The FBI Still Hasn't Cracked NYC Mayor Eric Adams' Phone

Pig butchering, the crypto-based scammer scourge that has pulled in an estimated 75 billion from victims globally, is spreading beyond its roots in Southeast Asia, with operations proliferating across the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and West Africa. The UK's National Crime Agency disclosed new details about the identities of the Russian ransomware group known as Evil Corp--as well as the group's ties to Russian intelligence agencies and even its direct participation in espionage operations targeting NATO allies. A WIRED investigation revealed how car-mounted automatic license plate reader cameras are capturing far more than just license plates, including campaign yard signs, bumper stickers, and other politically sensitive text, all examples of how a system for tracking vehicles threatens to become a broader surveillance tool. In other news, ICE signed a 2 million contract with Paragon Solutions, a known vendor of spyware including the hacking tool Graphite. And the Pentagon is increasingly adopting handheld controllers for weapons systems in an effort provide more intuitive interfaces to soldiers who have grown up playing Xbox and PlayStation consoles.