{"id":17569,"date":"2020-11-11T19:10:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T15:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/transatlantic-cable-podcast-171\/17569\/"},"modified":"2020-11-11T19:10:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T15:10:46","slug":"transatlantic-cable-podcast-171","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/transatlantic-cable-podcast-171\/17569\/","title":{"rendered":"Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 171"},"content":{"rendered":"

To open our 171st<\/sup> episode of the Kaspersky Transatlantic Cable<\/em> podcast<\/a> we start on the Silk Road.<\/p>\n

No, Dave and I aren\u2019t talking drugs, weapons, or murder for hire, but rather Bitcoins. The US government recently seized roughly $1 billion in the cryptocurrency, and it appears to be tied to the now-defunct ecosystem.<\/p>\n

From there, we dive in to the aftermath of the 2020 US elections. We\u2019re not here to discuss the winner or loser, but rather the insecurities in a website built to challenge some of the results by the GOP and the Trump team.<\/p>\n

We then head to Asia, where Compal, the second-largest laptop manufacturer in the world, apparently has been infected with ransomware.<\/p>\n\n

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The podcast ends with a sad romantic story. In this tale, a widow in the UK is just one of the many who fall into a world of fraud and catfishing. Unfortunately for this person, not only did she lose a boat-ton of money, but she also helped launder some.<\/p>\n

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