A polite caller from your bank says there is a problem with your account. Don’t worry – they’ll send someone round to help.

Polymarket has built an entire business on predicting the future. So how did it manage to spectacularly fail to predict its own hack? Plus, the Google engineer with a million-dollar ...

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A disgruntled data analyst decides that the best response to losing his contract is to steal the entire company payroll database and demand $2.5 million in Bitcoin – signing his extortion emails from ...

When a top cybersecurity firm discovered it had a leak, you would expect the FBI to be called. Instead, the person put in charge of the investigation was the actual leaker… who promptly sent an ...

When the mysterious operator of an internet archiving-service decided to silence a curious Finnish blogger, they didn’t just send a stroppy email – they allegedly weaponised their own CAPTCHA page to ...

A hacking group claims to have broken into the flood defence system protecting Venice’s Piazza San Marco – and is offering to sell access to whoever wants it. The asking price? A frankly insulting ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto have built a worm that thinks for itself. Using free off-the-shelf AI models it works out how to break into each new computer it encounters, and hijacks the ...

Could America turn off Europe’s internet? That’s one of the questions that Graham and special guest James Ball will be exploring as they discuss tech sovereignty. Could Gmail, cloud services, and ...

What if your AI coding assistant could be tricked into stealing your own company’s secrets – by reading a single booby-trapped bug report? No phishing email. No malware. No password ever stolen. Just ...

Romance scammers have apparently discovered astrology… and Taurus is their secret weapon. In episode 449 of “Smashing Security”, we take a look inside an actual romance-fraud handbook – complete with ...

In episode 451 of “Smashing Security,” we meet the cybercriminal who hacked the US Supreme Court, Veterans Affairs, and more – and then helpfully posted screenshots (and even someone’s blood type) on ...