31-year-old Solomon Ekunke Okpe, of Lagos, was a member of a gang that devised and executed a variety of scams - including business email compromise (BEC), romance scams, working-from-home scams, and more - between December 2011 and January 2017. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog ..read more

A cryptocurrency hack leads us down a mazze of twisty little passages, Joe Biden's commercial spyware bill, and Utah gets tough on social media sites. All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by The Register's Iain Thomson ..read more

There's bad news if you're someone who is keen to launch a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack to boot a website off the internet, but don't have the know-how to do it yourself. Rather than hiring the help of cybercriminals to bombard a site with unwanted traffic or kick rivals out of a video game, you might be actually handing your details straight over to the police. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog ..read more

Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Kolide. Thanks to the great team there for their support! Right now, “Zero Trust” is in serious danger of becoming an empty buzzword. The problem isn’t just that marketers have slapped the Zero Trust label on everything short of breakfast cereal–it’s that for ..read more

A new report from ENISA, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, looking at cyberattacks targeting the European transport network over a period of almost two years, has identified that ransomware has become the prominent threat. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog ..read more

The world has gone ChatGPT bonkers. Which makes it an effective lure for cybercriminals who may want to break into accounts ..read more

It could be a case of aCropalypse now for Google Pixel users, there’s a warning for house buyers, and just why is TikTok being singled out for privacy concerns? All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Thom Langford ..read more

Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Sysdig. Thanks to the great team there for their support! What is one of the leading causes of breaches in the cloud? OMG, it’s still phishing! It’s no wonder CISOs push zero trust as a top priority. Identities are a top cloud target ..read more

Have you ever shared a photograph where you've redacted some sensitive information? Perhaps you've cropped out part of the image you didn't want others to see? Well, users of Google's Pixel Android smartphone might be alarmed to learn that pictures they've shared in the past may have been less discreet than they imagined. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog ..read more

Security researchers have released a new decryption tool which should come to the rescue of some victims of a modified version of the Conti ransomware, helping them to recover their encrypted data for free. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog ..read more