Lily Hay Newman
Security Reporter at WIRED Magazine
Security reporter @WIRED. she/her/my man. Well of course, everything looks bad if you remember it. Signal +1 (347) 722-1347 @[email protected]
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1 week ago |
wired.com | Andy Greenberg |Matt Burgess |Lily Hay Newman
For years, a mysterious figure who goes by the handle Stern led the Trickbot ransomware gang and evaded identification—even as other members of the group were outed in leaks and unmasked. This week German authorities revealed, without much fanfare, who they believe that enigmatic hacker kingpin to be: Vitaly Nikolaevich Kovalev, a 36-year-old Russian man who remains at large in his home country.
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2 weeks ago |
threatbeat.com | Matt Burgess |Lily Hay Newman
Skip to content NEW Security news and analysis brought to you by the McCrary Institute | READ MORE → By Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman • May 23, 2025 The possibility that data could be inadvertently exposed in a misconfigured or otherwise unsecured database is a longtime privacy nightmare that has been difficult to fully address.
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2 weeks ago |
arstechnica.com | Lily Hay Newman |Matt Burgess
Authorities, along with tech companies including Microsoft and Cloudflare, say they’ve disrupted Lumma. A consortium of global law enforcement agencies and tech companies announced on Wednesday that they have disrupted the infostealer malware known as Lumma. One of the most popular infostealers worldwide, Lumma has been used by hundreds of what Microsoft calls “cyber threat actors” to steal passwords, credit card and banking information, and cryptocurrency wallet details.
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2 weeks ago |
technewstube.com | Matt Burgess |Lily Hay Newman
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2 weeks ago |
wired.com | Matt Burgess |Lily Hay Newman
The possibility that data could be inadvertently exposed in a misconfigured or otherwise unsecured database is a longtime privacy nightmare that has been difficult to fully address. But the new discovery of a massive trove of 184 million records—including Apple, Facebook, and Google logins and credentials for accounts connected to multiple governments—underscores the risks of recklessly compiling sensitive information in a repository that could become a single point of failure.
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