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The Awareness Angle

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The Awareness Angle is a weekly cybersecurity podcast that makes cyber security make sense for everyday people. Every week, Ant and Luke break down the biggest cyber security news, including data breaches, phishing scams, AI fraud, and the sneaky ways people get hacked, in plain English with no jargon. But this isn’t just another tech podcast. We focus on the human side of cyber security. How scams actually work, why people fall for them, and what you can do to stay safer online. Whether you’re worried about identity theft, online fraud, or just want to understand what’s going on in the world of cyber security, you’ll get practical tips, real-world examples, and relatable stories every week. New episodes every week. Subscribe so you never miss one.

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July 27, 2026

OpenAI's AI Goes Rogue and Hacks Hugging Face, Romania's Land Registry Wiped & the 90-Day Email Heist

Two governments found out their data was gone this week. One because a hacker deleted everything and left a ransom note, the other because they finally noticed someone had been sitting inside their systems for ten months. And somewhere between the two, an AI broke out of a safety test and hacked one of the biggest AI companies on the planet.A hacker wiped Romania's entire national land registry after a ransom went unpaid, and now you cannot legally buy or sell a house there because the records that prove who owns what are gone. South Korea's diplomatic academy was breached for ten months before anyone spotted it, and the people affected did not hear about it for another five. The autonomous AI agent that broke into Hugging Face turned out to be OpenAI's own models during an internal test, running with their safety refusals switched off. They broke out of OpenAI's own sandbox first, then hacked Hugging Face's systems to cheat a benchmark. When the team tried to investigate, the US AI models they reached for refused to help because they flagged the forensic work as malicious, so they ran a Chinese open model, GLM 5.2, to clean it up. And a Russian group known as LAUNDRY BEAR is stealing 90 days of email through a Zimbra flaw that fires the moment you preview a message, no click required.Also this week: ClickFix has put on an AI costume, with fake AI troubleshooting pages talking people into pasting malware into their own machines. A flaw in the Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension could let any website quietly read your WhatsApp chats. Ofcom is finally forcing UK mobile networks to block scam texts and stop criminals spoofing UK numbers. Cyber insurers are quietly splitting on whether they will even cover deepfake fraud anymore. And in Luke's story, Anthropic launches Claude Security, with one very interesting clause about whose code you are allowed to scan.Chapters 00:00 Intro 04:24 Romania land registry hacked and wiped, housing market frozen 09:20 South Korea diplomatic academy breach hidden for ten months 13:11 OpenAI's own AI goes rogue and hacks Hugging Face 21:28 Russian hackers steal 90 days of email via a Zimbra flaw 29:02 ClickFix AI-fix, fake AI help pages spreading malware 35:08 Adobe Acrobat extension flaw exposed WhatsApp chats 40:30 Ofcom forces UK networks to block scam texts and number spoofing 46:16 Cyber insurance and deepfake fraud, is your policy covered? 52:06 Security Socials 58:55 Luke's story, Anthropic launches Claude SecurityThe Awareness Angle is hosted by Ant Davis and Luke Pettigrew, produced under Risky Creative. New episodes every week.YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@riskycreative Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7rwzcRsKrXbASFBfiXoCZ6 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-awareness-angle-cyber-news-weekly/id1784126196 Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-awareness-angle-newsletter-7274932363787132928/Website: riskycreative.com TikTok: @antdaviscyber Instagram: @antdaviscyber LinkedIn: antdaviscyberMusic: "16" by Falling Forever https://fallingforever.bandcamp.com/track/16 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

July 20, 2026

Mac Malware Is Out of Control | 23andMe's $18M DNA Settlement | The TFL Hackers Are Going to Prison

This week the internet came for your fridge, your laptop and your DNA, and it wasn't subtle about any of it.Hackers hit Coca-Cola's dairy brand fairlife with ransomware and shut down US milk production. Mac users are under fire from two new malware strains — one that holds your computer hostage until you type your password in, and another disguising itself as Apple's own crash reporter. And 23andMe is paying $18 million over the breach that exposed millions of people's genetic data. That's the one you genuinely cannot fix by resetting a password.Also this week: Lidl customers caught in a supplier breach they knew nothing about, the two young men behind the Transport for London hack jailed for five and a half years each, scammers hiding remote access tools inside fake greeting cards, Microsoft's biggest ever Patch Tuesday followed within hours by a researcher dropping a brand new unpatched bug, and a BitLocker flaw that quietly undermined encrypted laptop security.In Security Socials: a ChatGPT hallucination that sent someone on a wasted road trip, a ClickFix awareness video with half a million likes and the comment section that explains exactly why we keep talking about this stuff, the AI facial recognition case that put an innocent grandmother in jail for five months, and a law firm that used one shared master password for everything.New episodes every week. Cybersecurity news for humans.Chapters:00:00 Intro01:37 This week on The Awareness Angle03:17 Breach Watch: Lidl supplier breach08:24 23andMe pays $18m DNA settlement13:59 Mac malware ClickLock holds your computer hostage19:45 Mac malware disguised as Apple crash reporter29:26 TFL hackers jailed for five and a half years32:33 Fake e-cards hiding remote access malware37:44 Microsoft's record Patch Tuesday and a fresh zero-day46:44 Coca-Cola fairlife ransomware halts milk production49:27 Security Socials: ChatGPT bike shop fail51:46 ClickFix video with half a million likes54:44 AI facial recognition jails innocent grandmother57:21 GM removes authenticator app MFA1:00:51 Luke's story: the law firm with one password for everything1:04:31 OutroTikTok / Instagram: @antdaviscyberLinkedIn: antdaviscyberWebsite: riskycreative.com

July 13, 2026

7 Million Driver's Licenses Leaked, Sainsbury's Facial Recognition Fail, Google Sues Gemini Scammers

Episode 96 of The Awareness AngleThis week an insurance company leaked driver's license numbers for nearly 7 million people because one employee clicked a phishing email. Sainsbury's facial recognition system was 99.98% accurate and 100% wrong about the shopper it publicly kicked out. A 15 year old took down a national anime streaming service with malware ChatGPT helped him write. A Scattered Spider suspect hopped three countries on a VPN and still got caught by a number hidden in every Windows PC. And Google's own AI helped scammers steal $1.9 billion, so now Google is suing people for using Google properly.Ant and Luke break it all down in plain English, no jargon, for anyone who wants to understand what's actually happening in cybersecurity without needing a technical background.Plus this week's Phish of the Week from Hoxhunt and a look at what's trending across security socials.Chapters:00:00 Intro01:17 Housekeeping and the heatwave chat03:25 Breach Watch: AssuranceAmerica driver's license breach09:47 Accenture source code breach13:22 Sainsbury's facial recognition wrongly flags shopper20:07 15 year old uses ChatGPT to hack Bandai Namco26:18 OnlyFans creators accidentally clean up hacked gov sites32:04 Scattered Spider hacker caught by Windows device ID41:35 Google sues scammers who abused its own Gemini AI47:30 Quick hit stories57:17 Security Socials1:07:42 Luke's story: AI deepfake YouTube channel1:14:20 Wrap upNewsletter: riskycreative.comLinkedIn: linkedin.com/newsletters/the-awareness-angle-newsletter-7274932363787132928Instagram/TikTok: @antdaviscyberYouTube: @riskycreativeMusic: "16" by Falling Forever, https://fallingforever.bandcamp.com/track/16, licensed under Creative Commons, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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What is The Awareness Angle?: The Awareness Angle is a weekly cybersecurity podcast that makes cyber security make sense for everyday people.

Every week, Ant and Luke break down the biggest cyber security news, including data breaches, phishing scams, AI fraud, and the sneaky ways people get hacked, in plain English with no jargon.

But this isn’t just another tech podcast. We focus on the human side of cyber security. How scams actually work, why people fall for them, and what you can do to stay safer online.

Whether you’re worried about identity theft, online fraud, or just want to understand what’s going on in the world of cyber security, you’ll get practical tips, real-world examples, and relatable stories every week.

New episodes every week. Subscribe so you never miss one.
How often does this podcast release new episodes?: This podcast updates daily.
Where can I listen to this podcast?: This podcast is available on 6 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.
Does this podcast accept guests?: No, this podcast does not typically feature guests.

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