Episode Details

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest-host Dmitri Alperovitch. They discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

• The US government is mad as hell about Chinese firms stealing American AI technology
• Dmitri has an opinion or two about the US selling Nvidia chips to China
• Speaking of Chinese AI, Kimi’s new 2.6 is very interesting
• The US sanctions a Cambodian senator for earning mega bucks through scam compounds
• And a ransomware family is promoting itself as being … quantum-safe?

This week’s show is sponsored by Trail of Bits. CEO and co-founder Dan Guido chats to Pat about how private inference works and Trail of Bits’ audit of WhatsApp’s private AI setup.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Show notes

• Exclusive: US State Dept orders global warning about alleged AI thefts by DeepSeek, other Chinese firms | Reuters
• moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 · Hugging Face
• Discord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic’s Mythos | WIRED
• Newly Deciphered Sabotage Malware May Have Targeted Iran’s Nuclear Program—and Predates Stuxnet | WIRED
• Hackers deployed wiper malware in destructive attacks on Venezuela’s energy sector | The Record from Recorded Future News
• Mystery Around Venezuelan Cyberattack Deepens, with New Discovery of "Highly Destructive" Wiper
• Risky Business #819 -- Venezuela (credibly?!) blames USA for wiper attack - Risky Business Media
• AI Tools Are Helping Mediocre North Korean Hackers Steal Millions | WIRED
• CISA: US agency breached through Cisco vulnerability, FIRESTARTER backdoor allowed access through March | The Record from Recorded Future News
• US, UK authorities warn that Firestarter backdoor malware survives patching | Cybersecurity Dive
• Surveillance campaigns use commercial surveillance tools to exploit long-known telecom vulnerabilities | CyberScoop
• UK regulator closes loophole that allowed rogue companies to track phone users' location | Reuters

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