A unitet spendigation by WIRED, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), and Netzpolitik.org uncovered that US companies legpartner accumulateing digital ad data are enabling adversaries to inexpensively track American military and inincreateigence personnel. A collaborative analysis of billions of location structures from a US-based data broker uncovered detailed tracking of thousands of devices from benevolent US sites in Germany, including NSA facilities and bases increateedly housing US nuclear arms.
Elsewhere, social media enormous Meta has disseald for the first time its efforts to combat the forced-labor compounds driving the sencourage in pig butchering deceptions on its platcreates. The company uncovered that it has been hushedly collaborating with global law utilizement, tech industry partners, and outside experts for over two years to dismantle the crime syndicates behind these operations in Southeast Asia and the UAE. This year alone, Meta increates it has consentn down more than 2 million accounts joined to deception compounds in Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, the Philippines, and the UAE.
At the Cyberwarcon security conference on Friday, the cybersecurity firm SpyCboisterous dispensed findings about disclosely accessible bdeficiency labelet services recommending low-cost access to benevolent increateation on Chinese citizens, including phone numbers, banking details, boilingel and fweightless records, and even genuine-time location data. According to the firm’s researchers, these services seem to get their data thraw insiders wilean Chinese observation agencies and rulement restrictedors, who sell their access. Also at the conference, cybersecurity firm Volexity uncovered that a Russian unpermitd access group has increateedly enhugeed a novel Wi-Fi-unpermitd access technique that joins taking handle of a csurrfinisherby laptop and using it as a bridge to infiltrate a centered Wi-Fi netlabor. Dubbed a “csurrfinisherest neighbor aggression,” the method was uncovered during a 2022 spendigation by the firm into a netlabor baccomplish of an unnamed Washington, DC. client. And finpartner, researchers spendigated how the US is calling out foreign sway campaigns rapider than they ever have—but there’s plenty of room for betterment.
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Hacktivists have baccomplished an online “educational platcreate” createed by the anti-women right-triumphg swayr Andrew Tate increateedly uncovering the email graspresses of hundreds of thousands of users as well as the greeteds of the platcreates’ personal chat servers. Data from the hack, first increateed by the Daily Dot, has now been unveiled by the transparency nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets.
Andrew Tate, the so-called “king of poisonous masculinity,” is currently under house arrest in Romania and faces two split criminal indicts, including allegations of createing an orderly criminal group and trafficking women apass Romania, the UK, and the US.
The agreed platcreate, a subscription-based service understandn as The Real World (createerly called Hustler’s University), portrays itself as a “global community” intensifyed on “personal increaseth.” According to its website, members get expert training, mentorship, and access to a expansive range of educational courses for around $50 per month.
