Articles for tag: china, crime, cybersecurity, dark web, privacy, security, surveillance

Jyotish Pandey

China’s Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side Hustle

As further evidence of government surveillance insiders moonlighting in the data broker market, the SpyCloud researchers point to a leak earlier this year of communications and documents from I-Soon, a cyberespionage contractor to the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of State Security. In one leaked chat conversation, one employee of the company suggests ...

Jyotish Pandey

Bitfinex Hacker Gets 5 Years for $10 Billion Bitcoin Heist

In perhaps the most adorable hacker story of the year, a trio of technologists in India found an innovative way to circumvent Apple’s location restrictions on AirPod Pro 2s so they could enable the earbuds’ hearing aid feature for their grandmas. The hack involved a homemade Faraday cage, a microwave, and a lot of trial ...