{"id":7528,"date":"2025-10-09T02:05:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T02:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/smashing-security-podcast-438-when-your-mouse-turns-snitch-and-hackers-grow-a-conscience\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T02:05:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T02:05:35","slug":"smashing-security-podcast-438-when-your-mouse-turns-snitch-and-hackers-grow-a-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/smashing-security-podcast-438-when-your-mouse-turns-snitch-and-hackers-grow-a-conscience\/","title":{"rendered":"Smashing Security podcast #438: When your mouse turns snitch, and hackers grow a conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"

Smashing Security podcast #438: When your mouse turns snitch, and hackers grow a conscience
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Your computer’s mouse might not be as innocent as it looks – and one ransomware crew has a crisis of conscience that nobody saw coming.<\/p>\n

We talk about how something as ordinary as a web page could turn your mouse into a surprisingly nosey neighbour, and why ransomware gangs need to think carefully about their reputation.<\/p>\n

All this and more is discussed in episode 436 of the “Smashing Security” podcast with cybersecurity veteran Graham Cluley, and his special guest Geoff White.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Smashing Security podcast #438: When your mouse turns snitch, and hackers grow a conscience Your computer’s mouse might not be as innocent as it looks – and one ransomware crew has a crisis of conscience that nobody saw coming. We talk about how something as ordinary as a web page could turn your mouse into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,154,54,258,1898,166,83,231,175,85,131],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-7528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-breach","category-data-loss","category-grahamcluley","category-malware","category-mouse","category-podcast","category-privacy","category-ransomware","category-smashing-security","category-surveillance","category-vulnerability","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7528"}],"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=7528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}