Mozilla: Your New Car Is a Data Privacy Nightmare
Eighty-four percent of the brands that researchers studied share or sell this kind of personal data, and only two of them allow drivers to have their data deleted. While it …
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2 Polish Men Arrested for Radio Hack That Disrupted Trains
A monthslong WIRED investigation published this week revealed the inner workings of the Trickbot ransomware gang, which has targeted hospitals, businesses, and government agencies around the world. The investigation stemmed …
How to download music from YouTube
Downloading music from YouTube is a fairly common practice, and the demand for making the process easier has inspired the creation of countless websites and software. But not every service …
Unmasking Trickbot, One of the World’s Top Cybercrime Gangs
“The Russian criminal problem isn’t going anywhere. In fact, now it’s probably closer with the security services than it’s ever been,” says John Hultquist, Google Cloud’s chief analyst for Mandiant …
The Weird, Big-Money World of Cybercrime Writing Contests
The criminal contests have their own rules to reduce the chance of cheating, Budd says. On Exploit, the rules say the entries “must not have been published elsewhere,” should be …
Careful — Hackers are targeting Google Bard ads for malware
As the public adjusts to trusting artificial intelligence, there also brews a perfect environment for hackers to trap internet users into downloading malware. The latest target is the Google Bard chatbot, which …
New Supply Chain Attack Hit Close to 100 Victims—and Clues Point to China
Every software supply chain attack, in which hackers corrupt a legitimate application to push out their malware to hundreds or potentially thousands of victims, represents a disturbing new outbreak of …
Security News This Week: US Energy Firm Targeted With Malicious QR Codes in Mass Phishing Attack
At the Defcon security conference in Las Vegas last weekend, thousands of hackers competed in a red-team challenge to find flaws in generative AI chat platforms and help better secure …
HHS Launches ‘Digiheals’ Project to Better Protect US Hospitals From Ransomware
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (Arpa-H), a research support agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services, said today that it is launching an initiative …
A Huge Scam Targeting Kids With Roblox and Fortnite ‘Offers’ Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight
Thousands of websites belonging to US government agencies, leading universities, and professional organizations have been hijacked over the last half decade and used to push scammy offers and promotions, new …