The social network X suffered intermittent outages on Monday, a situation owner Elon Musk attributed to a “massive cyberattack.” Musk said in an initial X post that the attack was perpetrated by “either a large, coordinated group and/or a country.”… Read More "What Really Happened With the DDoS Attacks That Took Down X"
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"
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"
Partnering with local health authorities not only helps prevent the next epidemic, but it also makes sure that these virological samples are kept secure—“so it’s not accidentally going to leak out of these public health facilities or not be stolen… Read More "Pentagon Cuts Threaten Programs That Secure Loose Nukes and Weapons of Mass Destruction"
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"
As scam compounds in Southeast Asia continue to drive massive campaigns targeting victims around the world, WIRED took a deeper look at how Elon Musk’s satellite internet service provider Starlink is keeping many of those compounds in Myanmar online. Meanwhile,… Read More "The Trump Administration Is Deprioritizing Russia as a Cyber Threat"
Vladislav Klyushin was having, by any measure, an awful day. The judge in his case had brushed aside his lawyers’ arguments and his friends’ appeals for leniency. She handed down a tough sentence: nine more years in US federal prison,… Read More "This Russian Tech Bro Helped Steal $93 Million and Landed in US Prison. Then Putin Called"
