Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2022 11:00:00 +0000
With AlphaBay shuttered, Operation Bayonet enters its final phase: driving the site’s refugees into a giant trap. But one refugee hatched his own plan.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 11:00:00 +0000
After months of meticulous planning, investigators finally move in to catch AlphaBay’s mastermind red-handed. Then the case takes a tragic turn.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2022 14:00:00 +0000
Plus: Google’s location snooping ends in a $391 million settlement, Russian code sneaks into US government apps, and the World Cup apps set off alarms.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 01:41:44 +0000
Elon Musk laid off half the staff, and mass resignations seem likely. If nobody’s there to protect the fort, what’s the worst that could happen?
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 11:00:00 +0000
The team uses a secret technique to locate AlphaBay’s server. But just as the operation heats up, the agents have an unexpected run-in with their target.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 01:08:07 +0000
Problems with the important security feature may be some of the first signs that Elon Musk’s social network is fraying at the edges.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2022 23:38:46 +0000
Mysterious crooks took hundreds of millions of dollars from FTX just as it collapsed. Crypto-tracing blockchain analysis may provide an answer.
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Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2022 14:00:00 +0000
Plus: US midterms survive disinformation efforts, the government names the alleged Lockbit ransomware attacker, and the Powerball drawing hits a security snag.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 19:40:12 +0000
Questions about the Kremlin’s relationships with these groups remain. But researchers are finally getting some answers.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 16:25:20 +0000
Anyone can get a blue tick on Twitter without proving who they are. And it’s already causing a ton of problems.
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