Fake it till you exfiltrate it.

This CyberWire Daily episode roundup highlights several current cybersecurity issues: an alleged Chinese spy campaign fronted by a fake consultancy, Meta facing legal action over youth addiction claims, researchers revealing malware used in the EncroChat hack, CISA warning that ransomware gangs are exploiting a Windows Task Host flaw, the emergence of a Rust-based backdoor called C2Looper using GitHub for C2, a critical WordPress form plugin vulnerability affecting ~300,000 sites, the appearance of MessiahGPT as a criminal AI service, a lender data breach impacting 1.2 million people, and a Swiss trial of a Ukrainian developer accused of ransomware ties.