Risky Business #825 -- Palo Alto Networks blames it on the boogie

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James WIlson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover: Palo Alto threat researchers want to attribute to China, but management says shush An increasing proportion of ransomware is data extortion. Is this good? Cambodia says it’s going to dismantle scam compounds CISA sufferers through yet another shutdown Google Gemini’s training secrets are being systematically harvested to improve other LLMs Academics assess SaaS password managers’ resilience against a malicious server This episode is sponsored by SSO-firewall integration vendor Knocknoc. Chief exec Adam Pointon joins to talk about the latest in defences… which is to say Knocknoc for Solaris/Sparc and HPUX on PA-RISC?! Okay also that other little known OS… Windows. This episode is also available on Youtube . Show notes Data-only extortion grows as ransomware gangs seek better profits | Cybersecurity Dive Arctic Wolf Threat Report 2026 Exclusive: Palo Alto chose not to tie China to hacking campaign for fear of retaliation from Beijing, sources say Risky Bulletin: Cambodia promises to dismantle scam networks by April - Risky Business Media Age of the ‘scam state’: how an illicit, multibillion-dollar industry has taken root in south-east Asia | Cybercrime | The Guardian Critical flaw in BeyondTrust Remote Support sees early signs of exploitation | Cybersecurity Dive CISA Navigates DHS Shutdown With Reduced Staff - SecurityWeek Kimwolf Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network I2P – Krebs on Security BADIIS to the Bone: New Insights to a Global SEO Poisoning Campaign — Elastic Security Labs Over 500,000 VKontakte accounts hijacked through malicious Chrome extensions | The Record from Recorded Future News Password managers' promise that they can't see your vaults isn't always true - Ars Technica Zero Knowledge (About) Encryption: A Comparative Security Analysis of Three Cloud-based Password Managers Google finds state-sponsored hackers use AI at 'all stages' of attack cycle | CyberScoop Google: Gemini hit with 100,000+ prompts in cloning attempt Proofpoint acquires Acuvity to tackle the security risks of agentic AI | CyberScoop Cisco Redefines Security for the Agentic Era with AI Defense Expansion and AI-Aware SASE Sophos Acquires Arco Cyber to Bring CISO-Level, Agentic AI-Powered Expertise to Every Organization Dave Kennedy on X: "Regarding this, there was a couple questions on does the pacemaker continue to advertise - most BLE implantable devices go into a sleep type mode. In this case, we are lucky - it does not. We know based on law enforcement answers that she is using a more modern pacemaker with" / X Clash Report on X: "BIG: Dutch Defence Minister Gijs Tuinman hints that software independence is possible for F-35 jets. He literally said you can “jailbreak” an F-35. When asked if Europe can modify it without US approval: “That’s not the point… we’ll see whether the Americans will show / X Dutch police arrest man who refused to delete confidential files shared by mistake | The Record from Recorded Future News

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