Smashing Security podcast #458: How not to steal $46 million from the US government
A Wikipedia security engineer accidentally wakes a dormant JavaScript worm that hadn’t stirred since 2024 – and within minutes, giant...
Law & order
Twitter suspended 800 million accounts last year – so why does manipulation remain so rampant?
X, Elon Musk's social media site that many people (me included) still prefer to call Twitter, has told British MPs...
How hackers bypassed MFA with a $120 phishing kit – until a global takedown shut it down
In a co-ordinated public-private operation between law enforcement agencies and cybersecurity industry partners one of the world's most prolific phishing-as-a-service...
Smashing Security podcast #457: How a cybersecurity boss framed his own employee
When a top cybersecurity firm discovered it had a leak, you would expect the FBI to be called. Instead, the...
Notorious ransomware gang allegedly blackmailed by fake FSB officer
There is a certain poetic justice in a cybersecurity-related story that has emerged from Moscow this week: A man has...
Smashing Security podcast #456: How to lose friends and DDoS people
When the mysterious operator of an internet archiving-service decided to silence a curious Finnish blogger, they didn’t just send a...
Smashing Security podcast #455: Face off: Meta’s Glasses and America’s internet kill switch
Could America turn off Europe’s internet? That’s one of the questions that Graham and special guest James Ball will be...
Smashing Security podcast #454: AI was not plotting humanity’s demise. Humans were
AI bots are having existential crises, inventing religions, and allegedly plotting against humanity… or so the internet would have you...
Incognito Market admin sentenced to 30 years for running $105 million dark web drug empire
A Taiwanese man who ran one of the world's largest dark web drugs marketplaces has been sentenced to 30 years...
FBI takes notorious RAMP ransomware forum offline
The FBI has seized control of RAMP, a notorious cybercrime online forum that bragged to be "the only place ransomware...
Smashing Security podcast #452: The dark web’s worst assassins, and Pegasus in the dock
In episode 452, a London-based YouTuber wins a landmark court case against Saudi Arabia after his phone was hacked with...
Four arrested in crackdown on Discord-based SWATting and doxing
How badly do you want to win an online argument? I certainly hope it's not enough to put the life...
Smashing Security podcast #451: I hacked the government, and your headphones are next
In episode 451 of “Smashing Security,” we meet the cybercriminal who hacked the US Supreme Court, Veterans Affairs, and more...
