Risky Business #840 -- Microsoft walks back researcher threats

Risky Business #840 -- Microsoft walks back researcher threats

From Risky Business by Risky Business Media

June 3, 2026 · 1h 6m

About this episode

This episode discusses recent cybersecurity news with a focus on adversaries tracking troop locations and Microsoft's response to zero-day disclosures.

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 gets shattered Much, much more This week’s episode is sponsored by Authentik, an open source identity platform that you can host yourself. In this week’s sponsor interview Authentik’s CEO Fletcher Heisler joins Patrick Gray to talk about how they’re keeping up with the bugpocalypse, and also the work they’re doing to support identities for AI agents. This episode is also available on YouTube.

People in this episode

Hosts: Patrick Gray, James Wilson

Guests: Andy Boyd, Fletcher Heisler

Topics covered

  • cybersecurity news
  • location data
  • phishing campaign
  • zero-day disclosures
  • AI identities

Keywords

  • cybersecurity
  • location tracking
  • phishing
  • zero-day
  • AI
  • sponsorship

Sponsors

Authentik

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: REDLattice, 404 Media, ICE, Microsoft

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