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Feds Seize $1 Billion in Stolen Silk Road Bitcoins
A hacker identified only as Individual X had been sitting on a cryptocurrency gold mine for seven years before the IRS came knocking...
WhatsApp Is Adding Disappearing Messages—With Some Limits
The popular encrypted messaging app now lets you automatically make chats vanish after a week, but look out for a few caveats...
One Clear Message From Voters This Election? More Privacy
Ballot measures were approved in California to restrict commercial use of user data and in Michigan to require warrants for searches of electronic information...
The FBI Says ‘Boogaloo Boys’ Bought 3D-Printed Gun Parts
A criminal complaint alleges that a West Virginia man disguised the plastic components as wall hangers and sold hundreds of them online...
This Ballot-Count Livestream Is the Only Thing Worth Watching
Take a deep breath and enjoy democracy at work...
Donald Trump Hasn't ‘Already Won’ the Election
Despite the president’s claims of victory, his reelection bid depends on a huge number of votes that have yet to be counted...
At Least Election Day Didn't Melt Down
With most polls closed, the worst-case scenarios about ransomware and misinformation meltdowns have seemingly not come to pass...
Can I Vote Online?
Election Day can be confusing, even if you're locked in on Joe Biden or Donald Trump. Here's what to know before you go to the polls...
Zoom Finally Has End-to-End Encryption. Here's How to Use It
You can lock down your meetings like never before—even if you have to give up a few features to do so...
Beware a New Google Drive Scam Landing in Inboxes
Scammers are luring people into Google Docs in an attempt to get them to visit potentially malicious websites...
The Wisconsin GOP Lost $2.3 Million in an Email Scam
Trump's website gets hacked, a ransomware group calls it quits, and more of the week's top security news...
A Navy SEAL, a Quadcopter, and a Quest to Save Lives in Combat
On the battlefield, any doorway can be a death trap. A special ops vet, and his businessman brother, have built an AI to solve that problem...
Ransomware Hits Dozens of Hospitals in an Unprecedented Wave
As Covid-19 infections spike in many parts of the US, malware gangs are wreaking havoc on the health care system...
All the Ways Slack Tracks You—and How to Stop It
From changing privacy settings to putting limits on those infuriating notifications, here’s how to take control of Slack...
'Watch Dogs: Legion' Tackles Surveillance Without Humanity
The game envisions a near future full of techno-dystopian surveillance, but it doesn't have much to say about the people it affects...
New Research Reveals the Hidden Downsides of Link Previews
The feature is convenient, but it can also leak sensitive data, consume bandwidth, and drain batteries. And some sites are worse than others...
A Hacker Is Threatening to Leak Patients' Therapy Notes
An extortionist has turned a breach of Finland's Vastaamo mental health services provider into a nightmare for victims...
The Russian Hackers Playing 'Chekhov's Gun' With US Targets
Berserk Bear has had plenty of opportunity to cause serious trouble. So why hasn't it yet?...
The Unsinkable Maddie Stone, Google’s Bug-Hunting Badass
The Project Zero reverse engineer shuts down some of the world's most dangerous exploits—along with antiquated hacker stereotypes...
How to Clean Up Your Digital History
There are plenty of reasons to declutter your online traces. Here’s how to tidy up...
Did a Security Researcher Guess Trump’s Twitter Password?
Plus: An Among Us spam attack, China’s favorite vulnerabilities, and more of the week’s top security news...
The US Sanctions Russians for Potentially ‘Fatal’ Malware
The message is meant to deter any similar attack against US infrastructure...
How 30 Lines of Code Blew Up a 27-Ton Generator
A secret experiment in 2007 proved that hackers could devastate power grid equipment beyond repair—with a file no bigger than a gif...
How Police Can Crack Locked Phones—and Extract Information
A report finds 50,000 cases where law enforcement agencies turned to outside firms to bypass the encryption on a mobile device...
Facebook Promises Privacy Reform. Critics Aren't Convinced
In an interview with WIRED, Facebook's chief privacy officers argue that the company has turned a corner. Again...
12 Cyber Threats That Could Wreak Havoc on the Election
From targeted misinformation to manipulated data, these are the cybersecurity concerns election officials worry about most...
A Deepfake Porn Bot Is Being Used to Abuse Thousands of Women
An AI tool that “removes” items of clothing from photos has targeted more than 100,000 women, some of whom appear to be under the age of 18...
US Indicts Sandworm, Russia's Most Destructive Cyberwar Unit
The Department of Justice has named and charged six men for allegedly carrying out many of the most costly cyberattacks in history...
A Cut Cable Knocked Out Virginia’s Voter Registration Site
Plus: Barnes and Noble got hacked, Zoom adds real end-to-end encryption, and more of the week’s top security news...
The Impossible Dilemma of Twitter’s ‘Hacked Materials’ Rule
The company’s flip-flopping on the policy after banning a shady New York Post story highlights the challenges facing social media in 2020...
Fancy Bear Imposters Are on a Hacking Extortion Spree
Nice looking website you've got there. It'd be a shame if someone DDoS'd it...
The Media Just Passed a Test It Failed Four Years Ago
In an interview with WIRED, Columbia Journalism School dean Steve Coll says the media has learned some important lessons since 2016 about covering stolen email leaks...
A Trickbot Assault Shows US Military Hackers' Growing Reach
Despite the operation's short-term effects, it sets new precedents for the scope of Cyber Command's mission...
Internet Freedom Has Taken a Hit During the Covid-19 Pandemic
From surveillance to arrests, governments are using the novel coronavirus as cover for a crackdown on digital liberty...
The Man Who Speaks Softly—and Commands a Big Cyber Army
Meet General Paul Nakasone. He reined in chaos at the NSA and taught the US military how to launch pervasive cyberattacks. And he did it all without you noticing...
Split-Second ‘Phantom’ Images Can Fool Tesla’s Autopilot
Researchers found they could stop a Tesla by flashing a few frames of a stop sign for less than half a second on an internet-connected billboard...
Amazon's Latest Gimmicks Are Pushing the Limits of Privacy
Privacy advocates warn that the Ring Always Home Cam and Amazon One both normalize aggressive new forms of data collection...
Researchers Found 55 Flaws in Apple's Corporate Network
The company has patched the vulnerabilities and paid the team of white-hat hackers $288,000...
The Law Comes for John McAfee
Plus: A buggy chastity lock, Iranian disinformation, and more of the week’s top security news...
Android Ransomware Has Picked Up Some Ominous New Tricks
While it's still far more common on PCs, mobile ransomware has undergone a worrying evolution, new research shows...
Behind Anduril’s Effort to Create an Operating System for War
The company, launched by Oculus cofounder Palmer Luckey, is building software to connect multiple Air Force systems—allowing officers to act more quickly...
How Google's Android Keyboard Keeps ‘Smart Replies’ Private
The latest Gboard feature needs to know as much as possible about your digital life to work—but doesn't share that data with Google...
Apple's T2 Security Chip Has an Unfixable Flaw
The Checkm8 vulnerability that exposed years of iPhones to jailbreaking has finally been exploited in Macs as well...
A Poker Pro Accused of Cheating Wants $330M in Damages
Mike Postle claims he was the victim of an elaborate online campaign to tar him as a fraud—and he's suing a dozen defendants...
A Dangerous Year in America Enters Its Most Dangerous Month
Seven distinct factors between now and the election threaten to combine, compound, and reinforce each other in unpredictable ways...
A China-Linked Group Repurposed Hacking Team’s Stealthy Spyware
The tool attacks a device’s UEFI firmware—which makes it especially hard to detect and destroy...
Paying Evil Corp Ransomware Might Land You a Big Federal Fine
Plus: A Grindr bug, a Joker explosion, and more of the week's top security news...
Those ‘Doomsday Planes’ Have Nothing to Do With Trump's Covid-19 Test
Yes, two Boeing E-6B Mercury were flying last night. No, that's not because of the president's positive test...
The Strangest Election Scenario Runs Through Georgia
There’s a small but real possibility that we won’t know which party controls the Senate until 2021, thanks to a special election and a unique state requirement...
Facebook Shut Down Malware That Hijacked Accounts to Run Ads
Hackers spent $4 million of victims’ money to buy ads for diet pills, fake designer handbags, and more...