The US Is Calling Out Foreign Influence Campaigns Faster Than Ever
Ahead of the the 2024 US elections, the US intelligence community and law enforcement were on high alert and ready to share information—both among agencies…
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Russian Spies Jumped From One Network to Another Via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack
Only after the next intrusion, when Volexity managed to get more complete logs of the hackers’ traffic, did its analysts solve the mystery: The company…
Meta Finally Breaks Its Silence on Pig Butchering
Since roughly 2020, when the earliest pig butchering scams started to emerge, more than 200,000 people have been trafficked and held in compounds—mostly in Myanmar,…
China’s Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side Hustle
As further evidence of government surveillance insiders moonlighting in the data broker market, the SpyCloud researchers point to a leak earlier this year of communications…
Inside the Booming ‘AI Pimping’ Industry
AI-generated influencers based on stolen images of real-life adult content creators are flooding social media. Source link
Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany
Nearly every weekday morning, a device leaves a two-story home near Wiesbaden, Germany, and makes a 15-minute commute along a major autobahn. By around 7…
ICE Can Already Sidestep Sanctuary City Laws Through Data-Sharing Fusion Centers
On the campaign trail and in recent days, Donald Trump has detailed extensive plans for immigration crackdowns and mass deportations during his second term as…
Bitfinex Hacker Gets 5 Years for $10 Billion Bitcoin Heist
In perhaps the most adorable hacker story of the year, a trio of technologists in India found an innovative way to circumvent Apple’s location restrictions…
More Spyware, Fewer Rules: What Trump’s Return Means for US Cybersecurity
Trump is also unlikely to continue the Biden administration’s campaign to limit the proliferation of commercial spyware technologies, which authoritarian governments have used to harass…
Teen Behind Hundreds of Swatting Attacks Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges
In perhaps the largest swatting case to ever be prosecuted, an 18-year-old from Lancaster, California, has pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from a nationwide…
These Guys Hacked AirPods to Give Their Grandmas Hearing Aids
The group, which has a mixture of hardware and software skills and first detailed their hack as part of a technology collective called Lagrange Point,…
ICE Started Ramping Up Its Surveillance Arsenal Immediately After Donald Trump Won
Compared to its recent November notice, ICE was more detailed about its 2025 plans in a different notice released last year. This earlier notice shows…