Credit to Author: Simon Hill| Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:30:00 +0000
Several government departments are investigating TP-Link routers over Chinese cyberattack fears, but the company denies links.
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Credit to Author: Will Knight, Paresh Dave, Leah Feiger| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:19:27 +0000
Approximately 500 NIST staffers, including at least three lab directors, are expected to lose their jobs at the standards agency as part of the ongoing DOGE purge, sources tell WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Google warns that hackers tied to Russia are tricking Ukrainian soldiers with fake QR codes for Signal group invites that let spies steal their messages. Signal has pushed out new safeguards.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: Researchers find RedNote lacks basic security measures, surveillance ramps up around the US-Mexico border, and the UK ordering Apple to create an encryption backdoor comes under fire.
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Credit to Author: Eric Geller| Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2025 03:07:33 +0000
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen efforts to aid states in securing elections, according to an internal memo viewed by WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 05:00:00 +0000
Despite high-profile attention and even US sanctions, the group hasn’t stopped or even slowed its operation, including the breach of two more US telecoms.
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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: 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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