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Elijah Wood and Mike Tyson Cameo Videos Were Used in a Russian Disinformation Campaign
Videos featuring Elijah Wood, Mike Tyson, and Priscilla Presley have been edited to push anti-Ukraine disinformation, according to Microsoft researchers...
Google Makes Passkeys Default, Stepping Up Its Push to Kill Passwords
Google is making passkeys, the emerging passwordless login technology, the default option for users as it moves to make passwords “obsolete.”...
How Your Real Flight Reservation Can Be Used to Scam You
Scammers use a booking technicality, traveler confusion, and promises of dirt-cheap tickets to offer hot deals that are anything but...
The Most Vulnerable Place on the Internet
Underwater cables keep the internet online. When they congregate in one place, things get tricky...
TSA’s Terrorist Watch List Comes for Amtrak Passengers
Plus: Microsoft seizes Russian GRU domains, Cash App’s data breach, and Obama’s disinfo admission...
An Internet Troll Gives Nonalcoholic Spirits Startups the Spins
From false press releases to misleading domain names, one man has allegedly gone to great lengths to sabotage his competitors...
Popular Mac App Adware Doctor Actually Acts Like Spyware
Adware Doctor has long been one of the top-selling apps in the Mac App Store. But researchers say it harvested browsing data, and sent it to China...
Jon Kyl Will Take McCain's Senate Seat
The governor of Arizona announced Tuesday that Jon Kyl will replace the Senate seat vacated by the late John McCain. He may now further push to regulate tech giants like Facebook...
OpenAI Rolls Out ‘Advanced’ Security Mode for At-Risk Accounts
OpenAI is rolling out Advanced Account Security for people concerned that their ChatGPT or Codex accounts could be potential targets of phishing attacks...
90,000 Screenshots of One Celebrity's Phone Were Exposed Online
Spyware appears to have captured everything from intimate photos to private messages from the smartphone of European celebrity. They were publicly accessible until a researcher flagged the exposure...
Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators
More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people...
The Dumbest Hack of the Year Exposed a Very Real Problem
Last April, a hacker hijacked crosswalk announcements to mimic Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Records obtained by WIRED reveal how unprepared local authorities were...
Anthropic’s Mythos Will Force a Cybersecurity Reckoning—Just Not the One You Think
The new AI model is being heralded—and feared—as a hacker’s superweapon. Experts say its arrival is a wake-up call for developers who have long made security an afterthought...
Men Are Buying Hacking Tools to Use Against Their Wives and Friends
In Telegram groups, men are sharing thousands of nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging in doxing and sexual abuse...
The Hack That Exposed Syria’s Sweeping Security Failures
When Syrian government accounts were hijacked in March, the breach looked chaotic. But it revealed something more troubling: a state struggling with the most basic layer of cybersecurity...
Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk
Major AI labs are investigating a security incident that impacted Mercor, a leading data vendor. The incident could have exposed key data about how they train AI models...
Apple Will Push Out Rare ‘Backported’ Patches to Protect iOS 18 Users From DarkSword Hacking Tool
As DarkSword spreads, Apple tells WIRED it will enable iOS 18-specific fixes for millions of iPhone owners who remain on that iOS version rather than force them to update to iOS 26...
Iran Threatens to Start Attacking Major US Tech Firms on April 1
Tech giants like Apple, Google, and Microsoft are among those on a target list released by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...
When Satellite Data Becomes a Weapon
As war reshapes the Gulf, the satellite infrastructure the world relies on to see conflict clearly is being delayed, spoofed, and privately controlled—and nobody is sure who is responsible...
What Happens When You Can’t Get a Death Certificate in Gaza
For families of the missing, systemic obstacles to identifying remains and locating people in Israeli detention has created a kind of social and legal purgatory...
A Top Democrat Is Urging Colleagues to Support Trump’s Spy Machine
Congressman Jim Himes claims a sweeping surveillance authority should stay intact because he hasn't seen abuses by Kash Patel's FBI, according to internal messaging obtained by WIRED...
Livestream Replay: The War Machine
A panel of WIRED experts dissected the defense tech industry’s impact on modern warfare...
Models Are Applying to Be the Face of AI Scams
Dozens of Telegram channels reviewed by WIRED include job listings for “AI face models.” The mostly women who land these gigs are likely being used to dupe victims out of their money...
A Hacker Accidentally Broke Into the FBI’s Epstein Files
Plus: A porn-quitting app exposed the masturbation habits of hundreds of thousands of users, Russian hackers are trying to take over people’s Signal accounts, and more...
Meta Ramps Up Efforts to Disrupt Industrialized Scamming
Meta removed 10.9 million Facebook and Instagram accounts linked to “criminal scam centers” last year, the company announced on Wednesday...
GPS Attacks Near Iran Are Wreaking Havoc on Delivery and Mapping Apps
Delivery apps are glitching and navigation routes are changing abruptly thanks to electronic warfare disrupting the satellite signals that power everything from missiles to your ride home...
CBP Used Online Ad Data to Track Phone Locations
Plus: Proton helped the FBI identify a protester, the Leakbase cybercrime forum was busted in an international operation, and more...
The Future of Iran’s Internet Is More Uncertain Than Ever
Iran’s internet shutdown has reduced connectivity by 99 percent, with air strikes likely causing additional outages, and few workarounds remaining...
Here’s Every Country Directly Impacted by the War on Iran
As the conflict in the Middle East continues to escalate, more than a dozen countries in the region have reportedly been affected by air strikes...
How Vulnerable Are Computers to an 80-Year-Old Spy Technique? Congress Wants Answers
A pair of US lawmakers are calling for an investigation into how easily spies can steal information based on devices’ electromagnetic and acoustic leaks—a spying trick the NSA once codenamed TEMPEST...
How Journalists Are Reporting From Iran With No Internet
After strikes killed senior Iranian officials, Iran cut off internet access. Journalists are relying on satellite links, encrypted apps, and smuggled footage to report from inside the country...
Attacks on GPS Spike Amid US and Israeli War on Iran
New analysis shows that attacks on satellite navigation systems have impacted some 1,100 ships in the Middle East since the US and Israel attacked Iran on February 28...
A $10K Bounty Awaits Anyone Who Can Hack Ring Cameras to Stop Sharing Data With Amazon
The Fulu Foundation, a nonprofit that pays out bounties for removing user-hostile features, is hunting for a way to keep Ring cameras from sending data to Amazon—without breaking the hardware...
How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance
From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively building a group—even while being targeted and tracked by the powerful...
Crypto-Funded Human Trafficking Is Exploding
The use of cryptocurrency in sales of human beings for prostitution and scam compounds nearly doubled in 2025, according to a conservative estimate. Many of the deals are happening in plain sight...
How Data Brokers Can Fuel Violence Against Public Servants
A new report from the Public Service Alliance finds state privacy laws offer public servants few ways to protect their private data, even as threats against them are on the rise...
ICE Pretends It’s a Military Force. Its Tactics Would Get Real Soldiers Killed
WIRED asked an active military officer to break down immigration enforcement actions in Minneapolis and elsewhere...
149 Million Usernames and Passwords Exposed by Unsecured Database
This “dream wish list for criminals” includes millions of Gmail, Facebook, banking logins, and more. The researcher who discovered it suspects they were collected using infostealing malware...
Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking
Flaws in how 17 models of headphones and speakers use Google’s one-tap Fast Pair Bluetooth protocol have left devices open to eavesdroppers and stalkers...
Minnesota Sues to Stop ICE ‘Invasion’
The state of Minnesota, along with the Twin Cities, have sued the US government and several officials to halt the flood of agents carrying out an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation...
Doxers Posing as Cops Are Tricking Big Tech Firms Into Sharing People’s Private Data
A spoofed email address and an easily faked document is all it takes for major tech companies to hand over your most personal information...
2 Men Linked to China’s Salt Typhoon Hacker Group Likely Trained in a Cisco ‘Academy’
The names of two partial owners of firms linked to the Salt Typhoon hacker group also appeared in records for a Cisco training program—years before the group targeted Cisco’s devices in a spy campaign...
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Is Detaining People for ICE
Louisiana’s hunting and wildlife authority is one of more than 1,000 state and local agencies that have partnered with US immigration authorities this year alone...
Russia Wants This Mega Missile to Intimidate the West, but It Keeps Crashing
One of Vladimir Putin’s favorite sabers to rattle seems to have lost its edge...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme...
The Destruction of a Notorious Myanmar Scam Compound Appears to Have Been ‘Performative’
Myanmar’s military has been blowing up parts of the KK Park scam compound. Experts say the actions are likely for show...
4 People Indicted in Alleged Conspiracy to Smuggle Supercomputers and Nvidia Chips to China
A federal prosecutor alleged that one defendant boasted that his father “had engaged in similar business for the Chinese Communist Party.”...
With the Rise of AI, Cisco Sounds an Urgent Alarm About the Risks of Aging Tech
Generative AI is making it even easier for attackers to exploit old and often forgotten network equipment. Replacing it takes investment, but Cisco is making the case that it’s worth it...
An Anarchist’s Conviction Offers a Grim Foreshadowing of Trump’s War on the ‘Left’
As the Trump administration ramps up its targeting of left-leaning people and groups, the prosecution and harsh sentencing of Casey Goonan may provide a glimpse of things to come...
ICE Wants to Build a Shadow Deportation Network in Texas
A new ICE proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine...