A Siemens S7-1500 Logic Controller Flaw Raises the Specter of Stuxnet
[ad_1] “This separate crypto core is a very rudimentary chip. It’s not like a big processor, so it doesn’t really know who it’s talking to or what’s going on in…
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…
Turla, a Russian Espionage Group, Piggybacked on Other Hackers’ USB Infections
[ad_1] The Russian cyberespionage group known as Turla became infamous in 2008 as the hackers behind agent.btz, a virulent piece of malware that spread through US Department of Defense systems,…
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…
LastPass Data Breach: It’s Time to Ditch This Password Manager
[ad_1] This means that LastPass users should go through their vaults and take extra steps to protect themselves—including changing all of their passwords. Start by turning on two-factor authentication for…
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…
The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2022
[ad_1] Russian soldiers poured into Ukraine, accompanied by a wave of cyberattacks across the country. A major cryptocurrency exchange imploded and declared bankruptcy, vaporizing billions of dollars from that digital…
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. …
An Alleged Russian Smuggling Ring Was Uncovered in New Hampshire
[ad_1] As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drags on, navigation system monitors reported this week that they’ve detected a rise in GPS disruptions in Russian cities, ever since Ukraine began mounting…
GPS Signals Are Being Disrupted in Russian Cities
[ad_1] There are relatively few large-scale monitoring efforts tracking GPS disruptions. John Wiseman, the technologist and open source enthusiast who created GPSJam, says the system works by looking at ADS-B signals…
Cuba Ransomware Gang Abused Microsoft Certificates to Sign Malware
[ad_1] Less than two weeks ago, the United States Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency and FBI released a joint advisory about the threat of ransomware attacks from a gang that…
Log4j’s Log4Shell Vulnerability: One Year Later, It’s Still Lurking
[ad_1] Apache had to scramble at the beginning of December 2021 to be ready to release patches for Log4Shell when it publicly disclosed the situation on December 9 of last…
China’s Police State Targets Zero-Covid Protesters
[ad_1] It was another busy week in security that saw big news about protests, surveillance, spyware, data breaches, and more. In the US, recent court filings detail how the FBI’s use…
Android Phone Makers’ Encryption Keys Stolen and Used in Malware
[ad_1] While Google develops its open source Android mobile operating system, the “original equipment manufacturers” who make Android smartphones, like Samsung, play a large role in tailoring and securing the…
Drop What You’re Doing and Update iOS, Android, and Windows
[ad_1] November saw the release of patches from the likes of Apple’s iOS, Google Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Windows to fix multiple security vulnerabilities. Some of these issues are pretty…
Apple Tracks You More Than You Think
[ad_1] Cybersecurity startup Corellium offered or sold its software to spyware and hacking-tool creators in multiple repressive countries, a WIRED investigation revealed this week. A previously unreported 507-page document, believed to…
A Leak Details Apple’s Secret Dirt on Corellium, a Trusted Security Startup
[ad_1] Zach Edwards, an independent privacy and security researcher, says that “sensitive technology cannot be haphazardly sold to any company, in any country in the world.” “While Corellium is a…
A Destabilizing Hack-and-Leak Operation Hits Moldova
[ad_1] It was a truly wild week in the tech industry as new details emerged about the FTX cryptocurrency exchange’s collapse and Elon Musk drove an ever-increasing number of Twitter…
Here’s How Bad a Twitter Mega-Breach Would Be
[ad_1] “Twitter has seemingly neglected security for a very long time, and with all the changes, there is risk for sure,” says David Kennedy, CEO of the incident response firm…
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,…
Elon Musk Introduces Twitter Mayhem Mode
[ad_1] The United States took to the polls this week to vote in a high-stakes midterm election. With public trust in election systems at an all-time low, the secret ballot…
Russia’s New Cyberwarfare in Ukraine Is Fast, Dirty, and Relentless
[ad_1] Since Russia launched its catastrophic full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February, the cyberwar that it has long waged against its neighbor has entered a new era too—one in which…
TikTok Admits Staff in China Can Access Europeans’ Data
[ad_1] Open internet proponents were relieved last month when an American candidate beat a Russian challenger in an election to run the International Telecommunications Union, an important international standards body…
The Most Vulnerable Place on the Internet
[ad_1] The Asia-Africa-Europe-1 internet cable travels 15,500 miles along the seafloor, connecting Hong Kong to Marseille, France. As it snakes through the South China Sea and toward Europe, the cable…
How Vice Society Got Away With a Global Ransomware Spree
[ad_1] Throughout 2021, Vice Society’s health care targets included Barlow Respiratory Hospital in California, Eskenazi Health in Indiana, Centre Hospitalier D’Arles in France, United Health Centers in California, and a…