Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess| Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0000
New research shows at least a million inexpensive Android devices—from TV streaming boxes to car infotainment systems—are compromised to allow bad actors to commit ad fraud and other cybercrime.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Andy Greenberg| Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2025 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: The FBI pins that ByBit theft on North Korea, a malicious app download breaches Disney, spyware targets a priest close to the pope, and more.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000
A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands of people are enslaved—are using Starlink to get online.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 19:43:33 +0000
Cloud “container” defenses have inconsistencies that can give attackers too much access. A new company, Edera, is taking on that challenge and the problem of the male-dominated startup world.
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Credit to Author: Reece Rogers| Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000
An alleged job scam, led by “Aiden” from “OpenAI,” recruited workers in Bangladesh for months before disappearing overnight, according to FTC complaints obtained by WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Noah Shachtman| Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
In the epic US-Russian prisoner swap last summer, Vladimir Putin brought home an assassin, spies, and another prized ally: the man behind one of the biggest insider trading cases of all time.
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Credit to Author: Anna Wolfe, Sarah Cammarata| Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:26:04 +0000
A WIRED investigation goes inside the Telegram groups targeting women who joined “Are We Dating the Same Guy?” groups on Facebook with doxing, harassment, and sharing of nonconsensual intimate images.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:14:58 +0000
One of the most notorious providers of abuse-friendly “bulletproof” web hosting for cybercriminals has started routing its operations through networks run by the Russian antivirus and security firm Kaspersky Lab, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 03:39:25 +0000
A U.S. Army soldier who pleaded guilty last week to leaking phone records for high-ranking U.S. government officials searched online for non-extradition countries and for an answer to the question “can hacking be treason?” prosecutors in the case said Wednesday. The government disclosed the details in a court motion to keep the defendant in custody until he is discharged from the military.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 23:02:14 +0000
One month into his second term, President Trump’s actions to shrink the government through mass layoffs, firings and withholding funds allocated by Congress have thrown federal cybersecurity and consumer protection programs into disarray. At the same time, agencies are battling an ongoing effort by the world’s richest man to wrest control over their networks and data.
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