Eight years after a researcher warned WhatsApp that it was possible to extract user phone numbers en masse from the Meta-owned app, another team of researchers found that…
Read more US Border Patrol Is Spying on Millions of American DriversThe United States issued a seizure warrant to Starlink this week related to satellite internet infrastructure used in a scam compound in Myanmar. The action is part of…
Read more A Major Leak Spills a Chinese Hacking Contractor’s Tools and TargetsThe cloud giant Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday leading to cascading outages that took down wide swaths of the web. Monday’s meltdown illustrated the…
Read more Amazon Explains How Its AWS Outage Took Down the WebIn a stunning new study, researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Maryland revealed this week that satellites are leaking a wealth of sensitive data completely…
Read more Hackers Dox ICE, DHS, DOJ, and FBI OfficialsResearch published this week indicates that North Korean scammers are trying to trick US companies into hiring them for architectural design work, using fake profiles, résumés, and Social…
Read more ‘Happy Gilmore’ Producer Buys Spyware Maker NSO GroupPlus: China sentences scam bosses to death, Europe is ramping up its plans to build a “drone wall” to protect against Russian airspace violations, and more. Matt Burgess,…
Read more Apple and Google Pull ICE-Tracking Apps, Bowing to DOJ PressureNew research released this week shows that over the past few years the US Department of Homeland Security has collected DNA data of nearly 2,000 US citizens. The…
Read more An App Used to Dox Charlie Kirk Critics Doxed Its Own Users InsteadNew findings this week showed that a misconfigured platform used by the Department of Homeland Security left sensitive national security information—including data related to the surveillance of Americans—exposed…
Read more A Dangerous Worm Is Eating Its Way Through Software PackagesThe Biden administration considered spyware used to hack phones controversial enough that it was tightly restricted for US government use in an executive order signed in March 2024.…
Read more ICE Has Spyware NowAs students returned to school this week, WIRED spoke to a self-proclaimed leader of a violent online group known as “Purgatory” about a rash of swattings at universities…
Read more DOGE Put Everyone’s Social Security Data at Risk, Whistleblower ClaimsWith just days to go until the 2024 presidential election in the United States, WIRED reported on documents that revealed US government assessments about multiple components of election…
Read more Florida Man Accused of Hacking Disney World Menus, Changing Font to WingdingsThe Chinese spy operation adds to the growing sense of a melee of foreign digital interference in the election, which has already included Iranian hackers’ attempt to hack…
Read more Chinese Hackers Target Trump Campaign via Verizon BreachAnd that’s not all. Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. Click the headlines to read the full stories.…
Read more Google Chrome’s uBlock Origin Purge Has BegunPig butchering, the crypto-based scammer scourge that has pulled in an estimated $75 billion from victims globally, is spreading beyond its roots in Southeast Asia, with operations proliferating…
Read more The FBI Still Hasn’t Cracked NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ PhoneResearchers found a vulnerability in a Kia web portal that allowed them to track millions of cars, unlock doors, honk horns, and even start engines in seconds, just…
Read more The US Could Finally Ban Inane Forced Password ChangesThe week was dominated by news that thousands of pagers, walkie-talkies and other devices were exploding across Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday in an attack targeting the militant…
Read more Iranian Hackers Tried to Give Hacked Trump Campaign Emails to DemsAfter Apple’s product launch event this week, WIRED did a deep dive on the company’s new secure server environment, known as Private Cloud Compute, which attempts to replicate…
Read more A Creative Trick Makes ChatGPT Spit Out Bomb-Making InstructionsEven those of you who do everything you can to secure those secrets can find yourself vulnerable—especially if you’re using a YubiKey 5 authentication token. The multifactor authentication…
Read more Hackers Threaten to Leak Planned Parenthood DataPavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the communication app Telegram, was arrested in France on Saturday as part of an investigation into his and Telegram’s alleged failure…
Read more Taylor Swift Concert Terror Plot Was Thwarted by Key CIA TipThe United States Defense Department has ideas about a dramatic strategy for defending Taiwan against a Chinese military offensive that would involve deploying an “unmanned hellscape” consisting of…
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