How a fake police officer nearly stole Graham's cryptocurrency
About this episode
In this episode, Graham Cluley discusses a near theft of his cryptocurrency by a fake police officer and various cybersecurity threats including a data breach affecting UK teachers.
Graham gets a phone call from the police. Well, someone who sounds convincingly like the police. There's just one small problem: what they really want is the 24-word seed key to Graham's cryptocurrency wallet. Meanwhile, if you've stayed in a hotel recently, the free Wi-Fi you connected to might have come with an unexpected extra: an all-you-can-eat buffet of "Captive Crunch" for a Russian intelligence-linked hacking group. And a group calling itself the "ExFilSquad" has walked off with 600,000 records of the UK's teachers and head teachers from the Department for Education - sending an unusually polite ransom demand. All this and more in episode 479 of the "Smashing Security" podcast with cybersecurity expert and keynote speaker Graham Cluley, and special guest Danny Palmer. EPISODE LINKS: Cryptocurrency mailing list compromised - Tweet by Trezor. Users’ seemingly private conversations with Anthropic’s Claude showed up in Google search results - Fortune. Sweeping cyberattack on water systems in multiple states has US officials on edge - CNN. Minnesota not Iran to blame for state's water issues, says Trump - BBC News. Google pauses AI satellite images, after fears of deepfakes in…
People in this episode
Host: Graham Cluley
Guest: Danny Palmer
Topics covered
- cryptocurrency theft
- cybersecurity
- hacking
- data breach
- police impersonation
- hotel Wi-Fi security
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Department for Education, Trezor, Anthropic, Microsoft Security Blog, ReliaQuest, The Guardian, CNN, BBC News, NPR, ExFilSquad
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