This week, while Dave Bittner is on vacation, hosts Joe Carrigan , and Maria Varmazis (also host of the T-Minus Space Daily show) are sharing the latest in social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that are making headlines. Users are reporting a potential new Signal scam involving fake in-app messages posing as official support, though Signal confirms it never contacts users first and only communicates via Signal email addresses. Joe’s story is on South Korea targeting Cambodia’s scam industry after reports of kidnappings, torture, and a death, as officials crack down on criminal groups luring citizens into forced online fraud operations across Southeast Asia. Maria has the story on how AI-driven scams like deepfakes and virtual kidnappings are increasingly targeting Gen Z, using fake voices and videos to power extortion schemes that exploit their mobile-first, always-online lives. Listener DarkProphet6 shares a clever phishing attempt disguised as a fake Cloudflare “I’m not a robot” check, which tried to trick users into pasting malicious code into their terminal — a move that could have created a remote shell for attackers. Resources and links to stories: South Korea Targets Cambodia’s Scam Industry After Kidnappings, Torture and a Death Feds seize $15 billion in bitcoin after busting alleged global crypto scam China sentences 11 members of mafia family to death AI-driven scams are preying on Gen Z’s digital lives Have a Catch of the Day you'd like to share? Email it to us at hackinghumans@n2k.com .…
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Software libraries, frameworks, packages, and other components, and their dependencies (third-party code that each component uses) that have inherent security weaknesses, either through newly discovered vulnerabilities or because newer versions have superseded the deployed version.
Audio reference Link: "The Panama Papers: A Closer Look," Late Night with Seth Meyers, YouTube, 12 April 2016
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