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Welcome to the security box, program 240. On this program, we're going to have the news, the notes and the landscape. We're also going to have our topic talking about Dragon Force. We're also going to review the trivia for last week and issue the question for this week too. We hope you enjoy the program as much as we have bringing it to you!

Trivia:

Here is the trivia for podcast 239.

Crypto hackers get crafty: A hacker group called FreeDrain has built an entire phishing empire targeting desperate crypto users. They do it by poisoning search results with over how many malicious links? Victims are lured by fake wallet support pages, asked for their seed phrases and drained faster than a Solana transaction. The heist? Already in the millions.

Is the answer:

A: 100,000

B: 250,000

C: 650,000

D: over 650,000

E: under 100,000

The answer

Crypto hackers get crafty: A hacker group called FreeDrain has built an entire phishing empire targeting desperate crypto users. They do it by poisoning search results with over 200K malicious links. Victims are lured by fake wallet support pages, asked for their seed phrases and drained faster than a Solana transaction. The heist? Already in the millions.

This week's question:

How fast did Nvidia-grade AI hardware cracked your 8-character password? Is the answer:

A: 5 minutes

B: 10 minutes

C: 15 minutes

D: 20 minutes

E: 25 minutes

F: 30 minutes

G: over 30 minutes

Call (888) 405-7524 and let me know what you think.

Also, last week, we asked about Gen Z and the percentage of those who use social media to get their news and the answer there according to Kim Komando is 60%. Problem much?

Our topic: Dragon force

https://technology.jaredrimer.net/2025/04/27/another-threat-actor-indicates-they-wont-go-after-hospitals-cancer-centers/ is the blog post leading to the topic for today and https://technology.jaredrimer.net/2025/05/27/dragon-force-is-causing-more-havoc-goes-after-msp/ is the link.

We hope you enjoy today's show and thanks for listening!

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