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Health sites let ads track visitors without telling them

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica) All too often, digital ads wind up improperly targeting the most vulnerable people online, including abuse victims and kids. Add to that list the customers of…

How $323M in crypto was stolen from a blockchain bridge called Wormhole

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) This is a story about how a simple software bug allowed the fourth-biggest cryptocurrency theft ever. Hackers stole more than $323 million in cryptocurrency by exploiting…

New “Starlink Premium” costs $500/month, ships sooner than standard Starlink

Enlarge / Starlink Premium antenna. (credit: Starlink) Starlink has started taking orders for a premium service with a bigger antenna that delivers download speeds of up to 500Mbps, and it costs five times…

Mac malware spreading for ~14 months installs backdoor on infected systems

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Mac malware known as UpdateAgent has been spreading for more than a year, and it is growing increasingly malevolent as its developers add new bells and whistles. The additions…

New York Times spends “low seven figures” to buy Wordle

<img src="https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-31-at-5.43.34-PM-800x427.png" alt="The New York Times is buying Wordle."> Enlarge / The New York Times is buying Wordle. (credit: Wordle) The New York Times announced today that its Games division would be purchasing…

Microsoft fends off record-breaking 3.47Tbps DDoS attack

Enlarge / Drowning in a sea of data. (credit: Getty Images) As Internet attacks go, data floods designed to knock servers offline are among the crudest, akin to a brutish caveman wielding a…

2FA app with 10,000 Google Play downloads loaded well-known banking trojan

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A fake two-factor-authentication app that has been downloaded some 10,000 times from Google Play surreptitiously installed a known banking-fraud trojan that scoured infected phones for financial data and other…

macOS 12.3 will break cloud-storage features used by Dropbox and OneDrive

Enlarge (credit: Apple) If you're using either Dropbox or Microsoft OneDrive to sync files on a Mac, you'll want to pay attention to the release notes for today's macOS 12.3 beta: the update…

A bug lurking for 12 years gives attackers root on most major Linux distros

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Linux users on Tuesday got a major dose of bad news—a 12-year-old vulnerability in a system tool called Polkit gives attackers unfettered root privileges on machines running most major…

Android malware can factory-reset phones after draining bank accounts

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A banking-fraud trojan that has been targeting Android users for three years has been updated to create even more grief. Besides draining bank accounts, the trojan can now activate…