Collaborate Disseminate
In episode 30 of The AI Fix, AIs are caught lying to avoid being turned off, Apple’s AI flubs a headline, ChatGPT is available to people who haven’t left the 1970s, our hosts regret to inform you that an AI artist now has a personality, and ant-like ro… Continue reading The AI Fix #30: ChatGPT reveals the devastating truth about Santa (Merry Christmas!)
Rydox, an online marketplace used by cybercriminals to sell hacked personal information and tools to commit fraud, has been seized in an international law enforcement operation and its suspected administrators arrested.
Read more in my article on th… Continue reading Rydox cybercrime marketplace seixed by law enforcement, suspected admins arrested
Operation PowerOFF has disrupted what was anticipated to be a surge of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks over the Christmas period by taking over two dozen “booter” or “stresser” websites offline.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire S… Continue reading 27 DDoS-for-hire services disrupted in run-up to holiday season
A Canadian man is arrested in relation to the Snowflake hacks from earlier this year – after a cybersecurity researcher managed to track his identity, and a cryptocurrency-trading Instagram influencer is in trouble with the law.
All this and more is… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #397: Snowflake hackers, and under the influence
A man faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges related to an illegal cryptomining operation that stole millions of dollars worth of cloud computing resources.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading “CP3O” pleads guilty to multi-million dollar cryptomining scheme
The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has revealed details of Operation Destabilise, a years-long international law enforcement investigation into a giant Russian money laundering enterprise that handled billions of dollars for drug traffickers and rans… Continue reading Russian money-laundering network linked to drugs and ransomware disrupted, 84 arrests
A CEO is arrested for turning satellite receivers into DDoS attack weapons! Then, we’ll journey into the world of bossware and “affective computing” and explore how AI is learning to read our emotions – is this the future of work, or a recipe for dyst… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #396: Dishy DDoS dramas, and mining our minds for data
A Kansas City man is accused of hacking into local businesses, not to steal money, but to… get a cheaper gym membership? A DNA-testing firm has vanished, leaving customers in the dark about what’s happened to their sensitive genetic data. And Austral… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #395: Gym hacking, disappearing DNA, and a social lockout
In episode 26 of The AI Fix, an AI does surgery on pork chops, holographic Jesus wants your consent to use cookies, Mark opens the pod bay doors, our hosts discover OpenAI’s couch potato health coach, and Graham finds a robot made of drain pipes.
Gr… Continue reading The AI Fix #26: Would AI kill sentient robots, and is water wet?
In our latest episode we discuss how a woman hid under the bed after scammers told her she was under “digital arrest”, how hackers are hijacking YouTube channels through malicious sponsorship deals, and how one phone company is turning the tables on fr… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #394: Digital arrest scams and stream-jacking