The FBI Built a Fake Town, $3.5 Billion Lost to Scammers & a School Breach Hitting 11 Million Kids

This week the threats are getting bigger and the defences are getting stranger. A criminal gang hit a school system that holds records for eleven million kids, Americans lost a record three and a half billion dollars to imposter scams, and the FBI built an entire fake town just to train agents to fight cybercrime. Plus earbuds that could be listening in, malware hiding in Steam wallpapers, a nasty new Android banking trojan, your cheap streaming box secretly working for criminals, and Google quietly deciding to use your IP address for ads.

Chapters
00:00 Intro
03:01 Breach of the Week — Infinite Campus / ShinyHunters
07:56 Imposter Scams — $3.5 Billion Record
13:45 The FBI's Fake Town — Kinetic Cyber Range
18:50 Bluetooth Flaw — Beats Studio Buds
24:20 Steam Wallpaper Malware
28:17 Android Banking Trojan — Rokarolla
35:14 Popa Botnet — Cheap Streaming Boxes
39:11 Google — IP Address Ad Targeting
42:24 Security Socials — Fake iOS Virus Pop-up
46:10 Security Socials — Claude Age Verification
56:05 And Finally — Whale Song Captcha, Cloudflare Lava Lamps & SETI@home

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