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 Chinese-speaking threat actors and affiliates…
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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 200 Israeli and US gas…
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 US under a Biden-era humanitarian…
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 of selling targeted hacking tools.…
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 AI framework called llama.cpp. This…
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 company from 2020 to 2021,…
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 makes recommendations … and sometimes…
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 was also removed by Indiana…
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, had his professor profile, email…
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. Among the files, he observed…
Top Trump Officials’ Passwords and Personal Phone Numbers Discovered Online
While millions of people have been caught up in online data breaches and use inadequate privacy settings on their online accounts, high-level government security officials…
Even More Venmo Accounts Tied to Trump Officials in Signal Group Chat Left Data Public
Venmo did not immediately respond to WIRED’s request for comment. In a statement given to WIRED in response to questions about the Waltz and Wiles…