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Cyberattacks and Hacks

Security Roundup

NSA Chief Ousted Amid Trump Loyalty Firing Spree

Plus: Another DOGE operative allegedly has a history in the hacking world, and Donald Trump’s national security adviser apparently had way more Signal chats than previously known.

Dhruv Mehrotra and Andrew Couts

Security Roundup

Top Trump Officials’ Passwords and Personal Phone Numbers Discovered Online

Matt Burgess

Logging On

Using Starlink Wi-Fi in the White House Is a Slippery Slope for US Federal IT

Lily Hay Newman

Crypto Wars

A New Era of Attacks on Encryption Is Starting to Heat Up

Matt Burgess

Brute Force

‘People Are Scared’: Inside CISA as It Reels From Trump’s Purge

Eric Geller

Junk Traffic

What Really Happened With the DDoS Attacks That Took Down X

Lily Hay Newman

Security Roundup

Cybercriminals Allegedly Used a StubHub Backdoor to Steal Taylor Swift Tickets

Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess

Eleven11bot

A Brand-New Botnet Is Delivering Record-Size DDoS Attacks

Dan Goodin, Ars Technica

Unmasked

US Charges 12 Alleged Spies in China’s Freewheeling Hacker-for-Hire Ecosystem

Andy Greenberg

Badbox 2.0

1 Million Third-Party Android Devices Have a Secret Backdoor for Scammers

Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess

Balancing Act

A Team of Female Founders Is Launching Cloud Security Tech That Could Overhaul AI Protection

Lily Hay Newman

dirty deals

This Russian Tech Bro Helped Steal $93 Million and Landed in US Prison. Then Putin Called

Noah Shachtman

Oh, No

TVs at HUD Played an AI-Generated Video of Donald Trump Kissing Elon Musk’s Feet

David Gilbert

Security Roundup

$1.4 Billion Stolen From ByBit in Biggest Crypto Theft Ever

Andy Greenberg and Lily Hay Newman

Router Roulette

The US Is Considering a TP-Link Router Ban—Should You Worry?

Simon Hill

Safety Squeeze

The National Institute of Standards and Technology Braces for Mass Firings

Will Knight, Paresh Dave, and Leah Feiger

Not Now, Putin

A Signal Update Fends Off a Phishing Technique Used in Russian Espionage

Andy Greenberg

Security Roundup

The Official DOGE Website Launch Was a Security Mess

Matt Burgess and Andrew Couts

Down Ballot

Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work

Eric Geller

Undeterred

China’s Salt Typhoon Spies Are Still Hacking Telecoms—Now by Exploiting Cisco Routers

Andy Greenberg

Going Global

A Hacker Group Within Russia’s Notorious Sandworm Unit Is Breaching Western Networks

Andy Greenberg

Rug Pull

The Collapse of USAID Is Already Fueling Human Trafficking and Slavery at Scammer Compounds

Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman

Downward Spiral

Despite Catastrophic Hacks, Ransomware Payments Dropped Dramatically Last Year

Andy Greenberg and Lily Hay Newman