The Collapse of USAID Is Fueling Human Trafficking and Slavery at Scammer Compounds
“Our partners say that for some survivors they are in touch with inside the scam centers, even if they can somehow manage to get out,…
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Despite Catastrophic Hacks, Ransomware Payments Dropped Dramatically Last Year
But in fact, both law enforcement operations may have been more successful than they appeared. AlphV, after receiving its $22 million ransom from Change Healthcare,…
Meet the Hired Guns Who Make Sure School Cyberattacks Stay Hidden
Schools have faced an onslaught of cyberattacks since the pandemic disrupted education nationwide five years ago, yet district leaders across the country have employed a…
Foreign Hackers Are Using Google’s Gemini in Attacks on the US
The rapid rise of DeepSeek, a Chinese generative AI platform, heightened concerns this week over the United States’ AI dominance as Americans increasingly adopt Chinese-owned…
DeepSeek’s Safety Guardrails Failed Every Test Researchers Threw at Its AI Chatbot
“Jailbreaks persist simply because eliminating them entirely is nearly impossible—just like buffer overflow vulnerabilities in software (which have existed for over 40 years) or SQL…
Exposed DeepSeek Database Revealed Chat Prompts and Internal Data
“It’s pretty shocking to build an AI model and leave the backdoor wide open from a security perspective,” says independent security researcher Jeremiah Fowler, who…
The Trial at the Tip of the Terrorgram Iceberg
Brandon Russell, arguably one of the most influential figures in the American neofascist revival of the past decade, is on trial this week over an…
DeepSeek’s Popular AI App Is Explicitly Sending US Data to China
The final category of information DeepSeek reserves the right to collect is data from other sources. If you create a DeepSeek account using Google or…
Scammers Are Creating Fake News Videos to Blackmail Victims
Typically, Yahoo Boy scammers message hundreds of people online while posing as members of the opposite sex using pictures stolen from social media profiles. They…
US Privacy Snags a Win as Judge Limits Warrantless FBI Searches
This week started off with a bang and just kept going. In the wee hours of Saturday night, TikTok cut off access to users in…
Subaru Security Flaws Exposed Its System for Tracking Millions of Cars
Curry and Shah reported their findings to Subaru in late November, and Subaru quickly patched its Starlink security flaws. But the researchers warn that the…
Under Trump, US Cyberdefense Loses Its Head
Chinese hacks, rampant ransomware, and Donald Trump’s budget cuts all threaten US security. In an exit interview with WIRED, former CISA head Jen Easterly argues…