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Dec 22, 2023 • 8min
The Race to Fill Crypto’s FTX-Shaped Hole
When crypto exchange FTX collapsed, it left behind a hole in the market. From Backpack to OPNX, faces new and old are vying to fill it.Read this story here.
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Dec 21, 2023 • 6min
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 faced obstacles.Read this story here.
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Dec 20, 2023 • 5min
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 Autopilot system.Read this story here.
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Dec 19, 2023 • 8min
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 advantage of conspiracy theories.Read this story here.
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Dec 18, 2023 • 10min
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 to undermine their business.Read this story here.
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Dec 15, 2023 • 9min
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 cybercrime and state-backed actors.Read this story here.
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Dec 14, 2023 • 6min
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, a major Ukrainian mobile and internet provider.Read this story here.
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Dec 13, 2023 • 7min
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 Americans' privacy and civil liberties.Read this story here.
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Dec 12, 2023 • 6min
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.Read this story here.
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Dec 11, 2023 • 5min
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 here.
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