Hacking Humans25 Mai 2023

Bringing in the human side of scamming.

Nick Percoco from Kraken sits down to discuss the human factor of crypto scams, including going over common red flags and what to do when a third party is exerting pressure that taps into a human emotions. Listener Sean writes in with some follow up to discuss the increase in AI scams and if people would be more likely to talk about falling for these scams as AI becomes better and better. An anonymous listener also reached out with some follow up regarding there experience with corporate ID theft. Joe's story follows the report on "dark patterns," and what they are. Dave's story is on people who got hired as customer service reps, but instead helped lure in lonely and lovestruck through a network of dating and hookup sites. Our catch of the day comes from listener Gareth who shares his catch of a phishing scheme from the "NSA." Links to stories: Guide to Dark Patterns – Terms and examples from the CCPA and the CPA Bringing Dark Patterns to Light This Is Catfishing on an Industrial Scale Have a Catch of the Day you'd like to share? Email it to us at hackinghumans@thecyberwire.com or hit us up on Twitter.

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Episoder(771)

The Malware Mash!

30 Okt 20203min

New consequences, extortion and cyber insurance.

Joe has a story about a woman who called a fake customer service number and got scammed, Dave's story talks about how phishing kits are not that. hard to find, just check YouTube, The Catch of the Day...

29 Okt 202040min

anagram (noun) [Word Notes]

A word, phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters. For example, cracking a columnar transposition cipher by hand involves looking for anagrams.

27 Okt 20203min

What is true and important versus what is the spin.

Dave's story is about some cybercriminal gangs that have stolen $22 million from users of the Electrum wallet app, Joe's story talks about a business email compromise scam cost a US company $15 millio...

22 Okt 202035min

rogue access point (noun) [Word Notes]

1. A wireless access point installed by employees in an office or data center environment as a convenience to connectivity without the consent or the knowledge of the network manager. 2. A wireless ac...

20 Okt 20204min

Use a Dance Dance Revolution floor lock for your data centers.

Starting with some listener follow-up on password managers, Joe's story has an angel investor bilking people out of due diligence fees, Dave's story comes from Graham Cluley on a malware campaign talk...

15 Okt 202036min

darknet (noun) [Word Notes]

A subset of the internet where communications between two parties or client-server transactions are obscured from search engines and surveillance systems by layers of encryption. The U.S. Navy designe...

13 Okt 20204min

Don't click any button...even the 'No' button.

Dave's story is about how some adware took a turn for the worse (and how his dad has fallen adware in the past), Joe's story talks about how someone is trying to phish AT&T employees and others, The C...

8 Okt 202042min