However, there are two standout new security features worth mentioning: Apple is replacing passwords with new cryptographic passkeys, and it’s introducing a safety check feature to help people in abusive relationships. Now AlphaBay is growing quickly and is on the verge of resuming its dominant dark-web market position.Įlsewhere, Apple held its annual Worldwide Developers Conference this week and revealed iOS 16, macOS Ventura and some new MacBooks-WIRED’s Gear team has you covered on everything Apple announced at WWDC. However, AlphaBay’s second-in-command, an actor going by the name of DeSnake, survived the law enforcement operation and relaunched the site last year. The original AlphaBay site-home to more than 350,000 product listings, ranging from drugs to cybercrime services-was purged from the dark web in July 2017 as part of a huge law enforcement operation. Also coming out of RSA: a warning that as ransomware becomes less profitable, attackers may turn to business email compromise (BEC) scams to make money-BEC attacks are already highly profitable.Īlso this week, dark-web marketplace AlphaBay is about to complete its journey back to the top of the online underworld. Goldberg’s story was retold at the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week, where WIRED’s Lily Newman has been digging up stories.
When Soviet officers inspected the documents, no suspicions were raised. Each musical note and marking represented letters of the alphabet and helped disguise the sensitive information. To do so, she cooked up her own encryption system. This week Goldberg revealed that she used musical notation to hide the names and addresses of activists and details of meetings on a rare trip to the Soviet Union. That’s exactly what saxophonist and music professor Merryl Goldberg did during the 1980s. How do you smuggle information into the USSR right under the nose of the KGB? Create your own encryption system, of course.