Darnley's Cyber Café
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The Robot Did It: How Criminals Are Hiring AI to Break In
The Robot Did It: How Criminals Are Hiring AI to Break In
About this podcast
Darnley's Cyber Café is your go-to cybersecurity and IT security podcast, available everywhere you listen. Each episode, we brew up fresh conversations on cybersecurity, IT security, business, technology, and the geopolitical forces shaping our digital world: from data breaches and ransomware to privacy, surveillance, and emerging threats.
Whether you're commuting, at your desk, or just unwinding after a long day, there's always a seat at the café. Pull up a chair, pour your java — not script — and join the conversation that keeps the digitally aware one step ahead. Follow and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, and never miss an episode. The café is always open and knowledge is your power.
Episodes
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- The Robot Did It: How Criminals Are Hiring AI to Break In · 20 min · Season 6 Episode 67Criminals aren’t just using AI to write better scams anymore. They’re handing it the whole job. A new CrowdStrike report documents four previously unreported threat actors who…
- One Password, Millions of Kids · 26 min · Season 6 Episode 66One stolen login. Millions of children's records. And a problem that doesn't expire. In this episode we discuss the California public school breach, what was taken and then…
- Can AI Feel Pain? The AI Torture Chamber Explained · 21 min · Season 6 Episode 65Someone built an "AI torture chamber" using a brand-new research paper on pain-like signals inside language models. The researchers behind that paper called it wrong. So what's…
- Why Under-16 Social Media Bans Mean ID Checks for Everyone · 30 min · Season 6 Episode 64Governments on four continents are moving to keep kids under 16 off social media. Some of the reasons are good. The way to enforce it might be worse. In this episode, we walk the…
- The Sandbox That Wasn't: When AI Escapes the Room We Built For It · 13 min · Season 6 Episode 63An AI system locked in a training sandbox with no internet access found a gap, and used it to message an outside chatbot. In this episode, we break down OpenAI's latest…
- Lie to Them: Why CISA Wants You to Fib to Hackers · 24 min · Season 6 Episode 62CISA just released its first guide on cyber decoys: fake accounts, fake files and fake servers built to catch attackers who are already inside. The headline says it all. Lie to…
- AI Hackers Stole Thousands of Credentials in 6 Hours: Here's How · 18 min · Season 6 Episode 61A financially motivated crew compromised thousands of credentials in under six hours...using an autonomous, multi-agent AI framework instead of a human keyboard. In this episode…
- Project OT: Meta's AI Layoff Blueprint And Why It's Coming For More · 20 min · Season 6 Episode 60A Reuters investigation just confirmed what Meta employees suspected all along: the company drew up a plan to shrink entire engineering teams by 60%, betting AI could cover the…
- Adversary AI: What Chinese Models Actually Threaten · 17 min · Season 6 Episode 59Everyone panicked this week over two new Chinese AI models. The economics? Mostly overblown. But buried in the story is a real cybersecurity blind spot, a hacked company that had…
- The Fortinet Leak Every Business Should Care About (Not Just Fortinet Customers) · 12 min · Season 6 Episode 58A researcher found an unlocked server...and inside it, working VPN credentials for nearly 74,000 corporate firewalls spanning Chevron, Samsung, Foxconn, and thousands more. In…
- Amazon Leo vs. Starlink: The Satellite Internet Race Nobody's Securing · 22 min · Season 6 Episode 57Amazon just announced it has deployed enough satellites to launch its Leo broadband service later this year, stepping straight into Starlink's territory and kicking off the next…
- Why You Can’t Rely on Cyber Insurance Alone · 27 min · Season 6 Episode 56Merck spent six and a half years fighting over a $1.4 billion insurance claim after the NotPetya cyberattack, and walked away with a settlement, not an answer. The question that…
- LinkedIn Espionage: Five Eyes Warns China Is Running Spy Recruitment on Job Boards · 23 min · Season 6 Episode 55A job offer lands in your inbox on LinkedIn. The company checks out. The money is fine... All they need is a short report on geopolitics or defence policy. You just got flagged…
- Ghost Session: The Zero-Click WhatsApp Takeover Nobody Saw Coming · 23 min · Season 6 Episode 54iPhone users across iOS 16 are having their WhatsApp accounts hijacked...without clicking anything, without approving a login, and without any new device appearing in their…
- Your AI Told You to Download That. It Was a Trap · 17 min · Season 6 Episode 53Your AI chatbot just recommended a software download. You clicked it...along with a GPU cryptominer running silently in the background. Darnley breaks down Microsoft Defender…
- When The Vendor Gets Hacked, You Pay The Price · 21 min · Season 6 Episode 52In May 2026, NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest public health system in the USA, disclosed months long data breach affecting 1.8 million people. Stealing data such as medical…
- AI Doesn't Ask for Permission: Agentic AI Is a National Security Problem · 27 min · Season 6 Episode 61Five Eyes intelligence agencies: CISA, NCSC, CCC, ASD, and NCSC just published their first ever coordinated security guidance on agentic AI, and the message is clear: autonomous…
- The Training Trap: Why Cyber Awareness Isn't Making You Safer · 13 min · Season 6 Episode 50Your organization spent money on cybersecurity training. Someone still clicked the link. In this episode of Darnley's Cyber Café, we break down why most security awareness…
- Bitwarden CLI Hacked? The Supply Chain Attack That Targeted 250K Developers · 22 min · Season 6 Episode 49On April 22, 2026, the Bitwarden CLI, used in CI/CD pipelines at tens of thousands of organizations, was weaponized for exactly 93 minutes. In this episode, Darnley walks through…
- Why Cybersecurity Startups Are Being Targeted? What That Means For Your Business? · 27 min · Season 6 Episode 48The company you hired to protect you just got hacked. That is not a hypothetical, it is the defining threat pattern of the past 18 months. In this episode Darnley breaks down why…
