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$1.4 Billion Stolen From ByBit in Biggest Crypto Theft Ever

Andy Greenberg and Lily Hay Newman

Safety First

DOGE’s USDS Purge Included the Guy Who Keeps Veterans’ Data Safe Online

Lily Hay Newman

Router Roulette

The US Is Considering a TP-Link Router Ban—Should You Worry?

Simon Hill

Safety Squeeze

The National Institute of Standards and Technology Braces for Mass Firings

Will Knight, Paresh Dave, and Leah Feiger

Surveillance Economy

Google Ad-Tech Users Can Target National Security ‘Decision Makers’ and People With Chronic Diseases

Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra

Takedown Trials

Microsoft Hosted Explicit Videos of This Startup Founder for Years. Here's How She Got Them Taken Down

Paresh Dave and Matt Burgess

Takeover

DOGE Now Has Access to the Top US Cybersecurity Agency

Kim Zetter

Not Now, Putin

A Signal Update Fends Off a Phishing Technique Used in Russian Espionage

Andy Greenberg

New DOGE, Old Tricks

The 50-Year-Old Law That Could Stop DOGE in Its Tracks—Maybe

Eric Geller

Security Roundup

The Official DOGE Website Launch Was a Security Mess

Matt Burgess and Andrew Couts

Down Ballot

Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work

Eric Geller

Love Bytes

The Loneliness Epidemic Is a Security Crisis

Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess

Undeterred

China’s Salt Typhoon Spies Are Still Hacking Telecoms—Now by Exploiting Cisco Routers

Andy Greenberg

Going Global

A Hacker Group Within Russia’s Notorious Sandworm Unit Is Breaching Western Networks

Andy Greenberg

Worldwide Web

The Murky Ad-Tech World Powering Surveillance of US Military Personnel

Joseph Cox and Dhruv Mehrotra

Horror Stories

US Funding Cuts Are Helping Criminals Get Away With Child Abuse and Human Trafficking

Matt Burgess

Future Wars

The Rise of the Drone Boats

Jared Keller

Security Roundup

UK Secret Order Demands That Apple Give Access to Users’ Encrypted Data

Lily Hay Newman

Takeover

ACLU Warns DOGE’s ‘Unchecked’ Access Could Violate Federal Law

Dell Cameron

Work History

DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers

Andy Greenberg, David Gilbert, and Lily Hay Newman