Category: Wired

A Mysterious Hacking Group Has 2 New Tools to Steal Data From Air-Gapped Machines
12
Oct
2024

A Mysterious Hacking Group Has 2 New Tools to Steal Data From Air-Gapped Machines

The newly discovered toolkit is composed of many different building blocks, written in multiple languages and capabilities. The overall goal…

Internet Archive Breach Exposes 31 Million Users
10
Oct
2024

Internet Archive Breach Exposes 31 Million Users

An illicit JavaScript popup on the Internet Archive proclaimed on Wednesday afternoon that the site had suffered a major data…

69,000 Bitcoins Are Headed for the US Treasury—While the Agent Who Seized Them Is in Jail
09
Oct
2024

69,000 Bitcoins Are Headed for the US Treasury—While the Agent Who Seized Them Is in Jail

In November of 2020, a person identified by the US Department of Justice only as “Individual X” sat down with…

What Google's U-Turn on Third-Party Cookies Means for Chrome Privacy
08
Oct
2024

What Google’s U-Turn on Third-Party Cookies Means for Chrome Privacy

The apparent death of cookies also won’t matter much to Google, which has a ton of data from multiple services…

Stealthy Malware Has Infected Thousands of Linux Systems for Years
05
Oct
2024

Stealthy Malware Has Infected Thousands of Linux Systems for Years

Other discussions include: Reddit, Stack Overflow (Spanish), forobeta (Spanish), brainycp (Russian), natnetwork (Indonesian), Proxmox (Deutsch), Camel2243 (Chinese), svrforum (Korean), exabytes,…

The FBI Still Hasn’t Cracked NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ Phone
05
Oct
2024

The FBI Still Hasn’t Cracked NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ Phone

Pig butchering, the crypto-based scammer scourge that has pulled in an estimated $75 billion from victims globally, is spreading beyond…

How This Video Game Controller Became the US Military’s Weapon of Choice
04
Oct
2024

How This Video Game Controller Became the US Military’s Weapon of Choice

In a future conflict, American troops will direct the newest war machines not with sprawling control panels or sci-fi-inspired touchscreens,…

License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of Political Lawn Signs and Bumper Stickers
03
Oct
2024

License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of Political Lawn Signs and Bumper Stickers

While people place signs in their lawns or bumper stickers on their cars to inform people of their views and…

ICE Signs $2 Million Contract With Spyware Maker Paragon Solutions
01
Oct
2024

ICE Signs $2 Million Contract With Spyware Maker Paragon Solutions

Paragon was founded in 2019 by veterans from the Israel Defense Forces’ powerful intelligence Unit 8200 with the active involvement…

Notorious Evil Corp Hackers Targeted NATO Allies for Russian Intelligence
01
Oct
2024

Notorious Evil Corp Hackers Targeted NATO Allies for Russian Intelligence

International law enforcement has worked for years to disrupt the cybercriminal gang Evil Corp and its egregious global crime spree….

The Pig Butchering Invasion Has Begun
30
Sep
2024

The Pig Butchering Invasion Has Begun

“What we’ve seen is criminal groups who are invested in this region here, looking beyond this region for establishing similar…

The US Could Finally Ban Inane Forced Password Changes
28
Sep
2024

The US Could Finally Ban Inane Forced Password Changes

Researchers found a vulnerability in a Kia web portal that allowed them to track millions of cars, unlock doors, honk…