Cyberattacks and Hacks

Kernel Panic
The Fridge-Hacking Spree Is an Internet-of-Things Wake-Up Call
Escalating hacks affecting blood labs and grocery stores show the very real risks to critical infrastructure that come from basic security lapses involving internet-connected devices.
Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess


Warning Signs
Binance Says Hackers Used Well-Known Tricks to Carry Out a $6.34 Billion Heist
Matt Burgess

Kernel Panic
Spooky New Infostealer Malware Uses AI to ‘Autodox’ Victims
Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess

Near Misses
A Supply Chain Attack Put Malicious Anthropic Claude Extensions on Thousands of Devices
Lily Hay Newman


Tables Turned
A Hacker Targeted High-Stakes Poker Players With Malware That Exposed Their Cards
Ben Dowsett
ICE’d Out
Bluesky Is Blocking Links to a Major Leak of DHS Employee Records
Dhruv Mehrotra, Maddy Varner, and Dell Cameron

Bet Your Boots
Most Servers on the Planet Are Vulnerable to This Firmware Code-Execution Flaw
Dan Goodin, Ars Technica

Going Public
Massive Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers—Including Undercover ICE Agents
Dhruv Mehrotra, Maddy Varner, and Dell Cameron

Kernel Panic
The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable
Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess


Update Now
‘This Is Not a Drill’: Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Are Setting the Internet on Fire
Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman


Sharing Is Caring
A Design Flaw in Share Links Exposes Users’ Personal Conversations With Meta’s Muse
Dan Goodin, Ars Technica

Nowhere’s Safe
‘Nightmare Scenario’: Zero-Click Spyware Is Infecting Phones via Targeted Ads
Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman

Kernel Panic
AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminals
Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess


Be Careful
A Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive Data
Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess


Panic Stations
OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government
Isabella Ward


Delayed Notification
An OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia’s Health Service. Their Government Found Out Months Later
Isabella Ward