How profitable, do I hear you ask? How does $1 million (£750,000) a year in stolen account sales sound? Sure, that's towards the top end, but criminals are making that kind of money, $25,000 (£19,000) a week, because of the value of stolen character skins.
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It's not all plain-sailing for the would-be Fortnite hacker. Epic Games does, for example, limit the number of logins allowed per IP address to prevent such bulk automated account probing. But, Troia says, the hackers circumvent such barriers by paying for proxy rotation services, which can issue a new IP for every account checking request.
Not to change the topic here:
The Hacker Group Anonymous Returns - The Atlantic
The clip generated a wave of renewed enthusiasm for Anonymous, particularly among young people. Twitter accounts associated with the group saw a surge of new followers, a couple of them by the millions.
Now a new generation was eager to join. "How does one apply to be a part of Anonymous? I just wanna help out, I'll even make the hackers coffee or suttin" an activist in the United Kingdom joked on Twitter, garnering hundreds of thousands of likes and retweets.
U.S. issues warning on North Korean hackers targeting banks worldwide - Lexology
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Hackers may have accessed the personal data of donors to several local organizations and nonprofits, including Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, following an international data breach this past spring.
Though the attack eventually was offset, a copy of a subset of data was removed by the cybercriminal, leading Blackbaud to pay the criminal's demand. According to Blackbaud, the information accessed did not include credit card information, bank account information or Social Security numbers.
Tesla and hackers keep playing cat and mouse in patching performance boost unlock - Electrek
Tesla and hackers are starting to play cat and mouse in patching a performance boost unlock after the automaker started cracking down on the effort.
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Over the last few months, we have been reporting on how a company called Ingenext released the first hack that enabled Tesla owners to unlock a software-locked acceleration boost for half the price that Tesla is charging.
As expected, Tesla started to fight back against the hack last week with a new patch in a software update .
Working From Home Follow These Safety Protocols To Keep Hackers At Bay-Rahul Shirgopikar - BW
The world is acclimatizing to this new transition, and so are we. But what makes work from home risky is the fact that most Indians using personal laptops or desktops still lack cyber hygiene and operate without a genuine antivirus. Yes, you heard me right. Cyberattacks have become mainstream, especially during the lockdown period.
This is a huge vulnerability that threat actors are championing to bank on. While the current situation indeed calls for organizations and businesses to invest in robust security solutions to up their cybersecurity infrastructure, there are a few safety protocols that one must follow to keep the network and personal system safe from hackers.
Decrypted: How a teenager hacked Twitter, Garmin’s ransomware aftermath – TechCrunch
A 17-year-old Florida teenager is accused of perpetrating one of the year’s biggest and most high-profile hacks: Twitter.
A federal 30-count indictment filed in Tampa said Graham Ivan Clark used a phone spearphishing attack to pivot through multiple layers of Twitter’s security and bypassed its two-factor authentication to gain access to an internal “admin” tool that let the hacker take over any account.
It was, by all accounts, a sophisticated attack that required technical skills and an ability to trick and deceive to pull off the scam. Some security professionals were impressed, comparing the attack to one that had the finesse and professionalism of a well-resourced nation-state attacker.
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