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: Noah Shachtman| Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
In the epic US-Russian prisoner swap last summer, Vladimir Putin brought home an assassin, spies, and another prized ally: the man behind one of the biggest insider trading cases of all time.
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Credit to Author: Anna Wolfe, Sarah Cammarata| Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:26:04 +0000
A WIRED investigation goes inside the Telegram groups targeting women who joined “Are We Dating the Same Guy?” groups on Facebook with doxing, harassment, and sharing of nonconsensual intimate images.
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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: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:58:10 +0000
The cybersecurity lead for VA.gov was fired last week. He tells WIRED that the Veterans Affairs digital hub will be more vulnerable without someone in his role.
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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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