Not everyone is so cautious. Baker and Sandoval regularly field calls from police across the country asking for a copy of their warrant. Baker himself is considering using it in another case. And a cottage industry of consultants that, until recently, helped police craft tower-dump warrants now trains them toContinue Reading
If you 3D-print a frame of a Glock-style pistol, then you can buy the rest of the parts off the internet and assemble it, and you have a gun that is a ghost gun. An anonymous, fully private, lethal weapon. Zoë Schiffer: When we get back, we’ll get into theContinue Reading
Some infostealer operators bundle and sell this stolen data. But increasingly the compromised details have acted as a gateway for hackers to launch further attacks, providing them with the details needed to access online accounts and the networks of multi-billion dollar corporations. “It’s clear that infostealers have become more thanContinue Reading
“Alright. Now we’ve got a gun,” PSR says. “Just make sure you don’t point it at anyone.” The finished and assembled gun, complete with 3D-printed silencer. The silencer is wrapped in black hockey tape, just like the one allegedly found in Luigi Mangione’s backpack.Photograph: Andy Greenberg As strange as thisContinue Reading
At WIRED, we’ve had a long-running obsession with rogues. This is, after all, a publication that was founded in the early ’90s, born of a desire to champion the subversive, disruptive advent of the internet—and the hackers, hustlers, and blue-sky lunatics consumed by the possibilities of a digitized and interconnectedContinue Reading
They tried logging into secure.telemessage.com using a pair of these credentials and discovered that they had just hacked a user with an email address associated with US Customs and Border Protection, one of the agencies implementing Trump’s draconian immigration policy. CBP has since confirmed that it was a TeleMessage customer.Continue Reading
As analysts and governments around the world continue to call attention to North Korean digital fraud, researchers this week published 1,000 email addresses they claim are linked to North Korean IT worker scams perpetrated against Western companies, along with photos of people allegedly involved in the fraud. Xinbi Guarantee, aContinue Reading
Digital scammers have never been so successful. Last year Americans lost $16.6 billion to online crimes, with almost 200,000 people reporting scams like phishing and spoofing to the FBI. More than $470 million was stolen in scams that started with a text message last year, according to the Federal TradeContinue Reading
With the rise of mercenary spyware and other targeted threats, tech giants like Apple, Google, and Microsoft have spent the last few years trying to figure out how to protect the digital lives of their most at-risk, vulnerable users around the world. On mobile, the launch of Apple’s iOS LockdownContinue Reading
A United States Customs and Border Protection request for information this week revealed the agency’s plans to find vendors that can supply face recognition technology for capturing data on everyone entering the US in a vehicle like a car or van, not just the people sitting in the front seat.Continue Reading
