Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess| Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0000
New research shows at least a million inexpensive Android devices—from TV streaming boxes to car infotainment systems—are compromised to allow bad actors to commit ad fraud and other cybercrime.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Andy Greenberg| Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2025 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: The FBI pins that ByBit theft on North Korea, a malicious app download breaches Disney, spyware targets a priest close to the pope, and more.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000
A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands of people are enslaved—are using Starlink to get online.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 19:43:33 +0000
Cloud “container” defenses have inconsistencies that can give attackers too much access. A new company, Edera, is taking on that challenge and the problem of the male-dominated startup world.
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Credit to Author: Reece Rogers| Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000
An alleged job scam, led by “Aiden” from “OpenAI,” recruited workers in Bangladesh for months before disappearing overnight, according to FTC complaints obtained by WIRED.
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Credit to Author: David Gilbert| Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 16:54:46 +0000
On Monday morning, TV sets at the headquarters of the Department of Housing and Urban Development played the seemingly AI-generated video on loop, along with the words “LONG LIVE THE REAL KING.”
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: Apple turns off end-to-end encrypted iCloud backups in the UK after pressure to install a backdoor, and two spyware apps expose victim data—and the identities of people who installed the apps.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron, Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:21:41 +0000
Google enables marketers to target people with serious illnesses and crushing debt—against its policies—as well as the makers of classified defense technology, a WIRED investigation has found.
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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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