CYBERCRIME: From the Frontline
CYBERCRIME: From the Frontline
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Cybercrime: From the Frontline brings you expert insights into the latest cyber threats—fraud, deepfake scams, ransomware, insider attacks, and more. Hosted by Bitdefender’s Dan Berte, this series unpacks real-world cases and cutting-edge defenses in the fight against cybercrime.
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The podcast covers a range of cybercrime-related topics, including fraud, ransomware, insider threats, and the impact of emerging technologies on cybersecurity. For example, recent episodes have explored how threat actors exploit legitimate IT support systems and the trends on the Dark Web that could signify increasing insider threats.

Cybercrime: From the Frontline brings you expert insights into the latest cyber threats—fraud, deepfake scams, ransomware, insider attacks, and more. Hosted by Bitdefender’s Dan Berte, this series unpacks real-world cases and cutting-edge defenses in the fight against cybercrime.
🛡️ Bitdefender presents CYBERCRIME: From the Frontline—the podcast that takes you inside real-life cyberattacks. In this episode, we’re looking at 35 years of ransomware attacks.
The code and targets were simple and small to start, but decades later, the attackers are faster, apply more leverage, and operate more like a business than ever before.
🔊 Topics covered in this episode include:
↪︎ The earliest days of ransomware attacks
↪︎ Ransomware’s evolution to double and extortion attacks
↪︎ What are quadruple extortion attacks, and why they’re on the rise
↪︎ The ways attackers are leveraging compliance frameworks to increase the odds organizations will pay a ransom
↪︎ The future of ransomware, designed to limit detection
Host Dan Berte is joined by Bitdefender VP of Threat Research Dragos Gavrilut, Team Lead of the Bitdefender Cyber Intelligence Fusion Cell Sean Nikkel, and Bitdefender Senior Security Researcher Radu Tudorica for this week’s conversation about ransomware’s 35 years of evolution.
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