Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 290

Thriving ChatGPT black market, ransomware gangs take a new level of bad and more

Thriving ChatGPT black market, ransomware gangs take a new level of bad and more

Welcome to the 290th episode of the Kaspersky Transatlantic Cable podcast. In this episode, we kick things off with a discussion on how ransomware gangs are taking new leaps to extort money. Spoiler alert – you aren’t going to like it one bit. From there, we jump into a discussion surrounding the booming black market in China for access to ChatGPT.

We continue the discussion looking at how a fitness app led a researcher to discover the home and walkabouts of a former top aid to Joe Biden. To close out the episode, we look at how banks’ voice as a password is not secure.

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