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security
France Ties Russia’s Sandworm to a Multiyear Hacking Spree
A French security agency warns that the destructively minded group has exploited an IT monitoring tool from Centreon.
The Untold History of America’s Zero-Day Market
The lucrative business of dealing in code vulnerabilities is central to espionage and war planning, which is why brokers never spoke about it—until now.
A Billion-Dollar Dark Web Crime Lord Calls It Quits
The “big hack” redux, riot planning on Facebook, and more of the week’s top security news.
A Windows Defender Flaw Lurked Undetected for 12 Years
Microsoft has finally patched the bug in its antivirus program after researchers spotted it last fall.
The Rust programming language now has its own independent foundation
The move marks a new stage in Rust’s growth as an open source project with support from several big tech companies.
A Barcode Scanner App With Millions of Downloads Goes Rogue
After an update in December, the app began infecting Android devices, bombarding users with ads on their default browser.
Cyberpunk 2077 Maker Was Hit With Ransomware—and Won’t Pay Up
CD Projekt Red’s list of woes gets longer, as hackers claim to have stolen the source code for their most popular games.
2034, Part III: One Left to Tell the Tale
“When the planes didn’t attack, a silence fell over the crew. Why didn’t they finish the job?”