Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: Russian spies keep hijacking other hackers’ infrastructure, Hydra dark web market admin gets life sentence in Russia, and more of the week’s top security news.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:00:00 +0000
The mobile device security firm iVerify has been offering a tool since May that makes spyware scanning accessible to anyone—and it’s already turning up victims.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:39:10 +0000
Western authorities say they’ve identified a network that found a new way to clean drug gangs’ dirty cash. WIRED gained exclusive access to the investigation.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron, Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:18:29 +0000
The FTC is targeting data brokers that monitored people’s movements during protests and around US military installations. But signs suggest the Trump administration will be far more lenient.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:00:00 +0000
When programmer Micah Lee was kicked off X for a post that offended Elon Musk, he didn’t look back. His new tool for saving and deleting your X posts can give you that same sweet release.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron, Andrew Couts| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000
A new proposal by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would use a 54-year-old privacy law to impose new oversight of the data broker industry. But first, the agency must survive Elon Musk.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0000
The scourge of “malvertising” is nothing new, but the tactic is still so effective that it’s contributing to the rise of investment scams and the spread of new strains of malware.
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Credit to Author: Claire Atkin| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 09:00:00 +0000
Brands have been at the mercy of the algorithm when it comes to where their ads appear online, but they’re about to get more control.
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