{"id":10221,"date":"2026-01-29T02:03:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/smashing-security-podcast-452-the-dark-webs-worst-assassins-and-pegasus-in-the-dock\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T02:03:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:03:40","slug":"smashing-security-podcast-452-the-dark-webs-worst-assassins-and-pegasus-in-the-dock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/smashing-security-podcast-452-the-dark-webs-worst-assassins-and-pegasus-in-the-dock\/","title":{"rendered":"Smashing Security podcast #452: The dark web\u2019s worst assassins, and Pegasus in the dock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Smashing Security podcast #452: The dark web\u2019s worst assassins, and Pegasus in the dock<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>In episode 452, a London-based YouTuber wins a landmark court case against Saudi Arabia after his phone was hacked with Pegasus spyware \u2014 exposing how a single, seemingly harmless text message can turn a smartphone into a round-the-clock surveillance device.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, we go looking for professional hitmen online &#8211; only to uncover uncomfortable questions about why some crimes attract customers but very few complaints.<\/p>\n<p>All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the &#8220;Smashing Security&#8221; podcast by cybersecurity veteran Graham Cluley, joined this week by special guest Joe Tidy.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/grahamcluley.com\/smashing-security-podcast-452\/\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smashing Security podcast #452: The dark web\u2019s worst assassins, and Pegasus in the dock In episode 452, a London-based YouTuber wins a landmark court case against Saudi Arabia after his phone was hacked with Pegasus spyware \u2014 exposing how a single, seemingly harmless text message can turn a smartphone into a round-the-clock surveillance device. Plus, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,277,164,258,2256,2257,166,83,313,175,131],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-10221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grahamcluley","category-ios","category-law-order","category-malware","category-nso-group","category-pegasus","category-podcast","category-privacy","category-scam","category-smashing-security","category-vulnerability","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}