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The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2024

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WIRED has compiled a list of the most dangerous people, groups, and organizations on the internet.

This year 's list includes Elon Musk , Donald Trump , Vladimir Putin , and Vladimir Putin .

WIRED picks our picks for 2024 , including Musk , Putin , Trump , Russia , China , and the Volt Typhoon .

A Chinese state-sponsored group called Volt Typhoon continues its stealthy campaign to breach US critical infrastructure facilities.

The group continues to “pre-position” itself inside of networks that appear to be chosen for maximum disruption, perhaps timed to a Chinese invasion of Taiwan .

Sandworm , a Russian hacking group, has carried out many of the most disruptive cyberattacks of the past decade .

Data Brokers collect and then sell access to Americans ' highly granular location data pulled from their phones.

As many as 200,000 people have been enslaved in Southeast Asia and forced to carry out the fraud schemes.

Crypto scams have already become a top-tier form of cybercrime, and there's no end in sight to the expansion of this predatory underworld industry.

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