Collaborate Disseminate
Take That’s Gary Barlow chats up a pizza-slinging granny from Essex via Facebook, or does he? And a scam takes a sinister turn – for both the person being scammed and an innocent participant – in Ohio.
All this and more is discussed in the latest e… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #368: Gary Barlow, and a scam turns deadly
MPs aren’t just getting excited about an upcoming election, but also the fruity WhatsApp messages they’re receiving, can we trust AI with our health, and who on earth is pretending to be a producer for the Drew Barrymore TV show?
All this and much m… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #367: WhatsApp at Westminster, unhealthy AI, and Drew Barrymore
A hacker bursts the bubble of inflatable fetish fans, Hollywood celebrities unwittingly record videos in a Kremlin plot, and there’s a particularly devious WordPress-related malware campaign.
All this and much much more is discussed in the latest ed… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #352: For research purposes only
Deepfake shenanigans strike users of troubled crypto firm FTX, the perils of charging your electric vehicle, and is Microsoft’s takeover of Activision good news for video game fanatics.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of th… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #299: EV charging risks, FTX, and an ancient apocalypse
A 74-year-old Manga artist received an unsolicited Facebook message from somebody claiming to be Incredible Hulk actor Mark Ruffalo.
You can probably guess where this is heading… Continue reading How a deepfake Mark Ruffalo scammed half a million dollars from a lonely heart
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data watchdog, has fined the Government £500,000 after the addresses of over 1,000 New Years Honours recipients were mistakenly published online. The data breach occurred at 10:30pm on F… Continue reading UK Government fined £500,000 after revealing home addresses in New Year honours data breach
Could the Hollywood heart throb really be interested in you? Sorry, you’re being scammed. Continue reading No, you’re not talking to Jason Statham
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) from the UK has removed more than 300,000 URLs linked to ‘quick-get-rich’ frauds that used fake articles from personalities to trick people into sending money to cybercriminals. The use of fake articles and quo… Continue reading NCSC Blocks Large Fake Celebrity-Endorsed Investment Scam
Maybe Coinbase should send Twitter an invoice, because it certainly sounds like their quick thinking helped prevent last week’s hack from leaving a lot more Twitter users with empty wallets. As we reported at the time, cybercriminals successfully… Continue reading Coinbase stopped scammers from stealing an extra $280,000 during Twitter hack
The ransomware gang is threatening to auction celebrities’ legal documents stolen from the law firm it paralyzed in May. Continue reading REvil gang threaten to auction celebrity data from Mariah Carey, Lebron James, MTV and more