For years, Registered Agents Inc.-a secretive company whose business is setting up other businesses-has registered thousands of companies to people who appear to not exist.
Multiple former employees tell WIRED that the company routinely incorporates businesses on behalf of its customers using what they claim are fake personas.
An investigation found that incorporation paperwork for thousands of companies that listed these allegedly fake personas had links to Registered Agents.
Figures provided by the office of New York attorney general Letitia James, who spearheaded the effort, show that in 2023 her office received more than 780 complaints-10 times as many as in 2019.
Many complaints cited in the letter say Meta did nothing to help them recover their stolen accounts.
Meta suffered a major outage this week that took most of its platforms offline.
When it came back, users were often forced to log back in to their accounts.
Last year the company changed how two-factor authentication works for Facebook and Instagram.
Now, any devices you've frequently used with Meta services in recent years will be trusted by default.
The move has made experts uneasy; this means that your devices may not need a two-factor authentication code to log in anymore.
We updated our guide for how to turn off this setting.
A ransomware attack targeting medical firm Change Healthcare has caused chaos at pharmacies around the US, delaying delivery of prescription drugs nationwide.
Last week, a Bitcoin address connected to AlphV, the group behind the attack, received $22 million in cryptocurrency-suggesting Change Healthcare has likely paid the ransom.
A spokesperson for the firm declined to answer whether it was behind the payment.
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In January, Microsoft revealed that a notorious group of Russian state-sponsored hackers known as Nobelium infiltrated the email accounts of the company's senior leadership team.
Today, the company revealed that the attack is ongoing.
It is unclear exactly what internal systems were accessed by Nobelium, which Microsoft calls Midnight Blizzard, but according to the company, it is not over.
Nobelium is responsible for the SolarWinds attack, a sophisticated 2020 supply-chain attack that compromised thousands of organizations including the major US government agencies like the Departments of Homeland Security, Defense, Justice, and Treasury.
This Cyber News was published on www.wired.com. Publication date: Sat, 09 Mar 2024 15:43:05 +0000