Russian Ransomware Gang Attack Destabilizes UK Royal Mail
A WIRED investigation this week found that the app SweepWizard, which some US law enforcement agencies use to coordinate raids,...
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In the Fight Against Scams, ‘Cyber Ambassadors’ Enter the Chat
Police in the Indian state of Telangana have found a novel way to help people avoid getting swindled online: grassroots...
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A Police App Exposed Secret Details About Raids and Suspects
Last September, law enforcement agents from five counties in Southern California coordinated an operation to investigate, raid, and arrest more...
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A Siemens S7-1500 Logic Controller Flaw Raises the Specter of Stuxnet
“This separate crypto core is a very rudimentary chip. It’s not like a big processor, so it doesn’t really know...
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Slack Discloses Breach of Its Github Code Repository
Ever since Elon Musk spent $44 billion on Twitter and laid off a large percentage of the company’s staff, there have been concerns...
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Twitter Data Leak: What the Exposure of 200 Million User Emails Means for You
After reports at the end of 2022 that hackers were selling data stolen from 400 million Twitter users, researchers now...
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January 6 Report: 11 Details You May Have Missed
To put a fine point on it: The Secret Service agents surrounding the Vice President believed they were about to...
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Turla, a Russian Espionage Group, Piggybacked on Other Hackers’ USB Infections
The Russian cyberespionage group known as Turla became infamous in 2008 as the hackers behind agent.btz, a virulent piece of...
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WhatsApp Launches Proxy Tool to Fight Internet Censorship
The company says it started putting the capability for proxies to be used in WhatsApp in the final few months...
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Cops Hacked Thousands of Phones. Was It Legal?
For a week in October 2020, Christian Lödden’s potential clients wanted to talk about only one thing. Every person whom...
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What Is a Pig Butchering Scam?
Digital swindles like business email compromises and romance scams generate billions of dollars for criminals. And they all start with...
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The holiday season is almost over, but security patches are still continuing to arrive thick and fast in December. The...
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