Security News This Week: The Cloud Company at the Center of a Global Hacking Spree
Between a cascade of indictments against former US president Donald Trump, a tumultuous 2024 election season (in which Trump is ...
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‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’ Players Hit With Worm Malware
According to TechCrunch it is unclear why the malware is spreading or what exactly the impact is on gamers. Valve, ...
Nude Videos of Kids From Hacked Baby Monitors Were Sold on Telegram
IPVM disputes this allegation and says it promptly contacted the FBI upon discovering the crimes.A murdered Russian submarine captain may ...
Russia’s Notorious Troll Farm Disbands
When Yevgeny Prighozin, the head of the notorious mercenary army known as the Wagner Group, staged an aborted coup against ...
Update Your iPhone Right Now to Fix 2 Apple Zero Days
Apple says the patches fix a memory corruption that allowed an app to execute arbitrary code and a WebKit vulnerability ...
A TikTok ‘Car Theft’ Challenge Is Costing Hyundai $200 Million
But wait, there’s more. Each week we round up the security stories we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. Click on ...
The Tragic Fallout From a School District’s Ransomware Breach
Ransomware gangs have long sought pain points where their extortion demands have the greatest leverage. Now an investigation from NBC ...
The Biggest US Surveillance Program You Didn’t Know About
“Ordinary people’s private financial records are being siphoned indiscriminately into a massive database, with access given to virtually any cop ...
Russian Ransomware Gang Attack Destabilizes UK Royal Mail
A WIRED investigation this week found that the app SweepWizard, which some US law enforcement agencies use to coordinate raids, ...
Elon Musk Introduces Twitter Mayhem Mode
The United States took to the polls this week to vote in a high-stakes midterm election. With public trust in ...