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How 14 orders of chicken McNuggets helped nail a suspected Russian hacker
Episode 477
A Russian intelligence-linked hacker is arrested in Thailand while enjoying a beach holiday - and the trail of evidence that nailed him to the Russia…
7 hours ago
Remote-control rickshaws and rogue book marketers
Episode 476
An app has appeared in India that lets anyone with a smartphone stop a passing e-rickshaw dead in its tracks - no login, no passwords, no permissions…
1 week ago
JadePuffer - the AI that ran a ransomware attack all by itself
Episode 475
A 15-year-old boy asked a chatbot for help - and cancelled nearly 47,000 anime streaming subscriptions in under four hours. Meanwhile, researchers ha…
2 weeks ago
Polymarket can predict the future. So how did it miss this hack?
Episode 474
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 Googl…
3 weeks ago
How a hacker could have Rickrolled the entire World Cup
Episode 473
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 ca…
4 weeks ago
AI gets hacked, and BitLocker gets bypassed
Episode 472
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 phishin…
1 month ago
This AI worm just rewrote its own rules
Episode 471
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 …
1 month, 1 week ago
This AI security flaw might be impossible to fix
Episode 470
A website called "UK visa portal" has been quietly collecting passport scans, selfies, and personal data from thousands of travellers who thought the…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
What your Oura ring won't tell you
Episode 469
CISA, the US government agency whose entire job is keeping America's critical infrastructure safe from hackers, has had a contractor publish dozens o…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
High-speed train hacks and homicidal lawnmowers
Episode 468
A 23-year-old radio enthusiast spent £300 on a piece of kit from the internet, and used it to bring four packed high-speed trains to a screeching hal…
2 months ago