This week, WIRED obtained a memo that tied dozens of cyberattacks against Minnesota water and wastewater utilities to Iran, the first official documentation of Iran’s likely responsibility for the most impactful campaign of cyberattacks to hit the US in the midst of the war that began nearly six months ago. In other news, more details
Australia is taking Telegram to court over its alleged failure to remove “pro-terrorism” material, including video of the Christchurch shootings, the country’s eSafety commissioner has said. Julie Inman-Grant, who last year led Australia’s first global ban on social media for under-16s, said the platform faced a fine of up to A$54.6m (£28m, US$38m) for failing
Russia has accused Telegram founder Pavel Durov of facilitating terrorism over allegations that the messaging app has been used for recruitment by the Ukrainian secret services. The FSB, Russia’s national security service, said Telegram had been used “to prepare and coordinate acts of sabotage and terrorism” within Russia and had not removed channels, chats and
A domain used by messaging app Telegram mysteriously went offline on Monday, with the app’s founder Pavel Durov saying in an X post that t.me the links had “stopped working.” The outage prevented users from accessing the t.me Short domain link, used by the messaging app to allow users to share links with a single