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Back to EpisodesRisky Business #849 -- Trump will unleash contractors on cybercriminals
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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by guest co-host Dmitri Alperovitch to talk through the week’s news, including:
Trump’s memo authorising the private sector to release the cyber hounds is fine, don’t worry! OpenAI finally decides to add a few safety measures after the whole “oopsie we committed some felonies” thing Anthropic’s models start a turf war when given the same task, surprising… nobody We can’t figure out whether a device that can hack a 737 is showboating stunt hacking or … something more real-world cool. Or both. Or something. Much, much more
This week’s show is brought to you by threat hunt and detection platform Nebulock. Founder and CEO Damien Lewke joins Pat to chat about what it looks like when you try to reinvent the SIEM in 2026 on a clean sheet of paper.
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Show notes
- Trump signs memo authorizing private sector to launch cyberattacks | washingtonpost.com
- Trump taps cyber firms to go on offensive against criminals | therecord.media
- OpenAI Overhauls Safety Protocols After Its AI Agents Went Rogue | wired.com
- Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities |
- Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war. | TechCrunch Security
- Researchers observe first ‘near-autonomous’ AI attack on government target in Taiwan | cyberscoop.com
- Researchers find AI-powered hacking tools for sale in underground forums | Cybersecurity Dive
- Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack | arstechnica.com
- Trivy, Not LiteLLM Behind the 2,500 Org Compromise | securityweek.com
- Ukraine says cyberattack hit Russian e-commerce giant Wildberries amid drone strikes | The Record
- ‘Unprecedented’ number of Apple users received recent spyware alert, say investigators | TechCrunch Security
- This Coin-Sized Device Can Hack a Boeing 737 | wired.com
- "City-Forum" data-theft attacks target Salesforce, ServiceN