The Comedy of Errors That Let China-Backed Hackers Steal Microsoft’s Signing Key
Microsoft said in June that a China-backed hacking group had stolen a cryptographic key from the company’s systems. This key...
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How China Demands Tech Firms Reveal Hackable Flaws in Their Products
The researchers found, in fact, that some firms appear to be taking that second option. They point to a July...
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Generative AI’s Biggest Security Flaw Is Not Easy to Fix
It’s easy to trick the large language models powering chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard. In one experiment in...
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The Strange Afterlife of Wagner’s Yevgeny Prigozhin
Yveneny Prigozhin’s wartime atrocities propelled the brutal mercenary into the limelight. But Prigozhin—who was once Russian president Vladimir Putin’s chef...
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How to Use Proton Sentinel to Keep Your Accounts Safe
There’s a constant battle going on between software developers trying to keep their apps and platforms secure, and hackers and...
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2 Polish Men Arrested for Radio Hack That Disrupted Trains
A monthslong WIRED investigation published this week revealed the inner workings of the Trickbot ransomware gang, which has targeted hospitals,...
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Apple’s Decision to Kill Its CSAM Photo-Scanning Tool Sparks Fresh Controversy
In December, Apple said that it was killing an effort to design a privacy-preserving iCloud photo-scanning tool for detecting child...
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Google Fixes Serious Security Flaws in Chrome and Android
August has ended the summer in style with multiple patches issued by Microsoft, Google Chrome, and its competitor Firefox to...
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Unmasking Trickbot, One of the World’s Top Cybercrime Gangs
“The Russian criminal problem isn’t going anywhere. In fact, now it’s probably closer with the security services than it’s ever...
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The Weird, Big-Money World of Cybercrime Writing Contests
The criminal contests have their own rules to reduce the chance of cheating, Budd says. On Exploit, the rules say...
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The Cheap Radio Hack That Disrupted Poland’s Railway System
Since war first broke out between Ukraine and Russia in 2014, Russian hackers have at times used some of the...
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The Low-Stakes Race to Crack an Encrypted German U-Boat Message
“What am I supposed to see?” Krutzler asks, staring at his screen and bouncing his knee like he has a...
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