Collaborate Disseminate
Workers wonder if their colleagues are actually AI, and we take a deeper look into the curious scams going on via Booking.com.
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham C… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #346: How hackers are breaching Booking.com, and the untrustworthy reviews
The personal information of more than 815 million people in India has reportedly been leaked online.
According to local media reports, hackers have offered for sale the personally identifiable information (PII) – including that found on Aadhaar iden… Continue reading India’s biggest data breach? Hacking gang claims to have stolen 815 million people’s personal information
South Korea and the United States’s FBI are warning organisations that they might have inadvertently recruited a North Korean spy to work in their IT department. Continue reading Have you accidentally hired a North Korean IT worker who’s spying on your company?
A Vietnamese cybercrime gang is being blamed for a malware campaign that has seen bogus adverts posted on LinkedIn, pretending to be related to jobs at computer memory and gaming accessories firm Corsair.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire Stat… Continue reading Phony Corsair job vacancy targets LinkedIn users with DarkGate malware
It’s all too easy sometimes to imagine that a cyber attack is confined to the digital world, and that – although disruptive – it may not have serious consequences in real life.
Maybe the attack which happened last week in New York will make you thin… Continue reading Ambulances diverted after New York hospitals hit by cyber attack
A high profile French basketball team has fallen victim to the NoEscape ransomware-as-a-service group, who claim to have stolen 32 GB of data including sensitive personal information about the club’s star players.
Read more in my article on the Hot … Continue reading ASVEL basketball club slam dunked by NoEscape ransomware gang, data stolen
Ahoy! There’s trouble in the South China Seas as Filipino organisations fail to secure their systems, we take a close look at Google IP protection, and we take a look at just how so much genetic profile data leaked out of 23andMe.
All this and much … Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #345: Cyber sloppiness, and why does Google really want to hide your IP address?
Helen Mort is an award-winning poet and author.
She’s also an unwitting victim of deepfake pornography. She didn’t know until someone directed her towards sexually-explicit deepfake images on a porn site. Images which had her own face edited onto … Continue reading How it feels to be a victim of deepfake pornography
Spanish police have arrested 34 suspected members of a criminal gang that are alleged to have run a variety of scams to steal data from over four million people.
Law enforcement agents across the country took part in 16 searches that not only seized… Continue reading Spanish police make 34 arrests, dismantling cybercriminal gang that stole 4 million people’s data
Golem, the hacker who leaked the data of one million Ashkenazi Jews from the 23andMe ancestry service earlier this month has now released 4.1 million more genetic data profiles.
The hacker claims they’ve included details of “the wealthiest people li… Continue reading Millions of new 23andMe genetic data profiles leak on cybercrime forum