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 This site turns your URL into something sketchy-looking. For example, www.schneier.com becomes https://cheap-bitcoin.online/firewall-snatcher/cipher-injector/phishing_sniffer_tool.html?form=inject&host=spoof&id=bb1bc121&parameter=inject&payload=%28function%28%29%7B+return+%27+hi+%27.trim%28%29%3B+%7D%29%28%29%3B&port=spoof. Found on Boing Boing. Read More    

Ransomware doesn’t just freeze computers - it can silence alarms too. And when the Natural History Museum in Paris went dark, thieves helped themselves to €600,000 worth of gold in…

INC is the name of a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation that first appeared in late summer 2023. Learn more about what it has been up to, and how to protect against…

U.S. prosecutors last week levied criminal hacking charges against 19-year-old U.K. national Thalha Jubair for allegedly being a core member of Scattered Spider, a prolific cybercrime group blamed for extorting…

 This is a weird story: The US Secret Service disrupted a network of telecommunications devices that could have shut down cellular systems as leaders gather for the United Nations General…

In episode 69 of The AI Fix, our hosts discover brain rot, a shark wears trainers on its fins, an AI writes a terrible J-Pop song, Graham learns that ants…

 Apple has introduced a new hardware/software security feature in the iPhone 17: “Memory Integrity Enforcement,” targeting the memory safety vulnerabilities that spyware products like Pegasus tend to use to get…

 Details from leaked documents: While people often look at China’s Great Firewall as a single, all-powerful government system unique to China, the actual process of developing and maintaining it works…

 A comparison aimed at kids. Read More    

 The Atlantic Council has published its second annual report: “Mythical Beasts: Diving into the depths of the global spyware market.” Too much good detail to summarize, but here are two…

28-year-old Daniel Lee Newhard, an American citizen living in Estonia, has been charged in relation to the notorious hack of Vastaamo, the biggest data breach in Finnish history. Read more…

 This is a nice piece of research: “Mind the Gap: Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use Vulnerabilities in LLM-Enabled Agents“.: Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM)-enabled agents are rapidly emerging across a wide range…

Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the creator of the notorious BreachForums hacking forum, has been resentenced to three years in prison after a US appeals court overturned his prior sentence of time…

When "bad actors" stop being hackers and start being... actual actors. This week, Graham and special guest Jenny Radcliffe play “Hacker or Ham?” (yes, Steven Seagal, we’re looking at you),…

Recent research released by the ICO say that school pupils should be considered as an "insider threat" by schools. Read more in my article on the Fortra blog. Read More