Lily Hay Newman is a Security Reporter at WIRED. She focuses on critical issues in cybersecurity, cybercrime, and privacy, exploring topics such as data breaches, phishing, and device security. Lily's work has been featured in WIRED UK, Maverick Studios, Ars Technica, and several other prominent publications.
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At a recent event for security firm NordVPN, NBA superstar Shaquille O'Neal revealed that he got hacked—and warned the public about the need to “have control of their own information.”
Anti-cybercrime initiatives are increasingly using AI to scam the scammers by tricking them into talking to lifelike bots that they think are real victims.
By: Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman
Researchers at The Citizen Lab have for the first time released technical evidence of sophisticated mercenary spyware being distributed via online advertising.
By: Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman
Researchers uncovered a spyware campaign targeting Al Jazeera devices through online ads, exposing how advertising infrastructure can enable invisible attacks.
Canada's planned surveillance law is the latest grim step in a series of threats to encryption that are spreading around the world.
Hackers around the world are all-in on using agentic AI to wage attacks—and manipulating tools like Anthropic's Claude to help them carry out their crimes.
By: Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman
The PHP Foundation has revealed two serious vulnerabilities that could impact millions of websites. Security experts warn that failure to quickly patch the flaws could have dire consequences.
By: Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman
The PHP Foundation has revealed two serious vulnerabilities that could impact millions of websites. Security experts warn that failure to quickly patch the flaws could have dire consequences.
Amazon Web Services logged attempts to leverage the internet-melting PHP2Shell bugs four days ago. They're now being “broadly exploited” across the internet.
Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began.
