Month: April 2023
The FBI has shut down one of the world’s biggest cyber fraud platforms
Genesis.Market, a major dark web marketplace for stolen personal data, has been shut down in a multinational policing operation. The homepage of Genesis.Market has been defaced and replaced with the usual FBI notice stating “This Website Has Been Seized”. The notice also shows logos of a dozen law enforcement agencies,…
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HBO Max’s Clone High teaser reminds us that everything that’s old is new again
Ahead of its debut this spring, HBO Max just dropped the first teaser trailer for the Clone High revival, which seems like it’s going to pick right back up where the original MTV series left off. Though Gandhi won’t be coming back in the new show, all it takes is…
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Diablo IV’s endgame looks expansive (and a bit confusing)
Diablo IV’s dungeons are gonna be a nightmare after players complete the campaign. The developers just released a new video outlining the game’s endgame progression, and it’s filled with all sorts of somewhat bewildering things like paragon systems, world tiers, nightmare dungeons, and more. Players will level up their characters…
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This new ransomware could be the fastest encryptor ever seen
Cybersecurity researchers have recently uncovered a new strain of ransomware which they argue is the fastest around. After investigating a cyber-incident at a US company, experts at Check Point came across an unknown ransomware variant which, after a more thorough analysis, was dubbed Rorshach. The researchers concluded Rorshach is the…
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Data breaches and outages are more of a security risk than ever before
Data breaches and outages are a bigger security risk for organizations than they’ve ever been, new research has found. Splunk recently polled 1,500 security leaders for its State of Security 2023 annual global research report, and found that the number, and the cost associated with cyberattacks, continue to rise. In…
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Google is trying to make sure apps let you delete your account
Google is introducing a new Play Store rule that will require apps to have a “readily discoverable option” for deleting your account, both in the app itself and on the web. In a blog post on Wednesday, the company says the change is meant to give users “greater clarity and…
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