Risky Business #835

Risky Business Podcast April 29, 2026 Risky Business #835 -- Why the Fast16 malware is badass Presented by Enterprise Technology Editor CEO and Publisher 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. Brought to you by Trail of Bits We don't just fix bugs, we fix software Show notes moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 · Hugging Face Discord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic’s Mythos | WIRED 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 US, UK authorities warn that Firestarter backdoor malware survives patching | Cybersecurity Dive UK regulator closes loophole that allowed rogue companies to track phone users' location | Reuters Vercel says some of its customers' data was stolen prior to its recent hack | TechCrunch Supply Chain Security Incident Update Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones | TechCrunch One ransomware crew now drives half of all cyber claims: At-Bay | Insurance Business In a first, a ransomware family is confirmed to be quantum-safe - Ars Technica What we learned about TEE security from auditing WhatsApp's Private Inference