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Yikes, hackers are hiding malware inside a fake Pokémon NFT card game
By Jorge Jimenez published
News Pokémon Card Game isn't a real PC game, just a clever trap by hackers.
Phishing scammers impersonate WhatsApp by buying a top ad spot on Google
By Katie Wickens published
news The ad has since been taken down, and although it was pretty convincing the scam did have a couple of glaring oversights.
Uber's been hacked by an 18 year old, go figure
By Katie Wickens published
news Apparently the hacker seems to have no clue what to do with the power they now hold.
Crypto-hackers are holding the Costa Rican healthcare system to ransom for $5B in bitcoin
By Katie Wickens published
news 'To decrypt your systems you have to pay $5,000,000 in bitcoin,' the group is reported to have as its demands.
'Fixed' Chrome extension flaw could allow hackers to record both your webcam and desktop feeds
By Katie Wickens published
news A Screencastify vulnerability that allows monitoring by malicious actors was apparently fixed, but experts says it still has security flaws.
'Security researchers' aka hackers make $800k in prize money for exploiting Windows 11 and Teams
By Jorge Jimenez published
News Day 1 of the Pwn2own hacking event is already proving very lucrative for its participants.
Hackers build like-for-like open-source app to try and steal crypto
By Hope Corrigan published
news Just enter that incredibly important key phrase here, thank you.
This music for 'maximum hacking' is actually pretty chill
By Jorge Jimenez published
News Hack the world to some nice background music from the "Crypto Music for Coding, Programming, Studying" channel.
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