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Coder-Turned-Kingpin Paul Le Roux Gets His Comeuppance
The programmer who became a flagrant drug lord and weapons trafficker was sentenced in New York City to 25 years in prison...
How Microsoft Dismantled the Infamous Necurs Botnet
A years-long investigation and global cooperation disrupted one of the biggest botnets ever...
Turn Off Siri on Your Lock Screen for Better iOS Security
Every new version of iOS seems to bring with it a fresh lock screen bypass. Head the next one off by shushing Siri on your lock screen...
Feds Charge NSA Contractor Accused of Exposing Russian Hacking
The arrest of an alleged source of a classified leak to the Intercept offers a lesson in the risks of spilling secrets. The post Feds Charge NSA Contractor Accused of Exposing Russian Hacking appeared first on WIRED...
Cybercrime Crew Claims It Hacked Mike Lindell’s MyPillow
Plus: A ransomware group is now stealing data in person, BusPatrol wants to hand its license plate surveillance data to the cops, and more...
Cops in Germany Claim They’ve ID’d the Mysterious Trickbot Ransomware Kingpin
The elusive boss of the Trickbot and Conti cybercriminal groups has been known only as “Stern.” Now, German law enforcement has published his alleged identity—and it’s a familiar face...
US Customs and Border Protection Quietly Revokes Protections for Pregnant Women and Infants
CBP’s acting commissioner has rescinded four Biden-era policies that aimed to protect vulnerable people in the agency’s custody, including mothers, infants, and the elderly...
Florida Man Enters the Encryption Wars
Plus: A US judge rules against police cell phone “tower dumps,” China names alleged NSA agents it says were involved in cyberattacks, and Customs and Border Protection reveals its social media spying tools...
1 Million Third-Party Android Devices Have a Secret Backdoor for Scammers
New research shows at least a million inexpensive Android devices—from TV streaming boxes to car infotainment systems—are compromised to allow bad actors to commit ad fraud and other cybercrime...
You Need to Create a Secret Password With Your Family
AI voice cloning and deepfakes are supercharging scams. One method to protect your loved ones and yourself is to create secret code words to verify someone’s identity in real time...
The NSA Has a Podcast—Here's How to Decode It
The spy agency that dared not speak its name is now the Joe Rogan of the SIGINT set. And the pod's actually worth a listen...
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...
The Real-Time Deepfake Romance Scams Have Arrived
Watch how smooth-talking scammers known as “Yahoo Boys” use widely available face-swapping tech to carry out elaborate romance scams...
Yogurt Heist Reveals a Rampant Form of Online Fraud
Plus: “MFA bombing” attacks target Apple users, Israel deploys face recognition tech on Gazans, AI gets trained to spot tent encampments, and OSINT investigators find fugitive Amond Bundy...
US School Shooter Emergency Plans Exposed in a Highly Sensitive Database Leak
More than 4 million school records, including safety procedures, student medical files, and court documents, were also publicly accessible online...
The New Era of Social Media Looks as Bad for Privacy as the Last One
The slow-motion implosion of Elon Musk’s X has given rise to a slew of competitors, where privacy invasions that ran rampant over the past decade still largely persist...
The Hamas Threat of Hostage Execution Videos Looms Large Over Social Media
Hamas has threatened to broadcast videos of hostage executions. With the war between Israel and Hamas poised to enter a new phase, are social platforms ready?...
Citing Hamas, the US Wants to Treat Crypto "Mixers" as Suspected Money Launderers
With a new emphasis on the Hamas attacks on Israel, the US Treasury has proposed designating foreign cryptocurrency “mixer” services as money launderers and national security threats...
Who’s Responsible for the Gaza Hospital Explosion? Here’s Why It’s Hard to Know What’s Real
A flood of false information, partisan narratives, and weaponized “fact-checking" has obscured efforts to find out who’s responsible for an explosion at a hospital in Gaza...
The US Congress Was Targeted With Predator Spyware
Plus: Hamas raised millions in crypto, Exxon used hacked data, and more...
Your Cheap Android TV Streaming Box May Have a Dangerous Backdoor
New research has found that some streaming devices and dozens of Android and iOS apps are secretly being used for fraud and other cybercrime...
Risk of a US Government Shutdown Is Fueled by Very Online Republicans
Egged on by a far-reaching conservative media ecosystem, right-wing hardliners are forcing Washington to bend to their reality as the federal government careens toward a possible shutdown...
Massive MGM and Caesars Hacks Epitomize a Vicious Ransomware Cycle
Cyberattacks on casinos grab attention, but a steady stream of less publicized attacks leave vulnerable victims struggling to recover...
Top US Spies Meet With Privacy Experts Over Surveillance 'Crown Jewel'
Civil rights groups say efforts to get US intelligence agencies to adopt privacy reforms have largely failed. Without those changes, renewal of a post-911 surveillance policy may be doomed...
The Last Hour Before Yevgeny Prigozhin's Plane Crash
Russia tightly controls its information space—making it hard to get accurate information out of the country. But open source data provides some clues about the crash...
NSA Cybersecurity Director Says ‘Buckle Up’ for Generative AI
The security issues raised by ChatGPT and similar tech are just beginning to emerge, but Rob Joyce says it’s time to prepare for what comes next...
LinkedIn Verification Now Lets You Verify Your Job and Account
To beat back fake accounts, the professional social network is rolling out new tools to prove you work where you say you do and are who you say you are...
Online Sleuths Untangle the Mystery of the Nord Stream Sabotage
Open source intelligence researchers are verifying and debunking opaque claims about who ruptured the gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea...
I Got Investigated by the Secret Service. Here's How to Not Be Me
Don't drink and tweet...
The World’s Real ‘Cybercrime’ Problem
From US state laws to the international stage, definitions of “cybercrime” remain vague, broad, and increasingly entrenched in our legal systems...
What to Do When Your Boss Is Spying on You
Employee monitoring increased with Covid-19’s remote work—and stuck around for back-to-the-office...
A New Kind of Bug Spells Trouble for iOS and macOS Security
Security researchers found a class of flaws that, if exploited, would allow an attacker to access people’s messages, photos, and call history...
A Link to News Site Meduza Can (Technically) Land You in Russian Prison
Plus: Hive ransomware gang gets knocked offline, FBI confirms North Korea stole $100 million, and more...
A Sneaky Ad Scam Tore Through 11 Million Phones
Some 1,700 spoofed apps, 120 targeted publishers, 12 billion false ad requests per day—Vastflux is one of the biggest ad frauds ever discovered...
What Is a Pig Butchering Scam?
This type of devastating scheme ensnares victims and takes them for all they’re worth—and the threat is only growing...
Everyone Is Using Google Photos Wrong
Ever-expanding cloud storage presents more risks than you might think...
Popular HR and Payroll Company Sequoia Discloses a Data Breach
The company, which works with hundreds of startups, said it detected unauthorized access to personal data, including Social Security numbers...
A US Propaganda Operation Hit Russia and China With Memes
Plus: An Iranian hacking tool steals inboxes, LastPass gets hacked, and a deepfake scammer targets the crypto world...
Janet Jackson’s ‘Rhythm Nation’ Can Crash Old Hard Drives
Plus: The Twilio hack snags a reporter, a new tool to check for spyware, and the Canadian weed pipeline gets hit by a cyberattack...
GitHub Moves to Guard Open Source Against Supply Chain Attacks
The popular Microsoft-owned code repository plans to roll out code signing, which will help beef up the security of open source projects...
All the Data Amazon's Ring Cameras Collect About You
The popular security devices are tracking and sharing more than you might think...
An Attack on Albanian Government Suggests New Iranian Aggression
A Tehran-linked hack of a NATO member marks a significant escalation against the backdrop of US-Iran nuclear talks...
You Need to Update iOS, Chrome, Windows, and Zoom ASAP
Plus: Google patches 36 Android vulnerabilities, Cisco fixes three high-severity issues, and VMWare closes two “serious” flaws...
Spyware Vendors Target Android With Zero-Day Exploits
New research from Google's Threat Analysis Group outlines the risks Android users face from the surveillance-for-hire industry...
Ukraine’s Digital Battle With Russia Isn’t Going as Expected
Even the head of the country's online offensive is surprised by the successes—although they’re not without controversy...
Meta Tries to Break the End-to-End Encryption Deadlock
A new report commissioned by Meta aims to redefine comprehensive encryption as essential to protecting human rights...
The Last Cell Tower in Mariupol
For weeks, a lone mobile base station allowed thousands in the besieged Ukrainian city to stay connected—until Russian troops arrived...
What's the Deal With Anti-Cheat Software in Online Games?
Cheat deterrents like kernel drivers are raising legitimate privacy concerns. But it's not all bad news...
Apple’s Private Relay Roils Telecoms Around the World
Security experts say there's little reason for the criticism from Europe’s mobile operators and US limitations over the VPN-like iCloud tool...
Meta Ousts 7 Surveillance-for-Hire Operations From Its Platforms
While NSO Group gets most of the attention, the takedowns underscore how insidious the industry has become...