Collaborate Disseminate
A growing number of UK venues have decided to act against privacy-busting smart glasses.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Meta’s Ray-Bans are being banned from pubs, restaurants, and theatres
f someone offered you 90% off the official price to access Claude, the powerful AI model from Anthropic, would you be tempted? It turns out that around 900 people were, and they may be regretting their decision.
Read more in my article on the Fortra … Continue reading Beware cut-price AI services that read your every word
Apple has imposed strict new submission limits on its bug bounty portal after finding itself overwhelmed by low-quality, AI generated vulnerability reports – many of which were found to be describing security flaws that simply didn’t exist.
Graham gets a phone call from the police. Well, someone who sounds convincingly like the police. There’s just one small problem: what they really want is the 24-word seed key to Graham’s cryptocurrency wallet.
Meanwhile, if you’ve stayed in a hotel r… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #479: How a fake police officer nearly stole Graham’s cryptocurrency
Do you hold cryptocurrency? Have you received a letter telling you that you must register with a so-called “Digital Asset Compliance Portal”?
If so, it’s time to hit the brakes, because it sounds like someone is trying to scam you.
Read more in my ar… Continue reading Fake IRS letters target cryptocurrency holders
According to the newly-published study, phishing and social engineering are becoming more expensive to recover from, trickier to detect, and increasingly augmented by artificial intelligence.
Read more in my article on the Fortra blog. Continue reading The $5 million threat: AI Is supercharging phishing attacks
For years, North Korea’s state-trained hackers have been one of the world’s most prolific robbers of banks – stealing huge sums of money from foreign financial instituions, draining cryptocurrency exchanges of billions, and funnelling the proceeds into… Continue reading North Korea’s elite hackers turned on their own government – and got caught
You’ve been headhunted for a great job in cryptocurrency. All you have to do is complete a short online assessment – with your webcam on, of course, so they can verify who you really are. Which is ironic, because the person recruiting you doesn’t exist… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #478: This job interview could destroy your company
You can’t have failed to hear the news headlines about “rogue” OpenAI models hacking into another AI organisation, Hugging Face.
But what has actually happened, who is to blame, and is it as serious as some of the reports suggest?
Find out in my arti… Continue reading OpenAI’s AI “goes rogue” and hacks Hugging Face: what you need to know
A Russian intelligence-linked hacker is arrested in Thailand while enjoying a beach holiday – and the trail of evidence that nailed him to the Russian government includes 14 separate orders of chicken McNuggets.
Meanwhile, AI music generator Suno has … Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #477: How 14 orders of chicken McNuggets helped nail a suspected Russian hacker