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...

Ukraine’s Volunteer ‘IT Army’ Is Hacking in Uncharted Territory

The country has enlisted thousands of cybersecurity professionals in the war effort against Russia...

DDoS Attempts Hit Russia as Ukraine Conflict Intensifies

Plus: Hacker recruits, NFT thefts, and more of the week’s top security news...

The Quiet Way Advertisers Are Tracking Your Browsing

Cookies are on the way out—but not enough is being done about browser fingerprinting. So what is it?...

Ukraine’s Defense—and Hacktivists—Have Raised Over $4M in Crypto

Russia’s invasion into the country sparked a surge of crypto donations to resistance groups...

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...

Russia’s Sandworm Hackers Have Built a Botnet of Firewalls

Western intelligence services are raising alarms about Cyclops Blink, the latest tool at the notorious group’s disposal...

Inside the Lab Where Intel Tries to Hack Its Own Chips

Researchers at iSTARE have to think like the bad guys, finding critical flaws before processors go to production...

An Optical Spy Trick Can Turn Any Shiny Object Into a Bug

Anything from a metallic Rubik’s cube to an aluminum trash can inside a room could give away your private conversations...

How to Use Google Chrome's Enhanced Safety Mode

You get a safer, more secure browser experience, but Google gets a lot more data about you...

Millions of WordPress Sites Got a Forced Update for a Serious Bug

The mandatory patch addressed a critical vulnerability in a widely used plugin that allowed untrusted visitors to download a website's backups...

Russia Was Behind DDoS Attacks Against Ukraine, US Officials Say

Plus: A crypto crime crackdown, Roblox ripoffs, and more of the week’s top security news...

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...

If Russia Invades Ukraine, TikTok Will See It Up Close

As troops amass on Ukraine’s border, civilians capture it all on camera. Online sleuths are now unpacking the details...

Is Firefox OK?

Mozilla’s privacy-heavy browser is flatlining. What it does next is crucial for the future of the web...

The US Watches Warily for Russia-Ukraine Tensions to Spill Over

Conversations with more than a dozen senior cybersecurity leaders in both the public and private sector outline the major areas of risk...

Twitter Has Started Blocking Porn in Germany

Dozens of accounts have been vanished as Twitter bows to pressure to make it harder for children to find adult content online...

How to Set Up Lock Screens on All Your Devices

Your lock screen stands between your private data and unwelcome visitors—make sure you set it up correctly...

The CIA Has Secretly Run a ‘Bulk Collection’ Program

Plus: Vulnerability fixes, the return of EARN IT, and more of the week’s top security news...

Hackers Rigged Hundreds of Ecommerce Sites to Steal Payment Info

The attackers exploited a known vulnerability and installed credit card skimmers on more than 500 websites...

Microsoft Disabling Macros Is a Huge Win for Security

Word and Excel files you download from the internet just got a whole lot safer...

Playing With Crypto? You’ll Need a Wallet (or Several)

Buying and selling NFTs or transferring digital currency is going to require a little leap of faith. Here’s how to get started...

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...

The Alt-Right on Facebook Are Hijacking Canada’s Trucker Blockade

In Ottawa, a protest against vaccine mandates has become an international sensation. American far-right personalities are behind its online rise...

Myanmar’s Fight for Democracy Is Now a Scrap Over Phone Records

Norwegian telecoms giant Telenor wants to leave Myanmar. Activists say its exit risks putting their data— and their freedom—at risk...

An Insidious Mac Malware Is Growing More Sophisticated

When UpdateAgent emerged in late 2020, it utilized basic infiltration techniques. Its developers have since expanded it in dangerous ways...

Health Sites Let Ads Track Visitors Without Telling Them

Privacy policies didn't tell the whole story about third-party tools gathering personal information from the sites of medical and genetic-testing companies...

A $320 Million Crypto Hack Sends the DeFi World Reeling

Plus: News Corp gets hacked, UK snacks ransomware, and more of the week's top security news...

They Were ‘Calling to Help.’ Then They Stole Thousands

When my mom fell victim to a phone scam, we learned a painful truth: The explosion of personal finance apps makes it all too easy to target vulnerable people...

Welcome to the Burner Phone Olympics

China’s Winter Games are overshadowed by human rights problems and overreaching state surveillance...

North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet

Disappointed with the lack of US response to the Hermit Kingdom's attacks against US security researchers, one hacker took matters into his own hands...

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...

Inside Trickbot, Russia’s Notorious Ransomware Gang

Internal messages WIRED has viewed shed new light on the operators of one of the world's biggest botnets...

A DDoS Attack Wiped Out Andorra's Internet

Plus: Securing US water systems, the FBI's NSO Group dealings, and more of the week's top security news...

What's the Deal With Anti-Cheat Software in Online Games?

Cheat deterrents like kernel drivers are raising legitimate privacy concerns. But it's not all bad news...

Google Has a New Plan to Kill Cookies. People Are Still Mad

Google has scrapped FLoC, its controversial cookie replacement. Now it’s back with Topics—but rivals and privacy experts are still nervous...

Safari Flaws Exposed Webcams, Online Accounts, and More

Apple awarded a $100,500 bug bounty to the researcher who discovered the latest major vulnerability in its browser...

Why the Belarus Railways Hack Marks a First for Ransomware

The politically motivated attack represents a new frontier for hacktivists—and won’t be the last of its kind...

Now Is a Good Time to Update Your Recovery Email Addresses

You know those “emergency” email addresses you can use to get into your email and other accounts in case you're locked out? Make sure they're up-to-date...

Crypto.com Finally Admits It Lost $30 Million in a Hack

Plus: Scammer arrests, the NSA plays defense, and more of the week's top security news...

A Bug in iOS 15 Is Leaking User Browsing Activity in Real Time

Apple has known about the vulnerability, which also affects iPadOS 15 and Safari 15, since late November...

Europe’s Move Against Google Analytics Is Just the Beginning

Austria’s data regulator has found that the use of Google Analytics is a breach of GDPR. In the absence of a new EU-US data deal, other countries may follow...

‘Zero-Click’ Zoom Vulnerabilities Could Have Exposed Calls

The flaws are now fixed, but they speak to the growing concerns around interactionless attacks...

Destructive Hacks Against Ukraine Echo Its Last Cyberwar

A data wiper posing as ransomware bears a discomfiting resemblance to the earlier wave of Russian cyberattacks that ended with NotPetya...

How Apple's iCloud Private Relay Can Keep You Safe

The newest security measure is still in beta. But if you want to make use of it, here's what you need to know...

A Teen Took Control of Teslas by Hacking a Third-Party App

Plus: Open source sabotage, Ukrainian website hacks, and more of the week's top security news...

Russia Takes Down REvil Hackers—as Ukraine Tensions Mount

Over a dozen alleged members of the notorious ransomware group have been arrested, but the Kremlin's critics are wary of the underlying motivation...

North Korean Hackers Stole Nearly $400M in Crypto Last Year

The regime had a “banner year,” thanks to skyrocketing cryptocurrency values and a new generation of vulnerable startups...

NSO Group Spyware Targeted Dozens of Reporters in El Salvador

The newly disclosed campaign shows how little the company has done to curb abuses of its powerful surveillance tools...

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...