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Joseph Cox

Joseph Cox is a journalist formerly covering cybersecurity, the digital underground, and the surveillance industry for The Daily Beast.

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READ BETWEEN THE LINES

Hackers Are Using ‘Fire & Fury’ to Install Malware

Don’t open unsolicited PDF copies of Michael Wolff’s Trump book—researchers uncovered one bundled with malware.

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DISTURBING

This Gaming Site Is the New Front of Revenge Porn

On the Discord messaging platform, users are openly trading their swiped images of women, and one activist says entire chat rooms are dedicated to videos of rapes.

Joseph Cox

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CAUGHT IN THE ACT

Top U.S. Government Computers Linked to Revenge-Porn Site

Users connecting from Senate, Navy, and Executive Branch computers bragged about ‘wins,’ or nonconsensual nude photos, posted on Anon-IB, a revenge-porn epicenter.

Joseph Cox

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INSIDE THE HOUSE

Twitter Promoted a Tweet That Steals Your Credit-Card Info

One ever-so-helpful site promised to help users get Twitter verification—as soon as they phished out customers’ payment information.

Joseph Cox

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DANGER AHEAD

Android Malware Tries to Steal Your Uber Login Details

Hackers hunting out Uber accounts are moving beyond just trying a victim’s password, to stealing it directly.

Joseph Cox

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KA-CHING

Where Did WikiLeaks’ $25 Million Bitcoin Fortune Go?

Julian Assange was an early adopter of cryptocurrency donations. So where is the ‘transparency organization’ spending the fortune that the public blockchain indicates it has?

Joseph Cox

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NOT THAT AGAIN

British Spies Were Spooked by Trump’s Torture Talk

A newly published U.K. intel oversight report shows MI5 and MI6 officials openly worrying about a return to U.S. agencies’ bad old days in late 2016

Joseph Cox

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FORGETTING ANYBODY?

Trump Team Calls Out N. Korea Hackers, Stays Mum on Russia’s

The White House pulled out the stops to illustrate Kim Jong Un’s alleged role in WannaCry. It only underscored the administration’s deafening silence about Russia’s bigger attack.

Joseph Cox

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BOT GOT

Feds Bust Designers of the Botnet That Crippled the Internet

Several men have admitted to U.S. prosecutors that they hijacked an army of home devices capable of taking down big parts of the internet in 2016—and all because of a grudge.

Joseph Cox

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REDEMPTION SONG

Crooks Are Hacking iTunes to Launder Their Bitcoins

Scammers are exploiting iTunes by uploading their own DIY music, buying it up with some gift-card trickery—and then getting fiat currency from those dubious sales.

Joseph Cox

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