Robocalls: A Worldwide or US-Only Problem? Analyzing Spam and Fraud in International Phone Calls

Unsolicited automated phone calls robocalls are a serious threat: in the US alone, these calls resulted in reported losses of 1.1$ billion during 2025. Phishing and spoofing consistently rank among the most reported crimes within the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center, with phone call scams...

A Scan-Based Analysis of Internet-Exposed IoT Devices Using Shodan Data

An open measurement problem in IoT security is whether scan-observable network configurations encode population-level exposure risk beyond individual devices. An analysis of internet-exposed IoT endpoints using a controlled multi-country sample from Shodan Search and Shodan InternetDB, selecting...

Showmax: https://secure.showmax.com/profile/payments

As part of testing user credentials distribution the security researchers were awarded 3 different activation codes, each one granting them subscription for a different country. The researcher reported that it's possible to use a code for country "A" with account associated to country "B". Such...