Ransomware Attacks Are Getting Worse

Plus: US lawmakers have nothing to say about an Israeli influence campaign aimed at US voters, a former LA Dodgers owner wants to fix the internet, and more...

US Leaders Dodge Questions About Israel’s Influence Campaign

Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries has joined US intelligence officials in ignoring repeated inquiries about Israel’s “malign” efforts to covertly influence US voters...

Fog Ransomware Targets US Sectors Via Compromised VPN Credentials

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Espionage with a Drone

The US is using a World War II law that bans aircraft photography of military installations to charge someone with doing the same thing with a drone...

The Age of the Drone Police Is Here

A WIRED investigation, based on more than 22 million flight coordinates, reveals the complicated truth about the first full-blown police drone program in the US—and why your city could be next...

A US Company Enabled a North Korean Scam That Raised Money for WMDs

Wyoming’s secretary of state has proposed ways of “preventing fraud and abuse of corporate filings by commercial registered agents” in the aftermath of the scheme’s exposure...

US residents targeted by utility scammers on Google

Back in February, we reported on malicious ads related to utility bills electricity, gas that direct victims to call centers where scammers will collect their identity and try to extort money from them. A few months later, we checked and were able to find as many Google ads as before, following...

Debt collection agency FBCS leaks information of 3 million US citizens

The US debt collection agency Financial Business and Consumer Solutions FBCS has filed a data breach notification, listing the the total number of people affected as 3,226,631. FBCS is a nationally licensed, third-party collection agency that collects commercial and consumer debts, with most of i...

How Donald Trump Could Weaponize US Surveillance in a Second Term

Donald Trump has vowed to go after political enemies, undocumented immigrants, and others if he wins. Experts warn he could easily turn the surveillance state against his targets...

The Unusual Espionage Act Case Against a Drone Photographer

In seemingly the first case of its kind, the US Justice Department has charged a Chinese national with using a drone to photograph a Virginia shipyard where the US Navy was assembling nuclear submarines...

Microsoft’s New Recall AI Tool May Be a ‘Privacy Nightmare’

Plus: US surveillance reportedly targets pro-Palestinian protesters, the FBI arrests a man for AI-generated CSAM, and stalkerware targets hotel computers...

WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Can Appeal His Extradition to the US, British Court Says

Two judges in London have ruled that WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange can appeal his extradition to the US on freedom of speech grounds...

SugarGh0st RAT Infiltrates US AI Sector

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US Official Warns a Cell Network Flaw Is Being Exploited for Spying

Plus: Three arrested in North Korean IT workers fraud ring, Tesla staffers shared videos from owners’ cars, and more...

Secrecy Concerns Mount Over Spy Powers Targeting US Data Centers

A coalition of digital rights groups is demanding the US declassify records that would clarify just how expansive a major surveillance program really is...

Uniform Server Zero 安全漏洞

Uniform Server Zero is a free and lightweight WAMP server solution for Windows from the Uniform Server team. A security vulnerability exists in Uniform Server Zero version 10.2.5, which stems from a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the /usextra/phpinfo.php page...

us-satellite.net Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3927591

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

Microsoft Deploys Generative AI for US Spies

Plus: China is suspected in a hack targeting the UK’s military, the US Marines are testing gun-toting robotic dogs, and Dell suffers a data breach impacting 49 million customers...

Top FBI Official Urges Agents to Use Warrantless Wiretaps on US Soil

An internal email from FBI deputy director Paul Abbate, obtained by WIRED, tells employees to search for “US persons” in a controversial spy program's database that investigators have repeatedly misused...

A (Strange) Interview With the Russian-Military-Linked Hackers Targeting US Water Utilities

Despite Cyber Army of Russia’s claims of swaying US “minds and hearts,” experts say the cyber sabotage group appears to be hyping its hacking for a domestic audience...