Security News This Week: Hacking Group's Mobile Malware Spies on Thousands Worldwide

Published: Jan. 22, 2018, 7:59 a.m.

This week, Hawaii reeled after an emergency text alert about an impending nuclear missile attack triggered panic\u2014and then turned out to be a false alarm. Researchers provided more details about the sophisticated Triton malware that targets industrial control systems and impacted a real-world plant last year. The anti-fascist far-left movement known as Antifa gets some of its intelligence from a computer scientist named Megan Squire, who disseminates valuable and controversial information.