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PT-2021-20481 · Hewlett Packard · Hp Omen Gaming Hub
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: HP OMEN Gaming Hub affected versions not specified Description: A security issue has been identified in the HP OMEN Gaming Hub, potentially allowing escalation of privilege and/or denial of service. This could enable attackers to overwrite...
Cheap and nasty: How for $100 low-skilled ransom DDoS extortionists can cripple your business
Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks capable of crippling network resources and websites can be rented online for as little as $5 an hour. With an average financial impact of $100k for just one hour of downtime, that’s a serious return on cybercriminal investment. And that’s just for the...
Gaming-related cyberthreats in 2020 and 2021
The video game industry is soaring, not in the least thanks to the lockdowns, which forced people to look for new ways to entertain themselves and socialize. Even with things going back to normal, gaming is expected to have a very bright future. Newzoo estimates the industry to gross 175.8 billio...
Cloudflare mitigated one of the largest DDoS attack involving 17.2 million rps
Web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare on Thursday disclosed that it mitigated the largest ever volumetric distributed denial of service DDoS attack recorded to date. The attack, launched via a Mirai botnet, is said to have targeted an unnamed customer in the financial industr...
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5 years for swatter who caused a man’s death for a Twitter handle
Doxing or doxxing is in the news again, for an absolutely shocking story that ended with a mans death caused by a swatting attack. If you dont know what doxxing or swatting are, don’t worry. We’ll explain it all. The doxing 101 Doxing someone is a technique going back to the 90s. Back then,...
Game Over: How to Stop DDoS Attacks on Online Gamers
You’re just about to take out a long-time rival, claim Victory Royale or round out a royal flush when your ping spikes or you’re DCed. Chances are you, or the game you’re playing, have been hit by a denial of service DoS attack. What’s the story? A recent report cited that of all cyber attacks...
How data collected in gaming can be used to breach user privacy
By Sudais Asif Gaming firms collect user data to improve user experience but how that data can be used for malicious purposes? Here's what researchers say. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How data collected in gaming can be used to breach user privacy...
Do cybercriminals play cyber games in quarantine? A look one year later
Last year, we decided to take a look at how the pandemic influenced the gaming industry and what new threats gamers could be facing. What we found was that, with the transition to remote work and remote learning, the number of blocked attempts to visit malicious game-related websites or follow...
NVIDIA Patches High-Severity GeForce Spoof-Attack Bug
NVIDIA gaming graphics software called GeForce Experience, bundled with the chipmaker’s popular GTX GPU, is flawed and opens the door to a remote attacker that can exploit the bug to steal or manipulate data on a vulnerable Windows computer. NVIDIA notified customers late last week of the bug and...
Microsoft Signed Malware That Spreads Through Gaming
Microsoft signed a driver being distributed within gaming environments that turned out to be a malicious network filter rootkit. G DATA malware analyst Karsten Hahn first noticed the rootkit, publicly posting the find on June 17 and simultaneously reaching out to Microsoft. Hahn noted that the co...
A week in security (June 21 – June 27)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Want to stop ransomware attacks? Send the cybercriminals to jail, says Brian Honan: Lock and Code S02E11 Atomic research institute breached via VPN vulnerability Hotel staff bust Hermes SMS scammer with suspiciously large number of cables City of Liège hit by...
Hackers Trick Microsoft Into Signing Netfilter Driver Loaded With Rootkit Malware
Microsoft on Friday said it's investigating an incident wherein a driver signed by the company turned out to be a malicious Windows rootkit that was observed communicating with command-and-control C2 servers located in China. The driver, called "Netfilter," is said to target gaming environments,...
Microsoft signed a driver called Netfilter, turns out it contained malware
By Habiba Rashid Microsoft signed off a driver, Netfilter, for Windows that contains rootkit malware and has been circulating mainly amongst the gaming community. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Microsoft signed a driver called Netfilter, turns out it contained malware...
PS3 Players Ban: Victims of Surging Gaming Attacks
A reported breach of a Sony folder containing the serial ID numbers for every PlayStation 3 console appears to have led to users being inexplicably banned from the platform. This is just the latest in a shocking spike in attacks on unsuspecting gamers. Sony reportedly left a folder with every PS3...
Pandemic-Bored Attackers Pummeled Gaming Industry
Attacks on the gaming industry skyrocketed during the year of the pandemic, with attacks on web applications shooting up 340 percent in 2020. According to Akamai Technologies’ latest State of the Internet and Security report, Gaming in a Pandemic PDF, cyberattack traffic targeting the video game...
SOTI Research: Gaming In A Pandemic
Welcome to the second edition of SOTI Research. In this edition, we look at the attacks and trends in the gaming industry during 2020. SOTI Research is a condensed, shorter version of our traditional State of the Internet / Security reports, offering focused data points and contextual awareness...
Cyberpunk 2077 Hacked Data Circulating Online
New data from the February hack of CD Projekt Red, the videogame-development company behind Cyberpunk 2077 and the Witcher series, is circulating online. Earlier this year, the company suffered a ransomware attack in which a cyberattack group believed by some to be the HelloKitty gang “gained...