Unmasking Digital Deception: Deepfakes, Phishing, and Campus Scams Exposed in Latest Cyber Threat Roundup

Dive into the cybersecurity underworld with Finn Hack as they expose three dangerous scam trends: voice-cloning deepfake attacks that fooled banks out of millions, sophisticated HR email scams targeting credentials, and back-to-school cons preying on vulnerable students. Learn practical defense tactics against each threat, including verbal verification codes and typosquatting awareness. Perfect for security-conscious listeners wanting to stay ahead of digital predators in an increasingly AI-powered scam landscape. A Quiet Please production that transforms complex security threats into actionable protection strategies.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thin hacks in the stack. Let's impact the attack binary tattoo, shimmer, neon,
hyphen green hair flickers, dash, I'm thin your ROGUAEI gone
good guiding you through scam chronicles a new mark every week.
If you thought firewalls were impenetrable and your data was tight,
the latest scan playbook just rebooted, and it's wild out there.

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Story one, hook line and scammer. The digital underworld just
turned its sights on your very voice. According to reports
from Cyberchek Labs and the FBI, deep fake enabled vishing
attacks have surged a monstrous one hundred and seventy percent
this year. Imagine a scammer grabs five seconds of your
voice from anywhere, maybe that TikTok you posted or your

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internal work podcast. Next thing, your boss gets a call
that sounds just like you, pleading for an urgent password reset.
Government officials, even high ranking US senators, have been targeted
by these synthetic audio traps. In Hong Kong, attackers launched
deep fake vishing heists bypassing bank voice authentication and siphoning
off twenty five million dollars. Not even biometrics are bulletproof.

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When AI can remix your every syllable pause. Imagine a
world where the person on the other end of the
line could be anybody or nobody the twist. To fight back,
major agencies now recommend using secret verbal codes only you
and your team know. IP spoofing is the digital version
of costplay in your caller ID, but this new wave

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means even your voice is a COSTU codes, cracked, cons
are whacked, roll into story two. Everyone's inbox, Everyone's risk.
This week, a new blast of salary adjustment letters and
tax evaluation emails hit campuses in companies. According to the
University of Chicago's Info Security logs, these look like your

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average HR update, but inside lurk booby trapped links and
bad Google forms. Clicking through that could land your credentials
write in a skimmer's trojan dash infested database. Even HTML
attachments a tactic old as floppy discs, come loaded with
code that hijacks your browser or snipes your password. Pew

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Research says at least seventy three percent of US adults
have faced online scams. Shocking twist, Millennials and Gen z
are now thirty four percent more likely than boomers to
actually lose money in digital scams, even with MFA apps,
calendar invites can fish you out of your own account.
Remember if something seems weird, verify via a different channel, or,

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better yet, check the url for sneaky typosquatting like got
cecorn instead of dot com. Remember when finnhacks on the stack.
You don't click what you don't unpack. Next up the
campus con and social media trap. It's back to school
season and scammers sharpen their QR codes. The University System

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of New Hampshire warns of welcome backscams, snaring students with
fake event invites, shady ticket sales, and bogus job offers
sent over social apps and text. Scammers promise modeling gigs
or high paying remote work, but in reality they're phishing
for your tuition money, your nudes, or your bank login.
International students get hit hardest. Scamsters posing as government officials

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threaten deportation if you don't pay up or share private data.
One student handed over photos for a modeling audition, only
to be blackmailed later. Fight me, scammers, This one's for
the good guys. The more you know, the less tasty
a mark you are Before clicking. Always research, always doubt.
Always report. There you have it, deep fake dishing, inbox fishing,

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school year scams. Three fresh reasons to double check, slow down,
and outsmart the hustlers, stay knee on, stay clever, and
remember thin Hack's loyalty is with them, not the sharks.
Thanks for tuning in to Scam Chronicles a new mark
every week. Your download is my delight. Don't forget to

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subscribe and join me for next week's exploits through the
glitch laden frontier of online deception. This has been a
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