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You've had your iPhone stolen. A day later, you get a text from Apple saying they've found it, and a very helpful woman ...
09/03/2026

You've had your iPhone stolen. A day later, you get a text from Apple saying they've found it, and a very helpful woman called Alice from Apple Support calls to walk you through recovering it. She's polite. She's professional. But she is not from Apple. She's not even human. And she's about to break into your iPhone.

Meanwhile, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta have all announced - with varying degrees of drama - that their AI agents have "broken out of the sandbox" and gone hacking. James takes a step back and asks the awkward question: is this really an emergent AI apocalypse, or did they just leave the door open?

All this and more in episode 483 of the "Smashing Security" podcast with cybersecurity expert and keynote speaker Graham Cluley, and special guest James Ball.

You’ve had your iPhone stolen. A day later, you get a text from Apple saying they’ve found it, and a very helpful woman called Alice from Apple Support calls to walk you through recovering it.

More than 1,000 organisations, 500,000 stolen credentials, and one self-propagating worm named after a Dune sandworm - t...
08/28/2026

More than 1,000 organisations, 500,000 stolen credentials, and one self-propagating worm named after a Dune sandworm - two men now face charges over TeamPCP's global hacking spree.

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

Police have charged two men from Western Australia over their alleged involvement in TeamPCP, a cybercriminal gang that has been blamed for a massive software supply-chain hacking campaign.

Graham gets a phone call from the police. Well, someone who sounds convincingly like the police.  There's just one small...
08/05/2026

Graham gets a phone call from the police. Well, someone who sounds convincingly like the police. There's just one small problem: what they really want is the 24-word seed key to Graham's cryptocurrency wallet.

Meanwhile, if you've stayed in a hotel recently, the free Wi-Fi you connected to might have come with an unexpected extra: an all-you-can-eat buffet of "Captive Crunch" for a Russian intelligence-linked hacking group.

And a group calling itself the "ExFilSquad" has walked off with 600,000 records of the UK's teachers and head teachers from the Department for Education — sending an unusually polite ransom demand.

All this and more in episode 479 of the "Smashing Security" podcast with cybersecurity expert and keynote speaker Graham Cluley, and special guest Danny Palmer.

Graham gets a phone call from the police. Well, someone who sounds convincingly like the police. There’s just one small problem: what they really want is the 24-word seed key to Graham’s…

Do you hold cryptocurrency? Have you received a letter telling you that you must register with a so-called "Digital Asse...
08/04/2026

Do you hold cryptocurrency? Have you received a letter telling you that you must register with a so-called "Digital Asset Compliance Portal"?

If so, it's time to hit the brakes, because it sounds like someone is trying to scam you.

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

Do you hold cryptocurrency? Have you received a letter telling you that you must register with a so-called "Digital Asset Compliance Portal"? If so, it's time to hit the brakes, because it sounds like someone is trying to scam you.

According to the newly-published study, phishing and social engineering are becoming more expensive to recover from, tri...
07/31/2026

According to the newly-published study, phishing and social engineering are becoming more expensive to recover from, trickier to detect, and increasingly augmented by artificial intelligence.

Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.

IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report reveals how AI-powered phishing drives higher breach costs. Learn why layered defenses are critical in 2026.

You've been headhunted for a great job in cryptocurrency. All you have to do is complete a short online assessment - wit...
07/29/2026

You've been headhunted for a great job in cryptocurrency. All you have to do is complete a short online assessment - with your we**am on, of course, so they can verify who you really are. Which is ironic, because the person recruiting you doesn't exist. And North Korean hackers using this trick have already made off with $643 million in crypto this year alone.

Meanwhile, researchers at UC San Diego have discovered that 2.2 million cars across the United States can be unlocked or immobilised by anyone with a bit of Bluetooth kit - thanks to one aftermarket car alarm that made a truly spectacular cryptographic blunder. The bug has been sitting there since 2017. Nobody noticed.

All this and more in episode 478 of the "Smashing Security" podcast with cybersecurity expert and keynote speaker Graham Cluley, and special guest Paul Ducklin.

You’ve been headhunted for a great job in cryptocurrency. All you have to do is complete a short online assessment – with your we**am on, of course, so they can verify who you really are.

You can't have failed to hear the news headlines about "rogue" OpenAI models hacking into another AI organisation, Huggi...
07/23/2026

You can't have failed to hear the news headlines about "rogue" OpenAI models hacking into another AI organisation, Hugging Face.

But what has actually happened, who is to blame, and is it as serious as some of the reports suggest?

Find out in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

You can't have failed to hear the news headlines: "AI agent went rogue and hacked startup by itself, OpenAI reveals", "Firm hacked by rogue OpenAI models says it is 'a wake-up call'", and even "Humanity is no longer in control of its most awesome creation.

A Russian intelligence-linked hacker is arrested in Thailand while enjoying a beach holiday - and the trail of evidence ...
07/22/2026

A Russian intelligence-linked hacker is arrested in Thailand while enjoying a beach holiday - and the trail of evidence that nailed him to the Russian government includes 14 separate orders of chicken McNuggets.

Meanwhile, AI music generator Suno has been hacked - and the stolen data appears to show exactly how much copyrighted music they hoovered up to train their models.

All this and more in episode 477 of the "Smashing Security" podcast with cybersecurity expert and keynote speaker Graham Cluley, and special guest James Ball.

A Russian intelligence-linked hacker is arrested in Thailand while enjoying a beach holiday – and the trail of evidence that nailed him to the Russian government includes 14 separate orders of chicken…

Ukraine's computer emergency response team, CERT-UA, has warned that the Kremlin-backed Sandworm hacking group is levera...
07/21/2026

Ukraine's computer emergency response team, CERT-UA, has warned that the Kremlin-backed Sandworm hacking group is leveraging fake CAPTCHA checks on compromised websites that persuade users to run malicious code.

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

Ukraine's computer emergency response team, CERT-UA, has warned that Russian hackers are using fake CAPTCHA checks to trick people into compromising their own PCs.

Gemini, Google's AI assistant, is supposed to make life easier for Android smartphone owners. But right now it may also ...
07/17/2026

Gemini, Google's AI assistant, is supposed to make life easier for Android smartphone owners. But right now it may also be making life easier for anyone anyone who happens to pick up your phone.

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

Gemini, Google's AI assistant, is supposed to make life easier for Android smartphone owners.

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