In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss how cyber criminals and even state actors are being dumb about using AI.
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Risky Bulletin: Myanmar scam compound goes boom!
Myanmar starts demolishing the KK Park scam compound, the US Congressional Budget Office gets hacked by a foreign APT, Chrome will remove risky X-S-L-T support, and scammers in Singapore will get the cane.
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Sponsored: Prowler uses AI how AI works best
In this sponsored interview Casey Ellis chats to Toni de la Fuente, founder and CEO of Prowler, an open source platform for cloud security. They chat about how and why Prowler selectively applies AI to ensure it adds value rather than just because they can.
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Risky Bulletin: Europol arrests massive credit card fraud ring
Payment service provider executives arrested over a credit card fraud ring, Meta makes a fortune showing scam ads, South Korean telco KT tried to hide a second breach and five more scammers are sentenced to death in China.
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Risky Bulletin: Europol arrests payment service executives for role in credit card fraud ring
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Srsly Risky Biz: The cyber regime change pipe dream
Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about aggressive US cyber operations targeting the Venezuelan government in President Trump’s first term. These were narrowly successful in that they achieved their immediate operational goals, but they didn’t achieve Trump’s broader policy goal of ousting Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.
They also talk about why the adtech ecosystem is a national security problem all round the world and how cybercriminals are collaborating with organised crime to steal cargo from logistics companies.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
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