Risky Bulletin

ICE tracking app blames a recent hack on a government agent, Microsoft will disable NTLM in the next release of Windows, Poland bans Chinese cars from military bases, and Ivanti patches two new zero-days.



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Risky Bulletin: StopICE blames hack on "a CBP agent here in SoCal"

In this sponsored interview, Casey Ellis chats to Edward Wu, founder of Dropzone AI about a recent Vanderbilt University report that reveals that foreign adversaries’ resources are growing. Edward says AI capabilities are critical to the future of cyber defence, because the west can’t hire itself out of the shortfall.



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Dominating the Digital Space: A Whole-of-Society Strategy for Securing the United States from Cyber Aggression

Hackers breach eScan antivirus and distribute a backdoor, Google takes down the IPIDEA proxy botnet, most GDPR fines remain uncollected, and the Poland wiper attack hit 30 locations.



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Risky Bulletin: eScan antivirus distributes backdoor in latest supply chain attack

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about the Pall Mall Process, an international effort to reign in abusive spyware. Tom thinks the US has already stumbled into a viable carrots and sticks style strategy that will shape the industry more than coming up with standards will.

The pair also discuss news that Chinese Salt Typhoon hackers compromised the calls of senior UK officials in Downing Street. The UK has extensive telecommunications security regulations and the incident makes us wonder what that legislation is actually good for.

This episode is also available on Youtube.



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A cyberattack has crippled cars in Russia, Microsoft patches an Office zero-day, WhatsApp rolls out an account lockdown feature, and a handful of Chrome extensions steal ChatGPT auth tokens.



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Risky Bulletin: Cyberattack cripples cars across Russia