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Situation as at 31 December 2025

(first publication: 30 October 2024)

Situation as at 31 December 2025

Situation as at 31 December 2025

Hastalamuerte leaks The Gentlemen RaaS ops: FortiGate exploits, BYOVD evasion, Qilin split tactics

Mobile banking malware targets over 1200 financial apps globally, shifting fraud to user devices

The UK’s financial regulator has issued new rules to make incident and third-party reporting clearer

Notorious ransomware group Interlock has been exploiting a Cisco zero-day bug since January, AWS says

Someone tries to remote control his own DJI Romo vacuum, and ends up controlling 7,000 of them from all around the world. The IoT is horribly insecure, but we already knew that.

35% of security leaders working in the UK’s critical infrastructure said regulatory requirements are the primary influence on their security programs

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 support call, and a phishing page that oh-so-nearly worked. If a famous techie could have this happen to you, can you be sure you're immune? Plus: would you donate your lifetime medical history to science if you were promised anonymity? We unpack serious concerns around UK Biobank, where “de-identified” data may not be as anonymous as you think — and how surprisingly little information it takes to reveal everything. And! Human-powered “AI”, and a punishment worse than prison: eight hours on the RSA expo floor... All this, and much more, in episode 459 of the "Smashing Security" podcast with cybersecurity veteran Graham Cluley, and special guest Paul Ducklin.

Out-of-court consumer complaint resolution

CVE-2026-3888 Ubuntu snap flaw lets local users escalate to root via timing-based exploit

ShieldGuard Chrome extension posed as a crypto security tool but stole wallets and drained user data

Rapid7 says median time from publication to CISA KEV inclusion dropped to five days

The Vidar 2.0 infostealers is deployed through fake free game cheats on GitHub and Reddit