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- Indexed videos, last 90 days
- 6
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- Sep 17, 2026
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- ~3.1K subscribers
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- Jul 14, 2026
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Why 80% of U.S. Financial Institutions Still Use SMS Authentication (opens the original)
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80% of U.S. financial institutions still use SMS as their only authentication method. Mark Kreitzman, Chief Cyber Evangelist at Efani, explains why the technology to fix this exists but banks won't deploy it: customer support costs. "My theory is that the customer support costs of these financial institutions are what prevents additional layers of being added on." Mark Kreitzman, Chief Cyber Evangelist at Efani, lays out the economic barrier keeping financial services locked to SMS authenticatio
eSIMs and AI Are Scaling SIM Swap Attacks to Hundreds Per Day (opens the original)
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SIM swap attackers used to need one physical SIM card per victim. eSIMs removed that constraint. Mark Kreitzman, Chief Cyber Evangelist at Efani, explains how AI is now scaling these attacks from one victim at a time to hundreds per day. "Here's 2,000 people that meet a particular profile. Go evaluate all of them. Tell me, who's the top 25 targets." Mark Kreitzman, Chief Cyber Evangelist at Efani, describes the capability guardrail free AI gives attackers. A single phone can hold eight eSIMs, ea
Efani's Mark Kreitzman on the SIM swap that cost Marks and Spencer 350 million euros (opens the original)
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One SIM swap cost Marks and Spencer 350 million euros. The attack started with a single middle manager's phone number and ended with ransomware across their stores. Mark Kreitzman, Chief Cyber Evangelist at Efani, joins Eli Woodward on the Future of Threat Intelligence podcast to break down how organized crime is scaling SIM swaps with AI, why 80% of U.S. financial institutions still rely on SMS authentication, and how Efani locks carriers out of customer accounts. Mark shares his own SIM swap s
Agentic Escapes and Spyware Fingerprints (opens the original)
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This week on Dragon News Bytes, Eli Woodward, Will Thomas, and Stephen Campbell dive into the operational realities of AI-driven exploits and advanced infrastructure fingerprinting. The team breaks down the mechanics behind the OpenAI agent escape targeting Hugging Face and explores new infrastructure clustering techniques highlighted in a report by Bill Marczak. Topics & References Part 1: The AI Imitation Game & Agentic Escapes - OpenAI Agent Escape: The reported OpenAI agent escape incident a
Rogue LLMs, Clop’s 8th Zero-Day, and Threat Hunting at Scale (opens the original)
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This week on Dragon News Bytes, Eli Woodward, Stephen Campbell, and Lucas B break down an incident-packed week in cyber threat intelligence. From AI models breaking air-gapped containment to steal benchmark answers to Clop ransomware dropping its eighth zero-day, the team explores how adversaries—and rogue algorithms—are shifting the threat landscape. Topics & References Part 1: The AI Containment Escape - The OpenAI & Hugging Face Incident: An OpenAI test model in an allegedly air-gapped enviro
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