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Hackers co-opt Microsoft’s anti-phishing feature for phishing attacks

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Sometimes, security features don’t go as planned. Email security company Vade has discovered that a Microsoft 365 setting intended to protect enterprise users has been co-opted by malicious actors, who are instead using it to launch sophisticated and automated phishing attacks. Hackers specifically […]

Hackers Are Using Free Game Giveaways To Trick Players Into Mining Cryptocurrency

Hackers have reportedly been baiting gamers with free game giveaways which secretly help them farm cryptocurrency. Malware hidden deep inside the code of these games reportedly generates cryptocurrency for the hackers, once downloaded. As reported by BBC, the crypto-mining malware called Crackonosh has earned hackers over $2 million in cryptocurrency. Researchers at Avast say that […]

Codecov hackers gained access to hundreds of restricted customer networks

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. (Reuters) — Hackers who tampered with a software development tool from a company called Codecov used that program to gain restricted access to hundreds of networks belonging to the San Francisco firm’s customers, investigators told Reuters. Codecov makes software auditing tools […]

Outriders Hackers Will Be Punished With Watermarked HUDs And Slower Matchmaking

Outriders launches this week, but cheaters have already found ways to exploit the experience while playing the game’s demo. Specifically, some players have hacked files in order to give themselves legendary gear and bump up their levels. Although Outriders is a cooperative experience and has no competitive element whatsoever, People Can Fly would rather you […]

Hackers hijacked email security firm Mimecast to spy on customers

(Reuters) — Email security provider Mimecast said on Tuesday that hackers had hijacked its products in order to spy on its customers. The company said it had been alerted to the attack by investigators at Microsoft and that “a sophisticated threat actor” had compromised the certificate used to guard connections between its products and Microsoft’s […]

Hackers Are Threatening to Leak Watch Dogs: Legion’s Source Code

Watch Dogs: Legion is set to arrive on October 29th, but a hacker group calling themselves “Egregor” might break Ubisoft’s street date if they don’t get what they want. According to a new report from ZDNet, Egregor managed to hack their way into the networks for both Ubisoft and Crytek, stealing valuable data as they […]

‘Team Xecuter’ Switch Hackers arrested – Daily Esports

Nintendo has always been the company to show no mercy to hackers abusing their systems. Nintendo has stomped down on two Switch hackers from the group named Team Xecuter, and they have been arrested by the United States Department. This case was, and still is, being investigated by the FBI and HSI. The hackers The […]

Animal Crossing hackers are selling impossible ‘star fragment trees’

A new sensation is sweeping the Animal Crossing: New Horizons fandom, but it’s not one you can participate in unless you know the right people. It’s also technically not possible to do under normal means. The New Horizons modding scene has been alive and well for a while now, allowing fans with hacked Switches to […]