia, and CISA scraps six free cybersecurity assessment programs.
Tom Uren and James Wilson talk about China’s long-term shift to getting private companies to build botnets for cyberespionage. A disruption effort from the US this week is good news, but China has been using these networks for a surprisingly long time and will rebuild.
They also discuss a hack at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). It looks like the Qilin ransomware group might have stolen data from the ATF’s CALEA, or lawful intercept system. That’s a big deal!
Finally, they discuss efforts to fix US water sector security. Sprinkling free tools on the problem will have limited impact.
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A BGP hijack delivered malicious Virtualizor updates, the White House launches Project Watershed 250, Indian authorities take down a Telegram doxing bot, and Composer packages deliver iOS badness.
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about how AI is the perfect hacker, but what makes it perfect for states is the opposite of what makes it perfect for criminals.
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Dutch intelligence services will get new powers, a security expert has been arrested in Israel for hacking, the BTS hacker gets a 20 year sentence in South Korea, and an AfD politician in Germany has been linked to a Russian cybercrime hosting service.
In this Risky Business sponsored interview, James Wilson chats with Dropzone AI’s founder and CEO Edward Wu to debunk the adage, “an attacker only has to be right once”. Modern intruders need to be successful across multiple steps before actually reaching an organisation’s “crown jewels”.
The pair chat about where AI helps attackers, why autonomous post-compromise agents aren’t quite here yet, and how AI can bolster the capacity of security teams when investigating alerts and reducing response times.
Two members of TeamPCP arrested in Australia, Qilin hits the US firearms agency, America seizes two more Chinese botnets, CISA says most cyber activity is opportunistic.
Tom Uren and James Wilson talk about evidence that Chinese APT groups are using AI in a really sensible way, to beef up their malware arsenal. This will make it harder for threat intel firms to cluster activity for attribution.
They also discuss the US disrupting Iranian hackers by revealing that some of them are hacking the country’s own firms. That’s a new tactic, but making that information public in a Treasury Department sanctions package doesn’t really make sense.
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