Risky Bulletin

Sean Plankey withdraws his CISA Director nomination, Russians hacked the Bundestag President, Discord users gain unauthorised access to Anthropic’s Mythos, and the US sanctions a Cambodian senator for running cyber scam compounds.



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Risky Bulletin: There are now SIM-Farm-as-a-Service providers

Tom Uren and James Wilson talk about the French criminal investigation into bias and illegal content on X. Elon Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino didn’t appear for voluntary interviews scheduled this week, but refusing meetings won’t make X’s problems go away. European countries are concerned about X’s influence and regulators will be exploring all other options beyond criminal investigations.

They also discuss the fight to renew authorisation of Section 702 collection. It’s a valuable intelligence source, but in the past the FBI pointlessly overused it.

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A Former FBI official wants terrorism designations for some ransomware groups, China threatens the EU over new cybersecurity regulations, Europe commits to €180 million for a sovereign cloud and a novel data wiper was found in Venezuela during US military operations.



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Risky Bulletin: Former FBI official calls for terrorism designations for ransomware groups that target hospitals and critical infrastructure

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq take a deep dive into how a single hacker used OpenAI and Anthropic’s tools to help hack nine Mexican government organisations in quick time.

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Gambit security report

ShinyHunters claim credit for the Vercel hack, a malware strain attempted to sabotage Israel’s water system, the US government wants access to Mythos, and a Supreme Court hacker gets probation.



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Risky Bulletin: New malware tries to sabotage Israel's water system but fails because it's buggy