Cyberattack on a Car Breathalyzer Firm Leaves Drivers Stuck
2026-03-22T08:52:10Z•8076a631b3092538c673145c0e5db7e0a6fc11518f3e221b19b254bb35ad9f2f
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What happened
A WIRED roundup of recent security incidents and policy developments: a cyberattack on a car breathalyzer firm left drivers stranded; the FBI is buying phone data and US lawmakers are debating warrantless wiretap authority; Meta plans to end end-to-end encryption for Instagram DMs; the US dismantled large botnets (Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, Mossad) that had infected millions of devices; a powerful iPhone exploit called “DarkSword” is being used in the wild to compromise iOS 18 via drive-by web traffic; Iranian-linked hackers (and the Handala persona) have disrupted medical care including a Sry
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