Google details Coruna, an exploit kit used to hijack iPhones via malicious websites; iVerify suggests it may have been originally built for the US government
A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more.
Documents: a whistleblower details the Boshang scam compound in Laos that defrauded victims of ~$2.2M over 11 weeks and utilized a system of worker debt bondage
A whistleblower trapped inside a “pig butchering” scam compound gave WIRED a vast trove of its internal materials …
Researchers: at least 750 US hospitals faced disruptions on the day of last year's big CrowdStrike outage, and 200+ had outages related to patient care services
When, one year ago today … Jeff Tully : New research from the UC San Diego Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity: in a paper published in JAMA Network Open, we describe disruptions …...
Oligo researchers detail AirBorne, a set of vulnerabilities in Apple's AirPlay SDK that could affect 10M+ third-party devices; Apple has patched its own devices
Researchers reveal a collection of bugs known as AirBorne that would allow any hacker on the same Wi-Fi network …
Inside Binance compliance boss and ex-IRS agent Tigran Gambaryan's imprisonment in Nigeria, relayed via texts from a secret phone, over money laundering charges
As a US federal agent, Tigran Gambaryan pioneered modern crypto investigations. Then at Binance, he got trapped between … Mastodon: @agreenberg@infosec.exchange . X: @a_greenberg ...
Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht, a crypto and libertarian cult hero serving a life sentence since 2015 on money laundering, drug charges, and more
Ross Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances.
Researchers detail a “nearest neighbor attack” by Russia's APT28, which remotely breached a target's Wi-Fi by hijacking a laptop in a building across the street
The “Nearest Neighbour attack” (very cool name, btw) involves connecting with nearby organizations and using their Wi-Fi networks to reach the main target organization. … @xpnsec.c...
How the US and Nigeria wrestled over Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan's detention in February 2024, which US officials said hurt the two allies' relationship
The United States and Nigeria often collaborate. But the arrest of an American worker strained their diplomatic relations.
A profile of ZachXBT, a twentysomething X user with 650K+ followers who tracks down crypto scams and thefts, and has received $1.3M+ in donations since 2021
He just untangled a $243 million bitcoin theft, what may be the biggest-ever crypto heist to target a single victim. And he has never shown his face. X: @a_greenberg and @zachxbt ...
Nigeria drops charges against Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan, detained since February 2024; sources say the case was discontinued due to his ill health
How Uber and Lyft Used a Loophole to Deny NYC Drivers Millions in Pay … Hello World
The US charges two Sudanese brothers with running Anonymous Sudan, a cyberattack-for-hire gang allegedly responsible for 35,000 DDoS attacks in a single year
Government says two brothers targeted big U.S. corporations, a hospital and an Israeli defense system in a mostly ideologically driven operation.
A SCOTUS decision means that the US now legally owns the 69,370 BTC obtained during its Silk Road probe; the ex-IRS agent who seized them is in a Nigerian jail
The $4.4 billion in crypto is set to be the largest pile of criminal proceeds ever sold off by the US.
The US and allies reveal that hacker group Cadet Blizzard is part of Russia's GRU Unit 29155, which is responsible for coup attempts, assassinations, and more
There has been a lot of talk this week about Putin paying “useful idiots” to spread his propaganda. … X: @dojnatsec : Five Russian GRU Officers and One Civilian Charged for Conspir...
The US and allies reveal that hacker group Cadet Blizzard is part of Russia's GRU Unit 29155, which is responsible for coup attempts, assassinations, and more
There has been a lot of talk this week about Putin paying “useful idiots” to spread his propaganda. … X: @dojnatsec : Five Russian GRU Officers and One Civilian Charged for Conspir...
The US and allies reveal that hacker group Cadet Blizzard is part of Russia's GRU Unit 29155, which is responsible for coup attempts, assassinations, and more
Unit 29155 of Russia's GRU military intelligence agency—a team responsible for coup attempts, assassinations, and bombings …
The US and allies reveal that hacker group Cadet Blizzard is part of Russia's GRU Unit 29155, which is responsible for coup attempts, assassinations, and more
Unit 29155 of Russia's GRU military intelligence agency—a team responsible for coup attempts, assassinations, and bombings …
Q&A with Signal President Meredith Whittaker on the app's 10th anniversary, its EU focus, being a nonprofit, Pavel Durov's arrest, X, the US election, and more
On its 10th anniversary, Signal's president wants to remind you that the world's most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. Mastodon: @KathyReid@aus.social and @baldur@too...
Google says Iran-backed hacking group APT42 has targeted the Trump and Biden campaigns, as well as Israeli military, government, and diplomatic organizations
Andy Greenberg / Wired :
Google says Iran-backed hacking group APT42 has targeted the Trump and Biden campaigns, as well as Israeli military, government, and diplomatic organizations
APT42, which is believed to work for Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, targeted about a dozen people associated with both Trump …
A look at RayV Lite, an open-source laser hacking tool built by two hackers for less than $500 that can reverse engineer chips and exploit their vulnerabilities
The RayV Lite will make it hundreds of times cheaper for anyone to carry out physics-bending feats of hardware hacking.