Plus: A cruel phishing test, ransomware hits Russia, and more of the week’s top security news.
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After a girl reported a suspicious TikTok profile, researchers detected aggressive adware in apps that had been downloaded 2.4 million times.
Operation Disruptor is an unprecedented international law enforcement effort, stemming from last year’s seizure of a popular underground bazaar called Wall Street Market.
Mike Postle was on an epic winning streak at a California casino. Veronica Brill thought he had to be playing dirty. Let the chips fall where they may.
Indictments against Iranian hackers, a Veterans Affairs data breach, and more of the week’s top security news.
The Internet Archive and the infrastructure company are teaming up to make sure sites never fully go down.
A group known as Barium allegedly attacked hundreds of targets around the globe—and manipulated in-game goods and currency.
The US government has detained thousands of wireless earbuds on suspicion of being fake Apple goods—despite crystal clear branding from an established company.
Plus: Ransomware holds up schools, Zoom adds two-factor, and more of the week’s top security news.
The argument hinges in part on psychiatrists’ testimony that Assange is a high suicide risk.
Plus: Predictive policing taken even farther, Amazon surveillance of private Facebook groups, and more of the week’s top security news.
Seemingly small design tweaks to the search results interface may change how and where people find information online.
The ubiquitous Shlayer adware has picked up a new trick, slipping past Cupertino’s “notarization” defenses for the first time.
Speaking at a prestigious crypto conference this month, Seny Kamara called on the field to recognize its blind spots—and fix them.
Plus: ATM hacks, the Belarus internet shutdown, and more of the week’s top security news.
Elon Musk confirmed Thursday night that a ransomware gang had approached a Gigafactory employee with alleged promises of a big payout.
In China, the messaging platform blocked thousands of keywords related to the virus, a new report reveals.
Mozilla has rewritten the app to rely on its own infrastructure rather than Google’s. But will its privacy and UI tweaks convince people to make the switch?
Plus: A top-secret iPod, Carnival ransomware, and more of the week’s top security news.
Prosecutors allege that former Uber security chief Joseph Sullivan covered up a major breach, in the first high-profile case of its kind.
A new kit leaves your cryptographic destiny up to 25 cubes in a plastic box.
The scheme involved 7,000 $94 toothbrushes, according to law enforcement.
We Build the Wall raised millions. Now the DOJ says its operators—including the former Trump aide—skimmed hundreds of thousands off the top.
Plus: TikTok tracking, Russian SIMs, and more of this week’s top security news.
The Justice Department says that an agent of the terrorist organization operated FaceMaskCenter.com, in part of a series of cryptocurrency-related complaints.
Amazon has patched the flaw, but its discovery underscores the importance of locking down your voice assistant interactions.
Human rights organizations have blamed the Belarusian government for widespread outages.
The story of a guy who wouldn’t let a few quintillion possible decryption keys stand between him and his cryptocurrency.
After years of secrecy, one major election tech company is giving more hackers a look under the hood.
Apple’s new operating system hasn’t been released to the public yet, but its new permission notifications are already shaming developers into cleaning up their acts.
Researchers found 18 exploits that take advantage of inconsistencies in the email plumbing most people never think about.
With access to just 50,000 high-wattage smart devices, attackers could make a bundle off of causing minor fluctuations.
NyanSat is an open source ground station that lets you listen in on low-orbit transmissions for about $100 worth of gear.
A SubStack email mess, a Nintendo leak, and more of the week’s top security news.
A WIRED investigation found dozens of channels belong to children apparently under 13 and anonymous chat participants sending inappropriate messages their way.
Twitter hack details, a botnet vigilante, and more of the week’s top security news.
Last year, Apple announced a special device just for hackers. The phone—for approved researchers only—will soon go into circulation.
Plus: WhatsApp’s court case, a VPN exposed, and more of the week’s top security news.
By tearing down bootleg network switches, researchers found ample opportunity for malice—but no signs of a backdoor this time.
IBM’s X-Force security team obtained five hours of APT35 hacking operations, showing exactly how the group steals data from email accounts—and who it’s targeting.
Confidential Virtual Machines allows Google Cloud Services Customers to keep data secret—even when it’s being actively processed.
Plus: Facebook’s Roger Stone takedown, the BlueLeaks server seizure, and more of the week’s top security news.
Dozens of people have come forward over the past week, many pointing to a culture that they say enabled rampant predatory behavior.
There’s finally a way to get off of email lists with your privacy intact.
Plus: A massive crime bust in Europe, a warning from US Cyber Command, and more of the week’s top security news.
The malware known as ThiefQuest or EvilQuest also has spyware capabilities that allow it to grab passwords and credit card numbers.
Plus: Evil Corp hacking, an anti-encryption bill, and more of the week’s top security news.
After releasing over a million hacked law enforcement files, DDoSecrets got banned from Twitter. But it has no plans to slow down.
Kenton Varda gets dozens of messages a day from Spanish-speakers around the world, all thanks to a Gmail address he registered 16 years ago.
Computers constantly give off more information than you might realize—which hackers can use to pry out their secrets.