Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2025 18:50:16 +0000
Crypto-tracing firm Chainalysis says the mysterious 300-bitcoin donation to the pardoned Silk Road creator appears to have come from someone associated with a different defunct black market: AlphaBay.
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Credit to Author: Andrew Couts, Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000
Everyone knows what it’s like to lose cell service. A burgeoning open source project called Meshtastic is filling the gap for when you’re in the middle of nowhere—or when disaster strikes.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2025 16:21:20 +0000
For years, a powerful farm industry group served up information on activists to the FBI. Records reveal a decade-long effort to see the animal rights movement labeled a “bioterrorism” threat.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 13:22:09 +0000
The elusive boss of the Trickbot and Conti cybercriminal groups has been known only as “Stern.” Now, German law enforcement has published his alleged identity—and it’s a familiar face.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 13:22:09 +0000
The elusive boss of the Trickbot and Conti cybercriminal groups has been known only as “Stern.” Now, German law enforcement has published his alleged identity—and it’s a familiar face.
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Credit to Author: Ali Winston| Date: Thu, 29 May 2025 18:14:03 +0000
A member of a California-based fight club seems to have attended an event hosted by groups with ties to an organization the US government labeled a terrorist group. Will the Trump administration care?
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Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Thu, 29 May 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Dell Cameron, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 24 May 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: A mysterious hacking group’s secret client is exposed, Signal takes a swipe at Microsoft Recall, Russian hackers target security cameras to spy on aid to Ukraine, and more.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 19:56:44 +0000
A new US indictment against a group of Russian nationals offers a clear example of how, authorities say, a single malware operation can enable both criminal and state-sponsored hacking.
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Credit to Author: Zoë Schiffer, Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 19:28:23 +0000
On today’s episode of ‘Uncanny Valley,’ we discuss how WIRED was able to legally 3D-print the same gun allegedly used by Luigi Mangione, and where US law stands on the technology.
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