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Toxic Traits

The Violent Rise of ‘No Lives Matter’

Ali Winston

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

Fourth Amendment

Trump’s Spy Chief Urged to Declassify Details of Secret Surveillance Program

Dell Cameron

Loose Cannons

Pentagon Cuts Threaten Programs That Secure Loose Nukes and Weapons of Mass Destruction

Justin Ling

Search and Destroy

The US Army Is Using ‘CamoGPT’ to Purge DEI From Training Materials

Jared Keller

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

Security Roundup

The Trump Administration Is Deprioritizing Russia as a Cyber Threat

Lily Hay Newman and Andy Greenberg

Bad Connection

Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Keeping Modern Slavery Compounds Online

Matt Burgess

Balancing Act

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

Lily Hay Newman

Devil in the Details

‘OpenAI’ Job Scam Targeted International Workers Through Telegram

Reece Rogers

dirty deals

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

Noah Shachtman

High Exposure

Inside the Telegram Groups Doxing Women for Their Facebook Posts

Anna Wolfe and Sarah Cammarata

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

Safety First

DOGE’s USDS Purge Included the Guy Who Keeps Veterans’ Data Safe Online

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