Risky Bulletin

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about the weird bugging incident at OpenAI. It doesn’t look at all like it was normal state-backed espionage, but there are still  good reasons  the frontier labs should ensure that their crown jewels are safe.

They also discuss how cybercriminals are rapidly evolving their use of AI. The technology and harnesses available are getting better and the criminals are also discovering business models where they can sit back while AI automates most of the work.

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A hacker hijacks more than 10% of Tor’s exit nodes, a second ransomware negotiator has been linked to ShinyHunters, a Chinese crime ring hacked Staples, and a hacker leaks emails from German far-right party AfD.



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Risky Bulletin: Hacker hijacks 10% of Tor exit nodes

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss whether the rise of AI coding will result in more or less bugs and whether it will ultimately make software more secure.

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A serious vulnerability lets attackers escape Kernel-based virtual machines, OpenCode users become collateral damage in a distillation attack, supply chain incidents hit AOMEI and ConnectWise and Intel will discontinue SGX.



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Risky Bulletin: PwnEscape vulnerability lets you escape KVM

In this Risky Business sponsored interview James Wilson chats with Sondera co-founder and CEO, Josh Devon, about how AI agents are highly capable, but they’re not the best rule followers or decision makers.

The pair find themselves in the philosophical weeds about why agents lack the ability to determine, or care about, right from wrong before getting into how Sondera’s autoformalisation, that gives specific behaviour guardrails to agents, can help.



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