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TikTok Hack Targets ‘High-Profile’ Users via DMs
TikTok has confirmed a “potential exploit” that is being used to go after accounts belonging to media organizations and celebrities, including CNN and Paris Hilton, through direct messages...
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 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...
US Senate to Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call ‘Stasi-Like’
A controversial bill reauthorizing the Section 702 spy program may force whole new categories of businesses to eavesdrop on the US government’s behalf, including on fellow Americans...
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.”...
The Privacy Danger Lurking in Push Notifications
Plus: Apple warns about sideloading apps, a court orders NSO group to turn over the code of its Pegasus spyware, and an investigation finds widely available security cams are wildly insecure...
The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2023
From Sam Altman and Elon Musk to ransomware gangs and state-backed hackers, these are the individuals and groups that spent this year disrupting the world we know it...
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...
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...
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...
Predictive Policing Software Terrible at Predicting Crimes
A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1 percent of the time...
The Shocking Data on Kia and Hyundai Thefts in the US
Plus: MGM hackers hit more than just casinos, Microsoft researchers accidentally leak terabytes of data, and China goes on the PR offensive over cyberespionage...
The Strange Afterlife of Wagner’s Yevgeny Prigozhin
Posts praising the Wagner Group boss following his death in a mysterious plane crash last month indicate he was still in control of his "troll farm," researchers claim...
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...
Hackers Rig Casino Card-Shuffling Machines for ‘Full Control’ Cheating
Security researchers accessed an internal camera inside the Deckmate 2 shuffler to learn the exact deck order—and the hand of every player at a poker table...
A Clever Honeypot Tricked Hackers Into Revealing Their Secrets
Security researchers set up a remote machine and recorded every move cybercriminals made—including their login details...
The Bold Plan to Create Cyber 311 Hotlines
UT-Austin will join a growing movement to launch cybersecurity clinics for cities and small businesses that often fall through the cracks...
Cops Just Revealed a Record-Breaking Dark Web Dragnet
Operation SpecTor likely drew on leads from multiple dark web market busts, including the secret takedown of Monopoly Market in 2021...
SolarWinds: The Untold Story of the Boldest Supply-Chain Hack
The attackers were in thousands of corporate and government networks. They might still be there now. Behind the scenes of the SolarWinds investigation...
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...
This Is the New Leader of Russia's Infamous Sandworm Hacking Unit
Evgenii Serebriakov now runs the most aggressive hacking team of Russia’s GRU military spy agency. To Western intelligence, he’s a familiar face...
A Spy Wants to Connect With You on LinkedIn
Russia, North Korea, Iran, and China have been caught using fake profiles to gather information. But the platform’s tools to weed them out only go so far...
A Privacy Hero's Final Wish: An Institute to Redirect AI's Future
Peter Eckersley did groundbreaking work to encrypt the web. After his sudden death, a new organization he founded is carrying out his vision to steer artificial intelligence toward “human flourishing.”...
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...
The Chinese Spy Balloon Shows the Downsides of Spy Balloons
A popular military tool during the Cold War, spy balloons have since fallen out of favor—for good reason...
How to Encrypt any File, Folder, or Drive on Your System
Trust us, it’s safer this way...
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...
Update Android Right Now to Fix a Scary Remote-Execution Flaw
Plus: Patches for Apple iOS 16, Google Chrome, Windows 10, and more...
Log4j’s Log4Shell Vulnerability: One Year Later, It’s Still Lurking
Despite mitigation, one of the worst bugs in internet history is still prevalent—and being exploited...
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...
The Queen’s Funeral Sets Off the Biggest UK Police Operation Ever
Snipers on buildings. Drone no-fly zones. Temporary CCTV. The security plan is even more complex than it was for the London 2012 Olympics...
Why the Twilio Breach Cuts So Deep
The phishing attack on the SMS giant exposes the dangers of B2B companies to the entire tech ecosystem...
The Twitter Whistleblower Report’s Most Damning Allegation
Peiter “Mudge” Zatko’s claims about the company’s lax security are all bad. But one clearly captures the extent of systemic issues...
Inside the World’s Biggest Hacker Rickroll
As a graduation prank, four high school students hijacked 500 screens across six school buildings to troll their classmates and teachers...
A Long-Awaited IoT Reverse Engineering Tool Is Finally Here
Ten years after it was first unveiled, the powerful firmware analysis platform Ofrak is now available to anyone...
Bitcoin Fog Case Could Put Cryptocurrency Tracing on Trial
Roman Sterlingov, accused of laundering $336 million, is proclaiming his innocence—and challenging a key investigative tool...
Russia Is Quietly Ramping Up Its Internet Censorship Machine
Since Vladimir Putin blocked Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter in March, Russia has been pushing away from the global internet at a rapid pace...
How to Safely Lend Someone Else Your Phone
The next time someone wants to borrow your device to make a call or take a picture, take these steps to protect your privacy...
The January 6 Insurrection Hearings Are Just Heating Up
The US House committee has already uncovered a more organized and sinister plot than many imagined. But history suggests the worst may be yet to come...
Is Your New Car a Threat to National Security?
Putting sensor-packed Chinese cars on Western roads could be a privacy issue. Just ask Tesla...
How to Use Microsoft Defender on All Your Devices
If you use a mix of Apple, Android, and Windows gadgets, you're in luck: The security tool is now available to any Microsoft 365 subscriber...
How to Limit Who Can Contact You on Facebook
You don't want just anyone in your inbox. Here's how to take control...
Hunt for Lapsus$ Hackers Leads to a British Teen
Plus: New details emerge about Russian hacks and hackers as the US warns of potential new attacks...
The US Watches Warily for Russia-Ukraine Tensions to Spill Over
Conversations with more than a dozen senior cybersecurity leaders in both the public and private sector outline the major areas of risk...
Welcome to the Burner Phone Olympics
China’s Winter Games are overshadowed by human rights problems and overreaching state surveillance...