Collaborate Disseminate
Spain’s police force has announced that it has arrested a 20-year-old man who they claim managed to book luxury hotel rooms worth up to €1,000 a night for just one euro cent.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Spanish police say they have arrested hacker who booked luxury hotel rooms for just one cent
Could America turn off Europe’s internet?
That’s one of the questions that Graham and special guest James Ball will be exploring as they discuss tech sovereignty. Could Gmail, cloud services, and critical infrastructure really become geopolitical lev… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #455: Face off: Meta’s Glasses and America’s internet kill switch
Police in The Netherlands say they have arrested a 40-year-old man on suspicion of hacking… after police officers accidentally sent him a link granting him access to their own confidential documents
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Dutch police arrest man for “hacking” after accidentally sending him confidential files
A coordinated cyberattack that targeted Poland’s energy infrastructure in late December 2025 has prompted cybersecurity agencies to issue urgent warnings to critical national infrastructure operators on both sides of the Atlantic.
Read more in my arti… Continue reading Urgent warnings from UK and US cyber agencies after Polish energy grid attack
A 29-year-old Polish man has been charged in connection with a data breach that exposed the personal details of around 2.5 million customers of the popular Polish e-commerce website Morele.net.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Polish hacker charged seven years after massive Morele.net data breach
AI bots are having existential crises, inventing religions, and allegedly plotting against humanity… or so the internet would have you believe.
We dig into Moltbook, the “AI-only” social network that sent Twitter into a meltdown, attracted breathles… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #454: AI was not plotting humanity’s demise. Humans were
When a Romanian businesswoman fell for a fake Dubai Crown Prince in a $2.5 million romance scam, investigators tracked the fraudster to his Nigerian mansion – only to discover he was masquerading as a campaigning philanthropist.
Read more in my articl… Continue reading Fake Dubai Crown Prince tracked to Nigerian mansion after $2.5M romance scam
He promised “the best security there is” to hundreds of thousands of drug buyers, while quietly making the kind of mistake that guaranteed a 30-year sentence. And maybe training police on cryptocurrency while running a running a vast Tor-hidden drug b… Continue reading Incognito Market admin sentenced to 30 years for running $105 million dark web drug empire
Supposedly redacted Jeffrey Epstein files can still reveal exactly who they’re talking about – especially when AI, LinkedIn, and a few biographical breadcrumbs do the heavy lifting.
Sloppy redaction leads to explosive claims, and difficult reputationa… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #453: The Epstein Files didn’t hide this hacker very well
The FBI has seized control of RAMP, a notorious cybercrime online forum that bragged to be the only place that allowed ransomware, and boasted over 14,000 active users.
Now some of those users’ details are likely to be in the hands of the police…
R… Continue reading FBI takes notorious RAMP ransomware forum offline