For years, North Korea’s stealthy hackers and scam IT workers have infiltrated companies, stealing corporate secrets and plundering billions in cryptocurrency to help fund the totalitarian regime and its weapons programs. Now, a security researcher who has spent almost two… Read More "A Security Pro Hacked North Korean Hackers. He Found They’d Breached Hundreds of Networks Worldwide"
OpenAI’s Browser Could Be Hijacked to Spam Your WhatsApp Contacts
OpenAI’s Atlas web browser could have security protections bypassed and be tricked into spamming dozens of WhatsApp contacts or making unauthorized purchases on Amazon, according to new research presented today at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas. The… Read More "OpenAI’s Browser Could Be Hijacked to Spam Your WhatsApp Contacts"
Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids
Sinotrack and the NewGPS2012 platform didn’t respond to WIRED’s requests for comment, and the researchers say their hacking techniques against those systems still appear to work. For more than a decade, cybersecurity experts and privacy advocates have warned that cheap,… Read More "Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids"
Sensitive Info Goes Into ‘No Reply’ Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All
Cory Solovewicz receives more unwanted emails than you. Seriously—it’s a lot more. Since December 2024, one of the domains at which the security researcher receives email has registered 401,796 messages—by his calculations that’s an average of 699.99 pings per day.… Read More "Sensitive Info Goes Into ‘No Reply’ Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All"