The $6.3 Billion Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes
Within North Korea’s sprawling hacking operations—often designed to earn money for the highly sanctioned and repressive regime—TraderTraitor has stood out in recent years for its…
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A Hacker Targeted High-Stakes Poker Players With Malware That Exposed Their Cards
In a fitting sign of the times, the hacker’s carefully laid plans were foiled by an AI agent. It was September 25, 2026, and Alex,…
Bluesky Is Blocking Links to a Major Leak of DHS Employee Records
Bluesky is blocking users from opening links to a newly leaked archive of records on more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors,…
Massive Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers—Including Undercover ICE Agents
The DHS and DOJ did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment. The FBI referred WIRED’s inquiry to DHS. According to a WIRED analysis of…
Most Servers on the Planet Are Vulnerable to This Firmware Code-Execution Flaw
Defenders across the world face the burden of responding to yet another botched code-execution vulnerability, this time in boot-time firmware used by most of the…
ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance Operations in US History
Attorneys for 15 Minnesota residents facing federal conspiracy charges have obtained evidence of a sweeping, possibly unconstitutional spying operation carried out by Immigration and Customs…
UK Politician Jess Asato Got Deepfaked. Now She’s Taking xAI to Court
Jess Asato’s public campaigning for victims of online abuse put her in the crosshairs of Grok’s deepfake scandal. Then the UK member of parliament became…
The US Government Is Hiding a Secret Court Ruling About How It Spies on Americans
Two Democratic senators who have long overseen US intelligence say the Trump administration is illegally withholding a secret court’s findings from Congress until lawmakers renew…
The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable
Welcome to Kernel Panic, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To…
She Was the DEA’s Premier Crypto Detective. The Clues Led Straight to Her Own Family
To escape the chaos of her Russian childhood, Lili Infante became an American law enforcement prodigy. She pioneered the DEA’s investigations of the dark web—never…
Hackers Exploited the PHP Vulnerabilities Days Before They Were Patched
The internet’s mad scramble on Wednesday to patch a pair of critical vulnerabilities in PHP, a widely used web scripting language, was already too late…
AI Guardrails Aren’t Stopping Criminal Hackers
Hackers around the world are all-in on using agentic AI to wage attacks—and manipulating tools like Anthropic’s Claude to help them carry out their crimes.…