As law enforcement agencies scramble to address threats of terrorism, child sexual abuse, and human trafficking—and repressive governments around the world look to broadly expand their surveillance capabilities—researchers fear that Meta’s retreat from its commitments to protect user privacy with… Read More "The Danger Behind Meta’s Decision to Kill End-to-End Encrypted Instagram DMs"
Computers leak secrets. Not just through invasive ad tracking, data-stealing malware, and your ill-advised oversharing on social media, but through physics. The movements of a hard drive’s components, keystrokes on a keyboard, even the electric charge in a semiconductor’s wires… Read More "How Vulnerable Are Computers to an 80-Year-Old Spy Technique? Congress Wants Answers"
The collection of millions of hacked computers known as Aisuru and Kimwolf have been used to launch some of the biggest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks ever seen. Now United States law enforcement agencies have wiped both of them off the… Read More "US Takes Down Botnets Used in Record-Breaking Cyberattacks"
Google notes that Apple patched vulnerabilities used by Coruna in the latest versions of its mobile operating system, iOS 26, so its exploitation techniques are only confirmed to work against iOS 13 through 17.2.1. It targets vulnerabilities in Apple’s Webkit… Read More "A Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit Is Now in the Hands of Foreign Spies and Criminals"
iPhone hacking techniques have sometimes been described almost like rare and elusive animals: Hackers have used them so stealthily and carefully against such a small number of hand-picked targets that they’re only rarely seen in the wild. Now a recent… Read More "Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild"
Other posts list up to 150 potential calls per day. “Filters may be used, but ensure the image is realistic. Live-action videos are permitted; wigs are prohibited,” another ad reads. For the privilege, the person would allegedly get one full… Read More "‘100 Video Calls Per Day’: Models Are Applying to Be the Face of AI Scams"
The United States and Israel’s war with Iran has now been ongoing for two weeks, and the bombs continue to fall. But many of Iran’s missiles are failing to hit their targets. WIRED’s team in the Middle East detailed how… Read More "A Hacker Accidentally Broke Into the FBI’s Epstein Files"
Since the United States and Israel first unleashed a broad campaign of air strikes across Iran in late February, the cybersecurity industry has warned that the country’s retaliatory measures would include punishing, disruptive cyberattacks against Western targets. Late Tuesday night,… Read More "How ‘Handala’ Became the Face of Iran’s Hacker Counterattacks"
The United States and Israel launched a war in Iran last week that has already killed more than 1,200 Iranians and spilled out across the Middle East. There are many unknowns about US president Donald Trump’s goals as the conflict… Read More "CBP Used Online Ad Data to Track Phone Locations"
For decades, satellites, drones, and human spotters have all been part of war’s surveillance and reconnaissance tool kit. In an age of cheap, insecure, internet-connected consumer devices, however, militaries have gained another powerful set of eyes on the ground: every… Read More "From Ukraine to Iran, Hacking Security Cameras Is Now Part of War’s ‘Playbook’"
