EXCLUSIVE: Anti-vaccine dating, blood swapping site Unjected exposes users' DMs, locations dailydot.com/debug/anti-vax…

In 2022, we at WIRED told the story of P4x, a hacker who singlehandedly took down the entire North Korean internet.

Now he's revealing his name—Alejandro Caceres—and his strange experience since then: trying to teach the US military to be more like him. wired.com/story/p4x-nort…

Amazon billed its 'Just Walk Out' stores as some triumph of AI. In reality, it was powered by thousands of low-paid Indian workers manually adding up items in your cart as you shopped.

How insanely dystopian. gizmodo.com/amazon-reporte…

New: Google has banned a face swap app after 404 Media found it was being advertised on a deepfake porn site. The app, which was openly available on the Google Play Store, was explicitly inviting users to make deepfake porn 404media.co/google-bans-fa…

NEW: The hacking group SiegedSec breached a church & used its Amazon account to order at least 100 'inflatable sea lions' in protest of remarks made by the pastor dailydot.com/debug/sieged-s…

New from 404 Media: hackers have found a new way to shut down the Discord servers of their rivals. They deliberately upload child abuse imagery to the server, report it, and Discord (expectedly) takes the server down. It's weaponizing content mod and CSAM 404media.co/criminals-are-…

Absolutely incredible reporting here from Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron who uncovered years worth of location data from mobile devices, tracking people's movements from their homes to Jeffrey Epstein's 'pedophile island'

wired.com/story/jeffrey-…

This is insane.

Looks like Facebook did a man-in-the-middle attack using their VPN service to steal data from other apps. This enabled them to see all SSL traffic, by creating a fake digital certificate to impersonate Snapchat, YouTube, Amazon etc.

Seriously?

NEW: Facebook snooped on Snapchat users' encrypted network traffic to study how they behaved, unsealed court documents reveal.

This was part of a secret program called 'Project Ghostbusters,' and even inside the company, it was very controversial.

techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/fac…

Emails I obtained via FOIA request show Elon Musk's Twitter/X was selling user data for government surveillance at the exact same time it was fighting government surveillance in court theintercept.com/2024/03/25/elo…

Some personal news: The Intercept laid me off 🫠, so I'm now in the job market! My current title is Director of Information Security micahflee.com/2024/03/the-in…

New from 404 Media: in the next phase of people thinking that AI is helping them but it's actually doing the complete opposite, people are using 'photo enhancement' apps on photos of Kate Middleton. But they're total garbage and add to the disinfo dumpster 404media.co/enhanced-photo…

New from 404 Media: hackers are doxing doctors, gaining access to drug ordering platforms then buying (and selling) massive quantities of oxy, Adderall, more. Not just series of breaches across industry, but fundamental undermining of prescription system 404media.co/how-hackers-do…

As Joe Roosen notes, be careful interpreting Down Detector reports.

Each time a large service suffers an outage (whether AT&T or Facebook), DD reports a spike in complaints for many unrelated services causing people to erroneously suspect an internet-wide outage or cyberattack.