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Cybercriminals Allegedly Used a StubHub Backdoor to Steal Taylor Swift Tickets

Plus: The world’s “largest illicit online marketplace” gets hit by regulators, police seize the Garantex crypto exchange, and scammers trick targets by making up ransomware attacks.

By Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess

Fourth Amendment

Trump’s Spy Chief Urged to Declassify Details of Secret Surveillance Program

By Dell Cameron

Loose Cannons

Pentagon Cuts Threaten Programs That Secure Loose Nukes and Weapons of Mass Destruction

By Justin Ling

Search and Destroy

The US Army Is Using ‘CamoGPT’ to Purge DEI From Training Materials

By Jared Keller

Unmasked

US Charges 12 Alleged Spies in China’s Freewheeling Hacker-for-Hire Ecosystem

By Andy Greenberg

Badbox 2.0

1 Million Third-Party Android Devices Have a Secret Backdoor for Scammers

By Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess

Security Roundup

The Trump Administration Is Deprioritizing Russia as a Cyber Threat

By Lily Hay Newman and Andy Greenberg

Bad Connection

Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Keeping Modern Slavery Compounds Online

By Matt Burgess

Balancing Act

A Team of Female Founders Is Launching Cloud Security Tech That Could Overhaul AI Protection

By Lily Hay Newman

Devil in the Details

‘OpenAI’ Job Scam Targeted International Workers Through Telegram

By Reece Rogers

Oh, No

TVs at HUD Played an AI-Generated Video of Donald Trump Kissing Elon Musk’s Feet

By David Gilbert

Security Roundup

$1.4 Billion Stolen From ByBit in Biggest Crypto Theft Ever

By Andy Greenberg and Lily Hay Newman

Surveillance Economy

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

By Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra

Not Now, Putin

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

By Andy Greenberg

Security Roundup

The Official DOGE Website Launch Was a Security Mess

By Matt Burgess and Andrew Couts

Down Ballot

Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work

By Eric Geller

Undeterred

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

By Andy Greenberg

Going Global

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

By Andy Greenberg

Worldwide Web

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

By Joseph Cox and Dhruv Mehrotra

Horror Stories

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

By Matt Burgess

Security Roundup

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

By Lily Hay Newman

Rug Pull

The Collapse of USAID Is Already Fueling Human Trafficking and Slavery at Scammer Compounds

By Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman

Downward Spiral

Despite Catastrophic Hacks, Ransomware Payments Dropped Dramatically Last Year

By Andy Greenberg and Lily Hay Newman