Chinese Labs Are Selling Fentanyl Ingredients for Millions in Crypto

And it's happening in plain sight...

Meta’s $1.3 Billion Fine Is a Strike Against Surveillance Capitalism

The record-breaking GDPR penalty for data transfers to the US could upend Meta's business and spur regulators to finalize a new data-sharing agreement...

A TikTok ‘Car Theft’ Challenge Is Costing Hyundai $200 Million

Plus: The FBI gets busted abusing a spy tool, an ex-Apple engineer is charged with corporate espionage, and collection of airborne DNA raises new privacy risks...

Twitter’s Encrypted DMs Are Deeply Inferior to Signal and WhatsApp

The social network’s new privacy feature is technically flawed, opt-in, and limited in its functionality. All this for just $8 a month...

The Tragic Fallout From a School District’s Ransomware Breach

Plus: Cyber Command’s disruption of Iranian election hacking, an exposé on child sex trafficking on Meta’s platforms, and more...

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...

They Posted Porn on Twitter. German Authorities Called the Cops

Regulators are using an AI system to scan websites and messaging apps to find pornography. Creators face fines and potential prison sentences...

Crypto Was Afraid to Show Its Face at SXSW 2023

Any mention of crypto was deliberately veiled at this year’s festival. And that strategy might catch on...

The Scorched-Earth Tactics of Iran’s Cyber Army

Amid ongoing protests, the Iranian regime has lost control of its image, pushing it to employ increasingly drastic tactics where everyone loses...

How to Unlock Your iPhone With a Security Key

Passcodes are out...

You Really Need to Update Firefox and Android Right Now

January saw a slew of security patches for iOS, Chrome, Windows, and more...

The Unrelenting Menace of the LockBit Ransomware Gang

The notorious Russian-speaking cybercriminals grew successful by keeping a low profile. But now they have a target on their backs...

Meta’s Tricky Quest to Protect Your Account

How do you keep Facebook easy to use without being trivial to exploit? The company is trying to chart a middle ground...

Why the US Is Primed for Radicalization

A confluence of factors is leading people in the nation to gravitate toward extremist views...

Apple Kills Its Plan to Scan Your Photos for CSAM. Here’s What’s Next

The company plans to expand its Communication Safety features, which aim to disrupt the sharing of child sexual abuse material at the source...

Apple Expands End-to-End Encryption to iCloud Backups

The company will also soon support the use of physical authentication keys with Apple ID, and is adding contact verification for iMessage in 2023...

The Hunt for the Kingpin Behind AlphaBay, Part 6: Endgame

With AlphaBay shuttered, Operation Bayonet enters its final phase: driving the site’s refugees into a giant trap. But one refugee hatched his own plan...

The Hunt for the Dark Web’s Biggest Kingpin, Part 5: Takedown

After months of meticulous planning, investigators finally move in to catch AlphaBay’s mastermind red-handed. Then the case takes a tragic turn...

Elon Musk's Twitter Blue Verification Is a Gift to Scammers

Anyone can get a blue tick on Twitter without proving who they are. And it’s already causing a ton of problems...

The Rise of Rust, the ‘Viral’ Secure Programming Language That’s Taking Over Tech

Rust makes it impossible to introduce some of the most common security vulnerabilities. And its adoption can’t come soon enough...

The Election That Saved the Internet From Russia and China

Open-internet advocates are breathing a sigh of relief after a recent election for the International Telecommunications Union's top leadership...

Your Microsoft Exchange Server Is a Security Liability

Endless vulnerabilities. Massive hacking campaigns. Slow and technically tough patching. It's time to say goodbye to on-premise Exchange...

The Hunt for Wikipedia's Disinformation Moles

Custodians of the crowdsourced encyclopedia are charged with protecting it from state-sponsored manipulators. A new study reveals how...

Meta Says It Has Busted More Than 400 Login-Stealing Apps This Year

The company plans to alert 1 million Facebook users that their account credentials may have been compromised by malicious software...

The Fight to Cut Off the Crypto Fueling Russia's Ukraine Invasion

Blockchain investigators have uncovered at least $4 million—and counting—in cryptocurrency donations to Russia’s violent militia groups...

Swatted: A Shooting Hoax Spree Is Terrorizing Schools Across the US

Sixteen states collectively suffered more than 90 false reports of school shooters during three weeks in September—and many appear to be connected...

US Border Agents May Have a Copy of Your Text Messages

Plus: An AI artist exposes surveillance of Instagram users, the US charges Iranians over a ransomware campaign, and more...

The Uber Hack’s Devastation Is Just Starting to Reveal Itself

An alleged teen hacker claims to have gained deep access to the company’s systems, but the full picture of the breach is still coming into focus...

Apple’s Killing the Password. Here’s Everything You Need to Know

With iOS 16 and macOS Ventura, Apple is introducing passkeys—a more convenient and secure alternative to passwords...

TikTok Users Were Vulnerable to a Single-Click Attack

Microsoft disclosed the flaw in the Android app’s deep link verification process, which has since been fixed...

A New Tractor Jailbreak Rides the Right-to-Repair Wave

A hacker has formulated an exploit that provides root access to two popular models of the company’s farm equipment...

The US Offers a $10M Bounty for Intel on Conti Ransomware Gang

The State Department organization has called for people to share details about five key members of the hacking group...

Don’t Call the New Federal Gun Law a Gun Law

Democratic senators lacked actionable gun data for their negotiations—so they passed mental health reform instead...

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...

The 2022 US Midterm Elections' Top Security Issue: Death Threats

While cybersecurity and foreign meddling remain priorities, domestic threats against election workers have risen to the top of the list...

Congress Might Pass an Actually Good Privacy Bill

A bill with bipartisan support might finally give the US a strong federal data protection law...

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?...

A New Attack Can Unmask Anonymous Users on Any Major Browser

Researchers have found a way to use the web's basic functions to identify who visits a site—without the user detecting the hack...

An ISP Scam Targeted Low-Income People Seeking Government Aid

The US Federal Communications Commission says a man posing as a fake broadband service promised victims discounts on internet services and devices...

How to Avoid the Worst Instagram Scams

Fake sellers. Competitions. Crypto cons. There are plenty of grifts on the platform, but you don’t have to get sucked in...

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...

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...

Disinfo and Hate Speech Flood TikTok Ahead of Kenya’s Elections

Mozilla researchers identified accounts with millions of view spreading hate speech and disinformation...

Your iPhone Is Vulnerable to a Malware Attack Even When It’s Off

Researchers found a way to exploit the tech that enables Apple’s Find My feature, which could allow attackers to track location when a device is powered down...

Android 13 Tries to Make Privacy and Security a No-Brainer

With its latest mobile OS update, Google aims to simplify the adoption of Android’s protective features for users and developers alike...

Russia Is Leaking Data Like a Sieve

Ukraine claims to have doxed Russian troops and spies, while hacktivists are regularly leaking private information from Russian organizations...

The Bitcoin Bust That Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site

They thought their payments were untraceable. They couldn’t have been more wrong. The untold story of the case that shredded the myth of Bitcoin’s anonymity...

Fake Cops Scammed Apple and Meta to Get User Data

Plus: Lapsus$ teens hit with charges, Wyze's security screwup, and Russia's cyber rampage...

Russia Inches Toward Its Splinternet Dream

For years, the country has been trying to create its own sovereign internet—a goal given new impetus by the backlash to its invasion of Ukraine...

The Future of Digital Cash Is Not on the Blockchain

If you want the privacy of paper money, you need something that leaves no paper trail...