‘We’re a Fortress Now’: The Militarization of US Elections Is Here
Drones, snipers, razor wire, sniffer dogs, body armor, bulletproof glass, and 24-hour armed security. This is not a list of protections in place for a…
Category: Wired
Cybercriminals Pose a Greater Threat of Disruptive US Election Hacks Than Russia or China
Russian, Chinese, and Iranian state-backed hackers have been active throughout the 2024 United States campaign season, compromising digital accounts associated with political campaigns, spreading disinformation,…
Chinese Hackers Target Trump Campaign via Verizon Breach
The Chinese spy operation adds to the growing sense of a melee of foreign digital interference in the election, which has already included Iranian hackers’…
Meet ZachXBT, the Masked Vigilante Tracking Down Billions in Crypto Scams and Thefts
As ZachXBT has pursued that career as a crypto vigilante, he has also kept his mask firmly in place. Online, he appears only as his…
Microsoft Warns Foreign Disinformation Is Hitting the US Election From All Directions
As November 5 draws closer, the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center (MTAC) warned on Wednesday that malicious foreign influence operations launched by Russia, China, and Iran…
Nigeria Drops Charges Against Tigran Gambaryan, Jailed Binance Exec and Former IRS Agent
For eight months, the criminal investigator who pioneered cryptocurrency tracing as a law enforcement technique has, in a bizarre twist of fate, been detained and…
Exposed United Nations Database Left Sensitive Information Accessible Online
A database containing sensitive, sometimes personal information from the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women was openly accessible on the internet, revealing…
The Shitposting Cartoon Dogs Sending Trucks, Drones, and Weapons to Ukraine’s Front Lines
The fundraising drives are organized on Discord, Signal, and Telegram—but not on X, the platform that the NAFO movement has thrived on for years. “People…
ICE’s $2 Million Contract With a Spyware Vendor Is Under White House Review
A $2 million contract that United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement signed with Israeli commercial spyware vendor Paragon Solutions has been paused and placed under…
US Government Says Relying on Chinese Lithium Batteries Is Too Risky
Analysts at the US Department of Homeland Security shared an internal report to local agencies in August, warning them about the economic risks of using…
How a Trump Win Could Unleash Dangerous AI
The reporting requirements are essential for alerting the government to potentially dangerous new capabilities in increasingly powerful AI models, says a US government official who…
Google Chrome’s uBlock Origin Purge Has Begun
And that’s not all. Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. Click the headlines to read…