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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...
A GPS Blackout Would Shut Down the World
GPS jamming and spoofing attacks are on the rise. If the global navigation system the US relies on were to go down entirely, it would send the world into unprecedented chaos...
Gamaredon: The Turncoat Spies Relentlessly Hacking Ukraine
For the past decade, this group of FSB hackers—including “traitor” Ukrainian intelligence officers—has used a grinding barrage of intrusion campaigns to make life hell for their former countrymen and cybersecurity defenders...
A Brand-New Botnet Is Delivering Record-Size DDoS Attacks
Eleven11bot infects webcams and video recorders, with a large concentration in the US...
Pentagon Cuts Threaten Programs That Secure Loose Nukes and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Documents obtained by WIRED show the US Department of Defense is considering cutting up to 75 percent of workers who stop the spread of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons...
Under Trump, US Cyberdefense Loses Its Head
Chinese hacks, rampant ransomware, and Donald Trump’s budget cuts all threaten US security. In an exit interview with WIRED, former CISA head Jen Easterly argues for her agency’s survival...
A Senate Bill Would Radically Improve Voting Machine Security
This year’s Intelligence Authorization Act would mandate penetration testing for federally certified voting machines and allow independent researchers to work on exposing vulnerabilities...
Huge Microsoft Outage Linked to CrowdStrike Takes Down Computers Around the World
A software update from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike appears to have inadvertently disrupted IT systems globally...
The Julian Assange Saga Is Finally Over
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has agreed to plead guilty to one count of espionage in US court on Wednesday, ending a years-long legal battle between the US government and a controversial publisher...
Teslas Can Still Be Stolen With a Cheap Radio Hack—Despite New Keyless Tech
Ultra-wideband radio has been heralded as the solution for “relay attacks” that are used to steal cars in seconds. But researchers found Teslas equipped with it are as vulnerable as ever...
The Dangerous Rise of GPS Attacks
Thousands of planes and ships are facing GPS jamming and spoofing. Experts warn these attacks could potentially impact critical infrastructure, communication networks, and more...
How Israel Defended Against Iran's Drone and Missile Attack
The Iron Dome, US allies, and long-range interceptor missiles all came into play...
Space Force Is Planning a Military Exercise in Orbit
Two satellites will engage in a “realistic threat response scenario” when Victus Haze gets underway...
Change Healthcare Faces Another Ransomware Threat—and It Looks Credible
Change Healthcare ransomware hackers already received a $22 million payment. Now a second group is demanding money, and it has sent WIRED samples of what they claim is the company's stolen data...
The DOJ Puts Apple's iMessage Encryption in the Antitrust Crosshairs
Privacy and security are an Apple selling point. But the DOJ’s new antitrust lawsuit argues that Apple selectively embraces privacy and security features in ways that hurt competition—and users...
Automakers Are Telling Your Insurance Company How You Really Drive
Plus: The operator of a dark-web cryptocurrency “mixing” service is found guilty, and a US senator reveals that popular safes contain secret backdoors...
US Lawmaker Cited NYC Protests in a Defense of Warrantless Spying
A closed-door presentation for House lawmakers late last year portrayed American anti-war protesters as having possible ties to Hamas in an effort to kill privacy reforms to a major US spy program...
Binance’s Top Crypto Crime Investigator Is Being Detained in Nigeria
Tigran Gambaryan, a former crypto-focused US federal agent, and a second Binance executive, Nadeem Anjarwalla, have been held in Abuja without passports for two weeks...
Biden Executive Order Bans Sale of US Data to China, Russia. Good Luck
The White House issued an executive order on Wednesday that aims to prevent the sale of Americans' data to “countries of concern,” including China and Russia. Its effectiveness may vary...
Apple iOS 17.4: iMessage Gets Post-Quantum Encryption in New Update
Useful quantum computers aren’t a reality—yet. But in one of the biggest deployments of post-quantum encryption so far, Apple is bringing the technology to iMessage...
How to Not Get Scammed Out of $50,000
Plus: State-backed hackers test out generative AI, the US takes down a major Russian military botnet, and 100 hospitals in Romania go offline amid a major ransomware attack...
23andMe Blames Users for Recent Data Breach as It's Hit With Dozens of Lawsuits
Plus: Russia hacks surveillance cameras as new details emerge of its attack on a Ukrainian telecom, a Google contractor pays for videos of kids to train AI, and more...
Google Fixes Nearly 100 Android Security Issues
Plus: Apple shuts down a Flipper Zero Attack, Microsoft patches more than 30 vulnerabilities, and more critical updates for the last month of 2023...
This Clever New Idea Could Fix AirTag Stalking While Maximizing Privacy
Apple updated its location-tracking system in an attempt to cut down on AirTag abuse while still preserving privacy. Researchers think they’ve found a better balance...
Google’s New Titan Security Key Adds Another Piece to the Password-Killing Puzzle
The new generation of hardware authentication key includes support for cryptographic passkeys as Google pushes adoption of the more secure login alternative...
US Privacy Groups Urge Senate Not to Ram Through NSA Spying Powers
An effort to reauthorize a controversial US surveillance program by attaching it to a must-pass spending bill has civil liberties advocates calling foul...
The New Era of Social Media Looks as Bad for Privacy as the Last One
The slow-motion implosion of Elon Musk’s X has given rise to a slew of competitors, where privacy invasions that ran rampant over the past decade still largely persist...
Apple, Google, and Microsoft Just Patched Some Spooky Security Flaws
Plus: Major vulnerability fixes are now available for a number of enterprise giants, including Cisco, VMWare, Citrix, and SAP...
The UN Risks Normalizing Internet Censorship
The United Nations' top internet governance body will allegedly host its next two annual meetings in countries known for repressive internet policies and human rights abuses...
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...
Google's New Feature Ensures Your Pixel Phone Hasn't Been Hacked. Here’s How It Works
Pixel Binary Transparency is the latest security benefit for Pixel owners...
How X Is Suing Its Way Out of Accountability
The social media giant filed a lawsuit against a nonprofit that researches hate speech online. It’s the latest effort to cut off the data needed to expose online platforms’ failings...
An Apple Malware-Flagging Tool Is ‘Trivially’ Easy to Bypass
The macOS Background Task Manager tool is supposed to spot potentially malicious software on your machine. But a researcher says it has troubling flaws...
The Mystery of Chernobyl’s Post-Invasion Radiation Spikes
Soon after Russian troops invaded Ukraine in February 2022, sensors in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone reported radiation spikes. A researcher now believes he’s found evidence the data was manipulated...
Pornhub Accused of Illegal Data Collection
Complaints filed in the European Union claim the porn site fails to follow basic data-collection policies under GDPR...
5 Ways to Make Your Instant Messaging More Secure
Make sure your chats are kept as private as you want them to be...
The Messy US Influence That’s Helping Iranians Stay Online
Newly announced sanctions against Iran-based Avaran Cloud underscore the complexity of crafting Washington’s internet freedom efforts...
There’s Finally a Way to Improve Cloud Container Registry Security
“Container registries” are ubiquitous software clearinghouses, but they’ve been exposed for years. Chainguard says it now has a solution...
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 Mysterious Group Has Ties to 15 Years of Ukraine-Russia Hacks
Kaspersky researchers have uncovered clues that further illuminate the hackers’ activities, which appear to have begun far earlier than originally believed...
ChatGPT Scams Are Infiltrating Apple's App Store and Google Play
An explosion of interest in OpenAI’s sophisticated chatbot means a proliferation of “fleeceware” apps that trick users with sneaky in-app subscriptions...
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...
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 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...
The Dangerous Weak Link in the US Food Chain
Without an information sharing and analysis center, the country’s food and agriculture sector is uniquely vulnerable to hackers...