Risky Bulletin

A hacker hijacks more than 10% of Tor’s exit nodes, a second ransomware negotiator has been linked to ShinyHunters, a Chinese crime ring hacked Staples, and a hacker leaks emails from German far-right party AfD.



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Risky Bulletin: Hacker hijacks 10% of Tor exit nodes

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss whether the rise of AI coding will result in more or less bugs and whether it will ultimately make software more secure.

This episode is also available on YouTube.



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A serious vulnerability lets attackers escape Kernel-based virtual machines, OpenCode users become collateral damage in a distillation attack, supply chain incidents hit AOMEI and ConnectWise and Intel will discontinue SGX.



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Risky Bulletin: PwnEscape vulnerability lets you escape KVM

In this Risky Business sponsored interview James Wilson chats with Sondera co-founder and CEO, Josh Devon, about how AI agents are highly capable, but they’re not the best rule followers or decision makers.

The pair find themselves in the philosophical weeds about why agents lack the ability to determine, or care about, right from wrong before getting into how Sondera’s autoformalisation, that gives specific behaviour guardrails to agents, can help.



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Three DataSuckers hacking group suspects arrested in Russia, Al Jazeera employees targeted with Candiru spyware, the US disrupts 40 North Korean laptop farms, and an OpenAI employee was arrested for planting a spy device.



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Risky Bulletin: Russia arrests DataSuckers hacking group