Latest Threatintelligence Podcast Episodes
144. Generative AI: Is it creative or just copying the rest of us?
Click Here - July 02, 2024 07:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsIn an encore episode, we look at the tension between AI and the work of humans from which it learns. Media companies like the New York Times and a roster of authors and artists have sued some of the makers of these generative AI models to try to get an answer to a very fundamental question: What ...
143. Mic Drop: Bellingcat’s Eliot Higgins wants to change the relationship you have with information.
Click Here - June 28, 2024 07:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsBellingcat founder Eliot Higgins has been working with young people not just to show them how to sort fact from fiction, but to give them a reason to believe that truth can still empower the weak and hold the guilty accountable.
142. Meet Antibot4Navalny: the mysterious researchers exposing Russia’s war on truth.
Click Here - June 25, 2024 07:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsAntibot4Navalny is a small but mighty group of anonymous researchers calling out Russian disinformation — and punching way above their weight.
141. Legislative solutions for deepfake abuse finally begin to take shape
Click Here - June 21, 2024 07:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsOmny Miranda Martone has been working with a handful of Washington lawmakers for more than a year on legislation that would put an end to the impunity of deepfake abuse. The bill, known as the Defiance Act, is being fast-tracked through Congress with a rare procedure known as “hotlining” and it m...
140. Are solutions to deepfake abuse finally coming into focus?
Click Here - June 18, 2024 07:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsAfter years of shouting into the wind about deepfakes and deepfake porn, we take a look at some possible solutions that offer not just deterrence but accountability. Plus, something we rarely see these days: bipartisan agreement on a bill in Congress.
139. Mic Drop: GhostSec’s quest for redemption: their leader claims their life of crime is over.
Click Here - June 14, 2024 07:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThe GhostSec hacktivist group used to be known for its cyberattacks against terrorist groups like ISIS. Then, last year, the group took an unexpected turn — it created GhostLocker and began launching ransomware attacks. We talk to the group’s leader about their work with cybercriminal gangs and w...
138. Almost every cyber attack begins with a key ingredient: an Infostealer
Click Here - June 11, 2024 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsInfostealers commit close to the perfect crime. They sneak into your computer, grab your logins, passwords, and anything of value, and then delete themselves on the way out — victims don’t even know they’ve been robbed. We talk to the alleged co-founder of the Meduza infostealer and to some of th...
137. Mic Drop: Inside a secret drone school in Ukraine
Click Here - June 07, 2024 07:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsAs Russian forces zero in on Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv, drones are among the weapons that are coming to the rescue. We went to a secret drone academy where Ukraine is training its drone operators to help fend off the Russians while Ukraine awaits new arms from the U.S.
136. Money and fame — not just social change — are creating a new kind of hacktivist.
Click Here - June 04, 2024 07:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsA hacktivist group called the Belarusian Cyber Partisans rocked Belarus when it hacked into government servers and released secret police files and government wiretaps – the kinds of hacks we’re used to seeing by nation-states. They represent the changing face of hacktivism. Some hacktivists are ...
135. Mic Drop: Oren Etzioni has a way to help us sort fact from AI fiction
Click Here - May 31, 2024 07:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsOren Etzioni used to be one of those AI optimists. Now, not so much. In fact, he’s so worried about AI-manipulated content, he created a non-profit, TrueMedia.org, to help ordinary people sort AI fact from fiction.
134. Are autocrats winning the disinformation war?
Click Here - May 28, 2024 07:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsUS adversaries are on a propaganda offensive around the world. Earlier this month, the Council on Foreign Relations in DC convened a discussion about the changing landscape of disinformation campaigns with James Rubin, special envoy at the Global Engagement Center at the State Department, Jon Bat...
133. Mic Drop: A surprising thing about war games and cyber attacks and why the military can’t trust AI
Click Here - May 24, 2024 07:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsWhen the Hoover Institution’s director of war gaming, Jackie Schneider, started organizing war simulations more than a decade ago, she assumed that participants would respond to cyber attacks the same way they responded to traditional weapons of war – but it turns out that couldn’t be farther fro...
132. Meet the guy who single-handedly took down North Korea’s Internet.
Click Here - May 21, 2024 07:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsWhen North Korea hacked Alejandro Caceres, he expected the U.S. government to rush to his defense. When they just shrugged, he took matters into his own hands.
131. Mic Drop: Could spoofing satellites become Russia’s new jam?
Click Here - May 17, 2024 07:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsOn the battlefields of Ukraine, Russia has become very adapt at electronic warfare — both jamming GPS satellites and spoofing satellite signals. We explain how it works and its ripple effects beyond the front lines.
130. A wrinkle in time: GPS jamming in Ukraine and its ripple effects
Click Here - May 14, 2024 07:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsA story about satellites, electronic warfare, and a team of American techies who MacGyver-ed a way to keep the power flowing in Ukraine.
129. LockbItSupp tells us: UK and US have got the wrong guy
Click Here - May 10, 2024 07:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsIn an interview, LockbitSupp, head of the Lockbit cybercrime operation, told us that the U.S., U.K. and Australia have the wrong guy — he’s not Dmitry Khoroshev, the 31-year-old Russian national they’ve charged with hacking. What’s more, he says more attacks are coming.
129. LockBItSupp tells us: UK and US have got the wrong guy
Click Here - May 10, 2024 07:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsIn an interview, LockBitSupp, head of the LockBit cybercrime operation, told us that the U.S., U.K. and Australia have the wrong guy — he’s not Dmitry Khoroshev, the 31-year-old Russian national they’ve charged with hacking. What’s more, he says more attacks are coming.
129. LockbitSupp tells us: UK and US have got the wrong guy
Click Here - May 10, 2024 07:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsIn an interview, LockbitSupp, head of the Lockbit cybercrime operation, told us that the U.S., U.K. and Australia have the wrong guy — he’s not Dmitry Khoroshev, the 31-year-old Russian national they’ve charged with hacking. What’s more, he says more attacks are coming.
128. Taking aim at Democracy: Russia’s Doppelgänger gang isn’t just targeting elections anymore
Click Here - May 07, 2024 07:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsIn a year that could bring a perfect storm of disinformation, meet Doppelgänger, a Russian-backed group seeking not just to shake up the world’s elections, but its institutions too.
127. Mic Drop: NSC’s Neuberger on mitigating cyber attacks: ‘We should be using an operational approach’
Click Here - May 03, 2024 07:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThe White House’s top cyber official is keen to set minimum cybersecurity standards for industry, put contingencies in place in case cyberattacks are successful, and start looping ordinary people into an effort to make products secure by design.
126. The future of robotics from MIT’s "Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Labs Alliances" podcast
Click Here - April 30, 2024 07:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsAn episode from the ‘CSAIL Alliances Podcast’ from MIT CSAIL Alliances. Host Kara Miller talks with MIT robotics researcher and professor Daniela Rus about how we can use a new generation of robots to help humankind. Rus is the co-author of the new book, "The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future...
125. Mic Drop: The problem with the Nigerian economy has nothing to do with crypto
Click Here - April 26, 2024 07:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsBefore Nigerian authorities detained two mid-level Binance executives back in February, they were telling anyone who would listen that the cryptocurrency platform was manipulating the value of its currency, the naira. It turns out the more likely culprit is more than a decade of economic mismanag...
124. The company man: US response to Nigeria’s detention of former IRS crypto investigator rankles federal agents
Click Here - April 23, 2024 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsA former American IRS investigator responsible for some of the earliest dark market takedowns has been in Nigerian custody since February. Neither Nigerian nor the US authorities seem to be distinguishing Tigran Gambaryan from Binance, the company where he works.
123. Mic Drop: China seeks a Great Leap Forward in cyber
Click Here - April 19, 2024 07:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsChinese hackers are stepping up their game, according to Nigel Inkster, the former director of operations for Britain’s MI6. He says they are taking on a new swagger in cyberspace and borrowing things from a familiar playbook: a Russian one.
122. The UK-US unmasked a giant Chinese cyber operation but forgot one thing: to tell many of its victims
Click Here - April 16, 2024 07:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThe US and UK made a splashy coordinated announcement last month about a years-long cyber espionage campaign by Chinese state-backed hackers. The US indicted seven, the UK leveled sanctions. They just neglected to do one thing --- let some of the victims know.
121. Mic Drop: A unusual peek inside a North Korean malware lab
Click Here - April 12, 2024 07:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsNorth Korea has a unique way of testing malware — they are less concerned about getting it right than getting it out… a kind of “smash-and-grab” approach to cyber attacks. Sentinel One’s Tom Hegel explains.
120. North Korea’s ScarCruft gang is behind some very crafty phishin’ campaigns
Click Here - April 09, 2024 07:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsNorth Korea may be best known for the Lazarus group’s epic cryptocurrency heists. But there’s another special unit of state-backed hackers who have a different specialty: spying on journalists, dissidents, and cybersecurity experts. We look at the ScarCruft gang and their very crafty phishing cam...
119. Mic Drop: Could an analysis of sound help save the jaguar in Costa Rica?
Click Here - April 05, 2024 07:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsEveryone is talking about the power of AI in conservation, but a professor at Arizona State University has found an even simpler, more elegant solution – and all you have to do is listen.
118. AI and the Holy Grail of conservation: Real-time monitoring
Click Here - April 02, 2024 07:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsCornell University’s Elephant Listening Project has been trying to get real-time monitoring of the Central African Republic’s forest elephants for years. FruitPunch AI and a roster of other AI researchers are closer than ever to making that a reality.
117. Mic Drop: The Big Chill: Nigeria, Binance battle likely to add to economic crisis
Click Here - March 29, 2024 07:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsMatthew Page from the London-based think tank Chatham House pulls back to look at the potential economic fallout between Nigerian government and Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange.
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