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ICE Is Paying Palantir $30 Million to Build ‘ImmigrationOS’ Surveillance Platform
In a document published Thursday, ICE explained the functions that it expects Palantir to include in a prototype of a new program to give the agency “near real-time” data about people self-deporting...
Cybersecurity Professor Mysteriously Disappears as FBI Raids His Homes
Xiaofeng Wang, a longtime computer science professor at Indiana University, has disappeared along with his wife, and their profiles on the school's website were wiped ahead of recent FBI raids...
The Paper Passport Is Dying
Smartphones and face recognition are being combined to create new digital travel documents. The paper passport’s days are numbered—despite new privacy risks...
China’s Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side Hustle
Chinese black market operators are openly recruiting government agency insiders, paying them for access to surveillance data and then reselling it online—no questions asked...
Millions of People Are Using Abusive AI ‘Nudify’ Bots on Telegram
Bots that “remove clothes” from images have run rampant on the messaging app, allowing people to create nonconsensual deepfake images even as lawmakers and tech companies try to crack down...
Internet Archive Breach Exposes 31 Million Users
The hack exposed the data of 31 million users as the embattled Wayback Machine maker scrambles to stay online and contain the fallout of digital—and legal—attacks...
Russia’s Most Notorious Special Forces Unit Now Has Its Own Cyber Warfare Team
Unit 29155 of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency—a team responsible for coup attempts, assassinations, and bombings—has branched out into brazen hacking operations with targets across the world...
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...
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...
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...
‘TunnelVision’ Attack Leaves Nearly All VPNs Vulnerable to Spying
TunnelVision is an attack developed by researchers that can expose VPN traffic to snooping or tampering...
A New Surveillance Tool Invades Border Towns
Plus: An assassination plot, an AI security bill, a Project Nimbus revelation, and more of the week’s top security news...
The US Government Is Asking Big Tech to Promise Better Cybersecurity
The Biden administration is asking tech companies to sign a pledge, obtained by WIRED, to improve their digital security, including reduced default password use and improved vulnerability disclosures...
Meta Abandons Hacking Victims, Draining Law Enforcement Resources, Officials Say
A coalition of 41 state attorneys general says Meta is failing to assist Facebook and Instagram users whose accounts have been hacked—and they want the company to take “immediate action.”...
Notorious Spyware Maker NSO Group Is Quietly Plotting a Comeback
NSO Group, creator of the infamous Pegasus spyware, is spending millions on lobbying in Washington while taking advantage of the crisis in Gaza to paint itself as essential for global security...
The Bin Laden Letter Is Being Weaponized by the Far Right
Far-right influencers and right-wing lawmakers are using the spread of Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America” to call for a TikTok ban and boost decades old conspiracies...
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...
Your Boss’s Spyware Could Train AI to Replace You
Corporations are using software to monitor employees on a large scale. Some experts fear the data these tools collect could be used to automate people out of their jobs...
Facebook Trains Its AI on Your Data. Opting Out May Be Futile
Here's how to request that your personal information not be used to train Meta's AI model. "Request" is the operative word here...
The Comedy of Errors That Let China-Backed Hackers Steal Microsoft’s Signing Key
After leaving many questions unanswered, Microsoft explains in a new postmortem the series of slipups that allowed attackers to steal and abuse a valuable cryptographic key...
Apple's Decision to Kill Its CSAM Photo-Scanning Tool Sparks Fresh Controversy
Child safety group Heat Initiative plans to launch a campaign pressing Apple on child sexual abuse material scanning and user reporting. The company issued a rare, detailed response on Thursday...
This Tool Lets Hackers Dox Almost Anyone in the US
The US Secret Service’s relationship with the Oath Keepers gets revealed, Tornado Cash cofounders get indicted, and a UK court says a teen is behind a Lapsus$ hacking spree...
The Most Popular Digital Abortion Clinics, Ranked by Data Privacy
Telehealth companies that provide abortion pills are surging in popularity. Which are as safe as they claim to be?...
How to Automatically Delete Passcode Texts on Android and iOS
Here’s one simple way to reduce your security risk while logging in...
Meta Moves to Counter New Malware and Repeat Account Takeovers
The company is adding new tools as bad actors use ChatGPT-themed lures and mask their infrastructure in an attempt to trick victims and elude defenders...
American College of Pediatricians Leak Exposes 10,000 Confidential Files
A Google Drive left public on the American College of Pediatricians’ website exposed detailed financial records, sensitive member details, and more...
Intel Let Google Cloud Hack Its New Secure Chips and Found 10 Bugs
To protect its Confidential Computing cloud infrastructure and gain critical insights, Google leans on its relationships with chipmakers...
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...
A Tiny Blog Took on Big Surveillance in China—and Won
Digging through manuals for security cameras, a group of gearheads found sinister details and ignited a new battle in the US-China tech war...
Microsoft's ‘Security Copilot’ Sics ChatGPT on Security Breaches
The new tool aims to deliver the network insights and coordination that “AI” security systems have long promised...
Security News This Week: Ring Is in a Standoff With Hackers
Plus: A SpaceX supplier ransom, critical vulnerabilities in dozens of Android phones, and more...
Batteries Are Ukraine’s Secret Weapon Against Russia
With Russia regularly knocking out Ukraine’s power grid, the country has turned to high-capacity batteries to keep it connected to the world—and itself...
How the US Can Stop Data Brokers' Worst Practices—Right Now
Legal experts say a key law should already prevent brokers from collecting and selling data that’s weaponized against vulnerable people...
A Siemens S7-1500 Logic Controller Flaw Raises the Specter of Stuxnet
More than 120 models of Siemens' S7-1500 PLCs contain a serious vulnerability—and no fix is on the way...
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...
Attackers Keep Targeting the US Electric Grid
Plus: Chinese hackers stealing US Covid relief funds, a cyberattack on the Met Opera website, and more...
Scammers Are Scamming Other Scammers Out of Millions of Dollars
On cybercrime forums, user complaints about being duped may accidentally expose their real identities...
China’s Police State Targets Zero-Covid Protesters
Plus: ICE accidentally doxes asylum seekers, Google fails to uphold a post-Roe promise, and LastPass suffers the second breach this year...
A Peek Inside the FBI's Unprecedented January 6 Geofence Dragnet
Google provided investigators with location data for more than 5,000 devices as part of the federal investigation into the attack on the US Capitol...
Apple MacOS Ventura Bug Breaks Third-Party Security Tools
Your anti-malware software may not work if you upgraded to the new operating system. But Apple says a fix is on the way...
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...
Bitcoin Fog Case Could Put Cryptocurrency Tracing on Trial
Roman Sterlingov, accused of laundering $336 million, is proclaiming his innocence—and challenging a key investigative tool...
‘Supercookies’ Have Privacy Experts Sounding the Alarm
A German ad-tech trial features what Vodafone calls “digital tokens.” Should you be worried?...
Russia Is Taking Over Ukraine’s Internet
In occupied Ukraine, people’s internet is being routed to Russia—and subjected to its powerful censorship and surveillance machine...
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...