Category: Wired

'We're a Fortress Now': The Militarization of US Elections Is Here
30
Oct
2024

‘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…

Cybercriminals Pose a Greater Threat of Disruptive US Election Hacks Than Russia or China
28
Oct
2024

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…

Chinese Hackers Target Trump Campaign via Verizon Breach
26
Oct
2024

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…

Meet ZachXBT, the Masked Vigilante Tracking Down Billions in Crypto Scams and Thefts
24
Oct
2024

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,…

Microsoft Warns Foreign Disinformation Is Hitting the US Election From All Directions
23
Oct
2024

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…

Nigeria Drops Charges Against Tigran Gambaryan, Jailed Binance Exec and Former IRS Agent
23
Oct
2024

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…

Exposed United Nations Database Left Sensitive Information Accessible Online
22
Oct
2024

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…

The Shitposting Cartoon Dogs Sending Trucks, Drones, and Weapons to Ukraine’s Front Lines
22
Oct
2024

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…

ICE's $2 Million Contract With a Spyware Vendor Is Under White House Review
21
Oct
2024

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…

US Government Says Relying on Chinese Lithium Batteries Is Too Risky
21
Oct
2024

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…

How a Trump Win Could Unleash Dangerous AI
21
Oct
2024

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…

Google Chrome’s uBlock Origin Purge Has Begun
19
Oct
2024

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….