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North Koreans Secretly Animated Amazon and Max Shows, Researchers Say

By Matt Burgess
Thousands of exposed files on a misconfigured North Korean server hint at one way the reclusive country may evade international sanctions.

How Israel Defended Against Iran's Drone and Missile Attack

By Brian Barrett
The Iron Dome, US allies, and long-range interceptor missiles all came into play.

Change Healthcare Faces Another Ransomware Threat—and It Looks Credible

By Andy Greenberg, Matt Burgess
Change Healthcare ransomware hackers already received a $22 million payment. Now a second group is demanding money, and it has sent WIRED samples of what they claim is the company's stolen data.

Google Is Getting Thousands of Deepfake Porn Complaints

By Matt Burgess
Content creators are using copyright laws to get nonconsensual deepfakes removed from the web. With the complaints covering nearly 30,000 URLs, experts say Google should do more to help.

Microsoft’s Digital Crime Unit Goes Deep on How It Disrupts Cybercrime

By Lily Hay Newman
Ten years in, Microsoft’s DCU has honed its strategy of using both unique legal tactics and the company’s technical reach to disrupt global cybercrime and state-backed actors.

Inside the Operation to Bring Down Trump’s Truth Social

By David Gilbert
The North Atlantic Fellas Organization is trying to shut down Trump’s flailing social media platform before the 2024 election—by shitposting.

It's Time to Log Off

By Thor Benson
There’s a devastating amount of heavy news these days. Psychology experts say you need to know your limits—and when to put down the phone.

How to Turn Off Facebook’s Two-Factor Authentication Change

By Reece Rogers
With Meta’s updated 2FA process, the company now automatically trusts devices you often use.

Sandworm Hackers Caused Another Blackout in Ukraine—During a Missile Strike

By Andy Greenberg
Russia's most notorious military hackers successfully sabotaged Ukraine's power grid for the third time last year. And in this case, the blackout coincided with a physical attack.

What a Bloody San Francisco Street Brawl Tells Us About the Age of Citizen Surveillance

By Lauren Smiley
When a homeless man attacked a former city official, footage of the onslaught became a rallying cry. Then came another video, and another—and the story turned inside out.

Elon Musk’s Main Tool for Fighting Disinformation on X Is Making the Problem Worse, Insiders Claim

By Vittoria Elliott, David Gilbert
X is promoting Community Notes to solve its disinformation problems, but some former employees and people who currently contribute notes say it’s not fit for that purpose.

Leaked EU Document Shows Spain Wants to Ban End-to-End Encryption

By Lily Hay Newman, Morgan Meaker, Matt Burgess
In response to an EU proposal to scan private messages for illegal material, the country's officials said it is “imperative that we have access to the data.”

A Mysterious Group Has Ties to 15 Years of Ukraine-Russia Hacks

By Lily Hay Newman
Kaspersky researchers have uncovered clues that further illuminate the hackers’ activities, which appear to have begun far earlier than originally believed.

A Mysterious New Hacker Group, Red Stinger, Is Lurking in Ukraine’s Cyberspace

By Lily Hay Newman
The unidentified attackers have targeted people on both sides of Russia’s war against Ukraine, carrying out espionage operations that suggest state funding.

The Huge 3CX Breach Was Actually 2 Linked Supply Chain Attacks

By Andy Greenberg
The mass compromise of the VoIP firm's customers is the first confirmed incident where one software-supply-chain attack enabled another, researchers say.

The Hacker Who Hijacked Matt Walsh’s Twitter Was Just ‘Bored’

By Dell Cameron
The breach of the right-wing provocateur was simply a way of “stirring up some drama,” the attacker tells WIRED. But the damage could have been much worse.

Crypto Was Afraid to Show Its Face at SXSW 2023

By Eric Ravenscraft
Any mention of crypto was deliberately veiled at this year’s festival. And that strategy might catch on.

Google Moves to Block Invasive Spanish Spyware Framework

By Lily Hay Newman
The Heliconia hacking tool exploited vulnerabilities in Chrome, Windows Defender, and Firefox, according to company security researchers.

Google’s Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro Pack New Android VPN and Tensor G2, Titan M2 Chips

By Lily Hay Newman
The company says it hardened the security of its new flagship phones—and plans to release a built-in Android VPN.

Scans of Students’ Homes During Tests Are Deemed Unconstitutional

By Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica
An Ohio judge ruled that such surveillance to prevent cheating could form a slippery slope to more illegal searches.

The Android 13 Privacy Settings You Should Update Now

By Matt Burgess
Google’s new mobile operating system has arrived. Take back some control with these privacy and security tips.

Russia Is Taking Over Ukraine’s Internet

By Matt Burgess
In occupied Ukraine, people’s internet is being routed to Russia—and subjected to its powerful censorship and surveillance machine.

An Actively Exploited Microsoft Zero-Day Flaw Still Has No Patch

By Lily Hay Newman
The company continues to downplay the severity of the Follina vulnerability, which remains present in all supported versions of Windows.
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