Security writer, WIRED. Privacy, data, surveillance, cyber. Keen runner.
NEW: Over the last 3 months, phone and devices searches at the US border hit a new high
Almost 15,000 devices were searched between April and June, according to data published on the US Customs and Border Protection website
https://www.wired.com/story/phone-searches-at-the-us-border-hit-a-record-high/
NEW: Scam compounds in Southeast Asia have conned people out of billions.
New analysis has now linked the criminal organizations to sextortion against children as well
By cross referencing potential reports of child sextortion from NCMEC with mobile ad tech data, researchers linked around 500 complaints to scam centers in Cambodia, Myanmar, and Laos.
In total they found 18,000 IP addresses linked to scam compounds in the NCMEC sextortion data
https://www.wired.com/story/child-sextorition-scam-compounds-southeast-asia/
Hackers Hijacked Google’s Gemini AI With a Poisoned Calendar Invite to Take Over a Smart Home
https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-calendar-invite-hijack-smart-home/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Security News @security-news-WIRED
NEW: In a likely first, security researchers have shown how generative AI agents can be hijacked to cause physical consequences.
They tricked Google's Gemini AI into turning off smart home lights, opening windows, and turning on a boiler.
They hid instructions to the AI in a *calendar invitation*
https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-calendar-invite-hijack-smart-home/
NEW: AI 'nudifiers'—one of the biggest generative AI scourges—are likely making millions from abusive images.
Analysis of 85 nudifiers from Indicator says they're averaging a combined 18.5 million visitors monthly and in the last six months may have made up to $18m in 6 months
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-nudify-websites-are-raking-in-millions-of-dollars/
NEW: AI 'nudifiers'—one of the biggest generative AI scourges—are likely making millions from abusive images.
Analysis of 85 nudifiers from Indicator says they're averaging a combined 18.5 million visitors monthly and in the last six months may have made up to $18m in 6 months
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-nudify-websites-are-raking-in-millions-of-dollars/
NEW from me: Researchers are outing North Korean IT workers at a massive scale
Today cybersecurity firm DTEX is publishing the identities of two North Koreans who ran worker scams from Laos and publishing more than 1,000 email addresses linked to other IT worker schemes
https://www.wired.com/story/north-korean-it-worker-scams-exposed/
NEW from me: Researchers are outing North Korean IT workers at a massive scale
Today cybersecurity firm DTEX is publishing the identities of two North Koreans who ran worker scams from Laos and publishing more than 1,000 email addresses linked to other IT worker schemes
https://www.wired.com/story/north-korean-it-worker-scams-exposed/
New from me: Security researchers are warning that a widely used piece of open source software has links to a Russian sanctioned CEO’s business and is a threat to national security. The package is used by the US Department of Defense
MrDeepfakes has been a scourge on the web for years, advancing explicit deepfake technology and enabling abuse of thousands of women.
At the end of 2023, academic research found, the website hosted more than 40,000 explicit non-consensual deepfake videos that had been watched 1.5 billion times
Some welcome news. The biggest deepfake abuse website claims it is shutting down.
Thousands of videos and forum posts are no longer available. A service provider pulled support, allegedly
@404mediaco’s story here:
"It might be hard or at least painfully slow and costly for 4chan to recover from this, so we might really see the end of 4chan as we know it.”
Story from me and @lhn on the 4chan hack
"It might be hard or at least painfully slow and costly for 4chan to recover from this, so we might really see the end of 4chan as we know it.”
Story from me and @lhn on the 4chan hack
🚨 NEW: UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal rejects UK Government's push for secrecy over government order to access your encrypted files 👀
https://investigatorypowerstribunal.org.uk/judgement/apple-inc-v-secretary-of-state-for-the-home-department/
NEW from me: An AI image generator left a database exposed online, revealing how people use the technology.
Thousands of explicit AI-generated images and child sexual abuse material was included in 90,000 exposed files.
After WIRED got in touch, the company behind it took the site offline
https://www.wired.com/story/genomis-ai-image-database-exposed/
New from me: Companies in the EU are starting to look for ways to ditch Amazon, Google, and Microsoft cloud services amid fears of rising security risks from the US. But cutting ties won’t be easy
“Wired is going to stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act”
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