The latest edition of the Transatlantic Cable podcast focuses mostly on AI, with an opening salvo of stories, the first is news that the FTC are opening an investigation into Open AI and ChatGPT. From there, discussion moves to a worrying story around artificial intelligence and the recent writers and actors strikes. To wrap up, there are two stories, the first dedicated to AI and the growing voices raised against it and, would you use a facial recognition service if it meant less time waiting i...
Jul 20, 2023•34 min•Ep. 308
The latest edition of the Transatlantic Cable begins with news that a U.S judge has ruled that the United States government must limit its contact with social media networks. From there discussion moves to news that the U.K government is trying to push through new legislation to enable it to essentially break end-to-end encryption – privacy groups are, as you’d expect, concerned. The last two stories look at news around the ‘snooper’s charter in France and should parents hide their kids faces on...
Jul 12, 2023•31 min•Ep. 307
The latest edition of the Transatlantic Cable begins with talk around a Microsoft data breach. However, details are thin on the ground and Microsoft are denying that there’s been a leak. From there talk moves to news around Google’s update to Chrome and a breaking story that centres around PornHub and the EU. Lastly, the team talk about the recent changes to Twitter. If you liked what you heard, please consider subscribing. Microsoft denies data breach, theft of 30 million customer accounts 3 Bi...
Jul 05, 2023•42 min•Ep. 306
The latest edition of the Transatlantic Cable begins with discussion around Android phones accidentally dialling emergency services in the U.K. From there, discussion moves to malware-laced malware games and law-makers in the U.S share concerns around Alphabet’s relaxing of ‘fake-news’ policies. To wrap up the team look at discussions around A.I and jobs – is a machine really going to swipe your job? If you like what you heard, please consider subscribing! UK police report epidemic of Android fa...
Jun 29, 2023•39 min•Ep. 305
Episode 304 kicks off with news that U.S government agencies are also affected by the recent CLOP gang as they’re also using the affected MOVEit software. From there the team also discuss the most recent flaws in the MOVEit software and urge users to update. Following on from that, there’s an interview with Ghislaine Boddington about the newly released Fast Forward audio series from Kaspersky; Apple’s fight with Apples (yes, really) and the team wrap up with talk around OpenAI’s seemingly contra...
Jun 21, 2023•57 min•Ep. 304
Episode 302 of the Transatlantic Cable kicks off with discussions around the Clop ransomware gang issuing ultimatums to affected businesses. From there the team look at how ChatGPT is being used to create mutating malware which is capable of evading EDR; how a newly discovered malware dubbed ‘DoubleFinger’ is being used to steal crypto and another crypto-related story, this time around advertising crypto in the U.K. To wrap up the team look at a story around how a Nintendo Switch was used by the...
Jun 15, 2023•29 min•Ep. 303
The team kick off episode 302 with news that cyber attackers have hit a pay-roll company in the U.K, affecting hundreds of thousands of victims. From there, the team talk about Apple’s latest hardware and is it game over for Metaverse? Moving on, the team talk about scammers trying to defraud students and the FTC fine Ring for previous security breaches. If you liked what you heard, please consider subscribing. Hackers raid British Airways and BBC in cyber attack Mark Zuckerberg unveils new meta...
Jun 07, 2023•33 min•Ep. 302
Episode 301 kicks off with Wired article exposes the China-backed Volt Typhoon Hack, a menacing cyberattack that poses a severe threat to critical infrastructure in the United States. With a specific focus on Guam's power grid control systems, this breach underscores the vulnerability and potential ramifications of such targeted attacks, Moving to New York county where they are still dealing with ransomware eight months after attack. Prepare for a fascinating journey down the Australian motorway...
May 31, 2023•18 min•Season 1Ep. 301
Episode 300 kicks off with a bang, with discussion around Meta’s record breaking fine for sending EU citizens’ data to the United States. From there discussion moves to A.I and fake ChatGPT apps on mobile stores. The team also discuss news around Neeva’s closure, the search engine that asked for a donation instead of selling your search-history – is there really no room for innovation in the search market? It seems not, sadly. To wrap up the team sat down with Victor Sergeev, incident response t...
May 24, 2023•53 min•Ep. 300
Episode 299 of the Transatlantic Cable Podcast kicks off with discussion around photo-manipulation apps (aka: filters) on social media. Should they be banned or regulated? From there, discussion moves to news that a entrepreneurial 23 year old has created an AI version of herself which will be your girlfriend for $1 per minute. Moving swiftly onwards, the team then look at a story from the United States, as Wendy’s looks to A.I to help them with drive-through orders. Finally, to wrap up, the tea...
May 19, 2023•37 min•Ep. 299
Episode 298 of the Transatlantic Cable kicks off with news that ChatGPT recently suffered a data-breach, raising concerns about the amount of information we hand over to the AI chatbot. From there, the team discuss a recent story around QR scams in South Korea – be careful what you scan, is always good advice it seems. Moving on from QR codes, the team spoke to Seongsu Park about the infamous Lazarus group’s recent activities. To wrap up, the team looked at two final stories, one around hackers ...
May 11, 2023•57 min•Ep. 298
For the 297th edition of the Transatlantic Cable Podcast , Ahmed and I discuss a lot of stories that center around the hottest topic on the social web – AI. Our first story takes a look at how a company is now offering Deep Fakes for under $200… we opine about what could go wrong. From there, we jump over to recent news of Geoffrey Hinton quitting Google. The move from Hinton is on the heels of him questioning the uninhibited growth and development of AI – without looking as to what could go wro...
May 04, 2023•23 min•Season 1Ep. 297
Episode 296 kicks off with news that Oasis may be reforming – except not really. Turns out some boffins have figured out how to use A.I to create new Oasis music. Unsurprisingly, UMG (Universal Music Group) aren’t too happy. From A.I to A.I, the next story looks at the evolution of Google’s Bard bot and following that there’s discussion around the U.K government’s decision to build their own super-computer, with the purpose of, you guessed it, artificial intelligence. To wrap up, the team discus...
Apr 26, 2023•28 min•Ep. 296
Episode 295 of the Transatlantic Cable kicks off with discussions around LLM (Large Language Model) A.I regulations however, is it a case of too little, too late? From there the team talk about a concerning case of attackers using deep fake audio to try to extort money out of a victim. Following that, there’s yet more discussion around A.I, including news that a fake photograph has won a prestigious photography award, and is the hacking of LLM A.I the start of something new in the cybersecurity ...
Apr 20, 2023•49 min•Ep. 295
Episode 294 of the Transatlantic Cable Podcast kicks off with news that some Samsung staff have shared sensitive technical information with ChatGPT. Following that a critical story around Tesla cars oversharing video feeds and are Twitter circles broken. To wrap up, the team discuss how A.I is now capable of breaking passwords faster than ever before and Apple’s announcement of two zero-days currently being targeted by attackers. If you liked what you heard please do consider subscribing. · Sams...
Apr 13, 2023•43 min•Season 1Ep. 294
For the 293rd episode of the Kaspersky Transatlantic Cable podcast, we are down to a two-man booth as both Dave and Jag are away on vacation. To kick things off, Ahmed and I take a look at a story that pulls the curtain back on one of the web’s most notorious websites – 4Chan. We were kind of shocked when we saw who was one of the benefactors and am pretty sure that you will be as well. We then climb out of the cesspool before falling into a story on a scam targeting taxpayers. From there, in th...
Apr 06, 2023•25 min•Season 1Ep. 293
Episode 292 of the Transatlantic Cable Podcast is here! This week, the team talk about aggressive AI and how the DEA have turned Apple AirTags into a surveillance tool against criminals. Moving on, the team discuss recent news that Nvidia’s CTO thinks that crypto-currencies don’t “bring anything useful for society” – pretty bold words for a business that sold GPU cards to crypto-miners just a few years ago. To wrap up, discussion moves onto how the US is looking to block the use and sale of comm...
Mar 30, 2023•32 min•Ep. 292
Episode 291 of the Transatlantic Cable Podcast kicks off with news around OpenAI’s recent decision to reduce the amount of information it’s sharing about how ChatGPT is trained, causing some to worry that it’s no longer as open as originally designed. From there discussion moves to a recent story around the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) in America and hackers looking to leverage DEA’s internal toolset. Following that, news around hacked crypto ATMs and a new story from Securelist around ...
Mar 23, 2023•46 min•Ep. 291
Please accept our apologies for the audio in places - we've done what we can to clean it up - back to normal scheduling next week! Welcome to the 290th episode of the Kaspersky Transatlantic Cable podcast. In this episode, we kick things off with a discussion on how ransomware gangs are taking new leaps to extort money. Spoiler alert - you aren’t going to like it one bit. From there, we jump into a discussion surrounding the booming black market in China for access to ChatGPT. We continue the di...
Mar 17, 2023•14 min•Ep. 290
In episode 289 of the Transatlantic Cable, the team look at four new stories to tempt your earbuds. This week kicks off with news that TikTok are implementing a 60-minute time limit for users under 18. Following that, discussion moves to further developments around FTX, this time about their missing $9 billion. To wrap up, we discuss news around Call of Duty players taking back Black Ops III from hackers and bots and more news around the recent LastPass data breach. If you liked what you heard, ...
Mar 09, 2023•31 min•Ep. 289
The latest episode of the Transatlantic Cable sees the team starting out with news around Signal and their refusal to weaken encryption for the U.K government. Following that, the team move onto discussions around Meta and National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) campaign to help people with the spread of minors' intimate images online. To wrap up, the team discuss SnapChat A.I chat bots and LockBit’s attack against the U.K’s Royal Mail service. If you liked what you heard, p...
Mar 02, 2023•32 min•Ep. 288
The latest episode of the Transatlantic Cable starts off with news that GoDaddy, one of the largest web hosting services was hacked back in 2020 and the attackers were able to gain access to the back end of millions of websites, helping them to push malware and steal credentials. Moving from there the team look at news of the recent remove of SMS 2FA (two factor authentication) from Twitter, sparking a fierce debate in the infosec world. There’s also discussion around spam bots in Instagram and ...
Feb 23, 2023•42 min•Ep. 287
The latest episode of the Transatlantic Cable kicks off once again with a discussion around A.I – this time, looking at how it could soon be used by musicians to help them create music – but concerns grow that it could one day be used to create music (much like it can now be used to create art). From there the team discus how a pair of developers have created an A.I that generates lifelike police portraits sketches, and it’s got privacy and civil liberty experts worried. Moving away from A.I to ...
Feb 15, 2023•31 min•Ep. 286
Episode 285 of the Transatlantic Cable kicks off with yet more news around A.I and the ever-interesting topic of ChatGPT. However, this time, the discussion starts with regulation and the CTO of Open AI believes that it’s inevitable. Moving from that to a more quirky story, still involving A.I however: a small team have used AI to create a never-ending Seinfield episode, streaming over on Twitch – sadly at the time of writing, it appears to have been shut down, but it still raises interesting qu...
Feb 09, 2023•35 min•Ep. 285
Episode 284 kicks off with a story that is going to surprise no one: over 50% of smart appliances are not connected to the internet, which is a surprise to only the manufacturers – it seems people aren’t really convinced by Wi-Fi enabled refrigerators or washing machines, it seems. Moving on from that, the team discuss news that AI audio is becoming a problem, with AI company ElevenLabs saying that they’re going to start clamping down on troublesome audio recordings – but has Pandora’s box alrea...
Feb 01, 2023•44 min•Ep. 284
Episode 283 kicks off with the recent (good news) story that ransomware gangs earnings are down by quite a bit from last year – turns out that people are starting to treat backups properly and are refusing to pay – great news for 2023! Following that, the team look at troubling news, this time from the crypto-currency world, with a story looking at the recent collapse of Genesis. Moving from crypto to the world of fake news, a recent study has shown that the reason people share fake news is perh...
Jan 26, 2023•28 min•Ep. 283
Episode 282 kicks off with new research from Which? Showing that ‘smart’ technology might not be as smart as we’ve been led to believe – their research shows that most devices stop receiving updates from 2 years, even thought the device has a suggested life of 10 – it seems more work needs to be done. From there the team look at two stories around A.I, the first on the media sensation, ChatGPT and how some people are looking to use it for malware creation, and the second looking at a chat A.I pr...
Jan 19, 2023•48 min•Ep. 282
The first episode of 2023 of the Transatlantic Cable Podcast kicks off with news around the “recent” Twitter hack – emphasis on recent as the data was actually siphoned from Twitter back in 2021, but has only recently come to light – timing is everything it seems. From there, the team look at news that the Web3 industry lost a whopping $4 billion to crypto-fraud last year – apparently, this is good news as the previous year it was a colossal $8 billion. Staying with crypto, the next story dives ...
Jan 11, 2023•27 min•Ep. 281
The final episode of the year brings some pretty big stories for the Transatlantic Cable team. Kicking off this week, discussion starts with a troubling story about democracies and spyware – in particular, how others are leveraging the malicious software to try to subvert democratic countries. Moving from that, the team look at the big news of the week, with word that Twitter users have voted to remove Elon Musk as CEO of the troubled social network. However, even if he is removed as owner, he’l...
Dec 23, 2022•42 min•Ep. 280
Episode 279 of the Transatlantic Cable kicks off with a troubling story about purported Chinese hacker group, APT41 attacking and stealing US Covid relief payments, to the cool tune of $20 million. Whilst details are thin, concerns are being raised around just how much of the nearly $800 billion was actually used by people in need. From there the team move onto discussions around North Korea’s Lazarus group, with details around a malicious app, designed to siphon off people’s crypto-currency. Af...
Dec 07, 2022•27 min•Ep. 279
