Inside the Microsoft team tracking the world’s most dangerous hackers
From Russian Olympic cyberattacks to billion-dollar North Korean malware, how one tech giant monitors nation-sponsored hackers everywhere on earth.
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Google’s top security teams unilaterally shut down a counterterrorism operation
The decision to block an “expert” level cyberattack has caused controversy inside Google after it emerged that the hackers in question were working for a US ally.
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The hacker-for-hire industry is now too big to fail
This is a big moment of turbulence and change for the hacking business. But the demand is here to stay.
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Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon
A top cybersecurity journalist tells the story behind the virus that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear efforts and shows how its existence has ushered in a new age of warfare—one in which a digital attack can have the same destructive capability as a megaton bomb.
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Inside the FBI, Russia, and Ukraine’s failed cybercrime investigation
Russia and Ukraine promised to cooperate and help catch the world’s most successful hackers. But things didn’t quite go to plan.
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Inside NSO, Israel’s billion-dollar spyware giant
The world’s most notorious surveillance company says it wants to clean up its act. Go on, we’re listening.
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Jen Easterly Wants Hackers to Help US Cyber Defense
The new director of the US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, Jen Easterly, joined WIRED contributing editor Garrett Graff to talk about hacking and misinformation on a global scale and how to combat the ever-evolving nature of cyberattacks.
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When Hackers Were Heroes
What was exceptional about MIT was not that it had a computer or that unkempt programmers were devising impressive tricks. It was that MIT had enough computers that a couple of surplus machines could be left out for members of the community to play with.
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The SolarWinds Hack
The SolarWinds affair is simply another incident in a long pattern of intrusions.
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How China’s Hacking Entered a Reckless New Phase
China has increasingly relied on contractors for its hacking, which opens the door to all kinds of criminal behavior.
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Facebook Catches Iranian Spies Catfishing US Military Targets
The hackers posed as recruiters, journalists, and hospitality workers to lure their victims.
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The Incredible Rise of North Korea’s Hacking Army
The country’s cyber forces have raked in billions of dollars for the regime by pulling off schemes ranging from A.T.M. heists to cryptocurrency thefts. Can they be stopped?
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We Have Root: Even More Advice from Schneier on Security
We Have Root: Even More Advice from Schneier on Security By Bruce Schneier Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., September 2019. ISBN: 978-1-119-64301-2 “A collection of popular essays from security guru Bruce Schneier ” In his latest collection of …
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The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet
At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI. This is his untold story.
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The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics
Few national-security threats are as potent—or as nebulous—as cyber attacks. Ben Buchanan reveals how hackers are transforming spycraft and statecraft, catching us all in the crossfire, whether we know it or not.
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The US Says Chinese Hackers Went Too Far During the Covid-19 Crisis
The FBI and DHS say that Beijing’s hacking “jeopardizes” the delivery of much-needed Covid-19 treatment options.
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Google Sees State-Sponsored Hackers Ramping Up Coronavirus Attacks
More than 12 government-backed groups are using the pandemic as cover for digital reconnaissance and espionage, according to a new report.
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Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers
From Wired senior writer Andy Greenberg comes the true story of the most devastating cyberattack in history and the desperate hunt to identify and track the elite Russian agents behind it.
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The DIY Tinkerers Harnessing the Power of Artificial Intelligence
Wired.com, Nov 13, 2018.
By Tom Simonite
“The age of homebrew AI may not be all sweetness and light. Nor will it be all darkness and porn. Meet some of the pioneers showing what happens when the masses can teach computers new tricks.”
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