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The CISO Signal: True Cybercrime Podcast

The CISO Signal: True Cybercrime Podcast

Von: Jeremy Ladner
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The CISO Signal is a true cybercrime podcast investigating the most consequential breaches, insider threats, takedowns, and nation-state hacks shaping today’s digital world. Each episode combines gripping, cinematic storytelling with exclusive interviews from top CISOs and cybersecurity leaders. Together, we break down how the world’s most dangerous cyberattacks unfolded and what today’s security professionals must learn from them. Whether you’re a Chief Information Security Officer, a security team member, or a fan of true crime and high-stakes digital espionage, this show pulls you behind the curtain of real-world cyber warfare. 🎧 Educational. Entertaining. Essential. The CISO Signal delivers expert insights and battlefield-tested lessons that every security leader and true cybercrime fan should hear.© 2026 Jeremy Ladner True Crime
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  • The Enemy Inside: How North Korea’s Phantom Employees Hack the Hiring Process – The CISO Signal EP19

    The Enemy Inside: How North Korea’s Phantom Employees Hack the Hiring Process – The CISO Signal EP19
    Sep 4 2026
    One of the most sophisticated nation-state cyber campaigns ever uncovered didn’t begin with ransomware.Or phishing.Or a zero-day vulnerability.It began with a job interview.Using stolen identities, fabricated résumés, U.S.-based laptop farms, and an international network of facilitators, North Korean operatives secured remote technology jobs inside hundreds of legitimate companies.They attended interviews.Passed technical assessments.Joined engineering teams.Collected salaries.And gained trusted access to the systems, source code, cloud environments, and intellectual property of some of the world’s most valuable organizations.One Arizona woman, Christina Chapman, helped North Korean workers obtain jobs at more than 300 American companies and generate over $17 million. But she wasn’t the mastermind.She was one visible part of a much larger machine.Now, artificial intelligence is making that machine even more powerful. Deepfake interviews, cloned voices, AI-generated résumés, synthetic identities, and real-time interview assistance are making it increasingly difficult to answer one of cybersecurity’s most fundamental questions:Is the person on the other side really who they claim to be?In this episode of The CISO Signal | True Cybercrime Podcast, host Jeremy Ladner is joined by Vijay Balasubramaniyan, CEO and co-founder of Pindrop, the sponsor of this episode, to investigate how North Korea transformed the hiring process into a cyber weapon.Together they explore:• Why North Korea pursued legitimate employment instead of simply breaking into companies• How stolen identities and laptop farms sustained the deception• Why remote software engineering roles became the perfect target• What North Korea gained beyond employee salaries• How trusted insiders can bypass traditional security assumptions• Why MFA, endpoint security, and Zero Trust may begin too late• How deepfakes and generative AI are accelerating the threat• Why identity verification must begin before onboarding• What CISOs, security teams, and HR leaders can do to rebuild trust• How the phantom workforce is continuing to evolveBecause the next cyberattack may not begin with someone trying to break into your network...It may begin with someone applying for a job.________________________________________🎙 This episode is sponsored by Pindrop.Pindrop is an identity trust platform for the AI era, helping enterprises detect deepfakes and continuously verify identity across voice, video, and digital interactions.Powered by models trained on more than 5 billion real-world interactions and protected by more than 300 patents, Pindrop helps many of the world’s leading banks, insurers, healthcare providers, and other enterprises defend against AI-generated deception, identity fraud, and emerging threats to digital trust.🌐 https://www.pindrop.com________________________________________🎙 Guest Co-HostVijay BalasubramaniyanCEO & Co-Founder | PindropFor more than two decades, Vijay has focused on one of cybersecurity’s most important challenges: determining whether the person on the other end of an interaction is truly who they claim to be.As CEO and co-founder of Pindrop, Vijay leads the development of technology designed to detect AI-generated deception and establish identity across voice, video, and digital interactions. In 2026, TIME named Pindrop one of the world’s 10 Most Influential Software Companies.________________________________________🔎 Episode Topics:• North Korean IT workers• Phantom workforce• Fake remote employees• Christina Chapman• Laptop farms• Insider threats• Nation-state cyber operations• Deepfake job interviews• AI-generated identities• Voice cloning• Employment fraud• Identity verification• Remote hiring security• Zero Trust• Human identity assurance• CISO leadership• Artificial intelligence and cybersecurity• North Korean cybercrime• DPRK IT worker scheme• Enterprise identity security________________________________________ 🧩 The CISO Signal links:▶️ / @thecisosignal 💼 / the-ciso-signal 🌐 https://www.thecisosignal.com ________________________________________ 👥 Join the Conversation:Could a North Korean operative make it through your organization’s hiring process? And should identity verification continue after the interview and onboarding? Let us know what you think in the comments.________________________________________ #CISOSignal#NorthKorea #DPRK #PhantomWorkforce #InsiderThreat #IdentitySecurity #Deepfake #ArtificialIntelligence #RemoteWork #CyberSecurity #ZeroTrust#Pindrop #CISO #TrueCybercrime
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    36 Min.
  • CDK Under Siege | The Cyberattack That Brought Car Sales to a Halt - The CISO Signal Episode 18

    CDK Under Siege | The Cyberattack That Brought Car Sales to a Halt - The CISO Signal Episode 18
    Jul 30 2026

    On June 19, 2024, thousands of car dealerships across North America opened for what looked like an ordinary business day.
    The vehicles were on the lot.
    The sales teams were ready.
    The service bays were full.
    Then the software stopped working.
    Within hours, more than 15,000 dealerships lost access to the systems that powered nearly every part of their business: vehicle sales, financing, inventory, repair orders, customer records, payroll, and parts management.
    The target wasn't the dealerships.
    It was the company almost nobody had heard of...
    CDK Global.
    What followed wasn't simply another ransomware attack.
    It became a real-world demonstration of what happens when an entire industry becomes dependent on a single technology platform—and what happens when that platform suddenly disappears.

    In this episode of The CISO Signal | True Cybercrime Podcast, host Jeremy Ladner is joined by Benjamin Lipczynski, Director of Cybersecurity & Regulatory Services at Origina, the sponsor of this episode, and Christopher Russell, Chief Information Security Officer at tZERO Group, to investigate one of the largest supply-chain ransomware incidents ever to impact North American commerce.

    Together they explore:
    • Who BlackSuit really is and how modern ransomware groups operate
    • Why CDK became such an attractive target
    • How a single software platform became a single point of failure for an entire industry
    • Why attackers seek persistence long before they demand payment
    • The difficult decisions defenders face when shutting down critical systems
    • Why recovery is often far more difficult than the attack itself
    • The cybersecurity lessons every CISO should take from the CDK incident

    Because sometimes the biggest cyber attacks don't target thousands of companies...
    They target the one company that thousands of businesses depend on.
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    🎙 This episode is sponsored by Origina.

    Modern enterprises often depend on mission-critical IBM, HCL, and VMware environments that simply can't afford unnecessary disruption. Origina helps organizations extend the life of these critical platforms through independent third-party software support and cybersecurity expertise, giving customers greater control over their infrastructure, reducing unnecessary vendor-driven upgrades, and helping IT and security leaders build resilient, long-term technology strategies.
    🌐 https://www.origina.com
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    🎙 Guest Co-Hosts
    Benjamin Lipczynski
    Director, Cybersecurity & Regulatory Services | Origina
    Benjamin has more than 20 years of experience across defense, critical infrastructure, incident response, and cybersecurity strategy. At Origina, he works with enterprise security and IT leaders to reduce operational risk, strengthen resilience, and protect the mission-critical environments organizations depend on every day.

    Christopher Russell
    Chief Information Security Officer | tZERO Group
    Chris has spent more than two decades leading cybersecurity, intelligence, cloud security, and security operations across both military and commercial environments.
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    🔎 Episode Topics
    • CDK Global ransomware attack
    • BlackSuit ransomware
    • Supply chain cyber attacks
    • Third-party risk
    • Single points of failure
    • Incident response
    • Business continuity
    • Disaster recovery
    • Enterprise resilience
    • Critical infrastructure
    • CISO leadership
    • Cyber resilience
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    🧩 About The CISO Signal
    True cybercrime storytelling with real CISO lessons.
    ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@TheCISOSignal
    💼 https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-ciso-signal
    🌐 https://www.thecisosignal.com
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    👥 Join the Conversation
    At what point does operational efficiency become operational dependency?
    Can any organization justify relying on a single platform to run every critical business function?
    Let us know what you think in the comments.
    ________________________________________
    #CISOSignal #CDK #CDKGlobal #BlackSuit #Ransomware #CyberSecurity #SupplyChain #ThirdPartyRisk #IncidentResponse #BusinessContinuity #CyberResilience #CISO #TrueCybercrime
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    42 Min.
  • The Panama Papers | The Business of Hiding Wealth - The CISO Signal Episode 17

    The Panama Papers | The Business of Hiding Wealth - The CISO Signal Episode 17
    Jun 30 2026
    The Panama Papers | The Business of Hiding Wealth - The CISO Signal Episode 17 🎙 With Jeremy Ladner and guest co-host Michael Darling, CEO of Solstice SecurityFor decades, the offshore financial system operated in near-total obscurity.Behind shell corporations, nominee directors, and offshore entities, fortunes moved quietly across borders through legal structures designed to conceal ownership, preserve privacy, and in some cases, avoid scrutiny altogether.Most people never saw the machinery.That was the point.Inside a law firm in Panama City called Mossack Fonseca, more than 200,000 offshore entities were managed on behalf of presidents, billionaires, celebrities, oligarchs, business leaders, and clients whose names rarely appeared on any public document.The system was built on one fundamental assumption:That secrecy would hold.Then someone broke in.Or perhaps someone on the inside decided the world needed to know.To this day, no one knows for certain.What is known is that 11.5 million confidential documents began flowing into the hands of journalists.Emails.Passports.Bank records.Corporate filings.Decades of hidden financial relationships suddenly exposed to public scrutiny.Prime Ministers resigned.Governments launched investigations.The world's most powerful people found themselves reading their own names in newspaper headlines.And a question still lingers years later:Was this one of the most important acts of whistleblowing in modern history?Or one of the most consequential data breaches ever recorded?In this episode of The CISO Signal | True Cybercrime Podcast, host Jeremy Ladner is joined by Michael Darling, CEO of Solstice Security and former Marine Corps cyber leader, to examine the mysterious leak that became known as the Panama Papers.Together they explore:• How the offshore financial system actually works• Why secrecy became one of the world's most valuable legal services• The cybersecurity failures that may have enabled the leak• Whether "John Doe" was a whistleblower, insider threat, or something else entirely• Why legality and ethics often occupy very different territory• What modern CISOs can learn from one of history's most consequential data exposuresBecause sometimes the most devastating cyber attacks don't lock your systems.They expose your secrets.🎙 Guest CISO Co-HostMichael DarlingCEO, Solstice SecurityFormer Marine Corps Cyber Leadersolsticellc.ioSolstice Security helps organizations strengthen security programs, manage cyber risk, and build resilient security cultures capable of defending today's most complex digital environments.🔎 Episode Topics• The Panama Papers• Mossack Fonseca• Offshore entities and shell companies• Insider threats vs whistleblowers• Data breaches and investigative journalism• Cybersecurity lessons from the world's largest financial leak• Legal secrecy, ethics, and accountability• How hidden systems become visible🧩 About The CISO SignalTrue cybercrime storytelling with real CISO lessons.▶️ / @thecisosignal 💼 / the-ciso-signal 🌐 https://www.thecisosignal.com👥 Join the ConversationIf an employee leaks confidential data because they believe they're exposing wrongdoing...Are they a whistleblower?Or an insider threat?Let us know in the comments.#CISOSignal #PanamaPapers #MossackFonseca#CyberSecurity #DataBreach #Whistleblower#InsiderThreat #OffshoreFinance#CISO #TrueCybercrime
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    42 Min.
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