Risky Bulletin

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq how the use of cyber operations in the war in Ukraine has evolved over time.

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Russia using cyber espionage to direct grid missile strikes


The Spectator article on US-UK relations


BTN72 on the Taurus missile leak

LLMs can deanonymize internet users based on their comments, CISA gets a new acting director, hackers steal 15 million records from the French Ministry of Health, and Google takes down an ad fraud botnet.



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Risky Bulletin: LLMs can deanonymize internet users based on their past comments

In this sponsored interview Casey Ellis chats to Harish Peri, SVP and general manager for AI security at Okta, a cloud-based identity and access management company. The pair chat about the fact that AI is forcing enterprises to relearn the basics around identity security, and how Okta for AI Agents can help.



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A Russian man prosecuted for extorting the Conti ransomware group, Google takes down a Chinese cyber-espionage operation, Anthropic tells Department of War to pound sand over AI restrictions, and a Cisco zero-day was exploited in the wild for three years.



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Risky Bulletin: Russian man investigated for extorting Conti ransomware group

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about the argy-bargy between the Pentagon and AI company Anthropic. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is demanding that all safeguards are lifted from Claude, while Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is insisting on protections against mass surveillance of Americans and use in lethal autonomous weapons.

They also discuss the return of Volt Typhoon, the Chinese hacker group prepositioning in critical infrastructure for sabotage in the event of a conflict over Taiwan. The group is still around, even though the US government declared victory against it last July.

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