The Awareness Angle: Cyber Security Awareness and Human Risk

ChatGPT Scam Factories | 100,000 Police Staff Leaked | Fake Roblox Malware | EP100

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

$70 Million Bitcoin Heist in 41 Minutes, Government Helpdesk Breach, Claude AI Hacks 3 Companies

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 An

OpenAI's AI Goes Rogue and Hacks Hugging Face, Romania's Land Registry Wiped & the 90-Day Email Heist

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 ha

Mac Malware Is Out of Control | 23andMe's $18M DNA Settlement | The TFL Hackers Are Going to Prison

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

7 Million Driver's Licenses Leaked, Sainsbury's Facial Recognition Fail, Google Sues Gemini Scammers

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 emai

iPhone 18 Leaked, Aflac Hacked (Again) and a Bank Robber Who Just Asked Nicely

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

GTA 6 Scams, Scattered Spider & The AI Plugin That Fooled Every Scanner

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

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

University of Nottingham Data Breach, Whitehall Spy Camera & Fake Discord Breach Exposed

ShinyHunters breached the University of Nottingham using a critical Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day, leaking passport numbers, National Insurance numbers, disability data and

NHS Blood Tests Leaked Two Years Later, Dashlane 2FA Brute-Forced & FIFA Scam Sites Already Live

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 spotte

They Walked Into the Law Firm, 23andMe Covered It Up & Your AI Can Be Hacked Through a Podcast

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

CISA Left Its Passwords on GitHub, Mac's Worst Malware Yet & The Verizon DBIR Breakdown

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 ste

Fired on a Teams Call, Deleted 96 Databases While Still Recording

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 th

Dead Airline Still Taking Bookings, Chrome's Secret AI Download & The Hackable Killer Lawn Mower

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 de

ADT Breached by a Phone Call, AI Wipes a Startup in 9 Seconds, and 85% of UK Breaches Are Phishing

This week on The Awareness Angle, we hit 1.2 million views on a single video across TikTok and Instagram, which is pretty wild for an independent podcast. Thank you to ev

How Roblox Cheats Led to a Corporate Breach, Warship Tracked by Postcard, Passkeys Replace Passwords

Roblox cheats at work lead to a full corporate breach. Half a million people's health data listed for sale on Alibaba by the researchers trusted to protect it. A $5 Bluet

Hungarian Passwords, Rockstar Hacked & Booking.com Scams

Nearly 800 Hungarian government passwords found in breach databases — including one from a colonel in charge of information security who used "FrankLampard". We break dow

Missile Alert Phishing, Meeting Recordings Exposed and You Already Have A QR Code Generator

This week: attackers are sending fake missile alert emails exploiting real Iran-US-Israel tensions to steal Microsoft credentials via QR code. We also cover a massive lea

FBI Wiretap System Hacked, White House App Security Concerns, and LinkedIn's Secret Browser Scans

Chinese hackers just broke into the system the FBI uses to track its own surveillance targets. The White House released an app that security researchers took apart and di

Ajax Season Tickets Stolen, OpenAI Kills Sora & Apple's Age Verification Explained

Episode 81 of The Awareness Angle. This week: a hack at Ajax Amsterdam let attackers steal season tickets and quietly lift stadium bans. A security scanner got compromis