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China To Rethink New Gaming Rules After Tech Giants Lose Billions
China To Rethink New Gaming Rules After Tech Giants Lose Billions
Chinese authorities will likely revisit the tightening game rules they proposed to curb spending on video games after the news of the proposed restrictions caused major tech companies to lose billions of dollars. The media regulat...
Google Removes Fake VPN Extensions That Infect 1.5 Million Chrome Users
Google Removes Fake VPN Extensions That Infect 1.5 Million Chrome Users
Google has dropped 3 malicious VPN extensions that posed as legitimate VPNs after they had accumulated 1.5 million downloads. The extensions, named netPlus, netSave, and netWin, were spread through an installer concealed in torren...
Teen Who Leaked Grand Theft Auto VI Indefinitely Detailed
Teen Who Leaked Grand Theft Auto VI Indefinitely Detailed
An 18-year-old hacker, who leaked clips of a forthcoming Grand Theft Auto (GTA) game, was sentenced to indefinite detention in a hospital. Arion Kurtaj from Oxford was a key member of international gang Lapsus$ and launched a numb...
Censorship In Turkey Ramps Up With New VPN Ban Wave
Censorship In Turkey Ramps Up With New VPN Ban Wave
Censorship in Turkey has increased with a new wave of bans on VPNs. Turkey, a country already known for being strict on digital censorship, has banned at least 16 major VPN providers from use. The ban is likely to be another attem...
Google Settles for $700 Million Over Play Store Dispute
Google Settles for $700 Million Over Play Store Dispute
Google will pay a combined $700 million to millions of US consumers and allow more competition in its Play app store as part of an antitrust settlement with US states and consumers that was filed in federal court Monday. Under the...
NordVPN Adds Cyber Insurance Services
NordVPN Adds Cyber Insurance Services
NordVPN, one of the best VPNs on the market, this week added cyber insurance to its top-tier subscription package in yet another step aimed at reducing the cyber protection gap and helping customers impacted by cybercrimes. The No...
Hacker Sells Access to Customer Data from Brazil ISPs
Hacker Sells Access to Customer Data from Brazil ISPs
A hacker is selling information allegedly stolen from Brazil-based internet service providers (ISPs) The SafetyDetectives cybersecurity team found a forum post containing data that appears to have been stolen from Brazil ISP TECKL...
Ransomware Group Leaks Sony Video Game Plans
Ransomware Group Leaks Sony Video Game Plans
Hackers from the Rhysida ransomware gang have published a trove of internal documents they stole from Sony Corp. division Insomniac Games. The group leaked 1.67 terabytes or more than 1.3 million files belonging to Insomniac Games...
Porsche Macan Sales Halt Over Cybersecurity Regulations
Porsche Macan Sales Halt Over Cybersecurity Regulations
The Macan, Porsche’s best-selling car, is being discontinued in the EU over its failure to meet modern cybersecurity regulations. Porsche has stated it doesn’t tend to update the Macan to fit with the new regulations. Under the Un...
Pro-Israel Hackers Strike Iran’s Oil Industry
Pro-Israel Hackers Strike Iran’s Oil Industry
The hacker group Gonjeshke Darande (Predatory Sparrow) recently took credit for a cyberattack that affected more than 70% of Iranian gas stations. “We, Gonjeshke Darande, carried out another cyberattack, taking out a majority of t...