Research reports

Inside Trickbot, Russia’s Notorious Ransomware Gang

Internal messages WIRED has viewed shed new light on the operators of one of the world's biggest botnets. Photograph: katleho Seisa/Getty Images When the phones and computer networks went down at Ridgeview Medical Center’s three hospitals on October 24, 2020,…

Ransomware

New ATM Malware Captures PINs and Cash -- Updated

Security researchers have found malware planted on ATMs in Eastern Europe that captures PINs and magnetic stripe data from the machine's memory and instructs the machines to spit out cash, eliminating the need for primitive skimming devices and advancing the…

Malware

Hack Brief: Emergency-Number Hack Bypasses Android Lock Screens

If you protect your Android phone with a password rather than an unlock pattern or PIN, you may want to keep it in your sight a little more carefully than usual. A new, dead-simple attack could allow anyone who gets their hands on it to bypass that password…

Mobile

The Full Story of the Stunning RSA Hack Can Finally Be Told

Amid all the sleepless hours that Todd Leetham spent hunting ghosts inside his company’s network in early 2011, the experience that sticks with him most vividly all these years later is the moment he caught up with them. Or almost did. It was a spring…

How Russian Spam King Peter Levashov Was Arrested, and His Kelihos Botnet Dismantled

One of the world’s most notorious spammers appears to have been tripped up by a basic cybersecurity no-no, according to the FBI: He used the same log-in credentials to both run his criminal enterprise and also log into sites like iTunes. The Justice…

Botnets and DDoSTakedowns and arrests