Skip to content ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team
United States immigration authorities are moving to dramatically expand their social media surveillance, with plans to hire nearly 30 contractors ...
Read more DHS Has Been Collecting US Citizens’ DNA for Years
The expansion has been driven by specific legal and bureaucratic levers. Foremost was an April 2020 Justice Department rule that ...
Read more Automated Sextortion Spyware Takes Webcam Pics of Victims Watching Porn
Sextortion-based hacking, which hijacks a victim’s webcam or blackmails them with nudes they’re tricked or coerced into sharing, has long ...
Read more This Is the Group That’s Been Swatting US Universities
A self-proclaimed leader of an online group linked to the violent extremist network The Com tells WIRED he is responsible ...
Read more 493 Cases of Sextortion Against Children Linked to Notorious Scam Compounds
“There are limitations to what we can see with this data, but what we have so far is accurate,” says ...
Read more Leak Reveals the Workaday Lives of North Korean IT Scammers
The tables show the potential target jobs for IT workers. One sheet, which seemingly includes daily updates, lists job descriptions ...
Read more Tornado Cash Developer Roman Storm Guilty on One Count in Federal Crypto Case
“Claiming to offer the Tornado Cash service as a ‘privacy service,’ the defendants in fact knew that it was a ...
Read more From Cheating Exposés to Dating Background Checks, TikTok Detectives Are Thriving
In the case of Andy Byron, of Coldplay concert infamy, there are multiple articles asking “who is his wife?” and ...
Read more AI ‘Nudify’ Websites Are Raking in Millions of Dollars
For years, so-called “nudify” apps and websites have mushroomed online, allowing people to create nonconsensual and abusive images of women ...
Read more DHS Tells Police That Common Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’
At times, the sprawling predictions may appear prescient, echoing real-world flashpoints: In Alvarado, Texas, an alleged coordinated ambush at a ...
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