Inside FTX’s All-Night Race to Stop a $1 Billion Crypto Heist
By the evening of November 11 of last year, FTX’s staff had already endured one of the worst days in the company’s […]
Tag: Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks
Apple’s Encryption Is Under Attack by a Mysterious Group
Does the public have a right to see gruesome photos of animal test subjects taken by a public university? That question underpins […]
23andMe User Data Stolen in Targeted Attack on Ashkenazi Jews
The genetic testing company 23andMe confirmed on Friday that data from a subset of its users has been compromised. The company said […]
Your Cheap Android TV Streaming Box May Have a Dangerous Backdoor
When you buy a TV streaming box, there are certain things you wouldn’t expect it to do. It shouldn’t secretly be laced […]
The Biggest Hack of 2023 Keeps Getting Bigger
The MOVEit incident eclipses them, though, both in the number of victim organizations and individuals whose data was compromised. Antivirus company Emsisoft […]
Chinese Hackers Are Hiding in Routers in the US and Japan
WIRED broke the news on Wednesday that SoundThinking, the company behind the gunshot-detection system ShotSpotter, is acquiring some assets—including patents, customers, and […]
Apple, Microsoft, and Google Just Fixed Multiple Zero-Day Flaws
Earlier in the month, Google fixed another zero-day flaw, a heap buffer overflow issue initially tracked as CVE-2023-4863, which it thought impacted […]
A Tricky New Way to Sneak Past Repressive Internet Censorship
All over the world, walls are going up around the internet. For years, autocratic regimes have been in a race to heighten […]
The Shocking Data on Kia and Hyundai Thefts in the US
Mandiant researchers published findings this week about a newly revealed Chinese espionage operation that used Sogu malware to spy on the African […]
Chinese Spies Infected Dozens of Networks With Thumb Drive Malware
For much of the cybersecurity industry, malware spread via USB drives represents the quaint hacker threat of the past decade—or the one […]