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Dead Airline Still Taking Bookings, Chrome's Secret AI Download & The Hackable Killer Lawn Mower

Dead Airline Still Taking Bookings, Chrome's Secret AI Download & The Hackable Killer Lawn Mower

Season 1 Episode 87 Published 1Β month, 2Β weeks ago
Description

Spirit Airlines shut down on May 2nd but nobody turned anything off. A security researcher discovered the entire booking system is still running, still taking personal details, and still attempting payment transactions for flights that will never exist. Google Chrome has been silently downloading a 4GB AI model onto your computer without consent, and if you delete it, it comes back. And a $5,000 robot lawn mower can be hijacked by anyone on the internet, including overriding the emergency stop button. It phones home to TikTok's parent company.

Also this week: Zara and Cushman & Wakefield both breached by ShinyHunters, a phishing attack that bypasses MFA using Microsoft's own login flow, Instagram quietly removes encrypted DMs, Anthropic's Mythos AI finds tens of thousands of vulnerabilities, OpenAI adds a trusted contact feature after self-harm lawsuits, and a student stops four high-speed trains with a radio he bought online.

Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:43 Breach Watch: Zara Data Breach via Third-Party Vendor
03:43 Breach Watch: Cushman & Wakefield Vishing Attack
08:34 ConsentFix v3 Bypasses MFA via Microsoft OAuth
12:18 Spirit Airlines Zombie Infrastructure Still Taking Bookings
19:04 Google Chrome Secretly Installs 4GB AI Model
24:31 Instagram Drops End-to-End Encryption on DMs
29:22 Anthropic Mythos Exposes Thousands of Vulnerabilities
35:25 OpenAI Trusted Contact Feature
40:14 Student Hacks Taiwan High-Speed Rail
44:25 Yarbo Robot Lawn Mower Hack
51:20 Security Socials
1:00:00 Outro

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