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Bite Sized Cyber Crime
Chloe Thonus
100 episodes
5 days ago
Bite Sized Cyber Crime is a short true crime series about cyber crime, notorious viruses and scams, and dark web operations. You can learn how hackers are able to steal data from underneath your nose as well as ways to better protect your online life in manageable ways.
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Bite Sized Cyber Crime is a short true crime series about cyber crime, notorious viruses and scams, and dark web operations. You can learn how hackers are able to steal data from underneath your nose as well as ways to better protect your online life in manageable ways.
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Bite Sized Cyber Crime
UPenn Got Hacked
I learned how to generate censorship bleeps! But also a strange and vulgar email was sent out to alumni, donors, clients, staff, and current students from the University of Pennsylvania warning that a data leak was inevitable. But is there any substance? Sources: https://pastebin.com/MbJwdrYA
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5 days ago
8 minutes

Bite Sized Cyber Crime
Lazarus Group Steal Drone Data via Fake Job Offers
We've talked about North Korean threat actors being hired for jobs in order to steal data, but what about North Korean threat actors hiring people to steal data? Seems backwards, but it's been going on for years and recently teh defense sector has become a target of these attacks. Sources: https://pastebin.com/yrWK4K20
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1 week ago
5 minutes

Bite Sized Cyber Crime
Government ID Breached From Discord Support
Discord is a popular chat app used by gamers, technologists, and even local communities. Recently however, it potentially had a very serious data breach involving the government identification of its users. Sources: https://pastebin.com/1QJdNW5b
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2 weeks ago
7 minutes

Bite Sized Cyber Crime
Did AI Try To Blackmail An Executive?
In many doomsday scenarios AI become sentient and try to kill mankind, but has this already started to happen? Many sensational headlines would lead you to believe so, but the answer is a little more complicated than that... Sources: https://pastebin.com/sgjfdr8j
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3 weeks ago
10 minutes

Bite Sized Cyber Crime
3 Hacker Groups Team Up to Form Salesforce Extortion Site
3 notorious hacking groups have teamed up to form one huge site threatening to extort 39 major organizations out of their Salesforce data, which was acquired through a series of phishing attacks. Though Salesforce was not actually a target themselves, they also face extortion and some reputational damage. Sources: https://pastebin.com/jNr9Qsrr
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1 month ago
6 minutes

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How A Bad Password Killed A Decades Old Firm
Oh how the mighty have fallen. It takes a lot for a business to survive even 5 years after an attack, let alone 158. So what could kill such a strong business that clearly has it figured out? It turns out the Achilles heel is often just a single bad password. Sources: https://pastebin.com/7M6vKycy
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1 month ago
11 minutes

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Spear Phishing Using AI Generate South Korean Military Documents
Spear phishing can potentially get even more realistic with the use of generative AI. Recently North Korean threat actors leveraged prompt injection to create surprisingly realistic South Korean military documents Sources: https://pastebin.com/H4qH2YuK
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1 month ago
6 minutes

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Biggest Yet Most Anticlimactic Supply Chain Attack
Supply chain attacks are one of the most devastating if done right, and one of the biggest in the history of NPM just occurred. However it was probably less fruitful than the attackers were hoping... Sources: https://pastebin.com/GfquiVgZ
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1 month ago
7 minutes

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France Fines Google For Cookie Violations
Tech giants have been collecting a lot of data on us for years with the use of cookies, and though efforts have been made to reduce this they have been futile. France recently fined Google hundreds of millions for cookie consent violations, but it may only be a minor cost of business to them. Sources: https://pastebin.com/GkPf9W1c
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2 months ago
6 minutes

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Victims Email Phishers First in Zipline Campaign
Usually in phishing cases, you are emailed by the attackers first, but can attackers lie in wait for you to email them first? Surprisingly, yes. How is this even possible? Find out today! Sources: https://pastebin.com/4b2vsrwH
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2 months ago
7 minutes

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Former Dev Gets 4 Years for Sabotaging Workplace
Everyone may get elaborate revenge fantasies but few follow through due to the bad outweighing the satisfaction. One man, sensing he was to be terminated soon, however, decided if he were to go he would try to take the whole company down with him. Last week he was sentenced to 4 years in prison. Sources: https://pastebin.com/Pi0YSFUt
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2 months ago
6 minutes 11 seconds

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Hydroelectric Dam in Norwary Hacked
Water and energy are both critical resources to society. In a display of fear, pro-Russia hacktivists compromised a dam in Norway remotely, demonstrating that cyberattacks can have very physical implications. Sources: https://pastebin.com/mwwrPwtR
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2 months ago
6 minutes 57 seconds

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UK To Ban Public Sector from Paying Ransomware
The UK recently proposed the banning of public sector organizations from paying ransomware ransoms, in an effort to discourage cybercriminals from targeting them. How may this end up working out though? Sources: https://pastebin.com/37jGGd9X
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2 months ago
7 minutes 40 seconds

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CISA Opens Thorium Tool to Public
CISA has developed many interesting and powerful tools over the year for cybersecurity, but recently they made one of malware analysis and automation open source and available for the public to use. Thorium. Let's talk about what this tool can do. Sources: https://pastebin.com/zhmAvguE
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3 months ago
6 minutes 54 seconds

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Inside a North Korean Laptop Farm Scheme
An Arizona woman was arrested for running a North Korean IT worker laptop farm out of her home, and this gave us a little look into the strange world of how these threat actors are able to infiltrate US organizations. Sources: https://pastebin.com/qvrWirYa
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3 months ago
5 minutes 27 seconds

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New FIDO MFA Downgrade Attack Exploited
FIDO is the passwordless authentication set of protocols of the future, however that doesn't mean it's perfect and as cyber defenders attack, so do attackers. This novel exploit isn't a flaw within FIDO exploit but does threaten improperly implemented versions of it. Sources: https://pastebin.com/fmUZEBAM
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3 months ago
6 minutes 14 seconds

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PerfektBlue Vulnerabilities Impacts Vehicle Bluetooth
With cars becoming just another type of computer, and having rather complicated implementations, vulnerabilities in one system are major. A recent series of vulnerabilities discovered in OpenSynergy's BlueSDK could prove dangerous. Sources: https://pastebin.com/5JHAyuAV
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3 months ago
6 minutes 35 seconds

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Ransomware Negociator Received Payments from Ransomware Groups
Ransomware negotiators may be called in to save some financial burden on organizations suffering from one of the worst cyberattacks they can. However, they seem like the natural people for ransomware groups to corrupt, and allegedly one such group did corrupt one such person.   Sources: https://pastebin.com/fANnhtTj
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4 months ago
7 minutes 10 seconds

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Brother Printers Affected by Unpatchable Critical Vulnerability
Printers are the bane of many's existence, but they may have just gotten worse for security professionals. Rapid7 discovered 8 new vulnerabilities mostly impacting Brother branded printers, one of which cannot be patched by the vendor and leaks the admin password of the device. Sources: https://pastebin.com/vNDbrwsU
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4 months ago
6 minutes 14 seconds

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Were 16 Billion Passwords Just Leaked?
News has hit the mainstream media that all your passwords have been leaked yet again, in a massive password leak including Google, Meta, and Apple. But how much of that sensationalized story is true? Sources: https://pastebin.com/Xi1MPpFg
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4 months ago
7 minutes 54 seconds

Bite Sized Cyber Crime
Bite Sized Cyber Crime is a short true crime series about cyber crime, notorious viruses and scams, and dark web operations. You can learn how hackers are able to steal data from underneath your nose as well as ways to better protect your online life in manageable ways.