69,000 Bitcoins Are Headed for the US Treasury—While the Agent Who Seized Them Is in Jail
In November of 2020, a person identified by the US Department of Justice only as “Individual X” sat down with...
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What Google’s U-Turn on Third-Party Cookies Means for Chrome Privacy
The apparent death of cookies also won’t matter much to Google, which has a ton of data from multiple services...
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Stealthy Malware Has Infected Thousands of Linux Systems for Years
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The FBI Still Hasn’t Cracked NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ Phone
Pig butchering, the crypto-based scammer scourge that has pulled in an estimated $75 billion from victims globally, is spreading beyond...
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How This Video Game Controller Became the US Military’s Weapon of Choice
In a future conflict, American troops will direct the newest war machines not with sprawling control panels or sci-fi-inspired touchscreens,...
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License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of Political Lawn Signs and Bumper Stickers
While people place signs in their lawns or bumper stickers on their cars to inform people of their views and...
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ICE Signs $2 Million Contract With Spyware Maker Paragon Solutions
Paragon was founded in 2019 by veterans from the Israel Defense Forces’ powerful intelligence Unit 8200 with the active involvement...
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Notorious Evil Corp Hackers Targeted NATO Allies for Russian Intelligence
International law enforcement has worked for years to disrupt the cybercriminal gang Evil Corp and its egregious global crime spree....
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The Pig Butchering Invasion Has Begun
“What we’ve seen is criminal groups who are invested in this region here, looking beyond this region for establishing similar...
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The US Could Finally Ban Inane Forced Password Changes
Researchers found a vulnerability in a Kia web portal that allowed them to track millions of cars, unlock doors, honk...
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Amid Air Strikes and Rockets, an SMS From the Enemy
At the start of September, Nour was having an ordinary evening at home in Beirut—eating pumpkin seeds and watching Netflix—when...
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Millions of Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple Website Bug
In January 2023, they published the initial results of their work, an enormous collection of web vulnerabilities affecting Kia, Honda,...
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