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A Major Ransomware Takedown Suffers a Strange Setback
After an 18 month rampage, global law enforcement finally moved against the notorious Alphv or Blackcat ransomware group. Within hours, the operation…
2 years, 9 months ago
Tesla Is Recalling Nearly All Vehicles Sold in US to Fix an Autopilot Fault
The Tesla recall, which affects more than two million vehicles, follows a two-year government investigation into a series of crashes linked to the Au…
2 years, 9 months ago
Scammers Are Tricking Anti-Vaxxers Into Buying Bogus Medical Documents
On Telegram, scammers are impersonating doctors to sell fake Covid-19 vaccination certificates and other products, showing how criminals are taking a…
2 years, 9 months ago
McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hackers Say They Found the ‘Smoking Gun’ That Killed Their Startup
Kytch, the company that tried to fix McDonald’s broken ice cream machines, has unearthed a 3-year-old email it says proves claims of an alleged plot …
2 years, 9 months ago
Microsoft’s Digital Crime Unit Goes Deep on How It Disrupts Cybercrime
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 cybercrim…
2 years, 9 months ago
Hacker Group Linked to Russian Military Claims Credit for Cyberattack on Ukrainian Telecom
A hacker group calling itself Solntsepek—previously linked to Russia's notorious Sandworm hackers—says it carried out a disruptive breach of Kyivstar…
2 years, 10 months ago
Congress Clashes Over the Future of America’s Global Spy Program
Competing bills moving through the House of Representatives both reauthorize Section 702 surveillance—but they pave very different paths forward for …
2 years, 10 months ago
Ukraine Is Crowdfunding Its Reconstruction
With its war against Russia raging on, Ukraine has begun raising funds to rebuild homes and structures one by one using its own crowdfunding platform…
2 years, 10 months ago
A New Trick Uses AI to Jailbreak AI Models—Including GPT-4
Adversarial algorithms can systematically probe large language models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 for weaknesses that can make them misbehave. Read the story…
2 years, 10 months ago
Police Can Spy on Your iOS and Android Push Notifications
Governments can access records related to push notifications from mobile apps by requesting that data from Apple and Google, according to details in …
2 years, 10 months ago