Raphael Satter
The Associated Press
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Exclusive-Tesla's Musk met top U.S. officials on EVs Friday in Washington
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk met two top officials in President Joe Biden's administration on Friday in Washington to discuss how... → Read More
U.S. arrests Bitzlato cofounder, alleges $700 million of illicit funds processed
U.S. authorities said on Wednesday they have arrested the majority shareholder and cofounder of Hong Kong-registered virtual currency exchange Bitzlato Ltd... → Read More
Exclusive-Google locks Afghan government accounts as Taliban seek emails -source
Google has temporarily locked down an unspecified number of Afghan government email accounts, according to a person familiar with the matter, as fears grow... → Read More
A breach at a Florida-based IT firm led to ransomware attacks on 200 businesses
Cybersecurity company Huntress Labs said it believed the REvil ransomware gang, which the FBI blamed for paralyzing meat packer JBS, was to blame. → Read More
Ransomware breach at Florida IT firm hits 200 businesses
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Hundreds of American businesses were hit Friday by an unusually sophisticated ransomware attack that hijacked widely used technology... → Read More
Microsoft says SolarWinds hackers were able to view its source code but didn't have the ability to modify it
Microsoft's disclosure adds to the ever-growing picture of the compromises associated with the SolarWinds hack. → Read More
U.S. Treasury confirms SolarWinds hack as more officials blame Russia
The U.S. secretary of the Treasury on Monday publicly confirmed that his department had been breached - more than a week after Reuters first reported the... → Read More
Exclusive: Top official on U.S. election cybersecurity tells associates he expects to be fired
Top U.S. cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs, who worked on protecting the election from hackers, has told associates he expects to be fired by the White House, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. Krebs, who heads the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure → Read More
'Worrying calls for violence' prompt Facebook to remove rapidly growing pro-Trump group
"The group was organized around the delegitimization of the election process, and we saw worrying calls for violence from some members of the group," a Facebook spokeswoman said in a statement. The group's backers decried the deletion, saying they were organizing peaceful protests, that → Read More
Exclusive: Russian hackers targeted California, Indiana Democratic parties
The group of Russian hackers accused of meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election earlier this year targeted the email accounts of Democratic state parties in California and Indiana, and influential think tanks in Washington and New York, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The attempted → Read More
More than 1,000 Twitter employees and contractors had access to the internal tool that was core to its giant hack
It was nearly impossible to defend against the hack thanks to such wide access. → Read More
Twitter silences some top accounts after internal systems hacked
Twitter said hackers accessed its internal systems to hijack some of the platform's top voices including U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden, reality TV star Kim Kardashian, former U.S. President Barack Obama and billionaire Elon Musk and used them to solicit digital currency. Twitter said employees → Read More
Deepfake used to attack activist couple shows new disinformation frontier
Oliver Taylor, a student at England's University of Birmingham, is a twenty-something with brown eyes, light stubble, and a slightly stiff smile. Oliver Taylor seems to be an elaborate fiction. Who is behind Taylor isn't known to Reuters. → Read More
Exclusive: WhatsApp hacked to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies
Senior government officials in multiple U.S.-allied countries were targeted earlier this year with hacking software that used Facebook Inc's WhatsApp to take over users' phones, according to people familiar with the messaging company's investigation. Sources familiar with WhatsApp’s internal → Read More
Hackers apparently linked to Iran tried to break into Trump's 2020 campaign
Donald Trump's official campaign website is the only remaining major contenders' site that is linked to Microsoft's cloud email service. → Read More
Exclusive: Trump campaign targeted by Iran-linked hackers
By Christopher Bing and Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A hacking group that appears to be linked to the Iranian government attempted to break into President Donald Trump's re-election campaign, but did not succeed, sources familiar with the operation said on Friday. Earlier in the day, Microsoft Corp said that an unnamed presidential campaign was targeted by hackers, which the software… → Read More
Leaked UK memos warn of food, drug shortages in Brexit chaos
Secret British government documents have warned of serious disruptions across the country in the event that the U.K. leaves the European Union without a trade deal on Oct. 31, according to a report. The Sunday Times newspaper published what it said was what the British government expects in the case → Read More
Leaked UK memos warn of food, drug shortages in Brexit chaos
Among the most serious: "significant" disruptions to the supply of drugs and medicine, a decrease in the availability of fresh food and even potential fresh water shortages. → Read More
'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' animator Richard Williams has died
The Oscar-winning artist died from cancer on Friday. → Read More
'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' animator Richard Williams has died
The Oscar-winning artist died from cancer on Friday. → Read More