{"id":24604,"date":"2018-11-15T08:25:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T13:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/?p=24604"},"modified":"2021-07-10T16:14:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T20:14:17","slug":"transatlantic-cable-podcast-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/transatlantic-cable-podcast-63\/24604\/","title":{"rendered":"Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 63"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the 63rd installment of the Transatlantic Cable podcast, Dave and I jump around a bit on topics, but mainly stick to our recurring themes of scams and privacy. The first story on tap looks at the latest cryptocurrency scam run by hackers through Target\u2019s verified account. Unlike past scammers pretending to be Elon Musk or Bill Gates, now they\u2019re hacking official Twitter accounts to run an ad luring people into their Bitcoin scam.<\/p>\n<p>From there, we jump to a data breach affecting people who purchased recreational marijuana in Canada. The third story looks at UK-based companies microchipping their employees. We close out the podcast looking at some of the latest research by Kaspersky Lab on phishing and spam. For the full list of articles, please click the links below. Also, if you like what you heard, consider sharing with your network or subscribing.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li2\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/twitter-cryptocurrency-scams\/24560\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><span class=\"s3\">Targeted cryptocurrency scam<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li2\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnnbloomberg.ca\/thousands-of-ontario-pot-buyers-affected-by-canada-post-data-breach-1.1164632\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><span class=\"s3\">Ontario pot buyers affected by Canada Post data breach<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li2\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2018\/nov\/11\/alarm-over-talks-to-implant-uk-employees-with-microchips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><span class=\"s3\">Alarm over talks to implant UK employees with microchips<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li2\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/securelist.com\/it-threat-evolution-q3-2018-statistics\/88689\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">IT threat evolution Q3 2018. Statistics<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li2\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/securelist.com\/spam-and-phishing-in-q3-2018\/88686\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">Spam and phishing in Q3 2018<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/7558151\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/autoplay\/no\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"podcast-subscribe\"><a data-omniture-download-button-type=\"TrialBuilds\" data-omniture-product-name=\"podcast-itunes\" class=\"itunes\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/talk-security\/id909407206\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/kaspersky-embeds\/img\/button-subscribe-apple.png\"><\/a><a data-omniture-download-button-type=\"TrialBuilds\" data-omniture-product-name=\"podcast-spotify\" class=\"spotify\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/1VGCKlOoQ9C24dJiCHGTK5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/kaspersky-embeds\/img\/button-subscribe-spotify.png\"><\/a><a data-omniture-download-button-type=\"TrialBuilds\" data-omniture-product-name=\"podcast-rss\" class=\"rss\" href=\"https:\/\/talksecurity.kaspersky-podcasts.libsynpro.com\/rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/kaspersky-embeds\/img\/button-subscribe-rss.png\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of the Kaspersky Lab podcast, we discuss a targeted cryptocurrency scam, Canadian weed database breached, bio chips, and the current state of spam and phishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":636,"featured_media":24605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1788,2683],"tags":[985,2640,314,76,485,43,726,240,1222,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-24604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-privacy","9":"category-threats","10":"tag-biochip","11":"tag-cryptocurrencies","12":"tag-data-breach","13":"tag-phishing","14":"tag-podcast","15":"tag-privacy","16":"tag-scam","17":"tag-spam","18":"tag-target","19":"tag-twitter"},"hreflang":[{"hreflang":"x-default","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/transatlantic-cable-podcast-63\/24604\/"},{"hreflang":"en-in","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/transatlantic-cable-podcast-63\/14613\/"},{"hreflang":"en-ae","url":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/transatlantic-cable-podcast-63\/12234\/"},{"hreflang":"en-us","url":"https:\/\/usa.kaspersky.com\/blog\/transatlantic-cable-podcast-63\/16543\/"},{"hreflang":"en-gb","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/transatlantic-cable-podcast-63\/14747\/"},{"hreflang":"en-au","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/transatlantic-cable-podcast-63\/21486\/"},{"hreflang":"en-za","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/transatlantic-cable-podcast-63\/21484\/"}],"acf":[],"banners":"","maintag":{"url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/tag\/scam\/","name":"scam"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24604"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37732,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24604\/revisions\/37732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}