Risky Business #840 -- Microsoft walks back researcher threats
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On this week’s show special guest co-host Andy Boyd joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. Andy is the CEO of REDLattice, which makes the Paragon “intelligence collection and reconnaissance” solution. They cover: Adversaries are tracking US troop locations with commercially available location data A new Signal phishing campaign is going after message backups 404 Media is suing ICE to get its spyware contract with REDLattice (lol) Microsoft’s tone-deaf response to ‘never justifiable’ zero-day disclosures Mini Shai-Hulud pops up again just as Glassworm…
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- AttackPhishingMessages that impersonate someone trusted to get people to click, log in or pay.
- ConceptZero-dayA flaw attackers exploit before the vendor has a fix: defenders have had zero days to patch.
- TechnologyAI agentAn AI model that acts on its own: it plans steps, uses tools and takes actions, not just answers.