Dec 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cyber Espionage Threat hunters have discerned new activity associated with an Iranian threat actor known as Infy (aka Prince of Persia), nearly five years after the hacking group was observed targeting victims in Sweden, the… Read More "Iranian Infy APT Resurfaces with New Malware Activity After Years of Silence"
Dec 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / ATM Security The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) this week announced the indictment of 54 individuals in connection with a multi-million dollar ATM jackpotting scheme. The large-scale conspiracy involved deploying malware named Ploutus to hack… Read More "U.S. DOJ Charges 54 in ATM Jackpotting Scheme Using Ploutus Malware"
Federal contracting records reviewed by WIRED this week show that United States Customs and Border Protection is transitioning from testing small drones to using them as standard surveillance tools, a move that will further expand CBP’s already extensive dragnet that… Read More "Hackers Stole Millions of PornHub Users’ Data for Extortion"
A Russian intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) fired from an underground silo on the country’s southern steppe Friday on a scheduled test to deliver a dummy warhead to a remote impact zone nearly 4,000 miles away. The missile didn’t even make… Read More "Russia Wants This Mega Missile to Intimidate the West, but It Keeps Crashing"
The Louisiana Department Of Wildlife And Fisheries (LDWF), typically responsible in part for overseeing wildlife reserves and enforcing local hunting rules, has assisted United States immigration authorities with bringing at least six people into federal custody this year, according to… Read More "The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Is Detaining People for ICE"
As for Wilcox, he’s long been one of that small group of privacy zealots who buys his SIM cards in cash with a fake name. But he hopes Phreeli will offer an easier path—not just for people like him, but… Read More "A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code"
Federal agents on Thursday announced the arrest of a suspect charged with planting the two pipe bombs discovered near the US Capitol complex on the eve of January 6, 2021. Authorities identified the man as Brian J. Cole Jr., a… Read More "FBI Says DC Pipe Bomb Suspect Brian Cole Kept Buying Bomb Parts After January 6"
As the large language models powering generative AI tools slurp up ever more data across the web, Cloudflare cofounder and CEO Matthew Prince said at WIRED’s Big Interview event in San Francisco on Thursday that the internet infrastructure company has… Read More "Cloudflare Has Blocked 416 Billion AI Bot Requests Since July 1"
Much of the imagery is familiar from previous releases, and includes things like a photo of a stuffed tiger, a photo of a framed Times of London cover of Princess Diana placed at the back of a closet, photos of… Read More "Here’s What’s in the DOJ’s Epstein File Release—and What’s Missing"
A shift to Telegram More recently, the researchers identified a new Tonnerre variant that’s advertised as v50, as well as an unknown new Foudre version that goes along with it. These versions use a new C2 server structure and, most… Read More "Iranian APT Prince of Persia returns with new malware and C2 infrastructure"
