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The FBI is warning US consumers that cybercriminals are placing ads in search engine results that impersonate well-known brands, in an attempt to spread ransomware and steal financial information.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Sec… Continue reading Don’t click too quick! FBI warns of malicious search engine ads
Beware your Roomba’s roving eye, the Finns warn of AI threats around the corner, and watch out when hailing a cab in Dublin…
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by computer sec… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #303: Secret Roomba snaps, Christmas cab scams, and the future of AI
Social media analytics service Social Blade has confirmed that it is investigating a security breach, after a hacker offered its user database for sale on an underground criminal website.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Data breach at Social Blade confirmed. Hacker offers to sell database on underground website
Celebrated crime author Ann Cleeves turned to Twitter this week, desperate for help.
The reason? The author, whose novels had been the inspiration for TV series like “Vera”, had lost her HP laptop during a blizzard in Shetland. Continue reading Backup saves the day after crime author loses laptop in blizzard
Microsoft has warned that malicious hackers were able to get the software giant to digitally sign their code so it could be used in attacks, such as the deployment of ransomware.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Microsoft approved and digitally-signed malicious drivers used in ransomware attacks
Law enforcement agencies in the United States, UK, Netherlands, Poland, and Germany have brought down the most popular DDoS-for-hire services on the internet, responsible for tens of millions of attacks against websites.
Read more in my article on t… Continue reading Operation Power Off: 50 DDoS-services taken offline in international crackdown
Drug dealers come unstuck while using the Encrochat encrypted-messaging app, and we put the Lensa AI’s avatar-generation tool under the microscope.
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by computer s… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #302: Lensa AI, and a dog called Bob
Sports retail giant Intersport, which boasts some 6000 stores worldwide in 57 countries, has fallen victim to a ransomware attack which disabled checkouts in France during what should have been one of the busiest times of the year.
Read more in my a… Continue reading Hive ransomware gang claims responsibility for attack on Intersport that left cash registers disabled
As ever, what matters most is not so much whether an organisation gets hit or not by a ransomware attack, but how well it handles the aftermath and recovery.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Rackspace customers rage following ransomware attack, as class-action lawsuits filed
Researchers at Sophos have investigated so-called “metaparasites” – the scammers who scam other scammers. Continue reading Metaparasites: The cybercriminals who rip each other off