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Podcast: Hacking Humans
Episode: Yeti or not, it’s a scam.
Description: This week, our hosts Dave Bittner, Joe Carrigan, and Maria Varmazis (also host of the T-Minus Space Daily show) are back sharing the latest in social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that are making headlines. We start with some follow-up on an Arizona woman sentenced to over eight years in prison for running a “laptop farm” that helped North Korean IT workers pose as U.S. employees at hundreds of American companies, funneling over $17 million to Pyongyang through stolen identities and remote access. We also share an update on Joe's Profile picture. We start with Dave’s story on a Facebook scam falsely claiming insider access to a secret Yeti cooler deal from Dick’s Sporting Goods, using a fake emotional backstory to lure users into clicking a malicious link under the...