Bite Sized Cyber Crime

Bite Sized Cyber Crime

By Chloe ThonusTechnology
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Bite Sized Cyber Crime episodes

  • Why Half of AI Generated Patches Fail

    A recent study of publicly accessible AI models found that patches generated by them fail about half the time, often introducing new vulnerabilities or leaving paths for exploitation open.

    Sources: https://pastebin.com/WAq4vT55

    8 min
  • Minnesota Water Plants Under Attack

    Water is a critical infrastructure, and lately multiple water plants across the US are under attack, starting in Minnesota. So far drinking water is safe, but it does bring into question the security of our basic utilities.

    Sources: https://pastebin.com/avMEu9zq

    9 min
  • Vatican App Exposes Data of all Users

    Vatican app ClickToPray has had an unpatched IDOR sitting in its website that could allow for scraping the data of every single user.

    Sources: https://pastebin.com/SiYDAR40

    9 min
  • Illbloom: When Randomness Doesn't Truly Exist

    Randomness is not as random as it seems, and this can cause problems, especially when your money relies on it. Some crypto wallets generated predictable random passphrases that can be used to access accounts and steal funds.

    Sources: https://pastebin.com/rBsjQY6W

    8 min
  • JadePuffer: The First AI Hacker

    The skill ceiling to become a real ransomware threat actor may have been lowered considerably, as JadePuffer performed an attack as an AI agent with no human intervention, being able to reason its way through problems encountered when deploying ransomware to a target.

    Sources: https://pastebin.com/XQFj8LAi

    10 min
  • Fake Shopify Receipts Part of Callback Phishing Scam

    Shopify has a dashboard that integrates all your web order activity, but this has allowed for a new type of phishing scheme much sneakier than emails. Fake receipts with fake support phone numbers have been popping up in many Shop dashboards.

    Sources: https://pastebin.com/4HwTfty6

    7 min
  • Klue Abused to Steal Salesforce Data

    Klue allows you to get the upperhand on your competitors by using their public data and your internal information to create quick sales talking points, however it may have also leaked your private data via a legacy account that was never deleted.

     

    Sources: https://pastebin.com/3jM6RFYB

    7 min
  • The Messy Release of Anthropic's Fable 5

    Fable 5 was based on Mythos, a model so dangerous it could not be released to the general public. But that release did not exactly go smoothly, was complains from customers that is too expensive and restrictive and later an order to shut it down.

    Sources: https://pastebin.com/xVAah5bd

    9 min
  • Meta Support Bot Lets Hackers into High Profile Accounts

    AI support bots can help a lot in basic issues, but they can also cause a massive security incident if they are not well understood. Recently Meta AI's account recovery workflow was exploited by hackers to hijack many high profile accounts.

    Sources: https://pastebin.com/TCPFaQzG

    11 min

About Bite Sized Cyber Crime

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A podcast with short episodes that discuss cyber crime cases, security problems, and infamous malware. I make my episodes quick and easy to understand so you get the story without the filler and too much technical jargon.