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EP 272.5 Deep Dive. fLocked and fLoaded The IT Privacy and Security Weekly update for the week ending December 30th.., 2025
The brief describes how recent incidents collectively show a rapidly evolving, increasingly interconnected global cyber threat landscape that blends financial crime, strategic espionage, physical-world risk, and systemic surveillance failures.
Financially Driven Cybercrime
Cybercriminals are shifting to low-interaction, trust-exploiting techniques, such as clipboard-hijacking malware masquerading as “KMSAuto” that silently replaces copied crypto wallet addresses and has impacted millions of systems.
Fraudsters are also using AI-generated images and video to fake damaged goods and exploit…
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