Category: Wired

TraderTraitor: The Kings of the Crypto Heist
14
Apr
2025

TraderTraitor: The Kings of the Crypto Heist

On February 21, the largest crypto heist ever started to unfold. Hackers gained control of a crypto wallet belonging to…

Brass Typhoon: The Chinese Hacking Group Lurking in the Shadows
14
Apr
2025

Brass Typhoon: The Chinese Hacking Group Lurking in the Shadows

As China continues its digital gambit around the world, researchers are warning that hacking activity from long-tracked groups is evolving…

Smishing Triad: The Scam Group Stealing the World’s Riches
14
Apr
2025

Smishing Triad: The Scam Group Stealing the World’s Riches

One of the most prominent of the smishing actors is often referred to as the Smishing Triad—although security researchers group…

CyberAv3ngers: The Iranian Saboteurs Hacking Water and Gas Systems Worldwide
14
Apr
2025

CyberAv3ngers: The Iranian Saboteurs Hacking Water and Gas Systems Worldwide

Around the same time, CyberAv3ngers also posted on Telegram that it had hacked into the digital systems of more than…

Homeland Security Email Tells a US Citizen to 'Immediately' Self-Deport
13
Apr
2025

Homeland Security Email Tells a US Citizen to ‘Immediately’ Self-Deport

The Trump administration has sought to revoke the parole of some 532,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans who entered the…

China Secretly (and Weirdly) Admits It Hacked US Infrastructure
12
Apr
2025

China Secretly (and Weirdly) Admits It Hacked US Infrastructure

The Israeli spyware maker NSO Group has been on the US Department of Commerce “blacklist” since 2021 over its business…

Sex-Fantasy Chatbots Are Leaking a Constant Stream of Explicit Messages
11
Apr
2025

Sex-Fantasy Chatbots Are Leaking a Constant Stream of Explicit Messages

All of the 400 exposed AI systems found by UpGuard have one thing in common: They use the open source…

Spyware Maker NSO Group Is Paving a Path Back Into Trump’s America
09
Apr
2025

Spyware Maker NSO Group Is Paving a Path Back Into Trump’s America

Other NSO-connected figures also have close Trump ties: Bryan Lanza, a partner at Mercury Public Affairs, which consulted for the…

NSA Chief Ousted Amid Trump Loyalty Firing Spree
05
Apr
2025

NSA Chief Ousted Amid Trump Loyalty Firing Spree

Speaking aboard Air Force One on Thursday, Trump confirmed the NSC dismissals and acknowledged Loomer’s role in advising him. “She…

Cybersecurity Professor Faced China-Funding Inquiry Before Disappearing, Sources Say
02
Apr
2025

Cybersecurity Professor Faced China-Funding Inquiry Before Disappearing, Sources Say

Jason Covert, one of attorneys representing Xiaofeng Wang and his wife, Nianli Ma, a library systems analyst whose employee profile…

Cybersecurity Professor Mysteriously Disappears as FBI Raids His Homes
31
Mar
2025

Cybersecurity Professor Mysteriously Disappears as FBI Raids His Homes

A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado,…

An AI Image Generator’s Exposed Database Reveals What People Really Used It For
31
Mar
2025

An AI Image Generator’s Exposed Database Reveals What People Really Used It For

As well as CSAM, Fowler says, there were AI-generated pornographic images of adults in the database plus potential “face-swap” images….