# Zack Whittaker

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April 10, 2025 - Cyber Briefing

👉 What's going on in the cyber world today? 🚨 #CyberAlerts Vulnerabilities Exploited in AWS EC2 to Extract Sensitive Metadata and IAM Credentials Source: Merlyn Albery-Speyer via F5 AkiraBot Uses AI to Spam Over 80000 Websites With Custom Messages Source: Alex Delamotte and Jim Walter via Sentinel…

May 01, 2025 - Cyber Briefing

👉 What's going on in the cyber world today? 🚨 #CyberAlerts WordPress Sites Targeted by Hidden Plugin That Grants Attackers Full Admin Access Source: Marco Wotschka via Wordfence APT Tool Spellbinder Hijacks App Updates Using IPv6 Spoofing to Deploy Malware Source: Facundo Muñoz via ESET Nitrogen R…

May 05, 2025 - Cyber Briefing

👉 What's happening in cybersecurity today? 🚨 #CyberAlerts Malicious Go Modules Discovered Targeting Linux Systems with Destructive Payloads Source: Kush Pandya via Socket Magento Extensions Backdoored in Supply Chain Attack Affecting Hundreds of Stores Source: Sannsec SonicBoom Attack Chain Target…

Somebody’s Watching Me: The Crackdown on Stalkerware

In 2018, researcher Eva Galperin made a discovery about a colleague. He had been sexually abusing women for decades, and threatening to expose their private information using “stalkerware” — hidden applications that allow people to spy on another person’s private life through their mobile device. T…

Millions of People Are Installing Malware on Their Partners’ Phones

This week Joseph speaks to Zack Whittaker, an editor at TechCrunch. Zack has been leading coverage into the spouseware or stalkerware industry. This is malware sold to ordinary people, which they then often install on their girlfriend’s or someone else’s phone. Zack talks about the crazy scope of t…

Top Cyber Threats 2026

With so many cyber threats to report on, it’s easy to get lost in the weeds. It’s good to take a step back and look at the big picture every so often. Today, I’ll review some of the top security and privacy threats with investigative cybersecurity journalist Zack Whittaker from Tech Crunch. We’ll t…

PP122: Using Burp Suite to Understand How Apps Collect and Share Our Data

Zack Whittaker is a journalist for TechCrunch and author of the newsletter “This Week In Security.” He recently wrote a post describing how he uses Burp Suite, an open source penetration testing tool, to see what data apps are collecting from users, and what other sites those apps share that data w…

PP122: Using Burp Suite to Understand How Apps Collect and Share Our Data

Zack Whittaker is a journalist for TechCrunch and author of the newsletter “This Week In Security.” He recently wrote a post describing how he uses Burp Suite, an open source penetration testing tool, to see what data apps are collecting from users, and what other sites those apps share that data w…

PP122: Using Burp Suite to Understand How Apps Collect and Share Our Data

Zack Whittaker is a journalist for TechCrunch and author of the newsletter “This Week In Security.” He recently wrote a post describing how he uses Burp Suite, an open source penetration testing tool, to see what data apps are collecting from users, and what other sites those apps share that data w…

Rogue AI or Just Sloppy Ops?

The OpenAI Hugging Face hack. The Anthropic testing failures. Listen to the security and ops experts, not lab researchers. I walk you through the production failures that allowed OpenAI’s models to access the internet, and what we can learn from the last few months on how to protect our systems and…