A Startup Allegedly ‘Hacked the World.’ Then Came the Censorship—and Now the Backlash

A loose coalition of anti-censorship voices is working to highlight reports of one Indian company’s hacker-for-hire…

How a Group of Israel-Linked Hackers Has Pushed the Limits of Cyberwar

From repeatedly crippling thousands of gas stations to setting a steel mill on fire, Predatory Sparrow’s…

‘Stablecoins’ Enabled $40 Billion in Crypto Crime Since 2022

A new report from Chainalysis finds that stablecoins like Tether, tied to the value of the…

How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity

Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable. Then a grad student named…

Child Abusers Are Getting Better at Using Crypto to Cover Their Tracks

Crypto tracing firm Chainalysis found that sellers of child ****** abuse materials are successfully using “mixers”…

McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hackers Say They Found the ‘Smoking Gun’ That Killed Their Startup

Kytch, the company that tried to fix McDonald’s broken ice cream machines, has unearthed a 3-year-old…

Hacker Group Linked to Russian Military Claims Credit for Cyberattack on Kyivstar

A hacker group calling itself Solntsepek—previously linked to Russia’s notorious Sandworm hackers—says it carried out a…

The Binance Crackdown Will Be an ‘Unprecedented’ Bonanza for Crypto Surveillance

Binance’s settlement requires it to offer years of transaction data to US regulators and cops, exposing…

DOJ Charges Binance With Vast Money-Laundering Scheme and Sanctions Violations

From Russia to Iran, the feds have charged Binance with allegedly conducting well over $1 billion…

Running Signal Will Soon Cost $50 Million a Year

Signal’s president reveals the cost of running the privacy-preserving platform—not just to drum up donations, but…