Srsly Risky Biz: AI-Powered espionage will favor China

Presented by

Amberleigh Jack
Amberleigh Jack

Producer and Editor

Tom Uren
Tom Uren

Policy & Intelligence

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about Anthropic’s discovery of an “AI-orchestrated” cyber espionage campaign. To Tom, it feels a research project, but it’s pretty clear it will be really useful for threat actors that aren’t focussed on specific high-priority targets. Think ransomware, Chinese intellectual property theft and North Korean hackers. But it won’t be so good for Western intelligence agencies.

They also discuss Google’s legal disruption of the China-based Lighthouse phishing as a service operation. Surprisingly, it seems to be working!

Finally, they talk about why the memory safe Rust language has been a triple win for Android.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Srsly Risky Biz: AI-Powered espionage will favor China
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