CYBER

Hackers Are Outsourcing Social Engineering to Bots

We’ve all gotten phone calls from someone trying to talk to us about our car’s extended warranty, even if we don’t own a car. But has a robot ever called you to try to get the code your bank sends you when you log on? If it hasn’t happened, it might very soon. It’s the subject of Motherboard staff writer Joseph Cox’s <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3vz5k/booming-underground-market-bots-2fa-otp-paypal-amazon-bank-apple-venmo" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">new piece</a>: The Booming Underground Market for Bots That Steal Your 2FA Codes. We’re recording CYBER love on Twitch.<a href="https://www.twitch.tv/motherboardtv/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Follow us</a> on Twitch to get alerts when we go live. We take questions from the audience. Yours just might end up on the show. Subscribe to<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cyber/id1441708044?mt=2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> CYBER on Apple Podcasts</a> or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Hacking. Hackers. Disinformation campaigns. Encryption. The Cyber. This stuff gets complicated really fast, but Motherboard spends its time embedded in the infosec world so you don't have to. Host Matthew Gault talks every week to Motherboard reporters about the stories they're breaking and to the industry's most famous hackers and researchers about the biggest news in cybersecurity. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.