This week, WIRED broke the news of a Russian military intelligence hacking campaign that dates all the way back to December 2018. The targets included government organizations and energy utilities, as Russia's Fancy Bear hackers used a variety of techniques to break into targeted email accounts. While the intrusions don't appear to be election-related, they're nonetheless alarming given Fancy Bear's history of aggression.
Elsewhere in cybersecurity this week, the theme was "finally getting around to it." Twitter cracked down on the QAnon conspiracy theory, banning thousands of accounts and restricting the spread of related posts. Apple starting making a special, hackable iPhone available to trusted security researchers almost a year after first announcing that it would do so. And the Justice Department charged two Chinese nationals in connection with a decade-long hacking spree that blurred the lines between crime and espionage.
Thieves have figured out a new way to jackpot ATMs, which is a fun way of saying "force them to spit out piles of cash."
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