Collaborate Disseminate
Who Are The Gentlemen?
Despite the impeccably polite name, there is nothing polite or refined about this particular gang of cybercriminals.
Read more in my article on the Fortra blog. Continue reading The Gentlemen ransomware: what you need to know
Polymarket has built an entire business on predicting the future. So how did it manage to spectacularly fail to predict its own hack? Plus, the Google engineer with a million-dollar secret, and the curious case of the airport hairdryer.
Meanwhile, “Fo… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #474: Polymarket can predict the future. So how did it miss this hack?
Scammers wasted no time exploiting Venezuela’s devastating earthquake, with researchers uncovering 212 newly-registered relief-themed domains in just five days.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Scammers race to cash in on Venezuelan earthquake disaster
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading USB drives carrying China-linked malware infected Japanese military networks for nearly a year
A polite caller from your bank says there is a problem with your account. Don’t worry – they’ll send someone round to help. They’ll even take your cards away to keep them safe. The scam has run rampant, until Dutch police plastered blurred photos of 10… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #473: How a hacker could have Rickrolled the entire World Cup
Emergency alert systems work because people believe them. Every time one of these systems issues a false alert – whether through negligence or a deliberate attack – trust erodes.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Hacker hijacks Brazil’s national alert system, sending “misanthropy” to millions of phones
Emergency alert systems work because people believe them. Every time one of these systems issues a false alert – whether through negligence or a deliberate attack – trust erodes.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Hacker hijacks Brazil’s national alert system, sending “misanthropy” to millions of phones
Someone is pretending to be your bank, your government, or your local planning office. And according to the FTC, they’re making billions doing it.
Read more in my article on the Fortra blog. Continue reading Imposter scams cost Americans $3.5 billion in 2025 – and it’s getting worse
What if your AI coding assistant could be tricked into stealing your own company’s secrets – by reading a single booby-trapped bug report? No phishing email. No malware. No password ever stolen. Just an AI doing exactly what it was told.
Meanwhile, so… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #472: AI gets hacked, and BitLocker gets bypassed