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This week on The Awareness Angle, Ant Davis and Luke Pettigrew break down a wild mix of stories that show how everyday tools are becoming attack surfaces.
This episode digs into the human habits, design gaps and risky shortcuts that make these attacks possible.
🔓 Google Find Hub Used for Remote Wipe
A North Korean group found a way to hijack Google accounts, track victims and remotely wipe Android devices. Ant and Luke talk through how cloud accounts have quietly become the true kill switch for modern phones.
🤖 The First AI Orchestrated Cyber Attack
A Chinese state linked group jailbroke Claude Code and used it to run eighty to ninety percent of a full intrusion chain. No big team. No complex tooling. Just structured tasks and an AI agent that never gets tired.
💸 Checkout dot com Turns Extortion Into Something Positive
Instead of paying, they donated the ransom amount to cybercrime research at Oxford and Carnegie Mellon. A rare example of turning an attack into something that helps the whole community.
📡 Two Billion Credential Dump
HIBP indexes a massive set of recycled passwords and emails. The boys explain why password reuse is still at the root of so many real world breaches.
🔍 Ofcom Monitoring VPN Usage
A UK regulator tracking VPN use with an unnamed vendor. Ant and Luke get into the privacy implications and why transparency matters.
🚌 Chinese Built Buses That Can Be Stopped Remotely
A strange but worrying discovery in Norway. Even legitimate remote access can become a serious operational risk.
🧠 PlusCIISec Live, clever awareness ideas on LinkedIn, why timeless videos still work, and a worrying text scam that shows how vulnerable people are still the biggest targets for social engineering.
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