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 lost a record three and a half billion dollars to imposter scams, and the FBI built an entire fake town just to train agents to fight cybercrime. Plus earbuds that could be listening in, malware hiding in Steam wallpapers, a nasty new Android banking trojan, your cheap streaming box secretly working for criminals, and Google quietly deciding to use your IP address for ads.Chapters00:00 Intro03:01 Breach of the Week — Infinite Campus / ShinyHunters07:56 Imposter Scams — $3.5 Billion Record13:45 The FBI's Fake Town — Kinetic Cyber Range18:50 Bluetooth Flaw — Beats Studio Buds24:20 Steam Wallpaper Malware28:17 Android Banking Trojan — Rokarolla35:14 Popa Botnet — Cheap Streaming Boxes39:11 Google — IP Address Ad Targeting42:24 Security Socials — Fake iOS Virus Pop-up46:10 Security Socials — Claude Age Verification56:05 And Finally — Whale Song Captcha, Cloudflare Lava Lamps & SETI@homeThe Awareness Angle is an independent podcast by Risky Creative. Subscribe for weekly cybersecurity news made for humans, not just IT teams.Find usNewsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-awareness-angle-newsletter-7274932363787132928/Website: riskycreative.comTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@antdaviscyberInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/antdaviscyberLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antdaviscyberOur Intro and Outro Song © 16 by Falling Foreverhttps://fallingforever.bandcamp.com/track/16Licence: Creative Commons CC BY 4.0