TP-Link is one of the most popular router manufacturers in the US, but the company is facing a potential ban due to security concerns about its links to China. A December report from The Wall Street Journal revealed that the… Read More "The US Is Considering a TP-Link Router Ban—Should You Worry?"
The dozens of USDS cuts last week hit teams like product management, design, and procurement. Kamens and other sources told WIRED that he is the only person from the USDS engineering team who was fired. He and others speculate that… Read More "DOGE’s USDS Purge Included the Guy Who Keeps Veterans’ Data Safe Online"
As the so-called Department of Government Efficiency continues to rampage through the United States government by making sweeping cuts to the federal workforce, numerous ongoing lawsuits allege that the group’s access to sensitive data violates the Watergate-inspired Privacy Act of… Read More "$1.4 Billion Stolen From ByBit in Biggest Crypto Theft Ever"
As Donald Trump’s administration continues its relentless reorganization of the United States federal government, documents obtained by WIRED showed this week that the Department of Defense is looking at cutting as much as three-quarters of its workforce that’s specifically focused… Read More "Cybercriminals Allegedly Used a StubHub Backdoor to Steal Taylor Swift Tickets"
A newly discovered network botnet comprising an estimated 30,000 webcams and video recorders—with the largest concentration in the US—has been delivering what is likely to be the biggest denial-of-service attack ever seen, a security researcher inside Nokia said. The botnet, tracked… Read More "A Brand New Botnet Is Delivering Record-Size DDoS Attacks"
For more than a decade now, Russian cyberwarfare has used Ukraine as a test lab for its latest hacking techniques, methods that often target Ukrainians first before they’re deployed more broadly. Now Google is warning of a Russian espionage trick… Read More "A Signal Update Fends Off a Phishing Technique Used in Russian Espionage"
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen all of its election security work and is reviewing everything it has done to help state and local officials secure their elections for the past eight years, WIRED has learned. The move… Read More "Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work"
“The contractors and companies will hack more or less speculatively, motivated by profit to cast a wide net,” the DOJ official says. China, the official says, “is fostering reckless and indiscriminate targeting of vulnerable computers worldwide, even if it doesn’t… Read More "US Charges 12 Alleged Spies in China’s Freewheeling Hacker-for-Hire Ecosystem"
As well as being insecure, the DOGE website heavily leans on X, the social media platform owned by Musk. DOGE’s homepage is a feed of its own X posts, but it also uses code that directs search engines to X.com… Read More "The Official DOGE Website Launch Was a Security Mess"
Researchers from multiple firms say that the campaign seems to come from a loosely connected ecosystem of fraud groups rather than one single actor. Each group has its own versions of the Badbox 2.0 backdoor and malware modules and distributes… Read More "1 Million Third-Party Android Devices Have a Secret Backdoor for Scammers"
