Cyber News & Articles

The chair of the United States Foreign Relations Committee was targeted by a sophisticated deepfake operation which impersonated a top Ukrainian official, in what was an apparent attempt at election interference.

Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

The United States today unveiled sanctions and indictments against the alleged proprietor of Joker’s Stash, a now-defunct cybercrime store that peddled tens of millions of payment cards stolen in some of the largest data breaches of the past decade. The government also indicted a top Russian cybercriminal known as Taleon, whose cryptocurrency exchange Cryptex has evolved into one of Russia’s most active money laundering networks.

If you believed some of the news headlines in the UK on Thursday, you would think that something much more serious had happened.

People are understandably worried when they read headlines about terror attacks and railway stations – but the facts of the matter are rather less disastrous.

Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned that hackers continue to be capable of compromising industrial control systems (ICS) and other operational technology (OT) using “unsophisticated methods” – suggesting that much more still needs to be done to secure them properly.

Meanwhile, a pro-Israel hacking group claims to have changed chlorine levels at water facilities in Lebanon.

Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

Two men are accused of stealing almost a quarter of a billion dollars from one person’s cryptocurrency wallet, but why on earth would they be handing out handbags to strangers? And social media comes under the spotlight once more, as we ask if you are delving into misinformation in your most private moments…

All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.

The FBI is warning timeshare owners to be wary of a prevalent telemarketing scam involving a violent Mexican drug cartel that tries to trick elderly people into believing someone wants to buy their property. This is the story of a couple who recently lost more than $50,000 to an ongoing timeshare scam that spans at least two dozen phony escrow, title and realty firms.

A new ransomware operation has started to leak information it claims has been stolen from organisations it has compromised around the world.

In recent days Valencia Ransomware has posted on its dark web leak site’s so-called “Wall of shame” links to gigabytes of downloadable information that has seemingly been exfiltrated from a Californian municipality, a pharmaceutical firm, and a paper manufacturer.

Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

In episode 17 of The AI Fix, our hosts meet the worst newsreaders in the world, Graham learns about Big Trak and is shocked by a food delivery robot, Mark explains why he won’t be dressing as a pirate, ChatGPT angelically removes a peanut butter sandwich from a VCR, and everyone thinks they’ve got Ebola.

Graham explains how his career in fashion came to an end, LinkedIn morphs into a feather-duster-wielding polyphase avatron with an insatiable appetite for B2B sales, and Mark delves into the intricate tapestry of terrible AI writing.

All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of “The AI Fix” podcast by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.

The government of Ukraine imposed a ban on the Telegram messaging app being used on official devices belonging to government officials, military staff, and critical infrastructure workers, citing security fears.

Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

Two men have been arrested by the FBI and charged in relation to their alleged involvement in a scam which saw almost a quarter of a billion dollars worth of cryptocurrency stolen from a single victim.

Two men arrested one month after $230 million of cryptocurrency stolen from a single victim.

The men were allegedly less than careful hiding their behaviour – spending $500,000 a night in nightclubs, buying hundreds of bottles of champagne, gifting designer handbags (and even a pink Lamborgini) to random women they bumped into on a night out…

Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.