Cyberattacks and Hacks

Security Roundup
Your Push Notifications Aren’t Safe From the FBI
Plus: Iran’s internet blackout hits the 1,000-hour mark, cryptocurrency scams result in a record amount of money stolen from Americans, and more.
Matt Burgess, Maddy Varner, Lily Hay Newman, and Dell Cameron

Doom and Gloom
Anthropic’s Mythos Will Force a Cybersecurity Reckoning—Just Not the One You Think
Lily Hay Newman

Life Goals
Politicians Are Spending More Money on Security as They Increasingly Become Targets
Maddy Varner




Security Roundup
Hackers Are Posting the Claude Code Leak With Bonus Malware
Andy Greenberg, Dell Cameron, Maddy Varner, and Andrew Couts

Supply Chains
Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk
Maxwell Zeff, Zoë Schiffer, and Lily Hay Newman

Patchy Service
Apple Will Push Out Rare ‘Backported’ Patches to Protect iOS 18 Users From DarkSword Hacking Tool
Andy Greenberg

Security Roundup
Iranian Hackers Breached Kash Patel’s Email—but Not the FBI’s
Andy Greenberg, Dell Cameron, Lily Hay Newman, and Andrew Couts

DIY
Iranians Don’t Have a Missile Alert System, So Volunteers Built Their Own Warning Map
Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman

Security Roundup
Cyberattack on a Car Breathalyzer Firm Leaves Drivers Stuck
Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman, and Andy Greenberg

Update Now
Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild
Andy Greenberg

Security Roundup
A Hacker Accidentally Broke Into the FBI’s Epstein Files
Andy Greenberg, Maddy Varner, and Andrew Couts

Chaos Agent
How ‘Handala’ Became the Face of Iran’s Hacker Counterattacks
Andy Greenberg, Matt Burgess, and Lily Hay Newman


Security Roundup
CBP Used Online Ad Data to Track Phone Locations
Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess, Andy Greenberg, and Dell Cameron

Spy Cams
From Ukraine to Iran, Hacking Security Cameras Is Now Part of War’s ‘Playbook’
Andy Greenberg

Side-Channeling
How Vulnerable Are Computers to an 80-Year-Old Spy Technique? Congress Wants Answers
Andy Greenberg



Silence Notifications
Hacked Prayer App Sends ‘Surrender’ Messages to Iranians Amid Israeli and US Strikes
Ruchi Kumar