Nintendo Sues Video-Game Pirates

Gaming giant Nintendo has filed a lawsuit against video-game piracy group ringleader Gary Bowser, a Canadian national behind Team Xecuter, which law enforcement said built and sold hacking devices that enabled consoles to play unauthorized versions of games. Download “The Evolution of Ransomware”...

'Copyright Violation' Notices Lead to Facebook 2FA Bypass

Scammers have hatched a new way to attempt to bypass two-factor authentication 2FA protections on Facebook. Cybercriminals are sending bogus copyright-violation notices with the threat of taking pages down unless the user attempts to appeal. The first step in the “appeal?” The victim is asked to...

Ransomware Tactic Lures Via Copyright Scare

An ongoing ransomware campaign is pretending to be the fake ICPP Foundation icpp-online.com, where the ransomware locks down the user’s desktop issuing a “Copyright violation: copyrighted content detected” message which lists torrent files found on the infected PC and forces the user to pay $400...