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Intensified Israeli Surveillance Has Put the West Bank on Lockdown
The West Bank was Israel’s surveillance laboratory. Since the Israel-Hamas war began, Palestinian residents have been locked in for days at a time...
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...
They Supported Air Strike Victims. Then They Were Doxed and Arrested
Myanmar’s military junta is increasing surveillance and violating basic human rights. The combination of physical and digital surveillance is reaching dangerous new levels...
Inside FTX’s All-Night Race to Stop a $1 Billion Crypto Heist
The same chaotic day FTX declared bankruptcy, someone began stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from its coffers. A WIRED investigation reveals the company’s “very crazy night” trying to stop them...
White Supremacist Active Clubs Are Breeding on Telegram
A “friendlier” front for racist extremism has spread rapidly across the US in recent months, as active club channels network on Telegram's encrypted messaging app...
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...
Chinese Spies Infected Dozens of Networks With Thumb Drive Malware
Security researchers found USB-based Sogu espionage malware spreading within African operations of European and US firms...
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...
TETRA Radio Code Encryption Has a Flaw: A Backdoor
A secret encryption cipher baked into radio systems used by critical infrastructure workers, police, and others around the world is finally seeing sunlight. Researchers say it isn’t pretty...
Hacks Against Ukraine's Emergency Response Services Rise During Bombings
Data from Cloudflare's free digital defense service, Project Galileo, illuminates new links between online and offline attacks...
How To Delete Your Data From ChatGPT
OpenAI has new tools that give you more control over your information—although they may not go far enough...
SafeGraph Lands US Air Force Contract After Targeting Abortion Clinics
Documents obtained by WIRED show SafeGraph, which sold location data related to Planned Parenthood visits, is now pursuing contracts with the US Air Force...
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...
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...
The Hacking of ChatGPT Is Just Getting Started
Security researchers are jailbreaking large language models to get around safety rules. Things could get much worse...
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...
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...
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...
AI-Generated Voice Deepfakes Aren’t Scary Good—Yet
The threat of scammers using voice deepfakes in their cons is real, but researchers say old-school voice-impersonation attacks are still the more pressing concern...
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...
The US Air Force Is Moving Fast on AI-Piloted Fighter Jets
After successful autonomous flight tests in December, the military is ramping up its plans to bring artificial intelligence to the skies...
All the Data Apple Collects About You—and How to Limit It
Cupertino puts privacy first in a lot of its products. But the company still gathers a bunch of your information...
Russian Ransomware Gang Attack Destabilizes UK Royal Mail
Plus: Joe Biden’s classified-documents scandal, the end of security support for Windows 7, and more...
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...
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...
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...
Ukraine’s Cyberwar Chief Sounds Like He’s Winning
Yurii Shchyhol gives WIRED a rare interview about running the country’s Derzhspetszviazok and the state of the online conflict with Russia...
This Anti-Tracking Tool Checks If You’re Being Followed
The Raspberry Pi-powered device can scan for phones around you. If it keeps spotting the same one, it’ll send you an alert...
Google's Android Red Team Had a Full Pixel 6 Pwn Before Launch
Before the flagship phone ever landed in users’ hands, the security team thoroughly hacked it by finding bugs and developing exploits...
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...
Apple Just Patched 39 iPhone Security Bugs
Plus: A Google Chrome patch licks the DevilsTongue spyware, Android’s kernel gets a tune-up, and Microsoft fixes 84 flaws...
The Most Popular Period-Tracking Apps, Ranked by Data Privacy
Under increased scrutiny, certain period-tracking apps are seeing a surge of new users. Which are as safe as they claim to be?...
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...
A Major Internet Backbone Company Cuts Off Russia
Plus: A ransomware gang leak, an Nvidia hack, and more of the week's top security news...
US Agencies Say Russian Hackers Compromised Defense Contractors
Kremlin-backed cyber actors lurked in the networks for months, obtaining sensitive documents related to weapons and infrastructure development...
A Year After SolarWinds, Supply Chain Threats Still Loom
The Russia-led campaign was a wake-up call to the industry, but there's no one solution to the threat...
NSO Group Spyware Hits at Least 9 US State Department Phones
The incident lays bare how hollow the surveillance company’s reassurances about the limits of its hacking tools have always been...
A Software Bug Let Hackers Drain $31M From a Crypto Service
An attacker exploited a vulnerability in MonoX Finance's smart contract to inflate the price of its digital token and then cash out...
Malicious Google Play Apps Stole User Banking Info
Using tricks to sidestep the app store's restrictions, malware operators pillaged passwords, keystrokes, and other data...
The McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hacking Saga Has a New Twist
The cold war between a startup and a soft-serve machine manufacturer is heating up, thanks to a newly released trove of internal emails...
How Iran Tried to Undermine the 2020 US Presidential Election
From faked emails to a hacked voter registration database, a new indictment offers fresh details on the attempted interference...
Why Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp All Went Down Today
The problem relates to something called BGP routing, and it took down every part of Facebook's business...
It’s a Good Day to Update All Your Devices. Trust Us
iOS, Windows, and Chrome all have zero-day vulnerabilities that hackers are going after. Now that the fixes are here, you need to install them ASAP...
The US Used the Patriot Act to Justify Logging Website Users
Plus: Better Twitter two-factor, a Spotify hack, and more of the week’s top security news...
Facebook Promises Privacy Reform. Critics Aren't Convinced
In an interview with WIRED, Facebook's chief privacy officers argue that the company has turned a corner. Again...