On this week’s show Patrick Gray is on holiday so Amberleigh Jack and Adam Boileau hijack the studio to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:


Hackers learn that trying to coerce a journalist just makes for … a great story?
A man in his 40s gets arrested over the European airport chaos. Yep, we’re surprised, too.
Adam fanboys over Watchtowr Labs while bemoaning Fortra.
Academics pick apart Tile trackers and find them lacking
CISA tells agencies to patch their damn Cisco gear


This episode is also available on YouTube.



Show notes


'You'll never need to work again': Criminals offer reporter money to hack BBC

Government to guarantee £1.5bn Jaguar Land Rover loan after cyber shutdown

Feds Tie ‘Scattered Spider’ Duo to $115M in Ransoms – Krebs on Security

UK authorities arrest man in connection with cyberattack against aviation vendor | Cybersecurity Dive

Chinese scammer pleads guilty after UK seizes nearly $7 billion in bitcoin

Cyberattack on Japanese beer giant Asahi limits shipping, call center operations | The Record from Recorded Future News

Afghanistan plunged into nationwide internet blackout, disrupting air travel, medical care | The Record from Recorded Future News

Tile trackers are a stalker's dream, say Georgia Tech researchers

Intel and AMD trusted enclaves, the backbone of network security, fall to physical attacks - Ars Technica

Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware - Ars Technica

China-linked hackers use ‘BRICKSTORM’ backdoor to steal IP | The Record from Recorded Future News

Another BRICKSTORM: Stealthy Backdoor Enabling Espionage into Tech and Legal Sectors

Federal agencies given one day to patch exploited Cisco firewall bugs | The Record from Recorded Future News

Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software SNMP Denial of Service and Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Is This Bad? This Feels Bad. (Fortra GoAnywhere CVE-2025-10035)

It Is Bad (Exploitation of Fortra GoAnywhere MFT CVE-2025-10035) - Part 2

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