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GTA 6 Scams, Scattered Spider & The AI Plugin That Fooled Every Scanner
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GTA 6 scams launched within hours of pre-orders going live. Scattered Spider's teenage hackers pleaded guilty for the TfL attack, and one of them was hacking US hospitals while on bail. And a fake AI plugin passed every security scanner because the malware only switched on after the check was done.
This week on The Awareness Angle: why attackers are borrowing your trust instead of breaking it, what the TfL case tells us about where the real hacking talent is, and why a clean security scan no longer means what it used to.
Also this week: 630GB of Apple and Tesla manufacturing secrets stolen from their supplier, three million Texans had driving licence numbers taken from a hunting licence database, fake receipts appearing in the Shop app for purchases you never made, ClickFix malware hitting Gizmodo readers through a compromised account, the White House app federal workers can't delete from their phones, and the cybersecurity firms including Huntress and HackerOne who got hacked through a marketing tool.
00:00 Intro
01:35 This week on The Awareness Angle
02:52 Breach of the Week: Apple and Tesla supplier hacked, 630GB leaked
07:43 Breach of the Week: 3 million Texans' driving licences stolen
11:01 Fake receipts in the Shop app
18:29 Scattered Spider guilty plea: TfL hack and US hospital attacks
23:00 GTA 6 scams
29:06 The AI plugin that passed every security scan
36:46 Gizmodo ClickFix attack
43:25 White House app on government phones
48:57 Cybersecurity firms hacked through Klue
54:09 Topic: Hosting malware on ChatGPT's own domain
57:37 Topic: The TikTok inheritance scam DM
1:02:13 Topic: Your address on the floor of a corner shop
1:05:28 Topic: Google AI gets it wrong
1:08:14 Topic: Luke's email from the US Defence Counterintelligence Agency
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