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 is infecting family computers with malware that steals passwords and hands remote control to an attacker.
Also this week: researchers found a way for malware to hijack passkeys synced through Google Password Manager, a fake police phone call from a spoofed cybercrime unit number, and the crypto trader who made $34,000 on Polymarket by pointing a hairdryer at a weather sensor in Paris.
And because it's Episode 100, we look back at everything we've learned from covering cyber news every week for over a year and a half: the biggest breaches, the most persistent threat actors, the strangest stories, and how the threat landscape has changed. Don't unsubscribe, because something new is coming to this feed in a few weeks.
Chapters
00:00 Intro - Episode 100 and the last of the current format
03:13 Breach of the Week - 100,000 police staff leaked by ExfilSquad
06:39 Scam factories caught running cons through ChatGPT
11:07 Fake Roblox Xeno Executor cheat spreading malware
16:31 Passkeys hijacked by malware - the Pass-ta-key attack
23:43 Security Socials - The fake police cybercrime phone call
31:30 The Polymarket hairdryer hack
35:52 100 episodes - stats, patterns and lessons learned
59:02 Goodbye for now - what happens next
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