Month: June 2022
Beware – another dangerous Android malware has had millions of downloads from the Google Play Store
Audio player loading… Cybersecurity researchers from Dr. Web have found half a dozen mobile apps lurking in Google’s Play Store, that are actually distributing inforstealers (opens in new tab), adware, and other forms of malware via Android (opens in new tab) apps that between them have more than two million…
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The company behind PUBG shows off its ‘hyper-realistic’ virtual human
Krafton is best-known for games like PUBG and the upcoming Callisto Protocol — but today, it’s showing off something very different. The company is teasing a “virtual human” named Ana, which it says will “help establish” its Web3 ecosystem. The character was built using Unreal Engine — which itself has…
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YouTube makes it easier for creators to issue corrections
YouTube is rolling out an easier way for creators to issue a correction for information in their video that’s perhaps not entirely accurate. The corrections feature will enable creators “to call attention to corrections and clarifications in the descriptions of their already-published videos,” a YouTube product manager explained on the…
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Intel and AMD chips have another serious security flaw to worry about
Audio player loading… Chips from Intel and AMD, as well as processors from other manufacturers, may be susceptible to a new type of attack which could allow threat actors to steal cryptographic keys and other data directly from the endpoint’s (opens in new tab) hardware. A team of security researchers,…
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‘Time Flies’ turns the life of a housefly into a cute game about existential dread
I didn’t expect to laugh while playing Time Flies, but I did, out loud on the Summer Game Fest show floor. It’s a deceptively simple game with monochromatic, MS Paint-style visuals and a clear premise: You’re a fly and you have a short time to live a full life in…
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Another top developer directory has been hit by hackers
Audio player loading… The Travis CI API is leaking thousands of user tokens, allowing threat actors easy access to sensitive data in GitHub, AWS, and Docker Hub, a new report from Aqua Security’s cybersecurity arm, Team Nautilus has found. Travis CI is a hosted continuous integration service, that developers can…
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