You’ve been headhunted for a great job in cryptocurrency. All you have to do is complete a short online assessment – with ...

A Russian intelligence-linked hacker is arrested in Thailand while enjoying a beach holiday – and the trail of evidence that ...

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A teenage cybercriminal posts a smug screenshot to mock a sextortion scammer… and accidentally hands over the keys to his real-world identity. Meanwhile, we look into the crystal ball for 2026 and ...

In episode 459 of Smashing Security, we dive into a chillingly clever account takeover attempt targeting WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg – involving MFA fatigue, real Apple alerts, a convincing ...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Twitter this afternoon that he was chairing the first ever digital Cabinet, while he self-isolated himself at Downing Street after revealing he was ...

Supposedly redacted Jeffrey Epstein files can still reveal exactly who they’re talking about – especially when AI, LinkedIn, and a few biographical breadcrumbs do the heavy lifting. Sloppy redaction ...

The hacktivist collective Anonymous has declared war on internet paedophiles, attacking websites it accuses of carrying child abuse images and videos, and declaring that anyone who hosts, promotes or ...

Welcome to the largest educational data breach in history – affecting nearly 9,000 institutions, every Ivy League university, and 30 million students mid-finals. When Canvas’s parent company refused ...

Mastodon is hot right now. After some years of only being used by geeks (yes, I’ve had an account for a while now) it’s at the tipping point of becoming mainstream… all because of two words: Elon Musk ...

Polymarket has built an entire business on predicting the future. So how did it manage to spectacularly fail to predict its own hack? Plus, the Google engineer with a million-dollar secret, and the ...

A website called “UK visa portal” has been quietly collecting passport scans, selfies, and personal data from thousands of travellers who thought they were applying through official channels. They ...