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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 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...
Celsius Exchange Data Dump Is a Gift to Crypto Sleuths—and Thieves
By releasing half a million users’ transactions in a bankruptcy court filing, the company has opened a vast breach in its users’ financial privacy...
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 US Offers a $10M Bounty for Intel on Conti Ransomware Gang
The State Department organization has called for people to share details about five key members of the hacking group...
You Pay More When Companies Get Hacked
Plus: Google delays the end of cookies again, EU officials were targeted with Pegasus spyware, and more of the top security news...
Russia Is Quietly Ramping Up Its Internet Censorship Machine
Since Vladimir Putin blocked Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter in March, Russia has been pushing away from the global internet at a rapid pace...
How to Safely Lend Someone Else Your Phone
The next time someone wants to borrow your device to make a call or take a picture, take these steps to protect your privacy...
The Most Popular Period-Tracking Apps, Ranked by Data Privacy
Under increased scrutiny, certain period-tracking apps are seeing a surge of new users. Which are as safe as they claim to be?...
Is Your New Car a Threat to National Security?
Putting sensor-packed Chinese cars on Western roads could be a privacy issue. Just ask Tesla...
Hackers Can Steal Your Tesla by Creating Their Own Personal Keys
A researcher found that a recent update lets anyone enroll their own key during the 130-second interval after the car is unlocked with an NFC card...
Thousands of Top Websites See What You Type—Before You Hit Submit
A surprising number of the top 100,000 websites effectively include keyloggers that covertly snag everything you type into a form...
Apple Mail Now Blocks Email Tracking. Here’s What That Means
If you don’t like marketers or anyone else knowing when and where you read your email, Apple’s feature will help you reclaim some privacy...
Russia Is Being Hacked at an Unprecedented Scale
From “IT Army” DDoS attacks to custom malware, the country has become a target like never before...
Hunt for Lapsus$ Hackers Leads to a British Teen
Plus: New details emerge about Russian hacks and hackers as the US warns of potential new attacks...
Putin and Biden Must Choose: How Does Russia Want to Lose?
As Russia's failures mount in its war against Ukraine, can Biden prevent an isolated Putin from doing the unthinkable?...
The Workaday Life of the World’s Most Dangerous Ransomware Gang
A Ukrainian researcher leaked 60,000 messages from inside the Conti ransomware group. This is what they reveal...
Putin’s Nuclear Threat Sets the West on Edge
By promising a response “never seen” in history if other countries interfere in Ukraine, the Russian leader upended decades of relative stability...
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...
The DOJ’s $3.6B Seizure Shows How Hard It Is to Launder Crypto
A couple allegedly used a “laundry list” of technical measures to cover their tracks. They didn’t work...
Out-of-Control Cybercrime Will Cause More Real-World Harm
Ransomware and online attacks can cause deadly real-world harm. Governments need to raise their game in response...
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...
US Wins Appeal to Extradite Julian Assange
Plus: Bluetooth security, a Brazil hack, and more of the week's top security news...
The Pentagon Has Set Up a UFO Office
Plus: An Apple lawsuit, a GoDaddy breach, and more of the week's top security news...
Amazon's Dark Secret: It Has Failed to Protect Your Data
Voyeurs. Sabotaged accounts. Backdoor schemes. For years, the retail giant has handled your information less carefully than it handles your packages...
‘Ghostwriter’ Looks Like a Purely Russian Op—Except It's Not
Security researchers have found signs that the pervasive hacking and misinformation campaign comes not from Moscow but from Minsk...
New Sex Toy Standards Let Some Sensitive Details Slide
The industry now has official guidance on design, materials, and more, but not security and privacy best practices...
Telegram Is Becoming a Cesspool of Anti-Semitic Content
A new report shows that channels devoted to anti-Jewish conspiracy theories are growing at an alarming rate. Why won’t the platform take action?...
Hundreds of Scam Apps Hit Over 10 Million Android Devices
The so-called GriftHorse campaign used clever techniques to avoid detection in Google Play for nearly a year...
How to Go Passwordless on Your Microsoft Account
You no longer need an ungainly string of characters to access your Windows PC or Xbox...
Anonymous Leaked a Bunch of Data From a Right-Wing Web Host
The hacktivist collective targeted the domain registrar Epik for providing services to clients including the Texas GOP, Parler, and 8chan...
WhatsApp Fixes Its Biggest Encryption Loophole
The ubiquitous messaging service will add end-to-end encryption to backups, keeping your chats safe no matter whose cloud they're stored in...
A Texas Abortion ‘Whistleblower’ Site Still Can't Find a Host
Even the most extreme internet infrastructure providers have turned their backs on the website for violating their terms of service...
US Indicts Sandworm, Russia's Most Destructive Cyberwar Unit
The Department of Justice has named and charged six men for allegedly carrying out many of the most costly cyberattacks in history...
Peter Strzok Has a Warning About Russia—and Trump
In an interview with WIRED and in his new book, the former FBI agent details the threats the US faces as the 2020 election looms...
Iranian Spies Accidentally Leaked Videos of Themselves Hacking
IBM’s X-Force security team obtained five hours of APT35 hacking operations, showing exactly how the group steals data from email accounts—and who it’s targeting...
Looks Like Russian Hackers Are on an Email Scam Spree
A group dubbed Cosmic Lynx uses surprisingly sophisticated methods—and targets big game...
Bot Mafias Have Wreaked Havoc in 'World of Warcraft Classic'
Blizzard has suspended or closed over 74,000 accounts in the last month, as bots have upended the game's economy...
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...
25 Years After Oklahoma City, Domestic Terrorism Is on the Rise
In an exclusive interview with WIRED, FBI director Christopher Wray discusses a scourge that “moves at the speed of social media.”...
Researchers Use Ridesharing Cars to Sniff Out a Secret Spying Tool
University of Washington researchers put sensors in 15 ridesharing cars, and uncovered new evidence of how stingrays are being used and how to detect them. The post Researchers Use Ridesharing Cars to Sniff Out a Secret Spying Tool appeared first on WIRED...
How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members
Leaked files show the invite-only network grades members by their money and fame, shaping who’s in, who’s out, and who pays...
How to Watch the Knicks Parade on NYC Traffic Surveillance Cameras
Artist Morry Kolman will be livestreaming feeds of the NBA champions’ ticker-tape parade from NYC’s traffic cameras—and this time, the city’s Department of Transportation isn’t demanding he stop...
Wrongful Arrest Exposes Failures in One of the Oldest Police Face-Recognition Tools in the US
The ACLU is suing two Florida police departments over the arrest of a Fort Myers man in a child-abduction case, saying officers treated a flawed face-recognition match as a near-certain ID...
Amnesty International Warns That World Cup Fans Face Potential Human Rights Violations
The organization claims that the FIFA tournament could have impacts on the rights of local people and visiting soccer fans in all three host countries...
Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data on the Open Web
Companies like Lovable, Base44, Replit, and Netlify use AI to let anyone build a web app in seconds—and in thousands of cases, spill highly sensitive data onto the public internet...
The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2025
From Donald Trump to DOGE to Chinese hackers, this year the internet’s chaos caused outsize real-world harm...
A Major Leak Spills a Chinese Hacking Contractor’s Tools and Targets
Plus: State-sponsored AI hacking is here, Google hosts a CBP face recognition app, and more of the week’s top security news...
Encryption Made for Police and Military Radios May Be Easily Cracked
Researchers found that an encryption algorithm likely used by law enforcement and special forces can have weaknesses that could allow an attacker to listen in...