Risky Business #826 -- A week of AI mishaps and skulduggery
25 February 2026

Risky Business #826 -- A week of AI mishaps and skulduggery

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On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James WIlson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:




    Low skill actors compromise 600 Fortinets with AI-generated playbooks
    Anthropic calls out Chinese AI firms over model distillation
    Meta’s director of AI safety tells her ClawdBot not to delete her mail… so of course it does
    Peter Williams cops 7 years in jail for selling L3 Harris Trenchant’s exploits to Russia
    Ivanti got hacked in 2021 via… bugs in Ivanti


This episode is sponsored by line-rate network capture system Corelight. CEO Brian Dye joins to discuss what AI can do for defenders, and what it can’t.



This episode is also available on Youtube.





Show notes


    AI-augmented threat actor accesses FortiGate devices at scale

    "this reads to me like: they ran existing tools.... but with a cool dashboard :D"

    Anthropic accuses Chinese labs of trying to illicitly take Claude’s capabilities | CyberScoop

    Detecting and preventing distillation attacks

    Hegseth warns Anthropic to let the military use the company’s AI tech as it sees fit, AP sources say

    Anthropic Rolls Out Embedded Security Scanning for Claude

    AWS's AI Coding Bot Kiro Caused a 13-Hour Outage

    Running OpenClaw safely: identity, isolation, and runtime risk

    Former Adobe, Cisco and Salesforce CISO talks AI pentesting

    History Repeats: Security in the AI Agent Era

    Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox

    Microsoft says Office bug exposed customers' confidential emails to Copilot AI | TechCrunch

    The (tangential) fix: Microsoft adds Copilot data controls to all storage locations

    Ex-L3Harris executive sentenced to 87 months in prison for selling zero-day exploits to Russian broker

    Treasury Sanctions Exploit Broker Network for Theft and Sale of U.S. Government Cyber Tools

    Risky Bulletin: Russia starts criminal probe of Telegram founder Pavel Durov

    Ukraine pushes tighter Telegram regulation, citing Russian recruitment of locals

    The watchers: how openai, the US government, and persona built an identity surveillance machine that files reports on you to the feds

    Persona emails customers saying they don’t work with ICE or DHS amid ‘surveillance’ claims

    Inside the Fix: Analysis of In-the-Wild Exploit of CVE-2026-21513

    Ivanti hacked in 2021 via its own product

    Fed agencies ordered to patch Dell bug by Saturday after exploitation warning | The Record from Recorded Future News

    From BRICKSTORM to GRIMBOLT: UNC6201 Exploiting a Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines Zero-Day