Imagine buying a brand new hardware wallet for your cryptocurrency with the shrink-wrap still on… what could possibly be hiding inside? We break out a Geiger counter and a cat to find out.

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A ransomware negotiator attended a cybersecurity conference, only to be arrested by the FBI in connection with its ...

Microsoft’s Twitter account, with its 13 million followers, was hijacked by a paperclip. There was no ransomware or data theft, just Clippy, a dodgy crypto coin, and a corporate apology that wasn’t ...

Graham gets a phone call from the police. Well, someone who sounds convincingly like the police. There’s just one small problem: what they really want is the 24-word seed key to Graham’s ...

Vesuvius, the London Stock Exchange-listed molten metal flow engineering company, says it has been hit by a cyber attack. This morning, Vesuvius issued an alert that it was “currently managing a cyber ...

A polite caller from your bank says there is a problem with your account. Don’t worry – they’ll send someone round to help. They’ll even take your cards away to keep them safe. The scam has run ...

AI bots are having existential crises, inventing religions, and allegedly plotting against humanity… or so the internet would have you believe. We dig into Moltbook, the “AI-only” social network that ...

At Black Hat this month, a group of security researchers took a $9,000 robot dog, plugged Google’s AI into its brain, and jailbroke it by telling it – with a completely straight face – that it was a ...

A company that ran anonymous tip lines for 35,000 American schools – handling reports of bullying, weapons, and self-harm – boasted on its website that it had suffered zero security breaches in over ...

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 secret, and the ...

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 ...