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  • 09 November 2023, Israel, Sderot: Israeli soldiers on a tank are seen near the Israel-Gaza border. Fighting between Israeli soldiers and Islamist Hamas militants continues in the border area with Gaza. Photo: Ilia Yefimovich/dpa (Photo by Ilia Yefimovich/picture alliance via Getty Images)Tech

    Israel is facing an onslaught of cyberattacks, including some tied to Russia, while battling Hamas

    By Ryan Gallagher, Jordan Robertson, and others
  • A person uses a laptop computer with illuminated English and Russian Cyrillic character keys in this arranged photograph in Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, March 14, 2019. Russian internet trolls appear to be shifting strategy in their efforts to disrupt the 2020 U.S. elections, promoting politically divisive messages through phony social media accounts instead of creating propaganda themselves, cybersecurity experts say. Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    ‘Hactivists’ who targeted Microsoft claim they’re working for Sudan—but security experts are convinced Russia is actually behind it

    By Jordan Robertson, Ryan Gallagher, and others
  • Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., arrives at court during the SolarCity trial in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., on Tuesday, July 13, 2021. Musk was cool but combative as he testified in a Delaware courtroom that Tesla’s more than $2 billion acquisition of SolarCity in 2016 wasn’t a bailout of the struggling solar provider. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Twitter lawyer to employees fearing a FTC crackdown over privacy violations: No, you won’t go to jail

    By Ryan Gallagher and Kurt Wagner
  • One train waits for passengers in the central train station in Minsk, BelarusInternational

    Hackers in Belarus claim to have disrupted trains to ‘slow down the transfer’ of Russian troops into Ukraine

    By Ryan Gallagher and Bloomberg
  • BRAZIL – 2021/12/13: In this photo illustration a Facebook logo seen displayed on a smartphone with a Meta Platforms logo in the background.Tech

    Facebook’s parent cracks down on companies that spied on users in 100 countries

    By Ryan Gallagher and Bloomberg
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    Police arrest five people tied to ransomware group REvil

    By Ryan Gallagher and Bloomberg
  • Trials for COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Begin in South AfricaInternational

    Two college friends-turned-prolific hackers allegedly tried to steal COVID vaccine data for China

    By Ryan Gallagher, Michael Riley, and others
  • A fire-damaged telecom tower, reported in local media as being a 5G network mast on the EE network, operated by BT Group Plc, stands in Birmingham, U.K., on Monday, April 6, 2020. Telecom masts that enable the next generation of wireless communication were set on fire in the U.K. in recent days, apparently by people motivated by a theory that the tech helps spread the coronavirus. Photographer: Darren Staples/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    5G-coronavirus conspiracy theory is being boosted by organized disinformation campaign

    By Ryan Gallagher and Bloomberg
  • At a time when they are struggling to handle an influx of patients suffering from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, health-care providers and medical facilities in the U.S. and Europe have seen a surge of ransomware attacks.International

    Hackers ‘without conscience’ demand ransom from dozens of hospitals and labs working on coronavirus

    By Ryan Gallagher and Bloomberg
  • Google’s workplace culture is experiencing serious growing pains, with some employees fighting back against issues like a decrease in transparency.(Photographer: Peter Foley/Bloomberg via Getty Images)Tech

    With Transparency Declining at Google, Internal Conflict Is on the Rise

    By Ryan Gallagher, Mark Bergen, and others
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    Google Fires 4 Employees for Violating Data Security—But Critics Say It’s Retaliation for Protesting

    By Gerrit De Vynck, Mark Bergen, and others