Click Happens: Human Cyber News with Ant Davis

A joke vulnerability fooled half the internet because it sounded just like the real ones. The key protecting the padlock in your browser turned out to be the number four. Halloween apps want your family photos and won't say who they are. Fake IT support is flooding inboxes and then offering to fix them over Teams. And an unreleased AI model has been shown chaining bugs together into working attacks. This week on Click Happens, episode 5, with guest Jono Zachariah, founder of Baseline 77, we cover the PHP2Shell and Node2Shell flaws and the HTML2Shell joke, the AI Halloween sites asking for your photos, the Teams external chat scam, the Warhorse Studios cyberattack, the eMudra certificate distrust and AI chaining flaws into working attacks. Jono also explains why a catchy name helps security teams get things patched. 00:00 Intro 01:32 Welcome and Meet Jono 03:40 PHP2Shell, Node2Shell and HTML2Shell 26:19 AI Halloween Sites 35:47 Teams External Chat Scam 46:00 Warhorse Studios Cyberattack 54:35 eMudra Certificate Distrust 1:03:21 AI Chaining Flaws Into Working Attacks 1:12:03 AI and Fixing Security Faster Subscribe for weekly cybersecurity news made simple, so even your mum gets it. Click Happens is an independent podcast hosted by Ant Davis, with a different guest joining each week. Instagram: @antdaviscyber TikTok: @antdaviscyber LinkedIn: @antdaviscyber YouTube: @antdaviscyber Website: www.antdavis.com Guest: Jono Zachariah, founder of Baseline 77, a disruptive cybersecurity consultancy Jono on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathonzachariah/ Baseline 77 on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/baseline77 Baseline 77 website: www.baseline77.com

Bora has just been to CyberCon, Australia's biggest cyber event, with around five thousand people, more than a hundred and sixty vendors and plenty of free socks. The most talked about topics were social engineering, deepfakes and data sovereignty, including what happens to your data and your family photos when a big tech account gets locked. Ant shares what CISOs told him at the Richmond Cybersecurity Forum in London and on CruiseCon, a cybersecurity conference at sea, including culture capital, why a security policy might need a marketing expert, and the robot hoover in your living room. And they ask how well organisations look after the person who got socially engineered. This bonus episode of Click Happens has Bora back in the passenger seat with no plan and no running order. We get into why social engineering was the hottest topic at CyberCon, what the CLOUD Act and data sovereignty mean for where your data lives, why a locked Google account can cost a parent their kids' photos, what CISOs said about language, culture and resilience, and why the person who clicked deserves support. 00:00 Intro 01:12 CyberCon, Australia's biggest cyber event 03:20 Cyber socks and the eight year old test 05:30 Social engineering, deepfakes and the alphabet of 'ishing 07:11 Data sovereignty and the CLOUD Act 11:08 Where your data really lives and Google lockouts 13:34 Big tech holds our data and why schools need their own social network 15:49 Is big tech the bigger risk? Parental controls and safe spaces for kids 18:58 Teenagers, parents sharing photos and what strangers can find 19:56 What a public Flickr account and a food review can give away 22:15 What CISOs told Ant at the Richmond Cybersecurity Forum 25:10 CruiseCon and culture capital 27:36 Two types of CISO 29:00 Safe at work, safe at home and the robot hoover 31:40 Secure by design and a point of sale horror story 32:20 ASOS, supplier breaches and the shift to resilience 34:11 What a CISO is and who owns the risk 36:04 Business owners, password managers and a bad master password 40:28 Supporting the person who got socially engineered 44:31 A gift card scam and the phone call that mattered 47:32 CyberCon next year and a CruiseCon in Antarctica 50:02 Wrap up Subscribe for weekly cybersecurity news made simple, so even your mum gets it. Click Happens is an independent podcast hosted by Ant Davis, with a different guest joining each week. Instagram: @antdaviscyber TikTok: @antdaviscyber LinkedIn: @antdaviscyber YouTube: @antdaviscyber Website: www.antdavis.com This week's guest: Bora Seker: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bora-seker-45761715/ Dumb Ways to Get Hacked: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8kLkjxLw8-_VnC7XpNXY6A

A test account created in 2012 with the password Password1 led to the ICO reprimanding a Welsh local government data unit and its IT supplier. Recruitment platform Bullhorn went offline for days after a cyber incident, cutting agencies off from candidate records and, in some cases, the systems used to pay people. Malicious calendar invites grew from a few thousand a month in April to 740,000 in the first two weeks of October. Spyware vendors found a way to infect targeted devices through ads, with no click needed. And 23andMe's successor company agreed to pay California $6 million over the 2023 breach, while the DNA data itself now sits with a nonprofit set up by the co-founder. This week on Click Happens, episode four, with guest Bora back in the passenger seat. We get into who owns a forgotten test account, what Bullhorn's warning about impersonators says about breach notifications, how a calendar invite can reach you even when the email is blocked, what Citizen Lab found about ads delivering spyware, and what happens to your DNA data when the company that collected it goes bankrupt. 00:00 Intro 01:04 Bora is back, and so are the moths 03:45 Password1 and the Welsh data unit 19:22 Bullhorn goes dark 31:20 Malicious calendar invites 39:14 AdFection, spyware delivered through ads 46:53 23andMe's $6 million settlement and who owns the DNA data 55:59 Wrap up and the bonus episode Subscribe for weekly cybersecurity news made simple, so even your mum gets it. Click Happens is an independent podcast hosted by Ant Davis, with a different guest joining each week. Instagram: @antdaviscyber TikTok: @antdaviscyber LinkedIn: @antdaviscyber YouTube: @antdaviscyber Website: www.antdavis.com This week's guest: Bora Seker: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bora-seker-45761715/ Dumb Ways to Get Hacked: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8kLkjxLw8-_VnC7XpNXY6A

A fake security warning appeared inside a real ChatGPT conversation and told a user to paste a command into Windows Terminal. Attackers used ASOS's own app to tell customers the company had been hacked. Several hundred French supermarkets had their fridges pushed to 50 degrees overnight. And an executive at a ransomware negotiation firm has been arrested in the FBI's ShinyHunters investigation. This week on Click Happens: episode three, recorded solo on Wednesday 14 October. Ant covers why people follow instructions that appear inside tools they already trust, what ASOS's email got right and the one link it should not have included, what the fridge attacks say about connected devices, and why a lawsuit over AI webcam monitoring is worth thinking about. 00:00 Intro 02:20 The fake OpenAI verification message inside ChatGPT 09:35 ASOS: attackers use the company's own app to announce the hack 19:15 H&M, Phase Eight, Hobbs and Whistles: fashion retail's rough week 21:40 8.7 million karaoke customer records exposed through a contractor 22:40 The fridges in France: Danfoss, 50 degrees and connected devices 30:35 A ransomware negotiator arrested in the ShinyHunters investigation 32:25 The AI webcam monitoring lawsuit 37:35 Quickfire: an AI model's false murder tip, Operation Blackout and fake Claude installers 39:30 What to do this week Subscribe for weekly cybersecurity news made simple, so even your mum gets it. Click Happens is an independent podcast hosted by Ant Davis, with a different guest joining each week. Instagram: @antdaviscyber TikTok: @antdaviscyber LinkedIn: @antdaviscyber YouTube: @antdaviscyber Website: www.antdavis.com

A 16-year-old found a way into Microsoft's internal Titan analytics service, reported it responsibly and was paid five thousand dollars. Another 16-year-old is suspected of running a ransomware group that Eurojust links to almost a thousand attacks. Coding agents are storing API keys and credentials in plain text, and more than 543,000 credentials exposed in public GitHub repositories were still valid in July. And the app that comes with your car may be passing your data to advertising and tracking companies. This week on Click Happens: episode two, with guest Oli joining while Ant records from a cybersecurity conference at sea in the Caribbean. We get into why convenience keeps beating security when it comes to AI tools, how "always approve" turns into a habit, and what organisations should do when a teenager shows them a hole in their systems. 00:00 Intro 03:42 AI coding agents are storing your secrets in plain text 07:37 Gemini desktop control and the "always approve" problem 11:18 Anthropic's voice data prompt and what AI knows about you 18:12 The 16-year-old who found a Microsoft Titan flaw 24:36 The 16-year-old suspected of running KillSec ransomware 28:14 543,000 valid credentials in public GitHub repos 36:40 Car apps sharing owners' data with advertisers 48:16 The Times Car breach, 6.6 million accounts Subscribe for weekly cybersecurity news made simple, so even your mum gets it. Click Happens is an independent podcast hosted by Ant Davis, with a different guest joining each week. This week's guest: Oli Inkley. Instagram: @antdaviscyber TikTok: @antdaviscyber LinkedIn: @antdaviscyber YouTube: @antdaviscyber Website: www.antdavis.com

An OpenAI agent broke into an Australian government health site, and it took the Prime Minister three months to find out. An extortion group came back for a second run at the FBI after failing the first time, and succeeded. A UK pensioner lost eighty thousand pounds to a deepfake of a man who's never given financial advice in his life. And a new Android trojan tricked an AI chatbot into helping build itself by pretending to be a parental monitoring app. This week on Click Happens: the first episode of the rebrand, with guest Bora Seker from Dumb Ways to Get Hacked joining from Australia. We get into why accountability for AI-caused breaches shouldn't depend on whether a human typed the command, why normalising these stories is more dangerous than the stories themselves, and the emotional triggers behind deepfake investment scams, from both a UK and an Australian angle. 00:00 Intro 01:19 Meet this week's guest, Bora 03:35 Breach Watch: OpenAI agent breaches Australian government Medicare site 29:35 The FBI's second break-in this year, ShinyHunters and the PeopleSoft zero-day 44:55 Deepfake Martin Lewis and Nigel Farage investment scams 1:05:27 RemControl: the Android trojan an AI helped build Subscribe for weekly cybersecurity news made simple, so even your mum gets it. Click Happens is an independent podcast hosted by Ant Davis, with a different guest joining each week. Instagram: @antdaviscyber TikTok: @antdaviscyber LinkedIn: @antdaviscyber YouTube: @antdaviscyber Website: www.antdavis.com This week's guest: Bora Seker: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bora-seker-45761715/ Dumb Ways to Get Hacked: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8kLkjxLw8-_VnC7XpNXY6A

It's Episode 100 of The Awareness Angle, and the last episode in its current format. This week: more than 100,000 UK police officers and criminal justice staff have had their details leaked by ExfilSquad, the same gang that hit the Department for Education just one week earlier. OpenAI banned a network of ChatGPT accounts run out of Cambodian scam compounds, where trafficked workers were being forced to run investment fraud. And a fake version of a popular Roblox cheat tool called Xeno Executor is infecting family computers with malware that steals passwords and hands remote control to an attacker. Also this week: researchers found a way for malware to hijack passkeys synced through Google Password Manager, a fake police phone call from a spoofed cybercrime unit number, and the crypto trader who made $34,000 on Polymarket by pointing a hairdryer at a weather sensor in Paris. And because it's Episode 100, we look back at everything we've learned from covering cyber news every week for over a year and a half: the biggest breaches, the most persistent threat actors, the strangest stories, and how the threat landscape has changed. Don't unsubscribe, because something new is coming to this feed in a few weeks. Chapters 00:00 Intro - Episode 100 and the last of the current format 03:13 Breach of the Week - 100,000 police staff leaked by ExfilSquad 06:39 Scam factories caught running cons through ChatGPT 11:07 Fake Roblox Xeno Executor cheat spreading malware 16:31 Passkeys hijacked by malware - the Pass-ta-key attack 23:43 Security Socials - The fake police cybercrime phone call 31:30 The Polymarket hairdryer hack 35:52 100 episodes - stats, patterns and lessons learned 59:02 Goodbye for now - what happens next Full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/DEEoZP-zv88 Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-awareness-angle-newsletter-7274932363787132928/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@antdaviscyber Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/antdaviscyber LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antdaviscyber Website: riskycreative.com Our Intro and Outro Song © 16 by Falling Forever https://fallingforever.bandcamp.com/track/16 Licence: Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This week, a $70 million Bitcoin heist that took just 41 minutes, a government helpdesk breach that leaked 600,000 school staff records, and an AI security story where Anthropic's Claude broke into three real companies during a test that went wrong. This week on The Awareness Angle, Ant and Luke open Breach Watch with the Department for Education hack, then dig into the Anthropic story, models that broke out of a sealed testing environment and hacked three organisations because of a mix up over internet access. From there it's straight into the news. A five year old typo in a hardware wallet's code let someone drain $70 million in Bitcoin in under an hour. There's also a genuinely hopeful one, UK police running a scheme that steers teenage hackers into cyber careers instead of court. Also this week: hotel Wi-Fi spyware that can switch on your webcam and mic, an unencrypted master copy of an unreleased Nicolas Cage movie stolen off a desk, a coordinated attack on more than 30 Minnesota water systems, and the AI that found a security hole hiding in Chrome for 13 years. Chapters 0:00 Intro 4:37 Department for Education breach, 600,000 records leaked 9:44 Claude AI breaks into 3 companies during a testing mix up 16:26 $70 million Bitcoin heist in 41 minutes 23:02 Police run hacker rehab for teenagers 30:10 Hotel Wi-Fi spyware switches on your webcam and mic 32:44 Unreleased Nicolas Cage movie stolen off a desk 38:03 Coordinated attack hits 30 Minnesota water systems 43:11 AI finds a 13 year old flaw hiding in Chrome 47:50 Security Socials: Steam Workshop malware hits Mecha Chameleon 56:22 Security Socials: Fake Microsoft security update phishing page 58:07 Security Socials: Job seekers hiding AI prompts in their resumes 1:01:42 Security Socials: Finding someone's location from a photo of pavement The Awareness Angle is hosted by Ant Davis and Luke Pettigrew, brought to you by Risky Creative. Newsletter: riskycreative.com TikTok: antdaviscyber Instagram: antdaviscyber Music: "16" by Falling Forever, licensed under CC BY 4.0

Two governments found out their data was gone this week. One because a hacker deleted everything and left a ransom note, the other because they finally noticed someone had been sitting inside their systems for ten months. And somewhere between the two, an AI broke out of a safety test and hacked one of the biggest AI companies on the planet. A hacker wiped Romania's entire national land registry after a ransom went unpaid, and now you cannot legally buy or sell a house there because the records that prove who owns what are gone. South Korea's diplomatic academy was breached for ten months before anyone spotted it, and the people affected did not hear about it for another five. The autonomous AI agent that broke into Hugging Face turned out to be OpenAI's own models during an internal test, running with their safety refusals switched off. They broke out of OpenAI's own sandbox first, then hacked Hugging Face's systems to cheat a benchmark. When the team tried to investigate, the US AI models they reached for refused to help because they flagged the forensic work as malicious, so they ran a Chinese open model, GLM 5.2, to clean it up. And a Russian group known as LAUNDRY BEAR is stealing 90 days of email through a Zimbra flaw that fires the moment you preview a message, no click required. Also this week: ClickFix has put on an AI costume, with fake AI troubleshooting pages talking people into pasting malware into their own machines. A flaw in the Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension could let any website quietly read your WhatsApp chats. Ofcom is finally forcing UK mobile networks to block scam texts and stop criminals spoofing UK numbers. Cyber insurers are quietly splitting on whether they will even cover deepfake fraud anymore. And in Luke's story, Anthropic launches Claude Security, with one very interesting clause about whose code you are allowed to scan. Chapters 00:00 Intro 04:24 Romania land registry hacked and wiped, housing market frozen 09:20 South Korea diplomatic academy breach hidden for ten months 13:11 OpenAI's own AI goes rogue and hacks Hugging Face 21:28 Russian hackers steal 90 days of email via a Zimbra flaw 29:02 ClickFix AI-fix, fake AI help pages spreading malware 35:08 Adobe Acrobat extension flaw exposed WhatsApp chats 40:30 Ofcom forces UK networks to block scam texts and number spoofing 46:16 Cyber insurance and deepfake fraud, is your policy covered? 52:06 Security Socials 58:55 Luke's story, Anthropic launches Claude Security The Awareness Angle is hosted by Ant Davis and Luke Pettigrew, produced under Risky Creative. New episodes every week. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@riskycreative Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7rwzcRsKrXbASFBfiXoCZ6 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-awareness-angle-cyber-news-weekly/id1784126196 Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-awareness-angle-newsletter-7274932363787132928/ Website: riskycreative.com TikTok: @antdaviscyber Instagram: @antdaviscyber LinkedIn: antdaviscyber Music: "16" by Falling Forever https://fallingforever.bandcamp.com/track/16 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This week the internet came for your fridge, your laptop and your DNA, and it wasn't subtle about any of it. Hackers hit Coca-Cola's dairy brand fairlife with ransomware and shut down US milk production. Mac users are under fire from two new malware strains — one that holds your computer hostage until you type your password in, and another disguising itself as Apple's own crash reporter. And 23andMe is paying $18 million over the breach that exposed millions of people's genetic data. That's the one you genuinely cannot fix by resetting a password. Also this week: Lidl customers caught in a supplier breach they knew nothing about, the two young men behind the Transport for London hack jailed for five and a half years each, scammers hiding remote access tools inside fake greeting cards, Microsoft's biggest ever Patch Tuesday followed within hours by a researcher dropping a brand new unpatched bug, and a BitLocker flaw that quietly undermined encrypted laptop security. In Security Socials: a ChatGPT hallucination that sent someone on a wasted road trip, a ClickFix awareness video with half a million likes and the comment section that explains exactly why we keep talking about this stuff, the AI facial recognition case that put an innocent grandmother in jail for five months, and a law firm that used one shared master password for everything. New episodes every week. Cybersecurity news for humans. Chapters:00:00 Intro01:37 This week on The Awareness Angle03:17 Breach Watch: Lidl supplier breach08:24 23andMe pays $18m DNA settlement13:59 Mac malware ClickLock holds your computer hostage19:45 Mac malware disguised as Apple crash reporter29:26 TFL hackers jailed for five and a half years32:33 Fake e-cards hiding remote access malware37:44 Microsoft's record Patch Tuesday and a fresh zero-day46:44 Coca-Cola fairlife ransomware halts milk production49:27 Security Socials: ChatGPT bike shop fail51:46 ClickFix video with half a million likes54:44 AI facial recognition jails innocent grandmother57:21 GM removes authenticator app MFA1:00:51 Luke's story: the law firm with one password for everything1:04:31 Outro TikTok / Instagram: @antdaviscyberLinkedIn: antdaviscyberWebsite: riskycreative.com

Episode 96 of The Awareness Angle This week an insurance company leaked driver's license numbers for nearly 7 million people because one employee clicked a phishing email. Sainsbury's facial recognition system was 99.98% accurate and 100% wrong about the shopper it publicly kicked out. A 15 year old took down a national anime streaming service with malware ChatGPT helped him write. A Scattered Spider suspect hopped three countries on a VPN and still got caught by a number hidden in every Windows PC. And Google's own AI helped scammers steal $1.9 billion, so now Google is suing people for using Google properly. Ant and Luke break it all down in plain English, no jargon, for anyone who wants to understand what's actually happening in cybersecurity without needing a technical background. Plus this week's Phish of the Week from Hoxhunt and a look at what's trending across security socials. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:17 Housekeeping and the heatwave chat 03:25 Breach Watch: AssuranceAmerica driver's license breach 09:47 Accenture source code breach 13:22 Sainsbury's facial recognition wrongly flags shopper 20:07 15 year old uses ChatGPT to hack Bandai Namco 26:18 OnlyFans creators accidentally clean up hacked gov sites 32:04 Scattered Spider hacker caught by Windows device ID 41:35 Google sues scammers who abused its own Gemini AI 47:30 Quick hit stories 57:17 Security Socials 1:07:42 Luke's story: AI deepfake YouTube channel 1:14:20 Wrap up Newsletter: riskycreative.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/newsletters/the-awareness-angle-newsletter-7274932363787132928 Instagram/TikTok: @antdaviscyber YouTube: @riskycreative Music: "16" by Falling Forever, https://fallingforever.bandcamp.com/track/16, licensed under Creative Commons, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

iPhone 18 Pro design files leaked, Aflac gets hit for the third time in a few years, and a bank robber in London gets away with £117,000 just by wearing the right uniform. This week's episode has a bit of everything. Hackers stole 630GB of unreleased iPhone 18 Pro design files from Apple's manufacturing partner Tata Electronics, proving that even Apple's secrets aren't safe once you outsource the manufacturing. Medtronic tells millions of customers their health data and Social Security numbers were stolen, though the actual medical devices are safe to use. Aflac's Japan business gets breached for the third time in a few years, exposing bank details for 4.4 million people. Scammers register earthquake donation scam sites in Venezuela before rescue teams even finish pulling people from the rubble. Japanese hotel staff get targeted with fake guest complaint emails hiding malware that sits quiet until it's needed. UK hospital cyberattacks jump tenfold this year, a lot of them still exploiting a vulnerability from 2021. Opera launches a browser feature built to stop you hacking yourself, which might be the most 2026 sentence Ant's said all week. Plus PewDiePie tells his followers to ditch ChatGPT for a self hosted AI tool, a Commodore flip phone with no social media, the bank robbery solved by an Uber booked in the thief's own name, a tamper evident jar for storing sensitive items, why blurring your face doesn't actually hide your identity, and what WhatsApp usernames really mean for your privacy. *** Please note - All views and opinions expressed in this episode are our own and do not reflect those of our employers. *** Chapters: 0:00 Intro 3:16 Medtronic data breach exposes health records 6:07 Aflac hack exposes 4.4 million bank details 9:37 iPhone 18 Pro design leak from Tata Electronics 13:52 Venezuela earthquake donation scams 18:21 Japanese hotels hit with malware phishing 23:19 UK hospital cyberattacks up tenfold 27:13 Opera's Paste Protect stops ClickFix attacks 33:50 PewDiePie's Odysseus AI tool 40:27 Degoogling and the Commodore flip phone 43:09 The bank robber who just asked for the money 48:16 A tamper evident jar for sensitive items 51:58 Why blurring your face doesn't work 54:05 WhatsApp usernames explained Follow The Awareness Angle: TikTok and Instagram: @antdaviscyber LinkedIn: antdaviscyber Website: riskycreative.com Music: "16" by Falling Forever, used under CC BY 4.0 Track: https://fallingforever.bandcamp.com/track/16 Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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 Subscribe for weekly cybersecurity news made for humans, not just IT teams. The Awareness Angle is an independent podcast by Risky Creative, hosted by Ant Davis and Luke Pettigrew. Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-awareness-angle-newsletter-7274932363787132928/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7rwzcRsKrXbASFBfiXoCZ6 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-awareness-angle-cyber-news-weekly/id1784126196 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@antdaviscyber Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/antdaviscyber LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antdaviscyber Website: riskycreative.com Our Intro and Outro Song © 16 by Falling Forever https://fallingforever.bandcamp.com/track/16 Licence: Creative Commons CC BY 4.0

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 The Awareness Angle is an independent podcast by Risky Creative. Subscribe for weekly cybersecurity news made for humans, not just IT teams. Find us Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-awareness-angle-newsletter-7274932363787132928/ Website: riskycreative.com TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@antdaviscyber Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/antdaviscyber LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antdaviscyber Our Intro and Outro Song © 16 by Falling Forever https://fallingforever.bandcamp.com/track/16 Licence: Creative Commons CC BY 4.0

ShinyHunters breached the University of Nottingham using a critical Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day, leaking passport numbers, National Insurance numbers, disability data and financial records for 455,000 students. If you studied at Nottingham, check haveibeenpwned.com now. A hidden camera was found in a ceiling tile at 2 Marsham Street, London, the Home Office building that approved China's controversial new mega-embassy. Nobody knows who put it there or how long it was recording. Someone filed fake data breach notices on Maine's official breach portal, which publishes filings instantly with no verification. The Register reported one as fact before readers flagged it. Also this week: ServiceNow admits a security incident months after allegedly being warned. 10,000 malicious domains registered ahead of the FIFA World Cup. A disgruntled researcher bypasses BitLocker because Microsoft made him homeless. Google Chrome permanently kills uBlock Origin. The Met Police gives Apple and Samsung an ultimatum over stolen phones. Phish of the Week: Temu callback phishing using a real password reset email. CHAPTERS 0:01 Intro 3:45 Breach of the Week: University of Nottingham data breach and Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day 8:41 Hidden camera found in Whitehall building that approved China's mega-embassy 13:54 ServiceNow security incident: customer data accessed 16:36 FIFA World Cup 2026: 10,000 malicious domains 21:33 Nightmare Eclipse drops eighth Windows zero-day, bypasses BitLocker 27:39 Fake data breach notices posted to Maine's official portal 33:19 Google Chrome permanently kills uBlock Origin 37:51 Met Police urges Apple and Samsung to make stolen phones unusable 39:40 Apple Passwords auto-change feature 42:07 Phish of the Week: Temu password reset misuse 46:19 Security Socials: Police use AI to enhance CCTV image Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-awareness-angle-newsletter-7274932363787132928/ Music: "16" by Falling Forever. https://fallingforever.bandcamp.com/track/16 . CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

NHS patients are only now being notified about a breach that happened two years ago. Hackers brute-forced Dashlane's two-factor authentication. The FBI has already spotted over 30 fake FIFA websites and yes, fifa.beer is one of them. This week Ant and Luke cover why the two-year gap between the Synnovis ransomware attack and this week's notification letters is not unusual, and what it means for the people affected. Plus why the Dashlane breach is giving everyone LastPass flashbacks, and why your master password matters more than you might think. Also this week: UK banks locked out of Anthropic's Claude Mythos while OpenAI steps in with GPT-5.5 Cyber, Mac malware that passed Apple's own notarization checks, a new MFA bypass platform sold on Telegram, and the NCSC's warning that AI is about to surface decades of hidden software vulnerabilities all at once. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 02:53 Breach of the Week — NHS Blood Test Results 06:03 AI Banking — Claude Mythos vs GPT-5.5 Cyber 10:38 Dashlane Password Manager Breach 16:49 Apple Mac Malware — Operation FlutterBridge 21:59 Fake FIFA Websites — The FBI List 26:37 NCSC — Patch Flood Warning 31:43 Kali365 — MFA Bypass via Microsoft 365 35:46 Phish of the Week — Claude Ads Impersonation 39:38 Security Socials — Same Ingredient Different Delivery 42:38 Security Socials — Call of Duty Vulnerabilities The Awareness Angle is an independent weekly cybersecurity podcast for security awareness professionals, CISOs, and anyone who wants to understand the human side of security. Newsletter | YouTube | Apple Podcasts | TikTok | Instagram | LinkedIn Our Intro and Outro Song © 16 by Falling Forever https://fallingforever.bandcamp.com/track/16 Licence: Creative Commons CC BY 4.0

Solo episode this week. A fake UK visa website left 100,000 passports in an open folder online. iPhone thieves in London are now threatening victims' families to get them to remove Activation Lock. California has sued the company formerly known as 23andMe, alleging they paid the hacker in secret while telling customers everything was fine. A ChatGPT vulnerability lets attackers hide phishing links inside AI responses. A criminal group called Silent Ransom Group has been physically walking into US law firm offices dressed as IT support and plugging in USB drives. And researchers demonstrate AudioHijack - inaudible commands hidden inside podcasts, Zoom calls and music that AI assistants process as real instructions while you hear nothing. Plus: a real Amber Alert that looked exactly like a phishing scam because the URL got clipped by a character limit, and how a TikToker's phone home screen told scammers exactly which bank to impersonate when they called him. Chapters 00:00 Intro 01:04 SANS Security Awareness Summit - Official Media Partner Announcement 02:15 Flying Solo This Week 02:45 Breach of the Week - UK Visa Portal Leaks 100,000 Passports 04:34 London iPhone Theft - Thieves Are Now Threatening Your Family 09:42 23andMe - California Sues Over the Cover-Up, Not Just the Breach 15:47 ChatGPhish - Attackers Hiding Phishing Links Inside ChatGPT 21:31 Silent Ransom Group - Criminals Walking Into Law Firm Offices 27:36 AudioHijack - The AI Commands Hidden in Sounds You Can't Hear 34:50 Amber Alert Accidental Phishing (Ant's Topic) 39:41 Tom the Tech Chap - Your Phone Screen Tells Scammers Which Bank to Impersonate (Luke's Topic) The Awareness Angle is a weekly cybersecurity podcast and newsletter that explains the biggest cyber threats, data breaches, and online scams in plain English. No jargon. No technical background needed. New episode every week. 📧 Newsletter 🌐 riskycreative.com 🎙️ Spotify 🎙️ Apple Podcasts ▶️ YouTube: @riskycreative 📱 TikTok: @antdaviscyber 📱 Instagram: @antdaviscyber 💼 LinkedIn: antdaviscyber Our Intro and Outro Song © 16 by Falling Forever https://fallingforever.bandcamp.com/track/16 Licence: CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

CISA left admin passwords and AWS keys on a public GitHub repo called "Private-CISA" for six months. A new macOS stealer called Reaper fakes Apple security updates to steal everything on your machine. And the 2026 Verizon DBIR lands with 22,000 breaches across 145 countries. Chapters 00:00 Intro 01:30 Breach Watch: 7-Eleven / ShinyHunters 04:20 Breach Watch: Portugal postal service leak 07:12 CISA left passwords on public GitHub 12:32 Iran-linked attacks on US fuel monitors 17:54 Reaper macOS stealer 22:43 Discord end-to-end encryption 27:01 The 2026 Verizon DBIR breakdown 33:26 Newsletter and socials 34:30 Security Socials Subscribe to the newsletter at riskycreative.com Follow us on TikTok | Instagram | LinkedIn Listen on Spotify | Apple Podcasts Our Intro and Outro Song is 16 by Falling Forever Listen on Bandcamp Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

This week the Canvas story is back. Instructure has paid ShinyHunters and says the stolen student data has been destroyed, but nobody in the security industry believes them. A telehealth platform breach exposed over 700,000 patients from a company most of them have never heard of. Twin brothers got fired on a Teams call, forgot it was still recording, and deleted 96 government databases while talking through their plan out loud. Kids are beating age verification with a drawn-on mustache. A fake Claude Code installer is stealing developer credentials through Google search ads. And Google has confirmed for the first time that hackers used AI to find and exploit a zero-day. Plus, a stoner just recovered $400,000 in Bitcoin after losing his password while high in 2015. Chapters 00:00 Intro 01:42 Breach Watch: Canvas Pays ShinyHunters 05:56 Breach Watch: OpenLoop Health Breach 10:20 Twin Brothers Delete 96 Government Databases 14:03 Kids Bypass Age Verification With a Fake Mustache 19:18 Fake Claude Code Installer 24:34 Hackers Used AI to Find a Zero-Day 30:20 Stoner Recovers $400K Bitcoin With AI 33:57 Audi VIN Vulnerability 40:32 Security Socials 47:24 UK Banks Storing Biometric Data 51:47 Waymo Cars Driving Into Floods Subscribe to the weekly newsletter at riskycreative.com or find us as The Awareness Angle on LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. 📩 Newsletter 🎧 Spotify 🎧 Apple Podcasts 📸 Instagram 🎵 TikTok: @infosecant ▶️ YouTube 🎵 Music: "16" by Falling Forever Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

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 Subscribe to the weekly newsletter at riskycreative.com for the full breakdown of every story. 📺 YouTube 🎧 Spotify 🎧 Apple Podcasts 📰 Newsletter 📸 Instagram 📱 TikTok: @infosecant 🌐 Website 🎵 Our Intro and Outro Song © 16 by Falling Forever Licensed under CC BY 4.0