Credit to Author: Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: Hot Topic confirms a customer data breach, Germany arrests a US citizen for allegedly passing military secrets to Chinese intelligence, and more.
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Credit to Author: Ali Winston| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 20:46:05 +0000
The 47-year-old Michigan man, who pleaded guilty to sexually exploiting a child, was highly active in the online criminal network called 764, which the FBI now considers a “tier one” terrorism threat.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Tess Owen| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 21:04:35 +0000
Along with other foreign influence operations—including from Iran—Kremlin-backed campaigns to stoke division and fear have gone into overdrive.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 18:36:22 +0000
Alexander “Connor” Moucka was arrested this week by Canadian authorities for allegedly carrying out a series of hacks that targeted Snowflake’s cloud customers. His next stop may be a US jail.
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Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 16:56:22 +0000
A bug that WIRED discovered in True the Vote’s VoteAlert app revealed user information—and an election worker who wrote about carrying out an illegal voter-suppression scheme.
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Credit to Author: Joseph Cox| Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
When you download a piece of pirated software, you might also be getting a piece of infostealer malware, and entering a highly complex hacking ecosystem that’s fueling some of the biggest breaches on the planet.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: Cops take down a notorious infostealer, Strava leaks world leaders’ locations, and a hacking scandal is causing chaos in Italy.
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Credit to Author: Kim Zetter| Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000
A vulnerability categorized as “critical” in a photo app installed by default on Synology network-attached storage devices could give attackers the ability to steal data and worse.
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