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Episode 343 of the Transatlantic Cable podcast begins with news that Instagram is testing a tool to help tackle ‘sextortion’, or intimate image abuse. Following that, the team discuss how criminals are increasingly using A.I to defraud consumers out of their money.
The last two stories look at X and ransomware. The first story focuses on how X is automatically removing “twitter” from URLs, providing scammers with a real opportunity – finally, the last story looks at how some ransomware gangs are trying their luck at calling the front desk of businesses, to try to leverage payment out of them – however, it doesn’t always go to plan.
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Instagram to test new tools to fight so-called sextortion Criminals ramp up social engineering and AI tactics to steal consumer details X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in users' posts, breaking legit URLs Ransomware gang’s new extortion trick? Calling the front desk

Episode 342 of the Transatlantic Cable podcast focuses on political news this week, kicking off with a story that China is being accused of using AI-generated content, in order to sow discontent in the upcoming American election. From there the team look news that YouTube is being accused of complacent in blocking malicious videos advertisements in the upcoming Indian elections. 
To wrap up, the team look at news that a spear-phishing / honey trap campaign is being orchestrated in UK parliament, with several members confessing to being targets – but who’s behind the attacks? 
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China Using AI-Generated Content to Sow Division in US YouTube failed to block disinformation about Indian elections UK minister confirmed as 12th target in Westminster ‘honey trap’ scandal

Episode 341 of the Transatlantic Cable podcast kicks off with news that a data broker leak has revealed sensitive data about people who visited the infamous island. From there, the team discuss news that the UN peace keepers are being told to shore up their cyber-defences, after warnings that nation-state attackers are actively looking to target them.
To wrap up the team discuss look at a story which is itself baffling: one of the world’s most wanted men is leaving restaurant reviews on Google, and has done for the last 5 years. The second story is around Elon Musk’s Nuralink project, with the first ever patient using the tool to play Mario Kart with his dad.
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Jeffrey Epstein’s Island Visitors Exposed by Data Broker UN Peace Operations Under Fire From State-Sponsored Hackers Investigation finds Christopher Kinahan Sr left ‘digital trail’ of Google reviews I’m world’s first Neuralink patient

Episode 340 of the Transatlantic Cable podcast kicks off with news that the EU is investigating META, Apple and Google for “uncompetitive practices”. Additionally, the US government has gone ahead and levelled a lawsuit against Apple, for what they see as “monopoly” behaviour with their hardware.
To wrap up, the team discuss two stories, the first around China and UK government hacking concerns and how age-verification for adult sites could actually be a bad thing in the long run.
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Apple, Meta and Google to be investigated by the EU US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones Beijing behind cyberattacks on UK MPs and peers, deputy PM to warn The Dangers of Age Verification

Episode 339 of the Transatlantic Cable podcast kicks off with news that several employees in TikTok were caught covertly spying on Forbes journalists. From there, the team talk about a new cooperation between governments to better tackle spyware and news that the FTC is looking at the upcoming Reddit IPO and AI training data.
To close out the podcast, the team discuss news that ‘at least 900’ websites built using Google’s FireBase cloud database may be leaking sensitive user data.
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TikTok Spied On Forbes Journalists Finland, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Poland, South Korea added to US-led spyware agreement FTC investigating Reddit plan to sell user content for AI model training 900+ websites and expose millions of passwords via Firebase  

Episode 338 of the Transatlantic Cable podcast kicks off with the story of the year (so far) as some people see it – the Kate Middleton / photoshop mix ups. Is it really as big a deal as some believe it to be, or is it just a silly mistake? 
From there the team discuss news that South Korea have developed a tool to help scan images for deepfakes, but will it be useful enough to be of any use? Additionally, the team talk about the Play ransomware gang and will GDPR shut down WorldCoin? 
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Kate photo withdrawn by five news agencies amid 'manipulation' concerns South Korean Police Develops Deepfake Detection Tool Worldcoin hit with temporary ban in Spain over privacy concerns Play ransomware leaked 65,000 government documents