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US Officials Recommend Encryption Apps Amid Chinese Telecom Hacking
A consortium of global law enforcement agencies led by Britain’s National Crime Agency announced a takedown operation this…
A New Phone Scanner That Detects Spyware Has Already Found 7 Pegasus Infections
In recent years, commercial spyware has been deployed by more actors against a wider range of victims, but…
Senators Warn the Pentagon: Get a Handle on China’s Telecom Hacking
The senators also provide evidence in their letter that US telecoms have worked with third-party cybersecurity firms to…
Malicious Ads in Search Results Are Driving New Generations of Scams
Researchers regularly see malicious ads in search results representing themselves as coming from legitimate businesses and organizations. Whether…
Andrew Tate’s ‘Educational Platform’ Was Hacked
A joint investigation by WIRED, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), and Netzpolitik.org uncovered that US companies legally collecting digital ad…
Russian Spies Jumped From One Network to Another Via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack
Only after the next intrusion, when Volexity managed to get more complete logs of the hackers’ traffic, did…
Bitfinex Hacker Gets 5 Years for $10 Billion Bitcoin Heist
In perhaps the most adorable hacker story of the year, a trio of technologists in India found an…
More Spyware, Fewer Rules: What Trump’s Return Means for US Cybersecurity
Trump is also unlikely to continue the Biden administration’s campaign to limit the proliferation of commercial spyware technologies,…
Auto-Rebooting iPhones Are Causing Chaos for Cops
Maybe you already heard, but Donald Trump will be president of the United States again. The far-right is…
Man Arrested for Snowflake Hacking Spree Faces US Extradition
For much of this summer, a mysterious group of hackers carried out a landmark spree of major data…