Hacking
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US Feds Are Tapping a Half-Billion Encrypted Messaging Goldmine
European cops hacked the encrypted phone provider Sky in 2021. More and more cases in the U.S. are using that mass of collected messages.
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Hacker Breaks Into GPS Tracker Tool, Looks Up User Locations
A set of credentials related to the GPS tracking company Trackimo let a hacker access an internal troubleshooting tool and retrieve customers’ recent locations.
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Inside the FBI's Dashboard for Wiretapping the World
Never-before-published screenshots of an internal FBI tool show how the agency monitored millions of messages from the secretly backdoored messaging app Anom.
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Here are the Hacker Tools a DEF CON Hotel is Hunting For
Resorts World is searching rooms daily for hacker tools. 404 Media obtained the list of hunted items.
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Hotel to Search Rooms During DEF CON Hacking Conference
“As you may or may not know, a well-known hacking convention will be held in Las Vegas during your stay,” Resorts World Las Vegas writes. “We will be conducting scheduled, brief visual and non-intrusive room inspections daily,” it adds.
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Hacker Breaches Pharma Giant Bausch Health, Wants to Extort DEA
The data includes DEA numbers used for ordering controlled substances. 404 Media contacted Bausch about the data breach last week.
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Hacker Shows How to Get Free Laundry For Life
Michael Orlitzky was sick of the washer and dryer machines in his building. So, he found an alternative to paying.
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Sydney Sweeney’s Verizon Phone Number Hijacked
A photo posted online shows an apparent SIM swap of Sydney Sweeney on July 2nd. That same day, hackers broke into her Twitter account and posted a cryptocurrency scam.
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UK Police Arrest Suspect in MGM Ransomware Attack
The arrest is one of the few publicly available signs of movement in the investigation of the massive MGM Resorts cyberattack.
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Leaked Docs Show What Phones Cellebrite Can (and Can’t) Unlock
The leaked April 2024 documents, obtained and verified by 404 Media, show Cellebrite could not unlock a large chunk of modern iPhones.
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Hackers Steal Text and Call Records of ‘Nearly All’ AT&T Customers
In one of the most significant data breaches in recent history, hackers stole AT&T customers’ call and text metadata spanning several months.
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ID Verification Service for TikTok, Uber, X Exposed Driver Licenses
As social networks and porn sites move towards a verified identity model, the actions of one cybersecurity researcher show that ID verification services themselves could get hacked too.