A ransomware negotiator attended a cybersecurity conference, only to be arrested by the FBI in connection with its ...

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Graham gets a phone call from the police. Well, someone who sounds convincingly like the police. There’s just one small problem: what they really want is the 24-word seed key to Graham’s ...

An app has appeared in India that lets anyone with a smartphone stop a passing e-rickshaw dead in its tracks – no login, no passwords, no permissions needed. Meanwhile, Geoff – swimming in money and ...

Would you like access to Anthropic’s Claude at 90% off the normal price? All you have to do is redirect your traffic to a mysterious service called “Poison Claude”. Only problem is that it’s run by ...

Meta’s smart glasses promise privacy “designed for you” – but everything they record was being beamed off to workers in Nairobi to label by hand. When those workers blew the whistle, Meta sacked all 1 ...

AI bots are having existential crises, inventing religions, and allegedly plotting against humanity… or so the internet would have you believe. We dig into Moltbook, the “AI-only” social network that ...

What if your AI coding assistant could be tricked into stealing your own company’s secrets – by reading a single booby-trapped bug report? No phishing email. No malware. No password ever stolen. Just ...

Romance scammers have apparently discovered astrology… and Taurus is their secret weapon. In episode 449 of “Smashing Security”, we take a look inside an actual romance-fraud handbook – complete with ...

When a chap called Matt noticed his Bluetooth headphones wouldn’t switch to his phone, he was surprised to realise the reason was a single AliExpress webpage sitting open in his browser – playing ...

A polite caller from your bank says there is a problem with your account. Don’t worry – they’ll send someone round to help. They’ll even take your cards away to keep them safe. The scam has run ...

A company that ran anonymous tip lines for 35,000 American schools – handling reports of bullying, weapons, and self-harm – boasted on its website that it had suffered zero security breaches in over ...