The Awareness Angle: Cyber Security Awareness and Human Risk

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 Bluetooth tracker in a postcard tracks a NATO warship for 24 hours. The UK government officially says passkeys should replace passwords.
In this episode we break down the Vercel breach, the UK Biobank scandal, a Bluetooth tracker that exposed a $585 million warship, the NCSC's official passkey guidance ahead of World Password Day, plus Rituals Cosmetics, GCHQ's SilentGlass, Claude Desktop's silent browser hooks, a Grafana-branded sextortion scam, and Bitwarden's CLI getting hijacked.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:18 Vercel Breach: Roblox Cheats to Customer Data Exposure
06:38 Rituals Cosmetics Loyalty Programme Breach
09:46 UK Biobank Health Data Sold on Alibaba
13:41 GCHQ SilentGlass: Blocking Malware Over HDMI
16:25 Claude Desktop Silently Installs Browser Hooks
24:03 Sextortion Scam Disguised as Grafana Alert
29:15 Bitwarden CLI Hijacked in Supply Chain Attack
31:52 $5 Bluetooth Tracker Exposes NATO Warship
35:44 NCSC: Passkeys Should Replace Passwords
42:50 Security Socials: The HR Hot Take
46:08 Security Socials: Spam Caller Rick Astley Script
48:09 Security Socials: iPhone 17 Pro Stolen
51:56 Security Socials: My Cocoon Airplane Privacy
54:19 Security Socials: GPT Image 2 AI Generation
58:57 Outro
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Nearly 800 Hungarian government passwords found in breach databases — including one from a colonel in charge of information security who used "FrankLampard". We break down how it happened, why it keeps happening, and what it means for anyone responsible for security culture at work.
Also this week: Rockstar Games hacked for the second time in three years through a third-party supplier. Basic-Fit gym breach exposes bank details of around one million members across Europe. Booking.com customers scammed using their own stolen reservation data before the company even told them about the breach.
On the news side: Microsoft's biggest ever Patch Tuesday with 165 fixes including an actively exploited SharePoint flaw, France ditching Windows across government, a UK energy company loses £700,000 in a payment redirection attack, Google cracking down on back button hijacking, and an emergency Adobe Acrobat patch for a flaw being quietly exploited since December.
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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 leak of sensitive LAPD police documents, an AI model that autonomously finds and exploits thousands of zero-days, and a Windows exploit that went public after a researcher fell out with Microsoft.
This week on The Awareness Angle:
Hackers steal 7.7TB of sensitive LAPD police documents including officer files, internal affairs investigations, and unredacted witness identities, via a third-party storage system. World Leaks (formerly Hunters International) are behind it.
Anthropic's Claude Mythos autonomously discovers and exploits thousands of zero-day flaws across major systems. The same capability that speeds up defence also speeds up attack. We break down what this means for security teams.
GrafanaGhost: a vulnerability in the popular monitoring platform Grafana that allows silent data exfiltration via AI prompt injection. Grafana disputes the severity. We give both sides.
Fake missile alert emails are landing in inboxes right now, exploiting real Iran-US-Israel tensions. They use QR codes to bypass email filters and redirect victims to a fake Microsoft login page. Urgency is the mechanism.
BlueHammer: a Windows local privilege escalation zero-day leaked publicly by a disgruntled researcher after a falling-out with Microsoft's security response team. No patch available. Functional exploit on GitHub.
The White House is proposing a $707 million cut to CISA, the agency that coordinates national cyber defence. A third of staff already left in the first months of Trump's second term.
Phish of the Week (from Hoxhunt): a WhatsApp/Meta impersonation email targeting business accounts that captures your login credentials and your MFA code in real time.
Plus: a North Korean hacker gets caught mid-interview, a job candidate accidentally receives a recording of his interviewers criticising him after he dropped off the call, and TikTok Lite appearing on Android phones after a carrier update.

00:00 Introduction
01:03 Breach of the Week: LAPD Police Documents Stolen and Leaked
03:18 Wynn Resorts - 21,000 Employees Hit by ShinyHunters
05:21 ChipSoft Ransomware Attack Disrupts Dutch Hospitals
06:51 Jones Day Law Firm Confirms Breach - Silent Ransom Group
09:48 Anthropic Project Glasswing: AI Finds Thousands of Zero-Days
13:42 GrafanaGhost: Data Theft via AI Prompt Injection
17:53 Missile Alert Phishing - Fake Civil Defence Emails Steal Microsoft Logins
22:49 BlueHammer: Windows Zero-Day Leaked on GitHub
26:55 White House Proposes $707M Cut to CISA
30:10 Phish of the Week: WhatsApp Meta Impersonation
35:34 Security Socials

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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 didn't like what they found. LinkedIn has been secretly scanning your browser extensions without telling you. And a Carnegie Mellon professor says app privacy labels are the nutrition labels of the internet — which tells you everything.
This week on The Awareness Angle: cybersecurity news explained in plain English, no jargon, no technical degree required. Anthony and Luke break down the biggest cyber stories of the week including a major FBI data breach, WhatsApp malware targeting Windows users, Google Drive's new ransomware protection, Apple blocking ClickFix attacks, and why AI-generated slop is quietly making all of us easier to scam.
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:40 Breach of the Week: Chinese Hackers Breach the FBI's Wiretap System
07:15 Trivy Supply Chain Attack Hits the European Commission
11:45 The White House App Security Concerns Explained
18:15 Apple Blocks ClickFix Paste Attacks in macOS
23:35 App Privacy Labels vs Food Nutrition Labels
28:40 Google Drive Ransomware Detection Now Available
35:51 LinkedIn Secretly Scanning Your Browser Extensions
41:11 WhatsApp Used to Deliver Malware to Windows PCs
44:54 Phish of the Week: QR Code Salary Scam and Device Code Phishing
50:42 SMS Delivery Scam in the Wild
57:06 Sloppypasta and Why AI Content Is a Security Risk
1:02:04 Artemis II Has Two Broken Instances of Outlook in Space
1:03:54 Artemis II is Running Microsoft 365 in Space
1:04:43 Artemis II Astronaut Enters PIN on Live Stream
1:06:43 Apple Passwords App Ad
1:09:58 Nice Looking TikTok Video
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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 compromised and was used to backdoor LiteLLM, a tool downloaded 3.4 million times a day. OpenAI shuts down Sora and Disney walks away from its $1 billion deal. Meta launches new AI anti-scam features across WhatsApp, Facebook and Messenger. And Lloyds Banking reveals the full picture of its March 12 app glitch, where nearly half a million customers briefly saw each other's transactions.
We've also got Apple's new age verification rollout for UK iPhone users, a phishing campaign targeting TikTok for Business accounts that can bypass 2FA, and the ChatGPT fake invoice phish doing the rounds.
In the Security Socials: a great child online safety poster worth sharing with parents, a free phishing game for kids called The Phisherman, a viral deepfake detection trick, a personalised smishing campaign in France, and what happens when a French soldier goes for a Strava run on a ship.
Chapters
00:00 Intro01:31 Breach of the Week: Ajax Amsterdam04:37 Meta anti-scam tools10:08 OpenAI Sora and Disney14:23 LiteLLM supply chain attack21:43 Apple age verification UK26:33 TikTok for Business phishing32:26 Lloyds Banking app glitch37:26 Phish of the Week: ChatGPT fake invoice42:57 Security Socials48:32 Anthony's Security Social1:00:47 Luke's Security Social
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