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A Major Leak Spills a Chinese Hacking Contractor's Tools and Targets

WIRED

Plus: State-sponsored AI hacking is here, Google hosts a CBP face recognition app, and more of the week's top security news. The United States issued a seizure warrant to Starlink this week related to satellite internet infrastructure used in a scam compound in Myanmar. The action is part of a larger US law enforcement interagency initiative announced this week called the District of Columbia Scam Center Strike Force. Meanwhile, Google moved this week to sue 25 people that it alleges are behind a "staggering" and "relentless" scam text operation that uses a notorious phishing-as-a-service platform called Lighthouse. WIRED reported this week that the US Department of Homeland Security collected data on Chicago residents accused of gang ties to test if police files could feed an FBI watchlist--and then, crucially, kept the records for months in violation of domestic espionage rules .