175: Bayrob
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It started with a fake car listing on eBay. What looked like a simple online scam quietly grew, over more than a decade, into one of the most sophisticated cybercrime operations the FBI had ever traced. Custom malware. Opsec off the charts. Fleets of infected computers mining cryptocurrency for someone else. Millions of dollars siphoned from victims who had no idea. This is the story of Bayrob and the three men from Romania who were behind it. And the long, strange road that led American investigators to their door. Sponsors Support for this show comes from ThreatLocker® .
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- DefenceZero trustA security model that checks every access request instead of trusting anything inside the network.
- AttackRansomwareMalware that encrypts an organisation's systems and demands payment, often after stealing data to leak.
- ConceptExploitCode or a technique that turns a software flaw into something an attacker can actually use.