Russian Ransomware Gang Attack Destabilizes UK Royal Mail
[ad_1] A WIRED investigation this week found that the app SweepWizard, which some US law enforcement agencies use to coordinate raids, was publicly exposing sensitive data about hundreds of police…
How Airports Catch Illicit Radioactive Cargo
[ad_1] Arktis’ detectors can also be installed in doorways or used in luggage-handling locations. They work entirely passively but are different from Geiger counters, the best-known radiation detectors. Special material inside…
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…
Twitter Data Leak: What the Exposure of 200 Million User Emails Means for You
[ad_1] After reports at the end of 2022 that hackers were selling data stolen from 400 million Twitter users, researchers now say that a widely circulated trove of email addresses…
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,…
WhatsApp Launches Proxy Tool to Fight Internet Censorship
[ad_1] The company says it started putting the capability for proxies to be used in WhatsApp in the final few months of 2022 and is launching it now as most…
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…
Encryption Faces an Existential Threat in Europe
[ad_1] That’s a lot of lawyers. They [Big Tech] are throwing literally hundreds of millions of euros at this problem. And as much as Ms. Vestager is committed to fighting…
What Is a Pig Butchering Scam?
[ad_1] Digital swindles like business email compromises and romance scams generate billions of dollars for criminals. And they all start with a little bit of “social engineering” to trick a…
The Password Isn’t Dead Yet. You Need a Hardware Key
[ad_1] In August, the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare was one of hundreds of targets in a massive criminal phishing spree that succeeded in breaching numerous tech companies. While some Cloudflare…
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…
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…
What Is Flipper Zero? The Hacker Tool Going Viral on TikTok, Explained
[ad_1] Across the US, countless buildings, from government offices to your next hotel room door, are protected by RFID-controlled locks. On a recent trip to my office, I passed nearly…
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…
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…
Popular HR and Payroll Company Sequoia Discloses a Data Breach
[ad_1] The human resources, payroll, and benefits management company Sequoia said in disclosures to customers at the beginning of the month that it detected unauthorized access to a cloud storage…
Apple Expands End-to-End Encryption to iCloud Backups
[ad_1] Apple announced today that it is launching expanded end-to-end encryption protections in its iCloud service. The company already offers the vital security feature for some data in its cloud…
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…
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…
Redacted Documents Are Not as Secure as You Think
[ad_1] “Even if you do the redaction, supposedly correctly, even if you remove the text, there’s a lot of latent information that is dependent on the content that was redacted,…
I Lost $17,000 in Crypto. Here’s How to Avoid My Mistake
[ad_1] In 2014, I bought 25,000 dogecoin as a joke. By 2021, it was briefly worth over $17,000. Problem was, I couldn’t remember the password. Determined to get my coins…