Collaborate Disseminate
A 49-year-old man has received a five-and-a-half year jail sentence after admitting to creating detailed video tutorials that showed members of a criminal gang how to infect Android phones with spyware and drain their bank accounts.
Read more in my ar… Continue reading Man jailed for teaching criminals how to use malware
Analyst firm Gartner has issued a blunt warning to organizations: Agentic AI browsers introduce serious new security risks and should be blocked “for the foreseeable future.”
Read more in my article on the Fortra blog. Continue reading Gartner tells businesses to block AI browsers now
On this week’s show we learn that AI really can be a stalker’s best friend, as we explore a strange tale that starts with a manatee-shaped mailbox on a millionaire’s lawn and ends with Grok happily doxxing real people, mapping out stalking “strategies,… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #447: Grok the stalker, the Louvre heist, and Microsoft 365 mayhem
A new report from the United States’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has shone a revealing light on the state of the criminal industry of ransomware.
The report, which examines ransomware incidents from 2022 to 2024, reveals that attack… Continue reading Ransomware may have extorted over $2.1 billion between 2022-2024, but it’s not all bad news, claims FinCEN report
Remember when a notorious ransomware gang hit the Irish Health Service back in May 2021? Four years on, and it seems victims who had their data exposed will finally receive compensation.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Four years later, Irish health service offers €750 to victims of ransomware attack
When you spend half a million dollars in a single night at a nightclub, purchase exotic cars worth millions, and rent mansions under false names, you are risking drawing attention to yourself…
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading California man admits role in $263 million cryptocurrency theft that funded lavish lifestyle
In episode 80 of The AI Fix, your hosts look at DeepSeek 3.2 “Speciale”, the bargain-basement model that claims GPT-5-level brains at 10% of the price, Jensen Huang’s reassuring vision of a robot fashion industry, and a 75kg T-800 style humanoid that c… Continue reading The AI Fix #80: DeepSeek’s cheap GPT-5 rival, Antigravity fails, and your LLM likes it when you’re rude
Grok, the AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, has been found to exhibit more alarming behaviour – this time revealing the home addresses of ordinary people upon request.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Privacy concerns raised as Grok AI found to be a stalker’s best friend
A new warning about the threat posed by Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks should make you sit up and listen.
Read more in my article on the Fortra blog. Continue reading Why the record-breaking 30 Tbps DDoS attack should concern every business
A teenage cybercriminal posts a smug screenshot to mock a sextortion scammer… and accidentally hands over the keys to his real-world identity. Meanwhile, we look into the crystal ball for 2026 and consider how stolen data is now the jet fuel of cyber… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #446: A hacker doxxes himself, and social engineering-as-a-service