Andy Greenberg

Burst water mains. Evacuated hospitals. In a closed-door simulation, insurers played out their response to a mass disruption by China's Volt Typhoon hackers—and found a nightmare scenario.

The SFPD's exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it's watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online.

Plus: Russian cyberspies turn to infrastructure hacking, DHS repeatedly fails to realize it'd been hacked, a breach exposes an AI music generator's scraping ways, and more.

Plus: Russian cyberspies turn to infrastructure hacking, DHS repeatedly fails to realize it'd been hacked, a breach exposes an AI music generator's scraping ways, and more. Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence

Dealerships installed alarms in millions of vehicles—and left them in even if the buyer didn't want them. Now researchers warn they can be hacked to unlock, track, and disable cars.

Researchers pitted a person against a Claude agent and found that, after a week of texting, the AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” with others.

A memo obtained by WIRED, issued by the water utilities information sharing group WaterISAC, links dozens of cyberattacks against Minnesota water utilities to Tehran.

The notion that scammers can use AI to sharpen their deceptions, polish their language, and lubricate their banter with victims is now a reality for anyone fighting the fraud operations that steal tens of billions of dollars a year worldwide. But can AI fully replace a human scammer, autonomously building the… Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence

Plus: The FBI eyes AI-powered tech to detect future crimes, Russia charges Telegram's founder, xAI sues to stop a state's “nudification” ban, and the Democrats learn a lesson about getting scammed.

For nearly two years, researcher Vangelis Stykas has maintained access to North Korean hackers' servers. His work shows they pulled off intrusions in a shocking number of systems across the globe.