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Andy Greenberg
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Writer for WIRED. Author of SANDWORM. New book, TRACERS IN THE DARK: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency, out now. agreenberg@wired.com
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Hackers showed me (there's video) how a website vulnerability let them locate, unlock, honk the horn, start ignition of any of millions Kias in seconds, just by reading a car's license plate. They found similar bugs for a dozen carmakers over the last two years. www.wired.com/story/kia-we...

Millions of Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple Website Bug
Millions of Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple Website Bug

Researchers found a flaw in a Kia web portal that let them track millions of cars, unlock doors, and start engines at will—the latest in a plague of web bugs that’s affected a dozen carmakers.

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Hackers showed me (there's video) how a website vulnerability let them locate, unlock, honk the horn, start ignition of any of millions Kias in seconds, just by reading a car's license plate. They found similar bugs for a dozen carmakers over the last two years. www.wired.com/story/kia-we...

Millions of Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple Website Bug
Millions of Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple Website Bug

Researchers found a flaw in a Kia web portal that let them track millions of cars, unlock doors, and start engines at will—the latest in a plague of web bugs that’s affected a dozen carmakers.

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If Israel's exploding pager attack was designed to instill paranoia, it's working. "It's impossible to think about this as limiting Hezbollah's communications and capabilities without realizing it's also going to have a terrorizing effect on the adjacent population.” www.wired.com/story/hezbol...

First Israel’s Exploding Pagers Maimed and Killed. Now Comes the Paranoia
First Israel’s Exploding Pagers Maimed and Killed. Now Comes the Paranoia

The explosion of thousands of rigged pagers and walkie-talkies will likely make Hezbollah operatives fear any means of electronic communication. It’s having the same effect on the Lebanese population.

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Parents, are you monitoring what your teens are up to online? If not, they may well be carrying out cyberattacks against the Ukrainian government as part of a notorious sabotage and assassination unit of Russian military intelligence.

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Intelligence agencies have revealed that unit 29155 of Russia’s GRU—a unit responsible for coup attempts, assassinations, and bombings—has is now engaged in brazen hacking operations with targets across the world, including in Ukraine and the US. www.wired.com/story/russia...

Russia’s Most Notorious Special Forces Unit Now Has Its Own Cyber Warfare Team
Russia’s Most Notorious Special Forces Unit Now Has Its Own Cyber Warfare Team

Unit 29155 of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency—a team responsible for coup attempts, assassinations, and bombings—has branched out into brazen hacking operations with targets across the world...

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For the 10th birthday of Signal, I did a Big Interview with its president Meredith Whittaker. We ended up talking about how her focus for Signal goes beyond encryption or privacy, to creating an alternative to surveillance capitalism—or even capitalism, period. www.wired.com/story/meredi...

Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong
Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong

On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engin...

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Today marks six months that Tigran Gambaryan has been detained by the Nigerian government, now with his health failing in a notorious prison. His wife Yuki has released this video statement: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rCD... Bring Tigran home.

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Tigran Gambaryan is still in Nigerian jail as the country's courts adjourn for the summer. He has a herniated disc, can't walk, is on blood thinners for clots because he's bedridden. Also needs his tonsils removed due to repeated throat infections. This can't go on. Bring Tigran home.

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Following news that the Trump campaign says it was hacked by Iran, Google now says one group working for Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps has targeted both campaigns, going after a dozen individuals associated with Trump and Biden in May and June. www.wired.com/story/iran-a...

One Iranian Hacker Group Targeted Both Presidential Campaigns, Google Says
One Iranian Hacker Group Targeted Both Presidential Campaigns, Google Says

APT42, which is believed to work for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, targeted about a dozen people associated with both Trump and Biden’s campaigns this spring, according to Google’s Threat Analysis...

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Andy Greenberg
@agreenberg.bsky.social
Writer for WIRED. Author of SANDWORM. New book, TRACERS IN THE DARK: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency, out now. agreenberg@wired.com
3.6k followers170 following155 posts