The population needs better conservation. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy.
Pedestrians crossing a street in Denver, Colorado, got rather more than they bargained for last weekend, when the audio signals at two crosswalks began broadcasting a political message alongside their usual walking instructions. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
404 Media has a story about Proton Mail giving subscriber data to the Swiss government, who passed the information to the FBI. It’s metadata—payment information related to a particular account—but still important knowledge. This sort of thing happens, even to privacy-centric companies like Proton Mail.
Sysdig details how threat actors exploited a critical CVE in Langflow in less than a day
A ransomware gang that claims to be a group of "investigative journalists"? Meet LeakNet - the group using fake CAPTCHA pages to trick employees into hacking themselves. Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.
The National Crime Agency’s director general warns that technology is rapidly reshaping crime
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.
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
Surprising no one, Meta’s new AI glasses are a privacy disaster. I’m not sure what can be done here. This is a technology that will exist, whether we like it or not. Meanwhile, there is a new Android app that detects when there are smart glasses nearby.
Gartner has urged security teams to get involved in AI projects from the start to avoid costly incident response
Android’s LSPosed-based attack hijacks payment apps via runtime manipulation and SIM-binding bypass