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  Risky Business #852 -- Cyber Command wants to buy shells

  On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by guest co-host Robby Winchester from SpecterOps to talk through the week’s news, including:

  • ID verification company IDScan was breached and 153m driver licenses wound up for sale online. Cue the barrage of lawsuits
  • The US government plans to pay private contractors to conduct military hacks
  • The US accuses China of distillation attacks, a.k.a. forbidden training
  • It’s Wednesday, so OpenAI’s agents escaped sandboxes again and passed notes around on a German Wiki
  • Much, much more…

  This week’s show is brought to you by Sublime Security. Sublime’s head of detection engineering Randy Pargman joins the show to chat about how the company is preparing for prompt injection attacks to move from being largely theoretical to commonplace.

  This episode is also available on YouTube

  Show notes

  • FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses | Krebs on Security
  • IDScan sued over alleged data breach affecting 153 million drivers | BleepingComputer
  • Senate Considers Allowing Contractors to Conduct Military Hacks | bloomberg.com
  • Feds accuse China of ‘systematic’ distillation of U.S. AI models | cyberscoop.com
  • Dropbox accounts breached through Lenovo email verification flaw | BleepingComputer
  • FBI raises alarm over deceptive phishing campaign targeting prominent people | cyberscoop.com
  • Microsoft warns of TerminalFix attacks deploying reverse tunnels | BleepingComputer
  • OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki | arstechnica.com
  • OpenAI releases new model that it says triggered internal security measures | NBC News Tech
  • Trump may be forced to reveal secret rules feds use for AI safety testing | Social Signals
  • Microsoft posts nearly 1,000 bugs for Patch Tuesday as CISA warns two being exploited | therecord.media
  • Security Incident – BGP Hijacking – Virtualizor |
  • Coder's registry infrastructure compromised to push malicious modules | BleepingComputer
  • Pegasus, NoviSpy variant spyware found on devices of Serbian activists | cyberscoop.com
  • European parliament members call for slowdown of Serbia’s EU entry over spyware use | CyberScoop
  • New pro-Ukraine hacker group targets Russian companies with custom ransomware | therecord.media
  • US military disabled ad tracking on troops’ devices following reports of targeted attacks | TechCrunch Security
  • New CrowdStrike 'FalconFlank' zero-day grants SYSTEM privileges | BleepingComputer
  • A hacker stole $340M in a crypto heist, then returned most of it | TechCrunch Security
  • ‘White hat’ hackers take $47 million bounty after $320 million crypto theft | therecord.media
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