About this episode

This episode discusses various aspects of cybercrime, including a gang funding violence, a Russian hacker's AI bot, and the dismantling of a large botnet by Dutch authorities.

This episode covers a cybercrime gang funding real-world violence with stolen data, a Russian hacker who spent five years running an AI bot inside a 17,000-member Telegram channel, and Dutch authorities dismantling a botnet controlling 17 million infected devices. We also dig into how cloud misconfigurations stack into serious exploits when no one's watching the service accounts.

People in this episode

Host: Adrian North

Topics covered

• cybercrime
• hacking
• botnets
• cloud security
• data theft
• AI

Keywords

• cybercrime
• hacking
• botnet
• cloud misconfigurations
• AI bot
• data theft
• Telegram

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: cybercrime gang, Dutch authorities

Places: Telegram, cloud

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