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Bite Sized Cyber Crime
A podcast with short episodes that discuss cyber crime cases, security problems, and infamous malware. I make my episodes quick and easy to understand so you get the story without the filler and too much technical jargon. Links to all my sources on my pastebin https://pastebin.com/u/BiteSizedCyberCrime
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Episodes
Monday Feb 10, 2025
Monday Feb 10, 2025
Recently a new crypto stealing malware was found in apps on both the Google Play, and the famously restrictive Apple App Store, but it seems not to be its own app, but rather something inserted into existing apps at a later time to steal passphrases for crypto wallets from images on devices.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/fHgDP4fg
Monday Feb 03, 2025
Monday Feb 03, 2025
Recently a brand new generative AI model came out of nowhere and blew up overnight. There are a lot of controversies and concerns surrounding this model, providing more efficient AI but also bringing a lot of data sensitivity risks and topics of government censorship to the forefront.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/WRGERYCE
Monday Jan 27, 2025
Monday Jan 27, 2025
Pwn2Own by TrendMicro's Zero Day Initiative is a hacking contest where people try to hack "up to date" products to discover zero day vulnerabilities in them and win cash prizes for doing so. The automotive version of this contest not only involved cars themselves, but chargers for electric vehicles.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/4siwYEYK
Monday Jan 13, 2025
Monday Jan 13, 2025
Job offer scams are sadly rather common, but most of the time it's a waste of time or an identity theft scam rather than a scam that installs unauthorized crypto miners on your devices. A new scam email impersonating Crowdstrike that is targeting developers does just that.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/Lpg673yh
Monday Jan 06, 2025
Monday Jan 06, 2025
The US Department of Treasury was targeted in a suspected state-sponsored hack. No ransomware was deployed, though the threat actors compromised machines remotely, linked to a BeyondTrust data breach and accessed many unclassified documents.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/rUi3Wdxg
Monday Dec 30, 2024
Monday Dec 30, 2024
Deepfakes and AI image and video generation have become nearly indistinguishable from real people to the naked eye. This creates a problem when it comes to identity verification that involves previously very difficult to fake Face ID systems. Recently a deep web identity fraud database was being build was scraped data and images with the intention to target financial accounts.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/X7acHzs9
Monday Dec 23, 2024
Monday Dec 23, 2024
The healthcare industry remains one of the top targeted by hackers, and even the biggest healthcare organizations are not safe.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/UgauFXsL
Monday Dec 16, 2024
Monday Dec 16, 2024
In 1999 one of the most infamous viruses was released on the world, slowing down email systems and causing chaos in the corporate world and among personal computer users.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/FgE9ETKk
Why Cyber Crime?
Cyber crime is an ever-growing problem in a world where our lives are integrated online. Millions of internet users have their data stolen from data breaches or by hackers. No one is safe, even if you maintain no online presence. My goal is to share stories that can teach us about how we can best protect our data, whether you are a person or an organization.