{"id":18528,"date":"2021-07-08T13:36:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T09:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/transatlantic-cable-podcast-209\/18528\/"},"modified":"2021-07-08T13:36:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T09:36:05","slug":"transatlantic-cable-podcast-209","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/transatlantic-cable-podcast-209\/18528\/","title":{"rendered":"Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 209"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week on the podcast, Jeff\u2019s on vacation, so Ahmed and I tackle some thorny cybersec issues on our own.<\/p>\n<p>We start with news that EA\u2019s billion dollar franchise, <em>Apex Legends<\/em>, faced hacking concerns from gamers about the state of <em>TitanFall<\/em>, Respawn\u2019s first foray into the FPS genre. From there, we move on to news that Google has taken the ban-hammer to some developers who placed Trojans inside their apps to scrape Facebook credentials.<\/p>\n<p>Other stories this week include discussion about APT28, aka Fancy Bear, targeting governments around the world, plus an exclusive chat with Kaspersky security researcher David Emm about the recent REvil attacks.<\/p>\n<p>If you liked what you heard, please consider subscribing and sharing with your friends. For more information on the stories we covered, see the links below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/apex-legends-hack-fix-titanfall-090011963.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Hacker targets \u2018Apex Legends\u2019 in plea to fix \u2018Titanfall\u2019 hacking<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/threatpost.com\/kubernetes-brute-force-attacks-russia-apt28\/167518\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Widespread brute-force attacks tied to Russia\u2019s APT28<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/google-removes-android-apps-stealing-facebook-passwords-192721252.html?guccounter=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Google removes popular Android apps that stole Facebook passwords<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/c4ea6fb3-6262-4426-9503-05391f0e523a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Older workers are a secret weapon against cyber attacks<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe 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