Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 10:00:00 +0000
After a series of setbacks, the notorious Black Basta ransomware gang went underground. Researchers are bracing for its probable return in a new form.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 10:00:00 +0000
Millions of scam text messages are sent every month. The Chinese cybercriminals behind many of them are expanding their operations—and quickly innovating.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 10:00:00 +0000
For the past decade, this group of FSB hackers—including “traitor” Ukrainian intelligence officers—has used a grinding barrage of intrusion campaigns to make life hell for their former countrymen and cybersecurity defenders.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 10:00:00 +0000
Despite their hacktivist front, CyberAv3ngers is a rare state-sponsored hacker group bent on putting industrial infrastructure at risk—and has already caused global disruption.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 10:00:00 +0000
Though less well-known than groups like Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon, Brass Typhoon, or APT 41, is an infamous, longtime espionage actor that foreshadowed recent telecom hacks.
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Credit to Author: Andrew Couts| Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2025 01:35:06 +0000
An email sent by the Department of Homeland Security instructs people in the US on a temporary legal status to leave the country. But who the email actually applies to—and who actually received it—is far from clear.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: The Department of Homeland Security begins surveilling immigrants’ social media, President Donald Trump targets former CISA director who refuted his claims of 2020 election fraud, and more.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Some misconfigured AI chatbots are pushing people’s chats to the open web—revealing sexual prompts and conversations that include descriptions of child sexual abuse.
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Credit to Author: Vas Panagiotopoulos| Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:19:55 +0000
The Israeli spyware maker, still on the US Commerce Department’s “blacklist,” has hired a new lobbying firm with direct ties to the Trump administration, a WIRED investigation has found.
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Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: Another DOGE operative allegedly has a history in the hacking world, and Donald Trump’s national security adviser apparently had way more Signal chats than previously known.
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