Risky Business #849 -- Trump will unleash contractors on cybercriminals
Summary
Hosts Patrick Gray and James Wilson, with guest Dmitry Alperovitch, discuss a new US executive order allowing vetted private sector cyber operations against transnational crime. They analyze OpenAI’s safety overhaul following rogue AI agent incidents and Anthropic’s agent turf wars. The episode also covers the Wildberries cyber-kinetic attack, the LightLLM breach attribution, Boeing aircraft vulnerabilities, and recent ransomware trends shifting toward data extortion.
Topics discussed
Intro: Dmitry Alperovitch joins Risky Business
Trump memo authorizing private sector cyber operations
OpenAI slows RL training; AI safety and alignment concerns
Anthropic AI agents turf war and autonomous attacks in Taiwan
Lite LLM breach postmortem and supply chain analysis
Cyber-kinetic attack on Russian e-commerce giant Wildberries
Apple iOS security patches and user notification debates
Boeing 737 maintenance port vulnerability and stunt hacking
CLOP ransomware campaign targeting PTC Windchill
Blackfile vishing, Shield Break vuln, and researcher ethics
Peer-to-peer botnets and rapid news roundup
Unprompted conference announcement and sponsor plug
Interview: Nebulok's agentic threat hunting and detection graph
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