“A new low”. Children's names, pictures and addresses stolen in nursery chain hack www.bbc.com/news/article...

Co-op says cyber-attack cost it £206m in lost sales The full cost of the attack could be much higher as the Co-op said it was also expecting there to be some impact to its business in the second half of the year. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Said it before, I'll say it agin - the younger you are the less you care about data privacy... techcrunch.com/2025/09/24/n...

Man arrested in connection with airports cyber-attacks www.bbc.com/news/article...

BBC West Midlands Radio is devoting its entire breakfast show to reporting on the Jaguar Land rover cyber attack today. Incredible to hear about the enormous impact it's having on local people who rely on the plant for direct and indirect employment. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

EU cyber agency says airport software held to ransom by criminals. ENISA says criminals are using ransomware to cause chaos in airports around the world. The BBC has seen internal crisis communications from staff inside Heathrow Airport. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just finished Supremacy by Parmy Olson - definitely lives up to the hype. A brilliant look at how the bitter rivalry between otherwise gentle characters Sam Altman and Demis Hassabis has led to the future of AI being in the hands of the incumbent tech giants

Cyber-attack causes delays at Heathrow and other European airports. Latest lines here in our updating story. I'll be on the newschannel imminently talking about what we know. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Top Fortnite streamer Ninja tells me: Trolls mock me for being less popular. "I'm the only streamer who was pulling 100k viewers consistently, but now I get like 7/8k. It's something the trolls remind me of every day. The last couple of years have been rough." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BREAKING: Two teenagers charged over 'Scattered Spider' Transport for London cyber attack. About to appear in court for first time. I'm here for BBC so follow the story for updates: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Note to self - make sure my next book has f**k in the title.

What is a scroad? A scroad is a member of a far-right online hate group. They split off from the groinks in 2017 after the Glunt War, which took place on fapchan. One of their members is a U.S. senator

Another twist in the story of Vastaamo/ Julius Kivimaki - the focus of my book. Prosecutors always said that Kivimaki was 'working alone or with others'. Perhaps this American is the 'others'. I had only just squeezed in some updates for the US edition of the book a few days ago 😨

Gucci, Balenciaga and Alexander McQueen private data ransomed by hackers. The stolen data includes names, email addresses, phone numbers, addresses and the total amount spent in the luxury stores around the world. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Exclusive: Children hacking their own schools for 'fun', watchdog warns. "What starts out as a dare can lead to children taking part in damaging attacks on organisations." Comes amid a spate of high profile cyber-attacks in which teenage hackers are implicated www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This looks good but I would strongly recommend reading @joetidy.bsky.social book “CTRL ALT Chaos” I read it over the summer break and it is excellent. Even for an old experienced curmudgeon like me I found some nuggets and great insights in it

Just watched the first ep of HBO's new documentary series 'Most Wanted Teen Hacker' which I was interviewed for last year. It covers a lot of the same ground as my book. All about Julius Kivimaki and the rise of the sinister teenage hacking subculture. Good so far! www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0CH...

The Telegram group of (probably) kids who’ve been hacking companies like Jaguar Land Rover and then bragging about it has closed down - this time they did it. 52k people have been following this small gang of nihilistic criminals. One of them/ a fan even got a tattoo of the group…

Vid summary of our story today - It's taken three years to recover from China hack, UK election watchdog says. Full story here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tube strike in London today has brought out legions of cyclists. Great to see it!

Exclusive: The UK's elections watchdog says it's taken three years and at least a quarter of a million pounds to fully recover from a hack that saw the private details of 40m voters accessed by Chinese cyber spies. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Just finished the brilliant bonus episode of the Lazarus Heist podcast all about the $1.5bn ByBit hack. I covered the attack when it happened earlier this year and was looking forward to @geoffwhite247.bsky.social and team's deep dive take on it. It did not disappoint! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

NEW: M&S hackers claim to be behind Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack. "Where is my new car, Land Rover," the hackers - who are thought to be teens - posted to taunt the company. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This cookies pop up made me laugh out loud. 'We value your privacy'..... along with our 1650 partners!!

Ctrl+Alt+Chaos by BBC cyber correspondent @joetidy.bsky.social has been chosen by @nature.com for their round-up of the best science picks! www.nature.com/articles/d41... #CtrlAltChaos #Technology #hacker #hackers #CyberSecurity #NonFiction

Thanks to @nature.com for choosing my cyber crime book Ctrl+Alt+Chaos as the top pick of their best new science books! 🙌🏻🙏🏻 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

For this week's TechDecoded I wrote about the "unprecedented corporate accumulation" of bitcoin taking place. Apparently nearly 200 firms are now building bitcoin reserves. Got me thinking: How would Satoshi feel about Bitcoin now? Sign up to the newsletter here: cloud.email.bbc.com/techdecoded-...

AI crawlers and fetchers are blowing up websites, with Meta and OpenAI the worst offenders. New research from Fastly follows what Cloudflare said earlier this month. Seems inevitable that something has to give. www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/a...

First Member of Scattered Spider is Sentenced to 10 Years. Police have made multiple arrests in connection to the group. Noah Urban, 20, is the first to be sentenced. Urban was arrested in central Florida as a teenager in January 2024 and has been in jail since. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

“This thing doesn’t make a sound. It doesn’t send alerts - she will never know it’s there.” This is great story from 404 Media - TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers. Another example of a giant tech platform failing in its moderation duties. www.404media.co/tiktok-shop-...

HBO has made a documentary series about Julius Kivimaki and the Vastaamo hack (along similar lines to my book). They came to interview me for it last year and it looks good. But also - hilarious that the producers felt they needed to photoshop a hoody onto Kivimaki to prove he is a hacker! 😂

In the last 3 months I've been invited to a paid trip to Vegas as well as VIP nights at Oasis and Coldplay. I politely declined as we have strict ethics rules about this stuff. Yes- this is virtue signalling post! But people think journos are scumbags, so we need to signal some virtues now and then!

So unrofessional when people don't proof read their emails...

Good news here from Databarracks - number of UK businesses which are paying hacker ransoms is plunging. Only a small survey sample (500 respondents) but a good sign. datahealthcheck.databarracks.com/2025/

'Cryptocrash king' Do Kwon pleads guilty to fraud. The Terra Luna crash of 2022 wiped off about $40bn from investors. Now Do Kwon has plead guilty. But interesting to see which part they got him on: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A SUPERB piece about what the GPT-5 release tells us about the state of the chatbot hype cycle and Sam Altman. "In some ways, the AI hype cycle has to be out of hand...There is so, so, so much money at stake." From @mathonan.com www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/11/1...

Has there ever been a bigger bubble than the 2022 NFT bubble? This is Google Trends graph. Blimey.

For the last few days many of us in the cyber world have been eavesdropping on a chaotic Telegram channel called ScatteredLapsusHuntersTheComHQ. Clearly a jokey name alamagamating various teen hacking groups to troll people/ researchers/ the media.

One of the best things about publishing my book has been readers in the cyber community and beyond sending me their holiday pics with the book! Thanks to all those who have bought it, read it and sent me a lovely pic of 'cybercrime on the sun lounger!'

In one article - the pros and cons of facial recognition laid out so distinctly. The tech is getting better and making a difference: 'Since January 2025, there had been 457 arrests and seven false alerts.' But it is also badly affecting a small number of people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I was presenting this week's episode of Tech Life on the BBC World Service - What happened to DeepSeek? @lilyjamali.bsky.social reports - AI2027: Is this how AI might destroy humanity? @joetidy.bsky.social reports - Alasdair Keane interviews Volvo’s tech lead 📻 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes. From The Verge www.theverge.com/report/71897...

Perplexity accused of scraping websites that explicitly blocked AI scraping. Cloudflare says it observed the AI startup ignore blocks and hide its crawling and scraping activities. I have also seen evidence of this from another firm recently. techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/p...

Every time I use qTox chat I marvel at the logo. Is it the cleanest, smartest logo ever created? Shame it's wasted on cyber criminals who seem to be the only people that use the software!

AI2027: Is this how AI might destroy humanity? Ever since I read the AI2027 prediction I’ve not stopped thinking about it and it’s become more prescient. So, as an experiment, I made this video illustrating the scenario using text > video AI tools.(A first for BBC News!) youtu.be/1UufaK3pQMg?...

I try not to let myself cry at news stories but this is one of the saddest and most tragic things I have ever watched. From my colleague @stephaniehegarty.bsky.social and Woody Morris. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Minnesota governor calls in the troops after St Paul cyberattack. Governor Tim Walz has activated the state's National Guard and declared a state of emergency in response to a cyberattack on the city of Saint Paul. This could be a first in cyber? www.theregister.com/2025/07/30/m...

Someone has created a website that allows you to create a spoof Drivers' Licence of your local MP to fool age verification on adult sites. The irony is that the site asks you for your postcode and is flagged up by my browser and intranet as potentially unsafe/ able to steal personal data.

Remarkable moment here. Sky News reporter @jamesmatthewsky.bsky.social booed and jeered for asking Trump a perfectly legit and important question about Gaza. Seems like people have forgotten Trump is the President of the US and not a pro-am golfer