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Infosec Decoded Season 5 #51: GPS Attacks

With Doug Spindler and sambowne@infosec.exchange

Recorded Tue, July 1, 2025

Politics

University of Virginia president resigns under US government pressure
Naked extortion: implement white supremacy or be destroyed
Elon Musk Wants to Blow Up the U.S. Political System
If this insane spending bill passes, the America Party will be formed the next day.

Infosec

Sinaloa cartel used phone data and surveillance cameras to find FBI informants, DOJ says
A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official's phone records and use Mexico City's surveillance cameras to help track and kill the agency's informants in 2018, the U.S. Justice Department said in a report issued on Thursday.
AI agents get office tasks wrong around 70% of the time, and a lot of them aren't AI at all
Gartner predicts that more than 40 percent of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by the end of 2027 due to rising costs, unclear business value, or insufficient risk controls.
Vuln in cl0p ransomware product
Pay up or stop scraping: Cloudflare program charges bots for each crawl
Its "pay-per-crawl" feature is currently in a private beta. A small number of publishers—including AdWeek, The Associated Press, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, Fortune, Gannett, and Ars Technica owner Condé Nast—will participate in the experiment. Each publisher will be able to set their own prices that bots must pay before scraping content, Cloudflare said.
FBI Says It's Uncovered Largest Medical Fraud in US History
In all, 50 federal districts were part of the investigation, which resulted in 324 defendants, including 96 medical professionals, being charged, and the seizure of $245 million, according to Bongino. The perpetrators used the stolen identities of more than 1 million Americans in all 50 states.
Electronic Warfare Crashes Global Shipping’s Navigation Systems
Bloomberg News analysed 94,000 positioning signals of 56 vessels between June 1–24, 2025. They moved unrealistic distances on 1,500 occasions.
OpenAI Reportedly Shuts Down for a Week as Zuck Poaches Its Top Tale
Reports from within the industry describe grueling, 80-hour workweeks as the baseline for researchers at top AI labs. This work has become a crusade, demanding total devotion from its acolytes--seeking AGI.