Category: Wired
At WIRED, we’ve had a long-running obsession with rogues. This is, after all, a publication that was founded in the…
“Alright. Now we’ve got a gun,” PSR says. “Just make sure you don’t point it at anyone.” The finished and…
Amber Scorah knows only too well that powerful stories can change society—and that powerful organizations will try to undermine those…
As soon as Format Boy answers the phone, I recognize his booming voice. I’ve spent weeks immersed in the influencer’s…
They tried logging into secure.telemessage.com using a pair of these credentials and discovered that they had just hacked a user…
As analysts and governments around the world continue to call attention to North Korean digital fraud, researchers this week published…
For years, a Chinese-language market for crypto scammers and money launderers—by some measures, the internet’s biggest black market of all…
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has cancelled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of US…
The young developers are having the time of their lives. They pop open bottles of sparkling wine, eat steak dinners,…
With the rise of mercenary spyware and other targeted threats, tech giants like Apple, Google, and Microsoft have spent the…
Digital scammers have never been so successful. Last year Americans lost $16.6 billion to online crimes, with almost 200,000 people…
Those money laundering and scam-enabling services, however, are far from the only shady offerings found on Xinbi Guarantee’s market. Elliptic…