Published on: 2025-06-06 05:42:45
For years, a mysterious figure who goes by the handle Stern led the Trickbot ransomware gang and evaded identification—even as other members of the group were outed in leaks and unmasked. This week German authorities revealed, without much fanfare, who they believe that enigmatic hacker kingpin to be: Vitaly Nikolaevich Kovalev, a 36-year-old Russian man who remains at large in his home country. Closer to home, WIRED revealed that Customs and Border Protection has mouth-swabbed 133,000 mig
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-06 17:45:50
The White House is investigating after one or more people reportedly accessed the contacts from the personal phone of White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and used the information to contact other top officials and impersonate her. Wiles reportedly told people that her phone was hacked. The Wall Street Journal first reported the hack of Wiles’ phone. CBS News also confirmed the reporting. The hacker or hackers are said to have accessed Wiles’ phone contacts, including the phone numbers of o
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 13:39:51
Department of Justice officials on Tuesday charged members or associates of an Armenian organized crime ring with stealing more than $83 million worth of cargo from Amazon by posing as legitimate truck drivers and siphoning off goods destined for the company's warehouses. Since at least 2021, at least four people linked to the crime ring carried out a scheme across California to steal truckloads of merchandise, ranging from smart TVs and GE icemakers to SharkNinja vacuums and air fryers, the DO
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 19:00:28
Starlink, Elon Musk’s satellite internet constellation that is run through SpaceX, has caught legislators’ attention. Democratic Senators this week called for an investigation into whether the Trump administration is using trade negotiations to benefit Musk. In a letter addressed to federal officials, including Attorney General Pam Bondi and acting director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics Jamieson Greer, a group of Democratic Senators wrote, “Musk may be using his official role and his
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-30 17:06:17
The FBI is warning people to be vigilant of an ongoing malicious messaging campaign that uses AI-generated voice audio to impersonate government officials in an attempt to trick recipients into clicking on links that can infect their computers. “Since April 2025, malicious actors have impersonated senior US officials to target individuals, many of whom are current or former senior US federal or state government officials and their contacts,” Thursday’s advisory from the bureau’s Internet Crime
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-01 05:22:08
The FBI warned that cybercriminals using AI-generated audio deepfakes to target U.S. officials in voice phishing attacks that started in April. This warning is part of a public service announcement issued on Thursday that also provides mitigation measures to help the public spot and block attacks using audio deepfakes (also known as voice deepfakes). "Since April 2025, malicious actors have impersonated senior US officials to target individuals, many of whom are current or former senior US fed
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 20:38:47
A hacker has exploited a vulnerability in TeleMessage to breach the service and steal data, according to reporting by 404 Media. TeleMessage is an Israeli company that provides modded versions of encrypted messaging apps like Signal and Telegram. It was revealed last week that former US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz used TeleMessage’s modified version of Signal to archive messages. Today's report indicated the presence of other high-ranking government officials in archived chats on the a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-26 07:14:41
Senior Trump administration officials have reportedly had enough of billionaire Elon Musk's abrasive humor. With the help of his so-called Department of Government Efficiency, Musk has plundered a growing number of government agencies, overseeing brutal budget cuts and mass layoffs, actions deemed by many to be unlawful and unconstitutional. And his grating personal behavior, frequently punctuated by memes and dad jokes, is starting to get to Trump officials, Rolling Stone reports. As a resul
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-09 18:36:30
Senior members of the Trump administration’s National Security Council — including its top national security adviser, Michael Waltz — used Gmail to conduct government business, The Washington Post reported, citing documents and three unnamed government officials. The report follows last week’s news that several cabinet-level officials, including the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, discussed highly sensitive war plans in a Signal group chat that also inadvertently included the editor-in-chief
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-11 13:27:44
Top national security officials at the White House, including national security advisor Michael Waltz, have sometimes been using regular Gmail accounts to discuss highly sensitive military operations, according to a new report from the Washington Post. Gmail is not end-to-end encrypted like more secure government systems available to officials like Waltz and can be intercepted by foreign adversaries. The Gmail accounts were used to discuss “sensitive military positions and powerful weapons syst
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-17 05:10:00
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 A judge has ordered Trump’s officials to preserve their secret Signal chat While officials are required by law to keep chats detailing government business, Signal’s messages can be set to auto-disappear. (USA Today) + The conversation detailed an imminent attack against Houthi rebels in Yemen. (The Hill) + A government accountability group has sued the agencies involved. (Reuters) +
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SignalGate, as it's come to be called, may be the biggest scandal to hit the Trump administration in its first months in power. But it's been great for Signal. Since the news broke on Monday that senior Trump administration cabinet members accidentally included the editor in chief of The Atlantic in a group chat on the Signal encrypted messaging platform where the officials were making secret plans to bomb Yemen, the ensuing news cycle and the constant mentions of Signal have led to the encrypt
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-18 13:31:30
SignalGate, as it's come to be called, may be the biggest scandal to hit the Trump administration in its first months in power. But it's been great for Signal. Since the news broke on Monday that senior Trump administration cabinet members accidentally included the editor in chief of The Atlantic in a group chat on the Signal encrypted messaging platform where the officials were making secret plans to bomb Yemen, the ensuing news cycle and the constant mentions of Signal have led to the encrypt
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-21 01:31:00
Facepalm: Signal likes to present itself as the most private and secure messaging service around, but the nonprofit likely didn't design the app for sharing classified plans regarding imminent military action. Yet earlier this month, senior U.S. government and military officials did just that. Signal's president later defended the service amid renewed comparisons to WhatsApp. Signal president Meredith Whittaker reiterated the messaging service's commitment to secure encryption and privacy after
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-18 03:14:31
The Saudi crown family's megalomaniac dreams of building a gigantic city of the future in the middle of the desert are getting a brutal reality check. Saudi Arabia's plans for Neom, a futuristic fever dream which includes a massive all-inclusive resort on the coast, a second ski resort in the mountains, and an up to 106 miles-long pair of 1,600-foot skyscrapers called The Line, is running into major financial problems. As the Wall Street Journal reports, capital expenditure estimates to build
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-02 06:38:21
It turns out the Apple Watch has been playing a crucial role in helping hockey referees manage NHL games. That’s thanks to a purpose-built app called NHL Watch Comms for on-ice NHL Officials. The app will be used for the first time in an outdoor setting for tomorrow’s Stadium Series in Ohio. The NHL shared the news in a blog post this week: For the first time ever in an outdoor game, League officials will be using the NHL Watch Comms App, developed by Presidio for Apple Watch, to get real-time
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-02 06:00:00
is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. The Apple Watch is now the smartwatch of choice for National Hockey League officials. Apple and the NHL just announced a collaboration where on-ice officials will wear Apple Watches that are running special software to receive important in-game information. Using the custom-built NHL Watch Comms app, on-ice referees can view the game
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-02 12:00:00
is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. The Apple Watch is now the smartwatch of choice for National Hockey League officials. Apple and the NHL just announced a collaboration where on-ice officials will wear Apple Watches that are running special software to receive important in-game information. Using the custom-built NHL Watch Comms app, on-ice referees can view the game
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-07 14:30:09
Something is killing people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and no one knows what it is. World Health Organization officials have reported two clusters of a mystery illness in the area that has sickened hundreds and killed dozens in the past few weeks alone. WHO officials in the African Region released the latest update on the situation last Thursday. So far, there have been 431 cases and 53 deaths attributed to an unknown illness in northwestern DRC dating back to January. Initial tests h
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