Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: The worst telecom hack in US history rolls on, iPhones are harder to break into, and more of the week’s top security news.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 20:36:33 +0000
The 2024 elections were a high-water mark for naming and shaming threat actors from foreign governments. There’s still work to be done, though, on how to attribute disinformation campaigns most effectively.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000
In a first, Russia’s APT28 hacking group appears to have remotely breached the Wi-Fi of an espionage target by hijacking a laptop in another building across the street.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:00:00 +0000
The company gave details for the first time on its approach to combating organized criminal networks behind the devastating scams.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Chinese black market operators are openly recruiting government agency insiders, paying them for access to surveillance data and then reselling it online—no questions asked.
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Credit to Author: Jason Koebler, Emanuel Maiberg| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
AI-generated influencers based on stolen images of real-life adult content creators are flooding social media.
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Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra, Dell Cameron| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 04:00:00 +0000
More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany—and the Pentagon is powerless to stop it.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Built to combat terrorism, fusion centers give US Immigration and Customs Enforcement a way to gain access to data that’s meant to be protected under city laws limiting local police cooperation with ICE.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Built to combat terrorism, fusion centers give US Immigration and Customs Enforcement a way to gain access to data that’s meant to be protected under city laws limiting local police cooperation with ICE.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: An “AI granny” is wasting scammers’ time, a lawsuit goes after spyware-maker NSO Group’s executives, and North Korea–linked hackers take a crack at macOS malware.
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