Risky Business #852

Risky Business Podcast September 09, 2026 Risky Business #852 -- Cyber Command wants to buy shells Presented by Technology Editor CEO and Publisher On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by guest co-host Robby Winchester from SpecterOps to talk through the week’s news, including: - ID verification company IDScan was breached and 153m driver licenses wound up for sale online. Cue the barrage of lawsuits - The US government plans to pay private contractors to conduct military hacks - The US accuses China of distillation attacks, a.k.a. forbidden training - It’s Wednesday, so OpenAI’s agents escaped sandboxes again and passed notes around on a German Wiki - Much, much more… This week’s show is brought to you by Sublime Security. Sublime’s head of detection engineering Randy Pargman joins the show to chat about how the company is preparing for prompt injection attacks to move from being largely theoretical to commonplace. This episode is also available on YouTube Brought to you by Sublime Security Agentic AI that stops email attacks at adversary speed Show notes FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses | Krebs on Security IDScan sued over alleged data breach affecting 153 million drivers | BleepingComputer Senate Considers Allowing Contractors to Conduct Military Hacks | bloomberg.com Feds accuse China of ‘systematic’ distillation of U.S. AI models | cyberscoop.com Dropbox accounts breached through Lenovo email verification flaw | BleepingComputer FBI raises alarm over deceptive phishing campaign targeting prominent people | cyberscoop.com Microsoft warns of TerminalFix attacks deploying reverse tunnels | BleepingComputer OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki | arstechnica.com OpenAI releases new model that it says triggered internal security measures | NBC News Tech Trump may be forced to reveal secret rules feds use for AI safety testing | Social Signals Security Incident – BGP Hijacking – Virtualizor | Coder's registry infrastructure compromised to push malicious modules | BleepingComputer Pegasus, NoviSpy variant spyware found on devices of Serbian activists | cyberscoop.com European parliament members call for slowdown of Serbia’s EU entry over spyware use | CyberScoop New pro-Ukraine hacker group targets Russian companies with custom ransomware | therecord.media New CrowdStrike 'FalconFlank' zero-day grants SYSTEM privileges | BleepingComputer A hacker stole $340M in a crypto heist, then returned most of it | TechCrunch Security ‘White hat’ hackers take $47 million bounty after $320 million crypto theft | therecord.media