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A Dallas state agency has admitted to paying $170,000 to hackers after it suffered an attack from the Royal ransomware group.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Dallas Central Appraisal District paid $170,000 to ransomware attackers
Want to sell some cocaine, ecstasy (MDMA), crystal meth, or magic mushrooms?
Twitter could be the place for you. And the site isn’t going to do anything to shut down your account. Continue reading Hard drugs actively sold on Twitter in plain sight. Twitter says it doesn’t breach its safety policies
Perhaps the biggest punishment of all will be Dennis Su’s name being forever associated with an extraordinarily inept and cack-handed attempt to frighten people out of money. Continue reading Bungling Optus scammer was no criminal mastermind
When Ubiquiti suffered a hack the world assumed it was just a regular security breach, but the truth was much stranger… why are police happy that criminals keep using end-to-end encrypted messaging systems… and why is the Apple Watch being accused of… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #308: Jail after VPN fail, criminal messaging apps, and wolf-crying watches
Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Incogni. Thanks to the great team there for their support! Cybercrimes happen much more often than you might think and affect a growing amount of people. With crimes such as identity th… Continue reading How to remove yourself from the internet and from people search sites
A former software engineer at Ubiquiti Networks has pleaded guilty to stealing gigabytes of data from the firm, attempting to extort millions of dollars, and damaging the company’s reputation in the media.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Secu… Continue reading Ex-Ubiquiti worker pleads guilty to data theft, extortion, and smear plot
Vesuvius, the London Stock Exchange-listed molten metal flow engineering company, says it has shut down some of its IT systems after being hit by a cyber attack. Continue reading Hackers hit Vesuvius, UK engineering company shuts down affected systems
UK banking group TSB is calling on social networks and dating apps to better protect their users from fake profiles, following an alarming spike in romance fraud.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Continue reading Romance fraud losses rose 91% during the pandemic, claims UK’s TSB bank
Could a senior Latvian politician really be responsible for scamming hundreds of “mothers-of-two” in the UK? (Probably not, despite Graham’s theories…) And should we be getting worried about the AI wonder that is ChatGPT?
All this and more is dis… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #307: ChatGPT and the Minister for Foreign Affairs
Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Edgescan. Thanks to the great team there for their support! Edgescan simplifies Vulnerability Management (VM) by delivering a single full-stack SaaS solution integrated with world-class… Continue reading Take a tour of the Edgescan Cybersecurity Platform