Collaborate Disseminate
There is a certain poetic justice in a cybersecurity-related story that has emerged from Moscow this week: A man has been accused of trying to extort money… from a notorious Russian ransomware gang.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Notorious ransomware gang allegedly blackmailed by fake FSB officer
When the mysterious operator of an internet archiving-service decided to silence a curious Finnish blogger, they didn’t just send a stroppy email – they allegedly weaponised their own CAPTCHA page to launch a DDoS attack, threatened to invent an entire… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #456: How to lose friends and DDoS people
Amid a privacy backlash, a US $10,000 reward has been offered for anyone who can find a way to run Ring doorbell cameras locally, cutting off the flow of video data to Amazon’s servers.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading $10,000 bounty offered if you can hack Ring cameras to stop them sharing your data with Amazon
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