This Cryptomining Tool Is Stealing Secrets
As the Israel-Hamas war raged on this week and Israel expanded its ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, the territory’s compromised internet infrastructure and access…
Category: Wired
The Destruction of Gaza’s Internet Is Complete
For more than three weeks, Gaza has faced an almost total internet blackout. The cables, cell towers, and infrastructure needed to keep people online have…
TikTok Streamers Are Staging ‘Israel vs. Palestine’ Live Matches to Cash In on Virtual Gifts
Live matches, also known as player knockout or PK battles, have been a feature on TikTok since at least 2021, though TikTok does not mention…
Maine Mass Shooting Disinformation Floods Social Media as Suspect Remains at Large
“It’s as if everyone thinks disinformation is a problem, but not for them personally—only for *other* people,” Caroline Orr, a behavioral scientist and postdoctoral researcher…
Okta’s Latest Security Breach Is Haunted by the Ghost of Incidents Past
“This is the second time Cloudflare has been impacted by a breach of Okta’s systems,” a group of Cloudflare engineers wrote on Friday. They went…
Elon Musk Mocked Ukraine, and Russian Trolls Went Wild
The Antibot4Navalny group monitors inauthentic accounts on X, focusing on the Russian language, and it identifies accounts that may not be genuine by analyzing their…
The AI-Generated Child Abuse Nightmare Is Here
A horrific new era of ultrarealistic, AI-generated, child sexual abuse images is now underway, experts warn. Offenders are using downloadable open source generative AI models,…
A Controversial Plan to Scan Private Messages for Child Abuse Meets Fresh Scandal
Danny Mekić, an Amsterdam-based PhD researcher, was studying a proposed European law meant to combat child sexual abuse when he came across a rather odd…
A Powerful Tool US Spies Misused to Stalk Women Faces Its Potential Demise
A federal law authorizing a vast amount of the United States military’s foreign intelligence collection is set to expire in two months, pulling the plug…
They Cracked the Code to a Locked USB Drive Worth $235 Million in Bitcoin. Then It Got Weird
Because the chip’s read-only memory, or ROM, is built into the layout of its physical wiring for better efficiency, Unciphered’s visual model gave it a…
The Hamas Threat of Hostage Execution Videos Looms Large Over Social Media
Ahmed alleges that the companies are failing to implement systems that automatically detect violent extremist content as effectively as they detect some other kinds of…
The 23andMe User Data Leak May Be Far Worse Than Believed
With the Israel-Hamas war intensifying by the day, many people are desperate for accurate information about the conflict. Getting it has proven difficult. This has…