A Mysterious Leak Exposed Chinese Hacking Secrets

Plus: Scammers try to dupe Apple with 5,000 fake iPhones, Avast gets fined for selling browsing data, and researchers figure out how to clone fingerprints from your phone screen...

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...

Satellite Images Point to Indiscriminate Israeli Attacks on Gaza’s Health Care Facilities

New research finds that Israel’s attacks on Gaza damaged hospitals and other medical facilities at the same rate as other buildings, potentially in violation of international law...

Epik, the Far Right's Favorite Web Host, Has a Shadowy New Owner

Known for doing business with far-right extremist websites, Epik has been acquired by a company that specializes in helping businesses keep their operations secret...

2054, Part IV: A Nation Divided

“The people are in the streets. We can’t ignore them any longer. Really, we have little choice. Either we heal together, or we tear ourselves apart.” An exclusive excerpt from 2054: A Novel...

Robots Are Fighting Robots in Russia's War in Ukraine

Aerial drones have changed the war in Ukraine. Now, both Russia’s and Ukraine’s militaries are deploying more unmanned ground robots—and the two are colliding...

How to Opt Out of Comcast’s Xfinity Storing Your Sensitive Data

One of America’s largest internet providers may collect data about your political beliefs, race, and sexual orientation to serve personalized ads...

Hacker Group Linked to Russian Military Claims Credit for Cyberattack on Kyivstar

A hacker group calling itself Solntsepek—previously linked to Russia’s notorious Sandworm hackers—says it carried out a disruptive breach of Kyivstar, a major Ukrainian mobile and internet provider...

Running Signal Will Soon Cost $50 Million a Year

Signal’s president reveals the cost of running the privacy-preserving platform—not just to drum up donations, but to call out the for-profit surveillance business models it competes against...

Elon Musk Is Personally Undermining X’s Efforts to Curb Israel-Hamas War Disinformation

X’s Trust and Safety team says it’s working to remove false information related to the Israel-Hamas war. Meanwhile, Elon Musk is sharing conspiracies and chatting with QAnon promoters...

Chinese Hackers Are Hiding in Routers in the US and Japan

Plus: Stolen US State Department emails, $20 million zero-day flaws, and controversy over the EU’s message-scanning law...

You Need to Update Google Chrome or Whatever Browser You Use

Plus: Spyware-packing ads, TikTok GDPR violations, Elon Musk investigations, and more...

The US Congress Has Trust Issues. Generative AI Is Making It Worse

Senators are meeting with Silicon Valley's elite to learn how to deal with AI. But can Congress tackle the rapidly emerging tech before working on itself?...

The NSA Is Lobbying Congress to Save a Phone Surveillance 'Loophole'

The National Security Agency has urged top lawmakers to resist demands that it obtain warrants for sensitive data sold by data brokers...

NYPD Body Cam Data Shows the Scale of Violence Against Protesters

A landmark $13 million settlement with the City of New York is the latest in a string of legal wins for protesters who were helped by a video-analysis tool that smashes the “bad apple” myth...

Fourth Amendment Is Not for Sale Act Goes Back to Congress

A bill to prevent cops and spies from buying Americans’ data instead of getting a warrant has a fighting chance in the US Congress as lawmakers team up against surveillance overreach...

FBI Surveillance Fears Are Uniting a Badly Broken Congress

The FBI has collected sensitive data on millions of Americans without warrants, drawing intense scrutiny from Congress and turning the agency into a punching bag across the political divide...

The UK’s Secretive Web Surveillance Program Is Ramping Up

A government effort to collect people’s internet records is moving beyond its test phase, but many details remain hidden from public view...

The High-Stakes Scramble to Stop Classified Leaks

AI tools? A porn filter, but for Top Secret documents? Just classifying less stuff? US lawmakers are full of ideas but lack a silver bullet...

Criminals Are Using Tiny Devices to Hack and Steal Cars

Apple thwarts NSO’s spyware, the rise of a GPT-4 black market, Russia targets Starlink internet connections, and more...

Security Roundup: Leak of Top-Secret US Intel Risks a New Wave of Mass Surveillance

Plus: Hackers claim to have stolen 10 TB from Western Digital, a new spyware has emerged, and WhatsApp gets a fresh security feature...

Leaked Pentagon Documents May Herald a New Era of Revelations

The bizarre release of sensitive US government materials soon after their creation signals a potential shift to near-real-time unauthorized disclosures...

Trump’s Indictment Marks a Historic Reckoning

A Manhattan grand jury has issued the first-ever indictment of a former US president. Buckle up for whatever happens next...

The TikTok CEO’s Face-Off With Congress Is Doomed

On Thursday, Shou Zi Chew will meet a rare united front in the US Congress against the Chinese-owned social media app that has lawmakers in a tizzy...

Most Criminal Cryptocurrency Funnels Through Just 5 Exchanges

The crypto money-laundering market is tighter than at any time in the past decade, and the few big players are moving a “shocking” amount of currency...

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...

Iran’s Protests Reveal What’s Lost If Twitter Crumbles

As authorities hit citizens with more violence, the social network is proving key to documenting abuses. If it breaks, a human rights lifeline may disappear...

Redacted Documents Are Not as Secure as You Think

Popular redaction tools don’t always work as promised, and new attacks can reveal hidden information, researchers say...

Russia’s New Cyberwarfare in Ukraine Is Fast, Dirty, and Relentless

Security researchers see updated tactics and tools—and a tempo change—in the cyberattacks Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency is inflicting on Ukraine...

Inside the ‘Election Integrity App’ Built to Purge US Voter Rolls

True the Vote’s IV3 app is meant to catch election cheaters. But it has a fundamental flaw...

A Pro-China Disinfo Campaign Is Targeting US Elections—Badly

The suspected Chinese influence operation had limited success. But it signals a growing threat from a new disinformation adversary...

How Vice Society Got Away With a Global Ransomware Spree

Vice Society has a superpower that’s allowed it to quietly carry out attacks on schools and hospitals around the world: mediocrity...

Google’s Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro Pack New Android VPN and Tensor G2, Titan M2 Chips

The company says it hardened the security of its new flagship phones—and plans to release a built-in Android VPN...

The High Cost of Living Your Life Online

Constantly posting content on social media can erode your privacy—and sense of self...

Mystery Hackers Are ‘Hyperjacking’ Targets for Insidious Spying

For decades, security researchers warned about techniques for hijacking virtualization software. Now one group has put them into practice...

The Dire Warnings in the Lapsus$ Hacker Joyride

The fun-loving cybercriminals blamed for breaches of Uber and Rockstar are exposing weaknesses in ways others aren't...

The Ungodly Surveillance of Anti-Porn ‘Shameware’ Apps

Churches are using invasive phone-monitoring tech to discourage “sinful” behavior. Some software is seeing more than congregants realize...

Telegram Has a Serious Doxing Problem

The encrypted messaging app is a haven for politically motivated vitriol, but users are increasingly bringing threats to targets’ doorsteps...

The Telegram-Powered News Outlet Waging Guerrilla War on Russia

Anti-Putin media network February Morning has become a central player in the underground fight against the Kremlin...

How to Use Lockdown Mode in iOS 16 to Make Your Phone More Secure

Whether you want to turn off link previews or block unwanted FaceTime calls, here's what you need to know...

An ISP Settled Piracy Lawsuits. Could Users Take the Hit?

Now that Charter has reached settlements with major record labels, it’s unclear whether the cable provider will pull the plug on users who pirate music...

The DHS Bought a ‘Shocking Amount’ of Phone-Tracking Data

The ACLU released a trove of documents showing how Homeland Security contracted with surveillance companies to scour location information...

Russian ‘Hacktivists’ Are Causing Trouble Far Beyond Ukraine

The pro-Russian group Killnet is targeting countries supporting Ukraine. It has declared "war" against 10 nations...

Apple’s Lockdown Mode Aims to Counter Spyware Threats

Starting with iOS 16, people who are at risk of being targeted with spyware will have some much-needed help...

Brave Now Lets You Customize Search Results—for Better or Worse

The privacy-focused company's new Goggles tool allows users to weed out the noise—whatever that might mean...

Cops Will Be Able to Scan Your Fingerprints With a Phone

Contactless fingerprinting uses a smartphone camera to capture your prints—and opens up a whole new set of privacy concerns...

A Long-Awaited Defense Against Data Leaks May Have Just Arrived

MongoDB claims its new “Queryable Encryption” lets users search their databases while sensitive data stays encrypted. Oh, and its cryptography is open source...

AMD Gave Google Cloud Rare Access to Its Tech to Hunt Chip Flaws

By working together, the companies say they’re better able to find security flaws in Google Cloud’s Confidential Computing infrastructure...

Hollywood’s Fight Against VPNs Turns Ugly

Beyond accusations of rampant user copyright infringement, film companies have begun accusing VPNs of enabling a slew of more serious illegal activity...

North Koreans Are Jailbreaking Phones to Access Forbidden Media

A new report suggests that a small but vibrant group of smartphones hackers may be challenging the world's most digitally restrictive regime...