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Matt Burgess

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
13
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Sep 14, 2026
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Top 50K sites
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Jul 4, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Matt Burgess

    Sexually Explicit Deepfake Sites Target 100-Plus Politicians in Europe (opens the original)

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    Almost 150 politicians across Europe have been included on harmful deepfake pornography websites over the last few years, according to new research seen by WIRED. Some of the politicians, who are overwhelmingly women, have had their likeness included in explicit videos, while others have names and photos listed in disturbing database-like entries that can link to deepfake creation tools. Analysis of around 160 domains that host deepfake abuse and other nonconsensual sexual content, by researcher

  2. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Matt Burgess

    San Francisco Orders Meta to Stop ‘Allowing’ AI Child Abuse Ads (opens the original)

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    San Francisco’s city attorney has hit Meta with a cease-and-desist letter telling the company to stop “allowing” paid advertisements that include AI-generated child sexual abuse content and asked it to explain how the ads repeatedly ran on its platforms. On Tuesday, WIRED reported that Meta has run more than 350 ads in recent months that transformed still images of minors—some of them confirmed as real individuals, including a member of a European royal family—into short videoclips tha

  3. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Matt Burgess

    Meta Failed to Catch Hundreds of AI Child Abuse Ads. Some Included Images of Real Kids (opens the original)

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    Editor’s note: This article contains descriptions of imagery depicting child sexual abuse. Reader discretion is strongly advised. Early last month, Meta deleted around 50 ads posted on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads that directly included child sexual abuse material (CSAM), following reporting by WIRED. At the time, the company said that most of the abusive ads had been published prior to it rolling out new AI tools designed to “better detect and block” harmful ads being uploaded. That AI syst

  4. Article · Aug 8, 2026 · Matt Burgess

    Sensitive Info Goes Into ‘No Reply’ Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All (opens the original)

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    Cory Solovewicz receives more unwanted emails than you. Seriously—it’s a lot more. Since December 2024, one of the domains at which the security researcher receives email has registered 401,796 messages—by his calculations that’s an average of 699.99 pings per day. This deluge isn’t the regular flood of spam, newsletters, and unwanted deals that fill many people’s inboxes. Instead, companies and other organizations are inadvertently sending Solovewicz other people’s private informa

  5. Article · Aug 5, 2026 · Matt Burgess

    A Security Pro Hacked North Korean Hackers. He Found They’d Breached Hundreds of Networks Worldwide (opens the original)

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    For years, North Korea’s stealthy hackers and scam IT workers have infiltrated companies, stealing corporate secrets and plundering billions in cryptocurrency to help fund the totalitarian regime and its weapons programs. Now, a security researcher who has spent almost two years inside the systems belonging to a group of those North Korean hackers is raising the alarm on just how effective and far reaching the targeting of individual employees and contractors has been in breaching organization

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