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One of China's largest state-sponsored hacking groups has attempted to breach the internal network of Gravity, the South Korean gaming company behind popular Ragnarok Online MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game). The intrusion attempts are believed to have taken place earlier this year, although it is unclear if they were successful or not. The attempted attacks came to light today after cyber-security firm QuoIntelligence (QuoINT) published a report on new malware strains it discovered, which...

Just a few days after exposing the sale of some 500,000 Zoom accounts for sale on the dark web, the research team at Cyble are back with another worrying tale of the vast array of information traded on furtive data markets. A “threat actor,” the team reported in a blog, “has dropped an online bomb by dropping the identities of 267 Million Facebook users.” And the price for this data trove—just $540. Thankfully no passwords...

A team of academics says they've discovered a new security bug that impacts Xilinx FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) chipsets. Named Starbleed, the bug allows attackers -- with both physical or remote access -- to extract and tamper with an FGPA's bitstream (configuration file) to reprogram the chip with malicious code. Source: ZD Net

In the span of a couple months, the world as we knew it was turned upside-down. As scientists across the globe conduct experiments in search of the COVID-19 vaccine, the labour market has found itself within its own experiment. That is, the experiment of remote working on a massive scale.   In an effort to slow down the spread of the virus, millions of employees around the world are being told to write their emails, compile their spreadsheets, and hold their meetings from the confines of their dining room...

A hacker has leaked today the usernames and passwords of nearly 23 million players of Webkinz World, an online children's game managed by Canadian toy company Ganz. The Webkinz game launched in 2005 as the online counterpart of a line of Ganz plush toys. Users could enter a code from their plush toy on the Webkinz website where they could play and manage a version of their toy in the form of a virtual pet....

“A security incident involving our internal systems, and causing service disruptions for some of our clients, is the result of a Maze ransomware attack” Another IT services heavyweight has fallen victim to a ransomware attack, with the US’s Cognizant — a $16.8 billion by 2019 revenue stalwart of the Fortune 500 — admitting over the weekend that a “Maze ransomware attack” had hit internal systems and was causing service disruption for clients. Source: CBR

The federal government is hoping to make tech giants such as Facebook and Google pay for Australian content if it is a source of profit. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has been directed to develop a mandatory code of conduct to address bargaining power imbalances between digital platforms and media companies. The move forms part of the government's response to the ACCC's Digital Platforms Inquiry, which in July made a total of 23...

 The stolen records of 20 million users of a popular Android app store have been published online by a hacker who claims to have 19 million more. Not all app stores are the same. Android users have access to the official Google Play Store, complete with nearly three million (2,870,985) apps available for download. Then there are the manufacturer app stores, of which the best known are probably the Samsung Galaxy Store and the Huawei...

With general elections expected to be held within a year, Singapore's political parties have been issued advisories about the threat of foreign interference and cybersecurity threats. They are urged to seek out precautionary measures to safeguard their ICT infrastructure, data, as well as online accounts. The city-state's Ministry of Home Affairs, Cyber Security Agency, and Elections Department on Monday said there had been many reports of foreign interference over the past few years in elections...

Researchers have unearthed a COVID-19 related spyware campaign that is specifically targeting Syrians and “likely other Arabic speaking” individuals in the Middle East region. Threat researchers at mobile security specialists, Lookout, discovered that over the past month, hackers, who are supposedly linked with the Syrian regime of President Bashar Al-Assad, have used at last 71 new malicious apps on Android mobile devices through the means of luring users with the coronavirus pandemic. The spyware threat is...