Telegram Is Still Hosting a Sanctioned $21 Billion Crypto Scammer Black Market
Xinbi Guarantee has also hosted a wide variety of other black market offerings, including harassment services that threaten or throw feces at a victim for…
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Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators
More than 70 civil liberties, domestic violence, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+, labor, and immigrant advocacy organizations are demanding that Meta abandon plans to deploy face recognition…
The Dumbest Hack of the Year Exposed a Very Real Problem
In the wee hours of the night last April, someone stopped at roughly 20 street intersections across Silicon Valley and launched an unprecedented cyberattack that…
How the Internet Broke Everyone’s Bullshit Detectors
Lego-style propaganda videos alleging war crimes are flooding online feeds, echoing the White House’s own turn toward cryptic teaser clips and meme-native visuals. This is…
Your Push Notifications Aren’t Safe From the FBI
Amid horrific threats from United States president Donald Trump as the US and Iran negotiated a ceasefire, the US government warned this week that Iran-linked…
Anthropic’s Mythos Will Force a Cybersecurity Reckoning—Just Not the One You Think
Anthropic said this week that the debut of its new Claude Mythos Preview model marks a critical juncture in the evolution of cybersecurity, representing an…
Politicians Are Spending More Money on Security as They Increasingly Become Targets
Federal campaign and political action committee spending on security during the 2024 election cycle was over five times the amount spent ahead of the 2016…
‘We Were Not Ready for This’: Lebanon’s Emergency System Is Hanging by a Thread
The last time a government official from Lebanon sat down to think carefully about national digital infrastructure, nobody expected another war with Israel. That’s how…
Men Are Buying Hacking Tools to Use Against Their Wives and Friends
Thousands of men are members of Telegram groups and channels that advertise and sell hacking and surveillance services that can be used to harass friends,…
Anthropic Teams Up With Its Rivals to Keep AI From Hacking Everything
Following leaked revelations at the end of March that Anthropic had developed a powerful new Claude model, the company formally announced Mythos Preview on Tuesday…
Iran-Linked Hackers Are Sabotaging US Energy and Water Infrastructure
As US President Donald Trump threatens wholesale demolition of Iran’s infrastructure in the midst of an escalating war, Iran now appears to have already reciprocated…
Border Patrol Agents Sold Challenge Coins With ‘Charlotte’s Web’ Characters in Riot Gear
US Border Patrol agents are raising money by selling coins that commemorate last year’s wave of immigration enforcement “operations” across the country, along with other…