Who Even Is a Criminal Now?
At WIRED, we’ve had a long-running obsession with rogues. This is, after all, a publication that was founded in the early ’90s, born of a…
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We 3D-Printed Luigi Mangione’s Ghost Gun. It Was Entirely Legal
“Alright. Now we’ve got a gun,” PSR says. “Just make sure you don’t point it at anyone.” The finished and assembled gun, complete with 3D-printed…
For Tech Whistleblowers, There’s Safety in Numbers
Amber Scorah knows only too well that powerful stories can change society—and that powerful organizations will try to undermine those who tell them. In 2015,…
How to Win Followers and Scamfluence People
As soon as Format Boy answers the phone, I recognize his booming voice. I’ve spent weeks immersed in the influencer’s back catalog of videos and…
How the Signal Knockoff App TeleMessage Got Hacked in 20 Minutes
They tried logging into secure.telemessage.com using a pair of these credentials and discovered that they had just hacked a user with an email address associated…
Coinbase Will Reimburse Customers Up to $400 Million After Data Breach
As analysts and governments around the world continue to call attention to North Korean digital fraud, researchers this week published 1,000 email addresses they claim…
The Internet’s Biggest-Ever Black Market Just Shut Down Amid a Telegram Purge
For years, a Chinese-language market for crypto scammers and money launderers—by some measures, the internet’s biggest black market of all time—operated in plain sight on…
CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has cancelled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of US data brokers to sell sensitive…
North Korean IT Workers Are Being Exposed on a Massive Scale
The young developers are having the time of their lives. They pop open bottles of sparkling wine, eat steak dinners, play soccer together, and lounge…
Google’s Advanced Protection for Vulnerable Users Comes to Android
With the rise of mercenary spyware and other targeted threats, tech giants like Apple, Google, and Microsoft have spent the last few years trying to…
Google Is Using On-Device AI to Spot Scam Texts and Investment Fraud
Digital scammers have never been so successful. Last year Americans lost $16.6 billion to online crimes, with almost 200,000 people reporting scams like phishing and…
An $8.4 Billion Chinese Hub for Crypto Crime Is Incorporated in Colorado
Those money laundering and scam-enabling services, however, are far from the only shady offerings found on Xinbi Guarantee’s market. Elliptic also found listings for surrogate…