Risky Business #835 -- Why the Fast16 malware is badass

About this episode

The episode discusses various cybersecurity news topics, including the Fast16 malware and US-China relations regarding AI technology.

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest-host Dmitri Alperovitch. They discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: The US government is mad as hell about Chinese firms stealing American AI technology Dmitri has an opinion or two about the US selling Nvidia chips to China Speaking of Chinese AI, Kimi’s new 2.6 is very interesting The US sanctions a Cambodian senator for earning mega bucks through scam compounds And a ransomware family is promoting itself as being … quantum-safe? This week’s show is sponsored by Trail of Bits. CEO and co-founder Dan Guido chats to Pat about how private inference works and Trail of Bits’ audit of WhatsApp’s private AI setup. This episode is also available on Youtube.

People in this episode

Hosts: Patrick Gray, James Wilson

Guest: Dmitri Alperovitch

Topics covered

• cybersecurity
• AI technology
• ransomware
• US-China relations
• sanctions
• malware

Keywords

• Fast16 malware
• cybersecurity news
• AI technology theft
• Nvidia chips
• ransomware
• quantum-safe

Sponsors

Trail of Bits

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nvidia, WhatsApp

Products: Kimi’s new 2.6

Places: US, China, Cambodia

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