Smashing Security podcast #265: The Nigerian supercop and Alexa vs. Alexa

The most famous policeman in Nigeria is in hot water over his links to Hushpuppi, has your Amazon Echo been talking to itself, and can an AI girlfriend save your marriage?

All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winnin… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #265: The Nigerian supercop and Alexa vs. Alexa

“Alexa, hack yourself” – researchers describe new exploit that turns smart speakers against themselves

Researchers have discovered a novel way of exploiting Amazon Echo smart speakers to perform commands.

They get the Amazon Echo speaker to say the commands to itself.

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Conti ransomware gang, which leaked ransomware victims’ data, has its own data leaked

Oh how embarrassing for the criminal gang who extorted millions from businesses by threatening to leak their data, that someone leaked some 160,000 messages between their members as well as their malware source code. Continue reading Conti ransomware gang, which leaked ransomware victims’ data, has its own data leaked