Credit to Author: Dell Cameron, William Turton| Date: Wed, 08 May 2024 17:48:45 +0000
An internal email from FBI deputy director Paul Abbate, obtained by WIRED, tells employees to search for “US persons” in a controversial spy program’s database that investigators have repeatedly misused.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 08 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Despite Cyber Army of Russia’s claims of swaying US “minds and hearts,” experts say the cyber sabotage group appears to be hyping its hacking for a domestic audience.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Tue, 07 May 2024 14:19:35 +0000
Law enforcement officials from the US, UK, and Australia say they’ve identified and sanctioned the person behind LockBitSupp, the administrator at the heart of LockBit’s $120 million hacking rampage.
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Credit to Author: Kate O’Flaherty| Date: Mon, 06 May 2024 11:30:00 +0000
The iPhone maker has detected spyware attacks against people in more than 150 countries. Knowing if your device is infected can be tricky—but there are a few steps you can take to protect yourself.
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Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra, Dell Cameron| Date: Sat, 04 May 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: An assassination plot, an AI security bill, a Project Nimbus revelation, and more of the week’s top security news.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Fri, 03 May 2024 09:00:00 +0000
“Yahoo Boy” cybercriminals are openly running dozens of scams across Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, TikTok, YouTube, and more.
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Credit to Author: Jordan Pearson| Date: Thu, 02 May 2024 15:24:21 +0000
Outabox, an Australian firm that scanned faces for bars and clubs, suffered a breach that shows the problems with giving companies your biometric data.
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Credit to Author: Justin Ling| Date: Thu, 02 May 2024 06:00:00 +0000
Ukraine needs small drones to combat Russian forces—and is bootstrapping its own industry at home.
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Credit to Author: Eric Geller| Date: Wed, 01 May 2024 16:01:53 +0000
The Biden administration is asking tech companies to sign a pledge, obtained by WIRED, to improve their digital security, including reduced default password use and improved vulnerability disclosures.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 01 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000
Blockchain analysis firm Elliptic, MIT, and IBM have released a new AI model—and the 200-million-transaction dataset it’s trained on—that aims to spot the “shape” of bitcoin money laundering.
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