Best Threatintelligence Podcasts (2024)

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148. They’re just hackers, living off the land 22:57

1h ago22:57

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In an encore episode, we report on a specific kind of cyber attack targeting big industrial systems that is coming back into fashion: it’s called a ‘living off the land’ attack. What makes it particularly scary is that unlike traditional attacks in which bad actors break into a system and plant malicious code, in living off the land attacks, there’…

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147. Mic Drop: The problem with the Nigerian economy has nothing to do with crypto 13:47

1d ago13:47

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Before Nigerian authorities detained two mid-level Binance executives back in February, they were telling anyone who would listen that the cryptocurrency platform was manipulating the value of its currency, the naira. It turns out the more likely culprit is more than a decade of economic mismanagement, as we explore in an encore episode of Mic Drop…

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146. SPECIAL FEATURE: 'Modi's India' from Understood 38:01

4d ago38:01

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In the latest season of Understood from CBC, Mumbai-based journalist Salimah Shivji examines how Modi went from being barred from the US, to becoming one of the most powerful men in the world. About Understood: Know more, now. From the fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, to the rise of Pornhub, Understood is an anthology podcast that takes you out of the da…

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145. Mic Drop: Could an analysis of sound help save the Jaguar in Costa Rica? 15:11

8d ago15:11

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From an encore episode of Mic Drop. Everyone is talking about the power of Al in conservation, but a professor at Arizona State University has found an even simpler, more elegant solution — and all you have to do is listen.By Recorded Future News

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144. Generative AI: Is it creative or just copying the rest of us? 27:42

12d ago27:42

27:42

In an encore episode, we look at the tension between AI and the work of humans from which it learns. Media companies like the New York Times and a roster of authors and artists have sued some of the makers of these generative AI models to try to get an answer to a very fundamental question: What do human creators own?…

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143. Mic Drop: Bellingcat’s Eliot Higgins wants to change the relationship you have with information. 13:05

16d ago13:05

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Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins has been working with young people not just to show them how to sort fact from fiction, but to give them a reason to believe that truth can still empower the weak and hold the guilty accountable.By Recorded Future News

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142. Meet Antibot4Navalny: the mysterious researchers exposing Russia’s war on truth. 30:30

23d ago30:30

30:30

Antibot4Navalny is a small but mighty group of anonymous researchers calling out Russian disinformation — and punching way above their weight.By Recorded Future News

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141. Legislative solutions for deepfake abuse finally begin to take shape 11:42

27d ago11:42

11:42

Omny Miranda Martone has been working with a handful of Washington lawmakers for more than a year on legislation that would put an end to the impunity of deepfake abuse. The bill, known as the Defiance Act, is being fast-tracked through Congress with a rare procedure known as “hotlining” and it may land on the president’s desk as early as this fall…

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140. Are solutions to deepfake abuse finally coming into focus? 29:16

1M ago29:16

29:16

After years of shouting into the wind about deepfakes and deepfake porn, we take a look at some possible solutions that offer not just deterrence but accountability. Plus, something we rarely see these days: bipartisan agreement on a bill in Congress.By Recorded Future News

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139. Mic Drop: GhostSec’s quest for redemption: their leader claims their life of crime is over. 12:07

1M ago12:07

12:07

The GhostSec hacktivist group used to be known for its cyberattacks against terrorist groups like ISIS. Then, last year, the group took an unexpected turn — it created GhostLocker and began launching ransomware attacks. We talk to the group’s leader about their work with cybercriminal gangs and why we should believe him when he says all that is now…

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138. Almost every cyber attack begins with a key ingredient: an Infostealer 32:25

1M ago32:25

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Infostealers commit close to the perfect crime. They sneak into your computer, grab your logins, passwords, and anything of value, and then delete themselves on the way out — victims don’t even know they’ve been robbed. We talk to the alleged co-founder of the Meduza infostealer and to some of the people intent on stopping this kind of attack.…

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137. Mic Drop: Inside a secret drone school in Ukraine 13:51

1M ago13:51

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As Russian forces zero in on Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv, drones are among the weapons that are coming to the rescue. We went to a secret drone academy where Ukraine is training its drone operators to help fend off the Russians while Ukraine awaits new arms from the U.S.By Recorded Future News

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136. Money and fame — not just social change — are creating a new kind of hacktivist. 31:29

1M ago31:29

31:29

A hacktivist group called the Belarusian Cyber Partisans rocked Belarus when it hacked into government servers and released secret police files and government wiretaps – the kinds of hacks we’re used to seeing by nation-states. They represent the changing face of hacktivism. Some hacktivists are becoming more professional, while others are falling …

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135. Mic Drop: Oren Etzioni has a way to help us sort fact from AI fiction 12:27

2M ago12:27

12:27

Oren Etzioni used to be one of those AI optimists. Now, not so much. In fact, he’s so worried about AI-manipulated content, he created a non-profit, TrueMedia.org, to help ordinary people sort AI fact from fiction.By Recorded Future News

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134. Are autocrats winning the disinformation war? 30:39

2M ago30:39

30:39

US adversaries are on a propaganda offensive around the world. Earlier this month, the Council on Foreign Relations in DC convened a discussion about the changing landscape of disinformation campaigns with James Rubin, special envoy at the Global Engagement Center at the State Department, Jon Bateman from the Carnegie Endowment for International Pe…

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133. Mic Drop: A surprising thing about war games and cyber attacks and why the military can’t trust AI 18:24

2M ago18:24

18:24

When the Hoover Institution’s director of war gaming, Jackie Schneider, started organizing war simulations more than a decade ago, she assumed that participants would respond to cyber attacks the same way they responded to traditional weapons of war – but it turns out that couldn’t be farther from the truth.…

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132. Meet the guy who single-handedly took down North Korea’s Internet. 31:01

2M ago31:01

31:01

When North Korea hacked Alejandro Caceres, he expected the U.S. government to rush to his defense. When they just shrugged, he took matters into his own hands.By Recorded Future News

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131. Mic Drop: Could spoofing satellites become Russia’s new jam? 11:33

2M ago11:33

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On the battlefields of Ukraine, Russia has become very adapt at electronic warfare — both jamming GPS satellites and spoofing satellite signals. We explain how it works and its ripple effects beyond the front lines.By Recorded Future News

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130. A wrinkle in time: GPS jamming in Ukraine and its ripple effects 26:57

2M ago26:57

26:57

A story about satellites, electronic warfare, and a team of American techies who MacGyver-ed a way to keep the power flowing in Ukraine.By Recorded Future News

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129. LockbitSupp tells us: UK and US have got the wrong guy 13:30

2M ago13:30

13:30

In an interview, LockbitSupp, head of the Lockbit cybercrime operation, told us that the U.S., U.K. and Australia have the wrong guy — he’s not Dmitry Khoroshev, the 31-year-old Russian national they’ve charged with hacking. What’s more, he says more attacks are coming.By Recorded Future News

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128. Taking aim at Democracy: Russia’s Doppelgänger gang isn’t just targeting elections anymore 29:22

2M ago29:22

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In a year that could bring a perfect storm of disinformation, meet Doppelgänger, a Russian-backed group seeking not just to shake up the world’s elections, but its institutions too.By Recorded Future News

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127. Mic Drop: NSC’s Neuberger on mitigating cyber attacks: ‘We should be using an operational approach’ 13:42

3M ago13:42

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The White House’s top cyber official is keen to set minimum cybersecurity standards for industry, put contingencies in place in case cyberattacks are successful, and start looping ordinary people into an effort to make products secure by design.By Recorded Future News

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126. The future of robotics from MIT’s "Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Labs Alliances" podcast 28:17

3M ago28:17

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An episode from the ‘CSAIL Alliances Podcast’ from MIT CSAIL Alliances. Host Kara Miller talks with MIT robotics researcher and professor Daniela Rus about how we can use a new generation of robots to help humankind. Rus is the co-author of the new book, "The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots."…

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125. Mic Drop: The problem with the Nigerian economy has nothing to do with crypto 13:32

3M ago13:32

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Before Nigerian authorities detained two mid-level Binance executives back in February, they were telling anyone who would listen that the cryptocurrency platform was manipulating the value of its currency, the naira. It turns out the more likely culprit is more than a decade of economic mismanagement. We explain.…

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124. The company man: US response to Nigeria’s detention of former IRS crypto investigator rankles federal agents 33:47

3M ago33:47

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A former American IRS investigator responsible for some of the earliest dark market takedowns has been in Nigerian custody since February. Neither Nigerian nor the US authorities seem to be distinguishing Tigran Gambaryan from Binance, the company where he works.By Recorded Future News

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148. They’re just hackers, living off the land 22:57

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147. Mic Drop: The problem with the Nigerian economy has nothing to do with crypto 13:47

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146. SPECIAL FEATURE: 'Modi's India' from Understood 38:01

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145. Mic Drop: Could an analysis of sound help save the Jaguar in Costa Rica? 15:11

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144. Generative AI: Is it creative or just copying the rest of us? 27:42

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143. Mic Drop: Bellingcat’s Eliot Higgins wants to change the relationship you have with information. 13:05

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142. Meet Antibot4Navalny: the mysterious researchers exposing Russia’s war on truth. 30:30

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141. Legislative solutions for deepfake abuse finally begin to take shape 11:42

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140. Are solutions to deepfake abuse finally coming into focus? 29:16

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139. Mic Drop: GhostSec’s quest for redemption: their leader claims their life of crime is over. 12:07

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138. Almost every cyber attack begins with a key ingredient: an Infostealer 32:25

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137. Mic Drop: Inside a secret drone school in Ukraine 13:51

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136. Money and fame — not just social change — are creating a new kind of hacktivist. 31:29

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135. Mic Drop: Oren Etzioni has a way to help us sort fact from AI fiction 12:27

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134. Are autocrats winning the disinformation war? 30:39

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133. Mic Drop: A surprising thing about war games and cyber attacks and why the military can’t trust AI 18:24

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132. Meet the guy who single-handedly took down North Korea’s Internet. 31:01

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131. Mic Drop: Could spoofing satellites become Russia’s new jam? 11:33

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130. A wrinkle in time: GPS jamming in Ukraine and its ripple effects 26:57

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129. LockbitSupp tells us: UK and US have got the wrong guy 13:30

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128. Taking aim at Democracy: Russia’s Doppelgänger gang isn’t just targeting elections anymore 29:22

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127. Mic Drop: NSC’s Neuberger on mitigating cyber attacks: ‘We should be using an operational approach’ 13:42

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126. The future of robotics from MIT’s "Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Labs Alliances" podcast 28:17

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125. Mic Drop: The problem with the Nigerian economy has nothing to do with crypto 13:32

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124. The company man: US response to Nigeria’s detention of former IRS crypto investigator rankles federal agents 33:47

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