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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