Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:00:00 +0000
A team Microsoft calls BadPilot is acting as Sandworm’s “initial access operation,” the company says. And over the last year it’s trained its sights on the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia.
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Credit to Author: Jared Keller| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Swarms of weaponized unmanned surface vessels have proven formidable weapons in the Black and Red Seas. Can the US military learn the right lessons from it?
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: Benjamin Netanyahu gives Donald Trump a golden pager, Hewlett Packard Enterprise blames Russian government hackers for a breach, and more.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2025 21:43:33 +0000
The ACLU says it stands ready to sue for access to government records that detail DOGE’s access to sensitive personnel data.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, David Gilbert, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 07:30:20 +0000
Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:33:53 +0000
The dismantling of USAID by Elon Musk’s DOGE and a State Department funding freeze have severely disrupted efforts to help people escape forced labor camps run by criminal scammers.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 13:00:00 +0000
Ransomware gangs continued to wreak havoc in 2024, but new research shows that the amounts victims paid these cybercriminals fell by hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Credit to Author: Mark Keierleber| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0000
An investigation into more than 300 cyberattacks against US K–12 schools over the past five years shows how schools can withhold crucial details from students and parents whose data was stolen.
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Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: WhatsApp discloses nearly 100 targets of spyware, hackers used the AT&T breach to hunt for details on US politicians, and more.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 18:30:00 +0000
Security researchers tested 50 well-known jailbreaks against DeepSeek’s popular new AI chatbot. It didn’t stop a single one.
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