Who Even Is a Criminal Now?
Credit to Author: Katie Drummond| Date: Mon, 19 May 2025 10:00:00 +0000
WIRED loves a rogue. Except rogues ruined the internet. Is there any salvaging the rebellious spirit without destroying everything?
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How to Win Followers and Scamfluence People
Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Mon, 19 May 2025 10:00:00 +0000
Format Boy makes a living teaching Yahoo Boys, notorious West African scammers, how to use AI and deepfake technology to ensnare their next victims.
Read MoreFor Tech Whistleblowers, There’s Safety in Numbers
Credit to Author: Victoria Turk| Date: Mon, 19 May 2025 10:00:00 +0000
Amber Scorah and Psst are building a “digital safe” to help people shine a light on the bad things their bosses are doing, without getting found out.
Read MoreHow the Signal Knockoff App TeleMessage Got Hacked in 20 Minutes
Credit to Author: Micah Lee| Date: Sun, 18 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000
The company behind the Signal clone used by at least one Trump administration official was breached earlier this month. The hacker says they got in thanks to a basic misconfiguration.
Read MoreCoinbase Will Reimburse Customers Up to $400 Million After Data Breach
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Sat, 17 May 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: 12 more people are indicted over a $263 million crypto heist, and a former FBI director is accused of threatening Donald Trump thanks to an Instagram post of seashells.
Read MoreThe Internet’s Biggest-Ever Black Market Just Shut Down Amid a Telegram Purge
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 20:00:00 +0000
Following a WIRED inquiry, Telegram banned thousands of accounts used for crypto-scam money laundering, including those of Haowang Guarantee, a black market that enabled over $27 billion in transactions.
Read MoreThe Internet’s Biggest-Ever Black Market Just Shut Down Amid a Telegram Purge
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 20:00:00 +0000
Following a WIRED inquiry, Telegram banned thousands of accounts used for crypto-scam money laundering, including those of Haowang Guarantee, a black market that enabled over $27 billion in transactions.
Read MoreCFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers
Credit to Author: Dell Cameron, Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 16:53:00 +0000
Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data.
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