{"id":14502,"date":"2026-07-23T02:03:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/smashing-security-podcast-477-how-14-orders-of-chicken-mcnuggets-helped-nail-a-suspected-russian-hacker\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T02:03:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:03:49","slug":"smashing-security-podcast-477-how-14-orders-of-chicken-mcnuggets-helped-nail-a-suspected-russian-hacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/smashing-security-podcast-477-how-14-orders-of-chicken-mcnuggets-helped-nail-a-suspected-russian-hacker\/","title":{"rendered":"Smashing Security podcast #477: How 14 orders of chicken McNuggets helped nail a suspected Russian hacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Smashing Security podcast #477: How 14 orders of chicken McNuggets helped nail a suspected Russian hacker<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A Russian intelligence-linked hacker is arrested in Thailand while enjoying a beach holiday &#8211; and the trail of evidence that nailed him to the Russian government includes 14 separate orders of chicken McNuggets.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, AI music generator Suno has been hacked &#8211; and the stolen data appears to show exactly how much copyrighted music they hoovered up to train their models.<\/p>\n<p>All this and more in episode 477 of the &#8220;Smashing Security&#8221; podcast with cybersecurity expert and keynote speaker Graham Cluley, and special guest James Ball.<\/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-477\/\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smashing Security podcast #477: How 14 orders of chicken McNuggets helped nail a suspected Russian hacker A Russian intelligence-linked hacker is arrested in Thailand while enjoying a beach holiday &#8211; and the trail of evidence that nailed him to the Russian government includes 14 separate orders of chicken McNuggets. Meanwhile, AI music generator Suno has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,156,154,54,164,1582,2228,166,317,175,2606],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-14502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-data-breach","category-data-loss","category-grahamcluley","category-law-order","category-mcdonalds","category-osint","category-podcast","category-russia","category-smashing-security","category-suno","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14502"}],"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=14502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}