Collaborate Disseminate
Your smartphone may be toast – if you use a hacked wireless charger, we take a closer look at the latest developments in the unfolding LockBit ransomware drama, and Carole dips her toe into online AI romance apps. All this and much much more is d… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #361: Wireless charging woe, AI romance apps, and ransomware revisited
Surprise! The LockBit ransomware group has re-emerged, just days after a high-profile law enforcement operation seized control of its infrastructure and disrupted its operations.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading The LockBit ransomware gang rears its ugly head again, after law enforcement takedown
Check out my “live reaction” (isn’t that what all the kids post on social media these days?) to the much-hyped revelation of the identity of the LockBit ransomware’s administrator. Continue reading LockBitsupp unmasked!!? My reaction to the FBI and NCA’s LockBit ransomware revelation
A huge reward is being offered for information leading to the identification or location of any of the leaders of the LockBit ransomware gang.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Continue reading Bring us the head of LockBit! $15 million bounty offered for information on leaders of notorious ransomware gang
Heaven’s above! Scammers are exploiting online funerals, and Lockbit – the “Walmart of Ransomware” – is dismantled in style by cyber cops.
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veter… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #360: Lockbit locked out, and funeral Facebook scams
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? A company in Hong Kong suffers a sophisticated deepfake duping, be one your guard from pig butchers as Valentine’s Day approaches, and spare a moment to feel sorry for poor ransomware gangs.
All this and … Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #358: Hong Kong hijinks, pig butchers, and poor ransomware gangs
China-sponsored attacks likened to “placing bombs in water treatment facilities, and power plants”.
Is it just me, or does this sound like the plot of a Mission Impossible movie? Continue reading China is hacking Wi-Fi routers for attack on US electrical grid and water supplies, FBI warns
The iPhone security setting that you should enable right now, the worrying way that AI is predicting what criminals look like, and we play a game of face fake or real…
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning … Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #357: Interview with an iPhone thief, anti-AI, and have we gone too far?
A 33-year-old man has been sentenced to two years in prison after admitting his part in a series of ransomware and malware attacks that hit more than one thousand individuals, businesses, and organisations — including three police departments.
Read … Continue reading Canada’s ‘most prolific hacker’ jailed for two years
A 40-year-old Russian man has been sentenced to five years and four months in prison by a US court, for his involvement in the Trickbot gang that deployed ransomware and stole money and sensitive information from businesses around the world.
Read mo… Continue reading Trickbot malware developer jailed for five years