CYBERCRIME: From the Frontline
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.
Episodes
18 episodes
After the Breach: Anatomy of a Response
🛡️ When a breach hits, it feels like the sky is falling. Systems falter, leadership demands answers, and rumors can outrun reality — fast. In this episode of CYBERCRIME from the Frontline, After the Breach: Anatomy of a Response, our experts br...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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40:55
Ransomware’s Evolution to Digital Extortion: The New Frontline of 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, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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31:45
Silent Infiltration: Reducing Risk from a Supply Chain Attack
🛡️ Bitdefender presents CYBERCRIME: From the Frontline—the podcast that takes you inside real-life cyberattacks. In this episode, our experts discuss the pathways hiding in plain sight that result in supply chain attacks. Explore how adversarie...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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38:36
The MDR Advantage: Turning Cybercrime Response Into Cyberattack Prevention
🛡️ Bitdefender presents CYBERCRIME: From the Frontline—the podcast that takes you inside real-life cyberattacks. In this episode, we’re pulling back the curtains on the Bitdefender Managed Detection and Response (MDR) team. They’re sharing how ...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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41:50
How Independent Testing Keeps Security Solutions Ahead of Cybercrime
🛡️ In this episode of Cybercrime: From the Frontline, host Dan Berte sits down with Peter Stelzhammer from AV-Comparatives, along with Dragos Gavrilut and Lucian Cucueanu, from Bitdefender, to unpack why independent cybersecurity testing remain...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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46:56
Unexpected Frontlines: Environments You Didn’t Expect to Protect
🛡️ Bitdefender presents CYBERCRIME: From the Frontline, Season 2—this is the podcast that takes you inside real-life cyberattacks. In this episode, we’re exploring unexpected frontlines, including environments you didn’t expect to protect. ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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45:07
In-Game Scams and Fraud: The Complex and Often Hidden World of Online Gaming Risks
🛡️ Bitdefender presents CYBERCRIME: From the Frontline, Season 2—this is the podcast that takes you inside real-life cyberattacks. We’re talking about gaming scams and fraud targeting you, your kids, and gamers around the globe.
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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43:43
A Discussion with Network Chuck: AI, Virtual Machines, and the Secret to Creating Viral Tech Videos
🛡️ Bitdefender presents CYBERCRIME: From the Frontline—the podcast that takes you inside real-life cyberattacks. In this episode, we are joined by Network Chuck, whose tech videos are watche...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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58:17
The IoT Security Imperative
🛡️ Bitdefender presents CYBERCRIME: From the Frontline—the podcast that takes you inside real-life cyberattacks. In this episode, we explore the IoT Security Imperative. Remember when Internet of Things devices were a consumer trend? Now they a...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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59:20
Dark Side of Privacy: Cybercrime, Whistleblowers, and Illicit Activities on the Darknet
🛡️ Bitdefender presents CYBERCRIME: From the Frontline — the podcast that takes you inside real-life cyberattacks. This week: Dark Side of Privacy - Cybercrime, Whistleblowers, and Illicit Activities on the Darknet. What began as a ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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50:36
Inside the Ransomware Marketplace: Trust, Code, and Chaos
🛡️ Bitdefender presents CYBERCRIME: From the Frontline—the podcast that takes you inside real-life cyberattacks. In this episode, Inside the Ransomware Marketplace: Trust, Code, and Chaos. Ransomware has evolved, and so has the global ransomwar...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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51:24
AI Inflection Point: How Cyber Defenders and Attackers Are Racing Ahead
🛡️Bitdefender presents CYBERCRIME: From the Frontline—the podcast that takes you inside real-life cyberattacks. In this episode, AI at an inflection point: How cyber defenders and attackers are racing ahead, with no finish line in sight. Instea...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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47:59
Cloud Cover: Inside Modern Cloud Exploits
🛡️Bitdefender presents CYBERCRIME: From the Frontline—the podcast that takes you inside real-life cyberattacks. This episode is a high-stakes roundtable discussion about one of cybersecurity’s most urgent battlegrounds: the cloud. The panel unc...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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51:33
When Good Tools Go Bad: Inside Living Off the Land Attacks
🛡️ Bitdefender presents CYBERCRIME: From the Frontline—the podcast that takes you inside real-life cyberattacks. This episode explores how attackers are turning trusted tools into Trojan horses. PowerShell. TeamViewer. WMI. These tools and hund...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:03:19
Geopolitics and Cyber War: AI, Deepfakes, and the New Frontlines of Espionage
🛡️ Bitdefender presents CYBERCRIME: From the Frontline—the podcast that takes you inside real-life cyberattacks. 🔊 In this episode, cyber experts and analysts dive into the mounting challenges defenders face in 2025. It’s a world wh...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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58:39
Romance, Crypto, and Your Dream Job: How Modern Cyber Scams Are Evolving
🛡️ Bitdefender presents CYBERCRIME: From the Frontline—the podcast that takes you inside real-life cyberattacks. From ransomware to deepfake scams, threat actors are getting smarter. 🔊 In this episode: ↪ The red flag t...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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51:19
Business Email Compromise: Billions in Losses, One Click at a Time
🛡️ Bitdefender presents Cybercrime: From the Frontline—the podcast that takes you inside real cyberattacks. 🔊 In this episode: ↪︎ Organizations around the world have now lost more than $55 billion through busine...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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55:52
Cyber Fraud Exposed The Evolving Tactics of Cybercriminals
🛡️ Bitdefender presents Cybercrime: From the Frontline—the podcast that takes you inside real cyberattacks. 🔊 In this episode: ↪︎ IT support and Microsoft Teams — hear how threat actors are weaponizing the legitimate to ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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