Transatlantic Cable Podcast

Episode 358 of the Transatlantic Cable Podcast kicks off with news of American Cybersecurity firm KnowBe4 getting duped by a North Korean hacker who successfully when through their HR checks and secured employment! Deepfake bullying being used by children on Snapchat. X/Twitter’s AI bot Grok is now reading your tweets, however there is a fix and we show you how to protect yourself. We close out the episode with news of a data breach at HealthEquity affecting 4.3 million people.

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· North Korean hacker gets employed at US Cybersecurity firm

· Deepfake bullying

· Grok AI reading public tweets

· HealthEquity data breach

Episode 352 of the Transatlantic Cable podcast kicks off with a story concerning generative AI and hackers, with the hackers taking the side of artists (or so it would seem.) From there discussion turns to the US surgeon general calling for ‘warning labels’ on social media, mainly in part due to the worrying rise in young people’s mental health.

To wrap up, the team look at two stories – the first concerning ransomware and hospitals, and the second looking at a recent NHS data breach and black binbags.

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• Hackers Target AI Users With Malicious Stable Diffusion Tool on GitHub to Protest 'Art Theft'
• US surgeon general wants social media warning labels
• Medical-Targeted Ransomware Is Breaking Records After Change Healthcare’s $22M Payout
• Student's flimsy bin bags blamed for latest NHS data breach

Episode 301 kicks off with Wired article exposes the China-backed Volt Typhoon Hack, a menacing cyberattack that poses a severe threat to critical infrastructure in the United States. With a specific focus on Guam's power grid control systems, this breach underscores the vulnerability and potential ramifications of such targeted attacks, Moving to New York county where they are still dealing with ransomware eight months after attack. Prepare for a fascinating journey down the Australian motorway as we explore an intriguing. We delve into an article from news.com.au that unravels an unusual phenomenon involving "passengers" like no other. Something extraordinary is afoot, and our curiosity is piqued as we seek answers to the perplexing question: What could possibly be amiss on this Aussie motorway?

Would you use ChatGPT to write your legal defense? Well one lawyer did, let’s see how it ended.

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· China Hacks US Critical Networks in Guam, Raising Cyberwar Fears

· New York county still dealing with ransomware eight months after attack

· ‘This has never happened’: Something is odd about these Aussie motorway ‘passengers’

· A lawyer used ChatGPT for legal filing. The chatbot cited nonexistent cases it just made up

Episode 267 of the Transatlantic Cable kicks off with the slightly concerning news that Facebook engineers (apparently) don’t know what happens to your data inside Facebook. After that rather worrying story, the team move over to discussing an intriguing story looking at boffins from the National University of Singapore and Yonsei University, who have found a way to detect if your laptop is secretly recording you, all via electromagnetic waves.

Moving on, the team shift focus to discuss a recent spat of gym thefts in London – now, hang on, I hear you cry – what has this got to do with cybersecurity? Well, it turns out that the perpetrator is using a very unusual ‘hack’ in order to allow themselves access to victims’ bank accounts. We won’t spoil the details here, but it’s all tied to your mobile phone (hint: make sure you lock down your phone when you’re not near it).

To wrap up, the podcast closes with a story around a recent recovery of some $30M USD from the recent Axie Infinity hack. Now, whilst that’s a good thing, considering Lazarus managed to swipe nearly $600M USD, it does somewhat seem like a drop in the ocean.

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• Facebook Engineers Admit They Don’t Know What They Do With Your Data
• Boffins build microphone safety kit to detect eavesdroppers
• How is a thief taking thousands from London gym-goers?
• US Government Recovers $30M From Crypto Game Axie Infinity Hack

For a second-straight week, we have a short-handed booth for the Transatlantic Cable. With Ahmed and Dave off, Jag and I share the mic for the first time as a duo.

To kick things off, we discuss how the Lazarus group leveraged a fake job interview into a $600M hack into Axie Infinity. From there, we head into a partial code share from Vice on the Anom app. For those who may forget this was a “secure phone” system that was orchestrated by the FBI to draw in criminals doing illicit activities.

Our third story is quite the head-scratcher as a “CEO” has been arrested for selling counterfeit CISCO equipment to companies and government entities. The curious part was not just that it was fake equipment, but it was something that was sold on eBay and Amazon. We then head to India where a flood control system has been hit with ransomware. What makes this a bit worse is that the region is now under monsoon season. To close out the podcast, we head to San Francisco where Cruise has seen some issues with the autonomous cars stopping and causing traffic havoc.

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• A Fake Job Offer Reportedly Led to Axie Infinity's $600M Hack
• This Is the Code the FBI Used to Wiretap the World
• CEO Arrested for Selling $1 Billion in Fake Cisco Hardware on Amazon, eBay
• Ransomware attack hits Goa’s flood monitoring system; demand crypto as payment
• Cruise’s Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco