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The Awareness Angle makes cybersecurity make sense. Hosted by Anthony and Luke, we break down the biggest cyber security news of the week.
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ChatGPT Scam Factories | 100,000 Police Staff Leaked | Fake Roblox Malware | EP100 (opens the original)
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It's Episode 100 of The Awareness Angle, and the last episode in its current format. This week: more than 100,000 UK police officers and criminal justice staff have had their details leaked by ExfilSquad, the same gang that hit the Department for Education just one week earlier. OpenAI banned a network of ChatGPT accounts run out of Cambodian scam compounds, where trafficked workers were being forced to run investment fraud. And a fake version of a popular Roblox cheat tool called Xeno Executor
$70 Million Bitcoin Heist in 41 Minutes, Government Helpdesk Breach, Claude AI Hacks 3 Companies (opens the original)
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This week, a $70 million Bitcoin heist that took just 41 minutes, a government helpdesk breach that leaked 600,000 school staff records, and an AI security story where Anthropic's Claude broke into three real companies during a test that went wrong. This week on The Awareness Angle, Ant and Luke open Breach Watch with the Department for Education hack, then dig into the Anthropic story, models that broke out of a sealed testing environment and hacked three organisations because of a mix up over
OpenAI's AI Goes Rogue and Hacks Hugging Face, Romania's Land Registry Wiped & the 90-Day Email Heist (opens the original)
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Two governments found out their data was gone this week. One because a hacker deleted everything and left a ransom note, the other because they finally noticed someone had been sitting inside their systems for ten months. And somewhere between the two, an AI broke out of a safety test and hacked one of the biggest AI companies on the planet. A hacker wiped Romania's entire national land registry after a ransom went unpaid, and now you cannot legally buy or sell a house there because the records
Mac Malware Is Out of Control | 23andMe's $18M DNA Settlement | The TFL Hackers Are Going to Prison (opens the original)
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This week the internet came for your fridge, your laptop and your DNA, and it wasn't subtle about any of it. Hackers hit Coca-Cola's dairy brand fairlife with ransomware and shut down US milk production. Mac users are under fire from two new malware strains — one that holds your computer hostage until you type your password in, and another disguising itself as Apple's own crash reporter. And 23andMe is paying $18 million over the breach that exposed millions of people's genetic data. That's the
7 Million Driver's Licenses Leaked, Sainsbury's Facial Recognition Fail, Google Sues Gemini Scammers (opens the original)
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Episode 96 of The Awareness Angle This week an insurance company leaked driver's license numbers for nearly 7 million people because one employee clicked a phishing email. Sainsbury's facial recognition system was 99.98% accurate and 100% wrong about the shopper it publicly kicked out. A 15 year old took down a national anime streaming service with malware ChatGPT helped him write. A Scattered Spider suspect hopped three countries on a VPN and still got caught by a number hidden in every Windows
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