The US Is Building a One-Stop Shop for Buying Your Data
This week, WIRED launched our Rogues issue—which included going a bit rough ourselves. WIRED senior correspondent Andy Greenberg flew to Louisiana to see how easy…
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Feds Charge 16 Russians Allegedly Tied to Botnets Used in Ransomware, Cyberattacks, and Spying
The hacker ecosystem in Russia, more than perhaps anywhere else in the world, has long blurred the lines between cybercrime, state-sponsored cyberwarfare, and espionage. Now…
Why 3D-Printing an Untraceable Ghost Gun Is Easier Than Ever
If you 3D print a frame of a Glock-style pistol, then you can buy the rest of the parts off the internet and assemble it,…
Mysterious Database of 184 Million Records Exposes Vast Array of Login Credentials
The possibility that data could be inadvertently exposed in a misconfigured or otherwise unsecured database is a longtime privacy nightmare that has been difficult to…
Authorities Carry Out Elaborate Global Takedown of Infostealer Heavily Used by Cybercriminals
Some infostealer operators bundle and sell this stolen data. But increasingly the compromised details have acted as a gateway for hackers to launch further attacks,…
3 Teens Almost Got Away With Murder. Then Police Found Their Google Searches
Not everyone is so cautious. Baker and Sandoval regularly field calls from police across the country asking for a copy of their warrant. Baker himself…
What to Expect When You’re Convicted
From Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraud-ridden crypto empire to Elizabeth Holmes’ sham biotech company to deepfakers on the internet bilking grandmas of their retirement savings, white-collar crime…
Trump Signs Controversial Law Targeting Nonconsensual Sexual Content
US President Donald Trump signed into law legislation on Monday nicknamed the Take It Down Act, which requires platforms to remove nonconsensual instances of “intimate…
A Silicon Valley VC Says He Got the IDF Starlink Access Within Days of October 7 Attack
Eyal did not reply to two follow-up messages that contained quotes from the webinar and offered Eyal the opportunity to correct or clarify anything that…
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…
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,…