Friday Squid Blog: The Market for Squid Oil Is Growing

How did I not know before now that there was a market for squid oil? The squid oil market has experienced robust growth in recent years, expanding from $4.56 billion in 2023 to $4.94 billion in 2024 at a compound annual growth rate CAGR of 8.5%. The growth in the historic period can be attributed...

On the Zero-Day Market

New paper: "Zero Progress on Zero Days: How the Last Ten Years Created the Modern Spyware Market": Abstract: Spyware makes surveillance simple. The last ten years have seen a global market emerge for ready-made software that lets governments surveil their citizens and foreign adversaries alike an...

Friday Squid Blogging: 2023 Squid Oil Global Market Report

I had no idea that squid contain sufficient oil to be worth extracting. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Pro-China Group Uses Dragonbridge Campaign to Target Rare Earth Mining Companies

A pro-China influence campaign singled out rare earth mining companies in Australia, Canada, and the U.S. with negative messaging in an unsuccessful attempt to manipulate public discourse to China's benefit. Targeted firms included Australia's Lynas Rare Earths Ltd, Canada's Appia Rare Earths &...

Android Zero-Days Now Worth More Than iPhone Exploits

An Android zero-day exploit is now worth more than one for the iPhone on the global cyberweapons market. Exploit acquisition vendor Zerodium said Tuesday that it is willing to pay a whopping $2.5 million for a zero-click Android zero-day with persistence. That number significantly increases the...

Creating a Cyber Insurance Policy

According to research from PartnerRe and Advisen, the global cyber-insurance market is currently worth $2 billion a year, a number which is expected to double by 2020.With 60% of underwriters and brokers seeing a significant demand in cyber-insurance from customers, there is clearly a great...

Online Poker Rooms Fraught With Vulnerabilities

In the lucrative world of online gambling, many poker rooms – especially those that rely on the user to download a client to play – are marred by insecurities. A recent study conducted by a pair of researchers suggests a number of online gaming companies whose poker clients rely on “skins,” aren’...

Mikko Hypponen : Fight cybercrime, but keep the net free

Mikko Hypponen : Fight cybercrime, but keep the net free Mikko Hypponen is an expert on cybercrime and chief research officer at F-Secure Corporation in Helsinki, Finland. TED is a nonprofit organization dedicated to "Ideas worth spreading," which it distributes on its website. In the real world,...