Risky Bulletin

Spyware chips found inside Ledger crypto-wallets, a cyberattack defrosts supermarket freezers across France, Dutch-owned supermarkets go offline in multiple countries following a cyberattack, and the EU wants smart glasses to beep loudly when they’re recording.



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Risky Bulletin: Spyware chip found in Ledger crypto-wallets

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq examine how ShinyHunters and the FBI both deceived themselves into believing they were immune to cyber threats.

This episode is also available on YouTube.



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Krebs On Security


FBI Director Kash Patel on ShinyHunters


Brett Leatherman, the FBI Assistant Director for Cyber on ShinyHunters


Hacker's Manifesto, 1986


FBI and Ubiquitous Technical Surveillance


FBI padding the top 10 list arrest numbers

Two ShinyHunters suspects arrested in Jordan and the US, hackers breach TLD registrars to get valid Google certs, Japanese authorities arrest a Qilin ransomware member and Google suspends its open-source bug bounty program after a flood of AI bug reports.



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Risky Bulletin: ShinyHunters suspects arrested in US and Jordan

In this Risky Business sponsored interview James Wilson chats with Prowler’s founder and CEO Toni de la Fuente about how AI now allows pretty much anyone to vibe-code “killer apps”. These custom apps are often internal for organisations and hosted on the cloud.

The pair discuss why developers need to focus on security on top of app functionality and how Prowler can work in parallel with apps and agents to help secure, and continuously assess, cloud infrastructure.



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Authorities dismantle the KillSec hacking group, South Africa thwarts a ransomware attack against air traffic control systems, the US sanctions Venezuelan ATM hackers and a Chinese APT targets AI experts.



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Risky Bulletin: Authorities dismantle KillSec group, arrest members across Europe