Kim Zetter

investigative reporter covering cybersecurity and hacking

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Kim Zetter is a cyber-security writer and the author of Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon.

Zetter is an award-winning former senior staff reporter for Wired magazine and writer of its Threat Level blog.

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In the new era of cryptocurrencies, digital wallets are under siege by thieves who are stealing millions. Crypto.com is one of the latest heists.

$30 million recently stolen from Crypto.com. Major heists like it are all too common

In the new era of cryptocurrencies, digital wallets are under siege by thieves who are stealing millions. Crypto.com is one of the latest heists.

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