2024 Security BSides // Kurt Walton
summary
Police leadership frames three concrete priorities: protect the financial sector, safeguard personal information, and build awareness and skills. Specific observed threats include phishing and spoofed messages claiming to be government, police, banks; romance scams that lead to cryptocurrency investment fraud; protocol vulnerability hacks; business email compromise; ransomware and malware disrupting infrastructure. Emphasized operational rules are complacency is the enemy and trust nothing and verify everything. Calls for public‑private partnerships and training to detect social‑media lures and trace obfuscated crypto flows.
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