{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The AI Cookbook Show by Malcolm Werchota","title":"#133 - A World Tour in Cybercrime — and How to Do It at Home. Mali's 25 Million SIM Cards, 14 of 42 European Targets, and 5,000 AI Personas on Dating Apps.","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/4c8fd69c\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2132,"description":"Anthropic's own report says a state intelligence service in Mali used Claude to build a surveillance platform against roughly 25 million SIM cards. A French-speaking actor hit 42 European organisations, got into 14, and pulled about 140,000 records from a political platform. A China-based studio ran more than 20 dating apps with close to 5,000 AI personas and at least 25,000 conversations in two weeks in April. And every capability in this episode is a public GitHub repository.\n\nA world tour in cybercrime — Mali, Europe, Russia and Ukraine, China — and then the part nobody wants to say out loud: how you would do it at home, and why that matters more than the tour.\n\nIn this episode:\n🔎 What it actually means when Claude writes a report (02:38) — these are reported findings, not investigations. Anthropic inferred misuse from the chats themselves. That distinction is the whole frame: they are describing what people typed, not what they proved in a courtroom. And the operator can be one person — or an entire state.\n🚪 \"Circumvent\" (07:41) — what happens when Claude or ChatGPT blocks you. You use the blocked model to install Ollama, pull open weights — GLM 5.2 from Z.AI, or Alibaba's Qwen under Apache 2.0 — and you run it locally. Not a Ferrari. A Volkswagen. Completely good enough for this.\n🇪🇺 The repos, and what happened in Europe (11:39) — a French-speaking actor targeting political parties, media and their service providers. 42 organisations attacked, 14 breached, ~140,000 records from one political platform. Before, that needed a group of fifty people.\n🕵️ Russia and Ukraine (16:10) — espionage, same logic. Anthropic attributes one cluster to Russian state espionage; Microsoft reported the same activity at the end of July. Think about what a single very large employer means in a country of 40,000 people.\n⚠️ Do NOT go and do a pen test (20:18) — a penetration test is an agreed, contracted technical investigation. What I will say is only what is already in the report....","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/K89WOul5lFP6eyTkepgc48DwnmOLDjvzPf-VdoMUwqc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84Y2I2/YTZiNWNmNGE5NmYy/NzE4ZTAyMTYxYjNh/ZmM5Zi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}