Welcome to Hacked dAily, the podcast that serves your daily dose of cyber chaos with a sprinkle of sarcasm and a side of humor, brought to you by Cytadel Cyber—your trusted partner in the cryptic world of cybersecurity. Today's spotlight is on Qantas, who found itself starring in "Oops, We Did It Again," thanks to a third-party vendor's data breach mishap. Frequent flyer points anyone, or just more headaches?

Meanwhile, hackers are turning PDFs into Trojan horses, pretending to be the love child of Microsoft and DocuSign. Forget Tom Hanks, this is not the kind of mail you want to open. And if you've been wondering why your OTPs from Microsoft haven’t arrived, blame it on their DNS misadventure—it's like waiting for your favorite cancelled show to make a comeback.

In other ludicrously alarming news, KnowBe4's sounding the alarm on the ever-looming threat of social engineering, proving that mischief-makers don’t need umbrellas to rain chaos on your data. Finally, researchers are warning us about misleading links from large language models, because why not add phishing haunts to your digital treasure hunt? Stay tuned as we throw sarcasm in the face of cyber threats, because a little humor goes a long way in saving your digital backside!This episode is sponsored by Cytadel Cyber. Specialist in Ransomware Readiness Assessments, Threat Intel-Led Red Teaming, AI DeepFakes, AI Voice Cloning and AI Vishing Simulations.

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