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 Bruce Sussman, this series unpacks real-world cases and cutting-edge defenses in the fight against cybercrime.
Episodes
25 episodes
Breach Risk: 4 Ways It Grows
🛡️ In this episode of CYBERCRIME: From the Frontline, host Bruce Sussman explores key risk factors that increase the likelihood of a cyber breach with Bitdefender Director of Cybersecurity Services, Nicholas Jackson, and Bitdefender Product Man...
Targeting the Messengers: Cyberthreats to Journalists and Influencers
🛡️ Cybercriminals are trying to weaponize digital trust—by targeting professional journalists and social media influencers. They have trusted reputations and large digital followings, making them visible and attractive targets. In this episode ...
The Year of Agentic AI
🛡️ Agentic AI is one of the biggest cybersecurity stories of the year—and for good reason. In this episode of Cybercrime from the Frontline, The Year of Agentic AI, Bitdefender experts examine how AI agents are moving from passive assistants to...
AI Inside the Breach: The Adaptive Attacker
🛡️ Threat actors aren’t just using AI to write better phishing emails—they’re using it live, inside victim networks, to adapt in real time. In this episode, we explore how threat actors are weaponizing AI to accelerate attacks, automate reconna...
Compliance as Defense: How Governments Are Responding to Cybercrime
🛡️ Compliance has a branding problem. It’s not the “cool stuff” like forensics, investigations, or the adrenaline of a live incident. But compliance is the reason baseline safety measures get implemented before the breach. When attackers are sc...
Analysts on the Frontline
What does it really mean to be a cybersecurity analyst on the frontline—when every alert could be noise, or the start of a breach? In this episode of Cybercrime: From the Frontline, we go inside the human-led reality of modern secu...
A Day in the Life of a Forensics Engineer
Forensic engineers are called in when things are already broken🪫— and the pressure is on. In this episode of Cybercrime from the Frontline, A Day in the Life of a Forensic Engineer, Bitdefender’s threat experts unpack what really happens once a...
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...
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, ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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. ...
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.
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
