Credit to Author: WIRED Staff| Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2023 12:00:00 +0000
From Sam Altman and Elon Musk to ransomware gangs and state-backed hackers, these are the individuals and groups that spent this year disrupting the world we know it.
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Credit to Author: Amanda Hoover| Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2023 12:00:00 +0000
I tried to sell a futon on Facebook Marketplace and nearly all I got were scammers.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 19:34:33 +0000
After an 18-month rampage, global law enforcement finally moved against the notorious Alphv/BlackCat ransomware group. Within hours, the operation faced obstacles.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Andrew Couts| Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2023 01:02:52 +0000
Plus: Hackers reveal flaws in crypto wallets holding $1 billion, a massive breach of Danish electric utilities, and more.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2023 14:00:00 +0000
Plus: Apple tightens anti-theft protections, Chinese hackers penetrate US critical infrastructure, and the long-running rumor of eavesdropping phones crystallizes into more than an urban legend.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 22:59:59 +0000
Kytch, the company that tried to fix McDonald’s broken ice cream machines, has unearthed a 3-year-old email it says proves claims of an alleged plot to undermine their business.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 17:22:40 +0000
Ten years in, Microsoft’s DCU has honed its strategy of using both unique legal tactics and the company’s technical reach to disrupt global cybercrime and state-backed actors.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2023 15:56:43 +0000
A hacker group calling itself Solntsepek—previously linked to Russia’s notorious Sandworm hackers—says it carried out a disruptive breach of Kyivstar, a major Ukrainian mobile and internet provider.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2023 23:54:14 +0000
23andMe has provided more information about the scope and scale of its recent breach, but with these details come more unanswered questions.
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Credit to Author: Will Knight| Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2023 11:00:00 +0000
Adversarial algorithms can systematically probe large language models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 for weaknesses that can make them misbehave.
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