In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

Anthropic says a Chinese APT orchestrated attacks using its AI
It’s a day ending in -y, so of course there are shamefully bad Fortinet exploits in the wild
Turns out slashing CISA was a bad idea, now it’s time for a hiring spree
Researchers brute force entire phone number space against Whatsapp contact discovery API
DOJ figures out how to make SpaceX turn off scam compounds’ Starlink service

This week’s episode is sponsored by Mastercard. Senior Vice President of Mastercard Cybersecurity Urooj Burney joins to talk about how the roles of fraud and cyber teams in the financial sector are starting to converge. Mastercard also recently acquired Recorded Future, and Urooj talks about how they aim to integrate cyber threat intelligence into the financial world.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Show notes

Risky Business #815 -- Anthropic's AI APT report is a big deal

Risky Business