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Leak Reveals the Unusual Path of ‘Urgent’ Russian Threat Warning
The US Congress was preparing to vote on a key foreign surveillance program last week. Then a wild Russian threat appeared...
Signal Finally Rolls Out Usernames, So You Can Keep Your Phone Number Private
We tested the end-to-end encrypted messenger’s new feature aimed at addressing critics’ most persistent complaint. Here’s how it works...
Section 702 Surveillance Fight Pits the White House Opposite Reproductive Rights
Prominent advocates for the rights of pregnant people are urging members of Congress to support legislation that would ban warrantless access to sensitive data as the White House fights against it...
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...
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...
Microsoft’s Digital Crime Unit Goes Deep on How It Disrupts Cybercrime
Ten years in, Microsoft’s DCU has honed its strategy of using both unique legal tactics and the company’s technical reach to disrupt global cybercrime and state-backed actors...
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...
Okta Breach Impacted All Customer Support Users—Not 1 Percent
Okta upped its original estimate of customer support users affected by a recent breach from 1 percent to 100 percent, citing a “discrepancy.”...
The Hundred-Year Battle for India’s Radio Airwaves
The Indian government has a monopoly on radio news, allowing it to dictate what hundreds of millions of people hear. With an election approaching, that gives prime minister Narendra Modi a huge advantage...
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...
Here’s How Violent Extremists Are Exploiting Generative AI Tools
Experts are finding thousands of examples of AI-created content every week that could allow terrorist groups and other violent extremists to bypass automated detection systems...
The GOP Presidential Debate Is Livestreaming on Rumble, Home to White Nationalist Nick Fuentes
The third GOP debate is sponsored by the Republican Jewish Coalition and will be livestreamed on a platform favored by one of America’s most notorious white nationalists...
US House Republicans Had Their Phones Confiscated to Stop Leaks
In an attempt to wrest control from raucous far-right hardliners amid the fight for a new House speaker, Republican Party leaders are instituting phone bans to keep backroom deals secret...
A Tricky New Way to Sneak Past Repressive Internet Censorship
With the number of internet blackouts on the rise, cybersecurity firm eQualitie figured out how to hide censored online news in satellite TV signals...
You Need to Update Google Chrome or Whatever Browser You Use
Plus: Spyware-packing ads, TikTok GDPR violations, Elon Musk investigations, and more...
Panasonic Warns That IoT Malware Attack Cycles Are Accelerating
The legacy electronics manufacturer is creating IoT honeypots with its products to catch real-world threats and patch vulnerabilities in-house...
US Supreme Court Hands Cyberstalkers a First Amendment Victory
Plus: Hackers knock out Russian military satellite communications, a spyware maker gets breached, and the SEC targets a victim company's CISO...
Apple, Google, and MOVEit Just Patched Serious Security Flaws
Plus: Microsoft fixes 78 vulnerabilities, VMWare plugs a flaw already used in attacks, and more critical updates from June...
The US Senate Wants to Rein In AI. Good Luck With That
With a poor track record on tech regulation, do lawmakers stand a chance?...
Humans Aren’t Mentally Ready for an AI-Saturated ‘Post-Truth World’
The AI era promises a flood of disinformation, deepfakes, and hallucinated “facts.” Psychologists are only beginning to grapple with the implications...
A Newly Named Group of GRU Hackers is Wreaking Havoc in Ukraine
Plus: The arrest of an alleged Lockbit ransomware hacker, the wild tale of a problematic FBI informant, and one of North Korea’s biggest crypto heists...
The US Navy, NATO, and NASA Are Using a Shady Chinese Company’s Encryption Chips
The US government warns encryption chipmaker Hualan has suspicious ties to China’s military. Yet US agencies still use one of its subsidiary’s chips, raising fears of a backdoor...
The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens
A newly declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reveals that the federal government is buying troves of data about Americans...
Apple's iOS 16.5 Fixes 3 Security Bugs Already Used in Attacks
Plus: Microsoft patches two zero-day flaws, Google’s Android and Chrome get some much-needed updates, and more...
Chinese Labs Are Selling Fentanyl Ingredients for Millions in Crypto
And it's happening in plain sight...
The Real Risks in Google’s New .Zip and .Mov Domains
While the company’s new top-level domains could be used in phishing attacks, security researchers are divided on how big of a problem they really pose...
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...
How to Use Google Authenticator
The two-factor authentication tool got some serious upgrades that can help you bolster security for your online accounts...
A Security Team Is Turning This Malware Gang’s Tricks Against It
The cybercriminals behind the Gootloader malware have found clever ways to avoid detection. But researchers are using those same mechanisms to stop them...
Google’s Authenticator App Now Lets You Sync 2FA Codes Across Devices
You can now sync sign-in codes across devices—but they aren’t end-to-end encrypted...
Hacker Group Names Are Now Absurdly Out of Control
Pumpkin Sandstorm. Spandex Tempest. Charming Kitten. Is this really how we want to name the hackers wreaking havoc worldwide?...
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...
Bug in Google Markup, Windows Photo-Cropping Tools Exposes Removed Image Data
Image-editing tools from Google and Microsoft contain the “aCropalypse” bug, which can reveal information users intentionally removed...
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...
‘Pig Butchering’ Scams Are Now a $3 Billion Threat
The FBI’s latest Internet Crime Report highlights the stunning rise of investment-themed crimes over the past 18 months...
What to Look for When Buying a Security Camera (2023): Tips and Risks
Eufy's recent scandal shows it's not so much about the data breach but about how a company responds. Here are a few ways to shop smart...
North Korean Hackers Are Attacking US Hospitals
Plus: Deepfake disinformation spotted in the wild, Android privacy problems in China, Reddit gets phished, and more...
Congress Has a Lo-Fi Plan to Fix the Classified Documents Mess
As unsecured docs pile up, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is itching to overhaul the nation’s secret secret-sharing operation...
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...
Cops Hacked Thousands of Phones. Was It Legal?
When police infiltrated the EncroChat phone system in 2020, they hit an intelligence gold mine. But subsequent legal challenges have spread across Europe...
Russians Hacked JFK Airport Taxi Dispatch in Line-Skipping Scheme
Plus: An offensive US hacking operation, swatters hacking Ring cameras, a Netflix password-sharing crackdown, and more...
A Destabilizing Hack-and-Leak Operation Hits Moldova
Plus: Google’s location snooping ends in a $391 million settlement, Russian code sneaks into US government apps, and the World Cup apps set off alarms...
When Your Neighbor Turns You In
Authoritarian societies depend on people ratting each other out for activities that were recently legal—and it's already happening in the US...
Binance Hackers Minted $569M in Crypto—Then It Got Complicated
Plus: The US warns of a mysterious military contractor breach, a "poisoned" version of the Tor Browser is tracking Chinese users, and more...
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...
Slack’s and Teams’ Lax App Security Raises Alarms
New research shows how third-party apps could be exploited to infiltrate these sensitive workplace tools...
A New Linux Tool Aims to Guard Against Supply Chain Attacks
Security firm Chainguard has created a simple, open source way for organizations to defend the cloud against some of the most insidious attacks...