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Hacking Humans
This week, hosts of N2K CyberWire Maria Varmazis and Dave Bittner alongside Joe Carrigan are discussing the latest in social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that are making headlines. We start with some follow up from listeners, including a Raspberry Pi buyer who spotted a suspicious import duty text, a debate over whether “invite” belongs in the dictionary as a noun, and Dave's thoughts on the ever-evolving English language. Dave covers a disturbing scam targeting people searching for missing pets, where criminals use AI-generated images to fake proof they’ve found an animal and then demand money or threaten to harm the pet. Maria explores a phishing campaign impersonating web design agencies and exploiting concerns about the PHP2Shell vulnerability to steal website credentials and collect fraudulent maintenance payments. Joe looks at California's enforcement action against cryptocurrency ATM company CoinFlip, which was ordered to pay more than $4.8 million to scam victims, along with a separate investigation into a $3.3 million phishing scam. Our Catch of the Day comes from Reddit, featuring a suspicious email sent to someone searching for a job. 
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It’s not every day that we get a pitch for a book with a foreword by Pope Francis and an introduction by former CIA Director David Petraeus. In fact, our producer didn’t believe it at first. But this is a story about a scholar who became a spy without a spy service. That is exactly what Omar Mohammed did after he watched ISIS overrun his beloved city of Mosul in 2014. Day after day, he would risk his life to gather information on the ground and share his findings on social media. Under the name Mosul Eye, he documented torture, executions and the sale of women and girls into sexual slavery. He highlighted key parts of ISIS infrastructure, shared photos and videos, and disclosed the names and locations of victims and perpetrators. Omar’s memoir, Mosul Eye: A Scholar’s Clandestine War Against ISIS, is out now. And for the first time, Omar reveals new personas and internal intelligence documents he stole from ISIS, risky work that helped coalition forces drive the terrorists out of Mosul. This is the first of a two-part series. 
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