Inside Operation Disruption Week: Taking Down Southeast Asia's Scam Machine
About this episode
The episode discusses the dismantling of a large-scale scam operation and the challenges faced in the open source supply chain.
What does it actually take to dismantle an industrial-scale scam operation running bulletproof hosting, distributed ASNs, and crypto laundering across multiple countries? Mike Sweeney of Silent Push was in the room during Operation Disruption Week and tells us exactly how it went down — the intelligence, the coordination, and why this public-private model could be a blueprint for future cyber disruption efforts. Plus, reporter Tim Starks on the open source supply chain crisis: the volunteer maintainers holding up the internet, the threat groups coming after them, and the policy vacuum left behind after the Biden administration's momentum stalled.
More episodes of Safe Mode Podcast
- What the Section 702 lapse means for cybersecurity
- What the post-quantum executive order means for CISOs
- How security investigators can get the right info out of AI security tools
- Zero days, zero order: The chaos reshaping vulnerability disclosure
Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the Safe Mode Podcast podcast page.