A Police App Exposed Secret Details About Raids and Suspects
[ad_1] Last September, law enforcement agents from five counties in Southern California coordinated an operation to investigate, raid, and arrest more than 600 suspected sex offenders. The mission, Operation Protect the…
Slack Discloses Breach of Its Github Code Repository
[ad_1] Ever since Elon Musk spent $44 billion on Twitter and laid off a large percentage of the company’s staff, there have been concerns about data breaches. Now it seems a security incident…
Cops Hacked Thousands of Phones. Was It Legal?
[ad_1] For a week in October 2020, Christian Lödden’s potential clients wanted to talk about only one thing. Every person whom the German criminal defense lawyer spoke to had been…
Hacktivism Is Back and Messier Than Ever
[ad_1] During its brutal war in Ukraine, Russian troops have burnt cities to the ground, raped and tortured civilians, and committed scores of potential war crimes. On November 23, lawmakers across Europe overwhelmingly labeled…
Russians Hacked JFK Airport Taxi Dispatch in Line-Skipping Scheme
[ad_1] We at WIRED are winding down for the year and gearing up for what is sure to be an eventful 2023. But 2022 isn’t going down without a fight. …
Hackers Planted Files to Frame Indian Priest Who Died in Custody
[ad_1] According to Arsenal, Swamy never touched the files himself. After his devices were seized by Pune City Police, those files were among the digital evidence used to charge him…
Apple Kills Its Plan to Scan Your Photos for CSAM. Here’s What’s Next
[ad_1] In August 2021, Apple announced a plan to scan photos users stored in iCloud for child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The scheme was meant to be privacy-preserving and allow…
Scammers Are Scamming Other Scammers Out of Millions of Dollars
[ad_1] Nobody is immune to being scammed online—not even the people running the scams. Cybercriminals using hacking forums to buy software exploits and stolen login details keep falling for cons and…
The Hunt for the Kingpin Behind AlphaBay, Part 6: Endgame
[ad_1] The direct ripple effects of that explosion of incriminating data, passed through so many institutions’ records, aren’t easy to track. But over the following years, Grant Rabenn, who served…
The Hunt for the Dark Web’s Biggest Kingpin, Part 5: Takedown
[ad_1] Rabenn remembers the atmosphere of that war room as more dead silence and sweaty, anxious tension than eagerness or anticipation. He knew the possibility of achieving a Ross Ulbricht–style…
Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos Gets 11 Years in Prison
[ad_1] Elizabeth Holmes has been sentenced to just over 11 years in prison for defrauding investors by falsely claiming her technology could detect diseases from a drop of blood. The…
The Hunt for the Dark Web’s Biggest Kingpin, Part 4: Face to Face
[ad_1] The FBI agent, thinking quickly, avoided eye contact with Cazes and walked directly past him to the door. In the seconds it took for Cazes to cross the room,…
The Hunt for the FTX Thieves Has Begun
[ad_1] That means it will be very difficult for the thieves to abscond with their profits in a spendable form without being identified, says Michelle Lai, a cryptocurrency privacy advocate,…
The Hunt for the Kingpin Behind AlphaBay, Part 3: Alpha Male
[ad_1] CHAPTER 6 RAWMEO By March 2017, the always aggressive Fresno prosecutor Grant Rabenn was ready to charge Alexandre Cazes with running AlphaBay. But his more cautious colleague Paul Hemesath…
IRS Seizes Another Silk Road Hacker’s $3.36 Billion Bitcoin Stash
[ad_1] According to an IRS-CI affidavit detailing Zhong’s theft of the 50,000-plus bitcoins from the Silk Road, he appears to have found a vulnerability in that dark-web market that in…
The Hunt for the Kingpin Behind AlphaBay, Part 2: Pimp_alex_91
[ad_1] That legal request took weeks to bear fruit. Finally, one evening in the early weeks of January 2017, Ali was in the middle of a law school night class…
The Hunt for the Dark Web’s Biggest Kingpin, Part 1: The Shadow
[ad_1] Shortly before AlphaBay took over the dark web’s top spot, Alpha02 had changed his username on the site to merely “admin” and announced that he would no longer accept…
Swatted: A Shooting Hoax Spree Is Terrorizing Schools Across the US
[ad_1] At 1:15 pm on September 15, a man who identified himself as Tom Gomez called Sangamon County Central Dispatch in Illinois to report that two gunmen had shot a…
The Psychological Impact of Consuming True Crime
[ad_1] While Coccio eventually left the subreddit, many others stayed. Dawn Cecil, a criminology professor at the University of South Florida and author of Fear, Justice & Modern True Crime,…
Are You a Victim of Crypto Crime? Good Luck Getting Help
[ad_1] Most day-to-day crime-fighting gets done at the local level, but when it comes to crypto crime, local law enforcement is not prepared to pick up the slack. Many smaller…
Queen Elizabeth’s Funeral Sets Off the Biggest UK Police Operation Ever
[ad_1] Inside a Special Operations Room in central London’s Lambeth borough are representatives from the Metropolitan Police, emergency services, intelligence agencies such as GCHQ and MI5, and local authorities. They’ve…
Police Across US Bypass Warrants With Mass Location-Tracking Tool
[ad_1] As summer winds down, researchers warned this week about systemic vulnerabilities in mobile app infrastructure, as well as a new iOS security flaw and one in TikTok. And new…
Police Used a Baby’s DNA to Investigate Its Father for a Crime
[ad_1] According to the New Jersey lawsuit, police had reopened an investigation into a cold case and had used genetics to place the suspect within a single family: one of…
The Rise and Fall of a Bitcoin Mining Sensation
[ad_1] It was 8:45 in the morning of June 13 when Bill Stewart, the CEO of Maine-based bitcoin mining business Dynamics Mining, received a call from one of his employees.…
Bitcoin Fog Case Could Put Cryptocurrency Tracing on Trial
[ad_1] If the prosecution doesn’t produce clear evidence as Sterlingov’s case unfolds, it may have to rely on the more indirect digital connections between Sterlingov and Bitcoin Fog that it…