According to the FBI, billions of dollars have been lost through Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks in recent years, so you may well think that there is little in the way of good news. However, it has been revealed this week that police managed to recover more than US $40 million snatched in a recent BEC heist just two days after being told about it. As Interpol describes, police were contacted by an unnamed commodities firm in Singapore last month after realising that it had been tricked into transferring funds into a fraudulent bank account based in East Timor (also known as Timor-Leste...
Author: Graham Cluley
Cybersecurity journalist Joe Tidy has found himself in the unusual position of being targeted by a scammer calling herself "Jessica", he revealed this week.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Are you eager for your credit report to be "cleaned-up" so lenders and landlords will have a better opinion of your financial responsibility and creditworthiness?
You might be wise to read my article on the Hot for Security blog.
In episode ten of "The AI Fix" podcast, Graham attempts to say "quinoa", Mark draws a line in the amper-sand, ChatGPT becomes an expert in solar panels and bomb disposal, and our hosts watch a terrifying trailer for a creepy new AI friend.
Graham discovers that the world of AI cookery is a soggy, limey mess, and learns an unusual trick for making a great mojito, while Mark pits his co-host against the cleverest AI brains in the world.
The staggering sum of US $75 million has reportedly been paid to a ransomware gang in what is believed to be the largest known ransom payment made by a cyber attack victim since records began.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
The staggering sum of US $75 million has reportedly been paid to a ransomware gang in what is believed to be the largest known ransom payment made by a cyber attack victim since records began. Researchers at Zscaler claim in a new report that the record-breaking figure was paid by an undisclosed Fortune 50 company to the Dark Angels ransomware group. The reported payment almost doubles the previous record - $40 million paid by insurance giant CNA Financial in 2021 after being locked out of its network by attackers using the Phoenix Locker ransomware. Dark Angels, which emerged in May 2022, has...
In episode nine of "The AI Fix", our hosts learn about the world's most dangerous vending machine, a cartoonist who hypnotises himself with AI, and OpenAI's plans to eat Google's lunch.
Graham tells Mark about a pig-farming professor, and Mark tests Graham's tolerance with OpenAI's terrifying roadmap to Artificial General Intelligence.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of "The AI Fix" podcast by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.
On Friday posts were published on the internet containing what appeared to be the personal information of Israeli Olympic athletes.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Hackers have released internal documents stolen from one of America's largest IT services providers, which counts various US government agencies, including the Department of Defense, amongst its customers.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
The US Department of Homeland Security has unveiled a dog-like robot that it says has been adapted to jam the connectivity of smart home devices.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.