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But there have been many thefts of crypto linked to the breach since. No mention of this downstream impact on victims in the lengthy report. We will have to wait for private litigation in the US to get to the truth it seems

Catching up on the LastPass fine in the UK. The ICO yesterday fined the firm £1.2m for security failings that led to loss of customer data. No master passwords or passwords inside vaults were breached... ico.org.uk/media2/xfbl1...

Thanks! I have plans this weekend sadly

NFI mate!

Making some finishing touches to my #blackhat speech! Very excited to be doing the opening keynote on Thursday. I'll be doing a book signing too. @blackhatevents.bsky.social

YouTube video by BBC World Service Russian hackers accused of stealing millions - Cyber Hack: Evil Corp Ep1, BBC World Service podcast

We've started uploading visualisations of our Evil Corp podcast series to YouTube. The team has done a brilliant job of weaving in content from police media kits, social media posts and material from our documentary coverage of the gang over the years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuQ-...

The werid thing is though that Horizon Worlds does appear to be a hit with kids. It is chock full of 10 year olds having a whale of a time. So I do think there is something in it. I have a feeling Meta is just too early. Like Google Glass. They weren't wrong, they were just 10 years early

First pic - a column I wrote for the BBC Tech Decoded newsletter where I pondered how long it would be until Meta curtailed it's huge spending on building out its metaverse. Second pic - news this week. Column here for posterity: view.email.bbc.com?qs=6f24de31c...

Ex-teen hackers warn parents are clueless as children steal 'millions' | Money blog Ex-cyber criminals jailed for stealing millions warn in exclusive interviews that parents are unaware it's easier than ever for children to fall down the hacking rabbit hole - and the first step is of...

'Parents are cluless as child hackers steal millions.' Good exploration of the issue of teenage hacking gangs here from Sky News. news.sky.com/liveblog-web...

Another Cloudflare outage. On Friday at business time for the UK and many other parts of the world. This was a scheduled thing that seems to have failed. There is something deliberate in the timings of these 'maintenance gone wrong events'. The rest of the world suffers whilst the US sleeps.

Porn site fined £1m over age verification has never replied to Ofcom The regulator tells the BBC it has been emailing AVS Group Ltd without reply since July.

UK's Ofcom keeps issuing fines to companies which fail to put adequate age gating into sites. But companies are just ignoring them. Online Safety Act is proving very hard to enact. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Asahi says more than 1.5 million customers' data potentially leaked in cyber-attack The ransomware attack in September crippled Asahi's Japan operations and caused a drinks shortage.

Asahi says 1.5 million customers' data potentially leaked in cyber-attack. Hat tip to Asahi for its continued transparency about the ransomware attack. Other firms hit this year who tried to minimise, deny and cover up attacks could learn from Asahi's honesty. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Scammers hacked her phone and stole thousands of pounds - how did they get her details? Sue Shore told the BBC how scammers targeted her - and we found her information had been leaked online.

Scammers hacked her phone and hijacked her digital life - so how did they get her details? We tried to work out how 3 victims of scams were targeted and which data breaches criminals used. The results once again highlight how data breaches cause real harm to individuals
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Thanks Jack

There it is - the Evil Corp podcast boxset is complete! Finale landed today for international listeners. Working on the pod has been enormously fun and I am very proud of the story we have told! Big ups to the amazing producers who are remaining anonymous..
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Sometimes the press emails we get from 'experts' as a response to news are just..... complete garbage. What the hell have 'deep fakes' and 'antonymous AI' got to do with bog standard teenage cyber crime and the fact they pleaded not guilty?!

Teenagers plead not guilty over Transport for London cyber attack Thalha Jubair, 19, and Owen Flowers, 18, are charged with conspiring to commit unauthorised acts.

Teens plead not guilty over TfL cyber-attack. Thalha Jubair 19, from East London, and Owen Flowers, 18, from Walsall in the West Midlands spoke only to confirm their names and enter pleas at the brief hearing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Friday-night drug deals helping Russian war machine, UK crime agency warns The National Crime Agency says a

The story: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Today's news about a Russian money laundering network mentions Evil Corp. "Operation Destabilise began by tracking the activity of the ransomware group Evil Corp, but ended up uncovering "eye-watering scales" of money-laundering". As we say in our podcast series: the tentacles spread far and wide

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I LOVE how unhinged and melodramatic the official EU Parliament TikTok account is about the USBC law. Here all day for it.

A Simple WhatsApp Security Flaw Exposed 3.5 Billion Phone Numbers By plugging tens of billions of phone numbers into WhatsApp’s contact discovery tool, researchers found “the most extensive exposure of phone numbers” ever—along with profile photos and more.

Superb research here. Shows how convenience features can undermine privacy. WhatsApp is still only behind Signal for best private mass chat apps. But this research and write up from @agreenberg.bsky.social made me change my profile pic which was me and my family www.wired.com/story/a-simp...

British hacker must repay £4m after hijacking celebrity Twitter accounts Joseph O'Connor, from Liverpool, hacked more than 130 accounts in July 2020 to promote a Bitcoin scam.

British hacker must repay £4m after hijacking celebrity Twitter accounts. Joseph O'Connor, from Liverpool, hijacked more than 130 accounts in July 2020, including those of Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Elon Musk in The Great Twitter Hack.
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AI firm claims Chinese spies used its tech to automate cyber attacks The company claimed in a blog post this was the

My write up of the bombshell Anthropic news about Chinese hackers using its chatbot for near autonomous cyber attacks. No doubt many questions still to be answered and I would love to hear more from a non-commercial entity that handled this.
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Extraordinary day and historic for the wrong reasons - a cyber attack featured in the GDP figures

A really insightful interview from the prison that @joetidy.bsky.social and the crew conducted with the former most wanted cyber criminal under nickname 'Tank' with real name Vyacheslav Penchukov, who used to run the infamous Russian cyber gang

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He was leader of Jabber Zeus and then IceID

Naturally!