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Byline: Ellen Nakashima; Josh Dawsey Chinese state-affiliated hackers have collected audio from the phone calls of U.S. political figures, according to three people familiar with the matter. Those whose calls [...]

Byline: Joseph Menn; Josh Dawsey; Ellen Nakashima; Perry Stein; Yasmeen Abutaleb Chinese government hackers have tried to get inside telephones used by former president Donald Trump, Sen. JD Vance and [...]

Byline: Daniel Wu There are few organizations dedicated to the gargantuan task of preserving the vast, ever-shifting record of human activity that is the internet. The largest such record belongs [...]

Byline: Robyn Dixon Russia suffered major digital outages for a second day Tuesday after hackers targeted Russia's court information system, taking down court websites and claiming to have wiped court [...]

Byline: Ellen Nakashima Chinese hackers have breached at least three major U.S. telecommunications providers in what appears to be an audacious espionage operation likely aimed in part at discovering the [...]

Byline: Philip Bump A few days before the 2016 presidential election, a deeply weird mini-controversy emerged: Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton or her staff were maybe Satanists? The path to that [...]

Byline: Daniel Gilbert In March 2023, a Pennsylvania woman received a phone call from a health-care executive that left her in disbelief: Hackers had obtained photos of her naked body [...]

Byline: Josh Dawsey Iranian hackers tried to contact what was then President Joe Biden's reelection campaign over the summer to disseminate materials they hacked from email accounts associated with Donald [...]

Byline: Katie Mettler Federal prosecutors have charged five members of the Russian military with orchestrating a destabilizing cyberattack on critical Ukrainian computer systems just a month before Russia invaded the [...]

Byline: Joseph Menn Chinese government-backed hackers have penetrated deep into U.S. internet service providers in recent months to spy on their users, according to people familiar with the ongoing American [...]

Byline: Joseph Menn Iranian government hackers accused of breaching the Trump campaign with deceptive emails also used WhatsApp accounts to try to trick former Biden and Trump administration officials, parent [...]

Byline: Kyle Melnick Jesse Kipf died in January 2023, according to the state of his birth, Hawaii. But federal agents soon discovered that Kipf was really alive in Kentucky after [...]

Byline: Abbie Cheeseman; Joseph Menn Analysts and intelligence experts warned Sunday that wider efforts may be underway by foreign powers to disrupt the U.S. presidential election, after the Trump campaign [...]

Byline: Robyn Dixon Vladimir Putin on Thursday secured the release of spies, hackers and his most coveted Russian prisoner in the West: an assassin linked to intelligence services convicted of [...]

Byline: Mary Ilyushina; Robyn Dixon; Sammy Westfall; Cate Brown It's the largest international prisoner exchange since the Cold War. Through this complicated deal, journalists, a former U.S. Marine and political [...]

Byline: Michelle Singletary Face the truth: We've lost the battle to protect our personal information. The latest high-profile data breach involving AT&T is yet another reminder we are at war [...]

Byline: Joseph Menn BREA, Calif. -- The front line in the battle to protect U.S. critical infrastructure ran this month through a rental house in Orange County. More than a [...]

Byline: Joseph Menn; Shira Ovide A botched update from one of the world's preeminent software security companies wreaked more havoc on global business in one day than all but the [...]

Byline: Joseph Menn A federal judge in a case stemming from one of the worst known cyberattacks has rejected the Securities and Exchange Commission's bid to oversee corporate cybersecurity controls, [...]

Byline: Joseph Menn; Aaron Gregg Hackers stole records detailing the phone contacts of almost all AT&T Wireless customers in one of the most serious breaches of sensitive consumer data in [...]

Byline: Shira Ovide Another day, another data breach. But this one is nasty. AT&T said Friday that hackers who have hit other companies also swiped at least six months of [...]

Byline: Mikhail Klimentov After multiple legal battles lasting more than a decade, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has reached a tentative deal to plead guilty to a single felony charge for [...]

Byline: Ellen Nakashima Happy Wednesday! National security reporter Ellen Nakashima here filling in for Cristiano and Will. Reach out with news tips at: ellen.nakashima@washpost.com. Tex. hack may be first disruption [...]

Byline: Joseph Menn The U.S. government said Thursday that Russian government hackers who recently stole Microsoft corporate emails had obtained passwords and other secret material that might allow them to [...]

Byline: Will Oremus Happy Thursday! Meta is testing payments to creators who post engaging content on Threads. Send your finest stolen memes to: will.oremus@washpost.com. Hackers competed to find AI harms. [...]

Byline: Ellen Nakashima The Justice Department on Monday unsealed an indictment charging seven Chinese state-sponsored hackers with a broad 14-year campaign to target U.S. and foreign critics, businesses and political [...]

Byline: Allyson Chiu The famed coastal dunes that inspired the shifting sand landscape of the desert planet Arrakis in Frank Herbert's science fiction novel 'Dune' are also under siege -- [...]

Byline: Joseph Menn Microsoft warned Friday that the Russian government hackers it had blamed for hacking its executives' email last month have been leveraging what they stole to try to [...]

Byline: Joseph Menn A notorious ransomware gang said Tuesday that it had shut down, but it left American prescription services in continued chaos after two weeks, showing the difficulty in [...]

Byline: Joseph Menn; Daniel Gilbert A ransomware gang once thought to have been crippled by law enforcement has snarled prescription processing for millions of Americans over the past week, forcing [...]

Byline: Christian Shepherd; Cate Cadell; Ellen Nakashima; Joseph Menn; Aaron Schaffer A trove of leaked documents from a Chinese state-linked hacking group shows that Beijing's intelligence and military groups are [...]

Byline: Paul M. Nakasone Approaching the end of my five-plus years as director of the National Security Agency, I have heard the same question again and again: What's your greatest [...]

Byline: Roman Stubbs The federal judge looked down from the bench toward the young man sitting in front of him, the parents of the defendant listening nearby in the courtroom [...]

Byline: Joseph Menn A coalition of digital rights groups on Thursday said it had identified 35 people in Jordan who had been targeted with the hacking tool Pegasus, including more [...]

Byline: Joseph Menn The major cloud computing provider spun out of Hewlett-Packard said late Wednesday that it had been hacked by a suspected Russian intelligence team, the second such hack [...]

Byline: Joseph Menn Microsoft said hackers working for the Russian government broke into its corporate networks two months ago and stole email from executives and some employees in its cybersecurity [...]

Byline: Joseph Menn The Securities and Exchange Commission said Tuesday an 'unknown party' had hacked its official account on the social media platform X to promote bitcoin, the latest of [...]

Byline: Tim Starks; David DiMolfetta Welcome to The Cybersecurity 202! Hit me with your best music of 2023, won't you? Was this forwarded to you? Sign up here. Below: A [...]

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Byline: Karla Adam LONDON -- Prince Harry was the victim of phone hacking and other unlawful media practices by Mirror Group Newspapers, a High Court judge ruled Friday, awarding the [...]

Byline: Tim Starks; Ellen Nakashima; David DiMolfetta Welcome to The Cybersecurity 202! The ol' pacemaker-hacking story popped up in a TV show I watched recently. I won't say more so [...]

Byline: Ellen Nakashima; Joseph Menn The Chinese military is ramping up its ability to disrupt key American infrastructure, including power and water utilities as well as communications and transportation systems, [...]

Byline: Tim Starks; David DiMolfetta Welcome to The Cybersecurity 202! Pretty much any occasion makes me think of an episode of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,' but writing today's newsletter [...]

Byline: By Though the Nov. 7 news article 'Chatbots are so gullible, they'll take directions from hackers' raised valid concerns about the susceptibility of artificial intelligence to prompt injections, the [...]

Byline: Tatum Hunter Imagine a chatbot is applying for a job as your personal assistant. The pros: This chatbot is powered by a cutting-edge large language model. It can write [...]

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Byline: Tatum Hunter Fourteen million people have shared their genetic information with 23andMe in hopes of learning more about their heritage. After a hack that appeared to target people with [...]

Byline: Joseph Menn A hacker is offering to sell records identifying names, locations and ethnicities of potentially millions of customers of genetic testing company 23andMe, beginning by touting a batch [...]

Byline: Michael Brice-Saddler; Aaron Schaffer District and federal agencies are investigating after a hacking group claimed to have accessed 600,000 lines of U.S. voting data maintained by the D.C. Board [...]

Byline: Tim Starks; David DiMolfetta Welcome to The Cybersecurity 202! The next NBA season feels so far, yet so near. Was this forwarded to you? Sign up here. Below: The [...]