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Security News This Week: Russian Hackers Stole Microsoft Source Code—and the Attack Isn’t Over
Plus: An ex-Google engineer gets arrested for allegedly stealing trade secrets, hackers breach the top US...
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The Privacy Danger Lurking in Push Notifications
Plus: Apple warns about sideloading apps, a court orders NSO group to turn over the code...
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Here Come the AI Worms
Security researchers created an AI worm in a test environment that can automatically spread between generative...
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The Mysterious Case of the Missing Trump Trial Ransomware Leak
The notorious LockBit gang promised a Georgia court leak "that could affect the upcoming US election.”...
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Russia Attacked Ukraine's Power Grid at Least 66 Times to ‘Freeze It Into Submission’
Several of the strikes occurred far from the front lines of the conflict, indicating possible war...
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A Pornhub Chatbot Stopped Millions From Searching for Child Abuse Videos
Every time someone in the UK searched for child abuse material on Pornhub, a chatbot appeared...
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Biden Bans Rival Nations From Buying Sensitive US Data—Good Luck
The White House issued an executive order on Wednesday that aims to prevent the sale of...
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Dictators Used Sandvine Tech to Censor the Internet. The US Finally Did Something About It
Canada-based Sandvine has long sold its web-monitoring tech to authoritarian regimes. This week, the US sanctioned...
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Ransomware Groups Are Bouncing Back Faster From Law Enforcement Busts
Two months ago, the FBI “disrupted” the BlackCat ransomware group. They're already back—and their latest attack...
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How a Right-Wing Controversy Could Sabotage US Election Security
Republicans who run elections are split over whether to keep working with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure...
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A Mysterious Leak Exposed Chinese Hacking Secrets
Plus: Scammers try to dupe Apple with 5,000 fake iPhones, Avast gets fined for selling browsing...
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Here Are the Secret Locations of ShotSpotter Gunfire Sensors
The locations of microphones used to detect gunshots have been kept hidden from police and the...
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Leak Reveals the Unusual Path of ‘Urgent’ Russian Threat Warning
The US Congress was preparing to vote on a key foreign surveillance program last week. Then...
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Apple’s iMessage Is Getting Post-Quantum Encryption
Useful quantum computers aren’t a reality—yet. But in one of the biggest deployments of post-quantum encryption...
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A Top White House Cyber Official Sees the ‘Promise and Peril’ in AI
Anne Neuberger, the Biden administration’s deputy national security adviser for cyber, tells WIRED about emerging cybersecurity...
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The Danger Lurking Just Below Ukraine's Surface
The widespread use of mines has left Ukrainians scrambling to find ways to clear the explosives....
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How to Not Get Scammed Out of $50,000
Plus: State-backed hackers test out generative AI, the US takes down a major Russian military botnet,...
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Leak of Russian ‘Threat’ Part of a Bid to Kill US Surveillance Reform, Sources Say
A surprise disclosure of a national security threat by the House Intelligence chair was part of...
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Surveillance Fight Pits the White House Opposite Reproductive Rights
Prominent advocates for the rights of pregnant people are urging members of Congress to support legislation...
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‘AI Girlfriends’ Are a Privacy Nightmare
Romantic chatbots collect huge amounts of data, provide vague information about how they use it, use...
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A Backroom Deal Looms Over a High-Stakes US Surveillance Fight
Top congressional lawmakers are meeting in private to discuss the future of a widely unpopular surveillance...
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Satellite Images Point to Indiscriminate Israeli Attacks on Gaza’s Health Care Facilities
New research finds that Israel’s attacks on Gaza damaged hospitals and other medical facilities at the...
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How 3 Million ‘Hacked’ Toothbrushes Became a Cyber Urban Legend
Plus: China’s Volt Typhoon hackers lurked in US systems for years, the Biden administration’s crackdown on...
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London Underground Is Testing Real-Time AI Surveillance Tools to Spot Crime
In a test at one station, Transport for London used a computer vision system to try...