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0:00 0 – Intro
1 – Your Local Botnet
2 – Charging For Internet
3 – Scattered Spider
4 – BSides News
5 – Outro

LINKS
🔗 Story 1: Your Local Botnet
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/google-continued-disruption-residential-proxy-networks
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/netnut-proxy-network-disrupted-2-million-infected-devices-cut-off/
https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/google-disrupts-netnut-residential.html
🔗 Story 2: Charging For Internet
https://blog.cloudflare.com/monetization-gateway/
https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/
🔗 Story 3: Scattered Spider
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/02/scattered-spider-criminal-group-suspect-extradited/
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/alleged-scattered-spider-hacker-extradited-to-the-united-states/
https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/19-year-old-scattered-spider-suspect.html
🔗 Story 4: BSides News
https://cybersecuritynews.com/pamstealer-mimic-as-maccy-harvest/
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/new-pamstealer-macos-malware-uses-clever-tradecraft-to-remain-stealthy/
https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/rustduck-botnet-rebuilds-in-rust-to.html
https://openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol/
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/06/us-offers-10-million-for-info-on-group-behind-signal-and-whatsapp-hacking-spree/
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