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The Hacker Who Hunts Video Game Speedrunning Cheaters

Andy Greenberg

Buy Now

Apple Prototypes and Corporate Secrets Are for Sale Online—If You Know Where to Look

Lily Hay Newman

Graphic Warning

Google Researchers Found Nearly a Dozen Flaws in Popular Qualcomm Software for Mobile GPUs

Lily Hay Newman

Make It Rain

ATM Software Flaws Left Piles of Cash for Anyone Who Knew to Look

Lily Hay Newman

Bad to the Bone

‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections

Andy Greenberg

You Got Picked

How Hackers Extracted the ‘Keys to the Kingdom’ to Clone HID Keycards

Andy Greenberg

Downtime

Computer Crash Reports Are an Untapped Hacker Gold Mine

Lily Hay Newman

Nick of Time

Tricky Web Timing Attacks Are Getting Easier to Use—and Abuse

Lily Hay Newman

Inside Out

Microsoft’s AI Can Be Turned Into an Automated Phishing Machine

Matt Burgess

Return to Sender

USPS Text Scammers Duped His Wife, So He Hacked Their Operation

Matt Burgess

Bad Vibrations

Watch How a Hacker’s Infrared Laser Can Spy on Your Laptop’s Keystrokes

Andy Greenberg

Overexposed

Inside the Dark World of Doxing for Profit

Matt Burgess

Sub-version

A Flaw in Windows Update Opens the Door to Zombie Exploits

Lily Hay Newman

Leveling Up

A New Plan to Break the Cycle of Destructive Critical Infrastructure Hacks

Lily Hay Newman

Hamstrung

How Project 2025 Would Put US Elections at Risk

Eric Geller

Security Roundup

US Hands Over Russian Cybercriminals in WSJ Reporter Prisoner Swap

Dhruv Mehrotra and Andrew Couts

Trust Issues

Sensitive Illinois Voter Data Exposed by Contractor’s Unsecured Databases

Lily Hay Newman

Dirty Jobs

He Was an FBI Informant—and Inspired a Generation of Violent Extremists

Ali Winston and Jake Hanrahan

Zapped

A $500 Open Source Tool Lets Anyone Hack Computer Chips With Lasers

Andy Greenberg

harm reduction

Can GPT-4o Be Trusted With Your Private Data?

Kate O'Flaherty