Belle Lin

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So that's certainly a downside is your people are working the 996 hustle culture and maybe they're not too happy because of it.

Welcome to Tech News Briefing.

It's Tuesday, February 3rd.

I'm Belle Lin for The Wall Street Journal.

Your deskmate, your boss, the colleague from across the office could all be the internal source passing off information to hackers who want to steal data from your company.

We look at why so-called insider threats are on the rise and how now hackers are directly recruiting some corporate employees.

Then, Brian Armstrong, the soft-spoken head of crypto exchange Coinbase, is clashing with JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and other bank leaders over the future of finance.

We look at how Armstrong has cultivated his persona to further Coinbase's agenda, why bank CEOs are fighting to keep their turf, and how the Trump administration could change the whole trajectory of both.

But first, roughly 32% of all data loss incidents at organizations worldwide over the past year involved a malicious insider.

That's up from 20% in 2024, according to the cybersecurity firm Proofpoint.

And these malicious insiders are your everyday employees.

So what's driving them to be open to assisting with cyber attacks on their own employers?

WSJ cybersecurity reporter Angus Loughton is here to discuss the phenomenon.

Angus, company insiders helping cyber criminals is nothing new.

But what's behind this current wave of disgruntled workers who seem to be willing to risk it all?

And how do hackers find and recruit their targets?

And to that point, how much is this type of threat costing companies?

Can you put a dollar amount on how much this actually costs them?

That was WSJ cybersecurity reporter Angus Lowton.