#AxisOfEasy 448: Toronto Police Bust Canada’s First SMS Blaster Cybercrime Operation

About this episode

The episode discusses the Toronto Police's bust of Canada's first SMS blaster cybercrime operation and various related cybersecurity incidents.

In this issue: Toronto Police Bust Canada’s First SMS Blaster Cybercrime Operation CrowdStrike Patches Critical LogScale Vulnerability Allowing Unauthenticated File Access Vercel Breach Traced to Roblox-Seeking “Patient Zero” at Context.ai North Korean Hackers Target 100+ Crypto Firms in Sophisticated Global Phishing Campaign ShinyHunters Leaks Data from Zara, 7-Eleven, and Udemy in Salesforce-Linked Campaign In this […]

People in this episode

Host: Mark E. Jeftovic

Topics covered

• cybercrime
• SMS blaster
• data breach
• phishing campaign
• vulnerability
• hacking
• law enforcement

Keywords

• cybercrime
• SMS blaster
• CrowdStrike
• data breach
• phishing
• North Korea
• Zara
• 7-Eleven
• Udemy
• Salesforce

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Toronto Police, CrowdStrike, Vercel, Roblox, Context.ai, Crypto Firms, ShinyHunters, Zara, 7-Eleven, Udemy

Places: North Korea

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