Collaborate Disseminate
Who’s been dressing Robox players up in red baseball caps? Which ransomware victim’s negotations got spied on by the media? And should Jason Bieber think twice before touching his hat? Oh, and we need to talk about squirrels…
All thi… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #185: Bieber fever, Roblox, and ransomware
An anonymous tip-off to BBC News enabled them to watch in real-time as an American medical university attempted to negotiate with the hackers who had infected its systems with ransomware.
Continue reading Watching a $1.14 million ransomware negotiation between hackers and scientists searching for COVID-19 treatments
A smartphone app, disguised as a regular app delivering the top world, sports, and entertainment news, containing a secret feature that allows victims of domestic abuse to send a covert distress call for help at the touch of a button.
What could possib… Continue reading Voice recordings from domestic violence alerting app exposed on the internet
One the face of it, it sounded like a good idea. A smartphone app, disguised as a regular app delivering the top world, sports, and entertainment news, containing a secret feature that allows victims of domestic abuse to send a covert distress call for… Continue reading Voice recordings from domestic violence alerting app exposed on the internet
Even after being charged, Kenneth Schuchman continued to create and operate a DDoS botnet, and communicate with his co-conspirators.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Man sentenced, two others charged, in connection with Satori IoT botnet
22-year old man from Vancouver, Washington, has been sentenced to a US federal prison for his role in the development of the Satori botnet, which launched distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks from hijacked IoT devices. The Satori botnet, based … Continue reading Man sentenced, two others charged, in connection with Satori IoT botnet
Do you think you have found a vulnerability in the Sony PlayStation 4 or the PlayStation Network?
You could be heading towards a sizeable sum of money, after Sony announced details of its new bug bounty program. Just be sure to play by the rules…… Continue reading Find a Playstation 4 vulnerability and earn over $50,000
Do you think you have found a vulnerability in the Sony PlayStation 4 or the PlayStation Network? If so, you could be heading towards a sizeable sum of money. That’s because Sony announced details of a new bug bounty program that it is running in… Continue reading Find a PlayStation 4 vulnerability and earn over $50,000
Gavin Ashton was an IT security guy working at Maersk at the time of it was hit hard by the NotPetya ransomware. Now he’s written an article about his experiences, and shares advice for others.
Continue reading The inside story of the Maersk NotPetya ransomware attack, from someone who was there
A conspiracy spreads on social media about Coronavirus tracing apps, US police find decades’ worth of sensitive data leaked online, and is there a Bitcoin bonanza to be had from watching Elon Musk YouTube videos?
All this and much more is discuss… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #184: Vanity Bitcoin wallets, BlueLeaks, and a Coronavirus app conspiracy