Risky Bulletin

A Meta AI model also escaped a testing sandbox, a cyberattack disrupts ports in North Carolina, the Philippines will establish a cybersecurity agency, and a Ransom Cartel admin gets 16 years in prison.



Show notes



Risky Bulletin: Meta's AI joins Anthropic and OpenAI in the hacky-hacky

Tom Uren and James Wilson talk about North Korea losing control over some of its hacker workforce. Expect some tightening of controls and oversight, and perhaps even a reduction in the country’s ransomware operations.

They also discuss escalating attacks on American water infrastructure. Although the impact of these attacks is relatively minor so far, the US government has been slow to respond from a political perspective.

This episode is also available on YouTube



Show notes

A hacker breached Hungary’s State Treasury, Russia will mandate 40 apps on all smartphones next year, hackers steal Liechtenstein’s business database, and an AI agent got real CVEs for hallucinated vulnerability reports.



Show notes



Risky Bulletin: Hacker breaches Hungary's State Treasury

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about whether hacker culture is inherently anti-authoritarian and how different states get their country’s hackers to work for the state.

This episode is also available on YouTube.



Show notes



Daily NK, North Korean elite hacking ring busted


North Korean smartphone hacking

Anthropic models also did the hacky-hacks, Coldcard was hacked for $70 million in Bitcoin, npm adds publish-time malware scanning, and Russia is behind the recent hotel WiFi hacks.



Show notes



Risky Bulletin: Russia is behind the recent hotel WiFi hacks