{"id":14157,"date":"2026-07-09T02:03:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T02:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/smashing-security-podcast-475-jadepuffer-the-ai-that-ran-a-ransomware-attack-all-by-itself\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T02:03:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T02:03:24","slug":"smashing-security-podcast-475-jadepuffer-the-ai-that-ran-a-ransomware-attack-all-by-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/smashing-security-podcast-475-jadepuffer-the-ai-that-ran-a-ransomware-attack-all-by-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"Smashing Security podcast #475: JadePuffer \u2013 the AI that ran a ransomware attack all by itself"},"content":{"rendered":"

Smashing Security podcast #475: JadePuffer \u2013 the AI that ran a ransomware attack all by itself
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A 15-year-old boy asked a chatbot for help – and cancelled nearly 47,000 anime streaming subscriptions in under four hours. Meanwhile, researchers have documented the first fully autonomous, agentic AI-driven ransomware attack, “JadePuffer”. What does this tell us about the future of cybersecurity?<\/p>\n

Also, Apple’s “Hide My Email” feature turns out to hide rather less than it promises – despite Apple knowing it has a problem for over a year.<\/p>\n

All this and more in this episode of the “Smashing Security” podcast with cybersecurity expert and keynote speaker Graham Cluley, and special guest Zo\u00eb Rose.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Smashing Security podcast #475: JadePuffer \u2013 the AI that ran a ransomware attack all by itself A 15-year-old boy asked a chatbot for help – and cancelled nearly 47,000 anime streaming subscriptions in under four hours. Meanwhile, researchers have documented the first fully autonomous, agentic AI-driven ransomware attack, “JadePuffer”. What does this tell us about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,276,162,54,2553,258,166,83,231,175],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-14157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-apple","category-chatgpt","category-grahamcluley","category-hide-my-email","category-malware","category-podcast","category-privacy","category-ransomware","category-smashing-security","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14157"}],"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=14157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}