The Rise of ‘Vibe Hacking’ Is the Next AI Nightmare
Google did not respond to a request for comment. In 2023, security researchers at Trend Micro got ChatGPT to generate...
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The US Grid Attack Looming on the Horizon
When the lights went out across the Iberian Peninsula in April, everything ground to a halt. Scores of people were...
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See How Much Faster a Quantum Computer Will Crack Encryption
A quantum computer will likely one day be able to break the encryption protecting the world’s secrets. See how much...
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The Texting Network for the End of the World
This may be obvious, but you also need to have a network set up before disaster hits, Meadows says. So,...
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Deepfake Scams Are Distorting Reality Itself
Imagine you meet someone new. Be it on a dating app or social media, you chance across each other online...
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The Race to Build Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ Missile Defense System Is On
While the US military has spent lavishly on missile defense over the past few decades, it has “little to show”...
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How the Farm Industry Spied on Animal Rights Activists and Pushed the FBI to Treat Them as Bioterrorists
Hundreds of emails and internal documents reviewed by WIRED reveal top lobbyists and representatives of America’s agricultural industry led a...
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A Hacker May Have Deepfaked Trump’s Chief of Staff in a Phishing Campaign
For years, a mysterious figure who goes by the handle Stern led the Trickbot ransomware gang and evaded identification—even as...
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Cops in Germany Claim They’ve ID’d the Mysterious Trickbot Ransomware Kingpin
Several cybersecurity researchers who have tracked Trickbot extensively tell WIRED they were unaware of the announcement. An anonymous account on...
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A Swedish MMA Tournament Spotlights the Trump Administration’s Handling of Far-Right Terrorism
The 2024 Swedish tournament mirrors similar extreme right-wing martial arts tournaments hosted elsewhere in Europe for years. It also indicates...
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The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database
The United States government has collected DNA samples from upwards of 133,000 migrant children and teenagers—including at least one 4-year-old—and...
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