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  2. Call of Duty worm malware used to hack players exploits years ...

    techcrunch.com/2023/07/31/call-of-duty-worm...

    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is 14 years old at this point, but the game is still on sale and still has a small community of players who play it online. The hackers’ goal with this worm also ...

  3. 2011 PlayStation Network outage - Wikipedia

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    The 2011 PlayStation Network outage (sometimes referred to as the PSN Hack) was the result of an "external intrusion" on Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity services, in which personal details from approximately 77 million accounts were compromised and prevented users of PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable consoles from accessing the service.

  4. Hackers are infecting Call of Duty players with a self ...

    techcrunch.com/2023/07/27/hackers-are-infecting...

    Hackers are infecting players of an old Call of Duty game with a worm that spreads automatically in online lobbies, according to two analyses of the malware. On June 26, a user on a Steam forum ...

  5. The real-life hacking behind Watch Dogs' virtual world - Engadget

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    A Hollywood depiction of hacking on the show NCIS. To do this, Ubisoft tapped the cybersecurity experts at Russia-based Kaspersky Labs. Together, the companies worked to vet every shell script and ...

  6. Gamers are fixing a video game ‘taken over’ by hackers

    techcrunch.com/2023/02/28/gamers-are-fixing-a...

    Don’t play it, don’t buy this game,” he said. “If you have the game on Steam uninstall it.” This story was updated to include the statement from Activision and Treyarch’s spokesperson.

  7. 'Minecraft' mod exploit lets hackers control your device

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    If one of the game tweaks is running on Forge 1.7.10/1.12.2, intruders can remotely control both servers and gamers' devices. In one case, an attacker was using a new exploit variant to breach a ...

  8. List of security hacking incidents - Wikipedia

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    June 5: The social networking website LinkedIn has been hacked and the passwords for nearly 6.5 million user accounts are stolen by cybercriminals. As a result, a United States grand jury indicted Nikulin and three unnamed co-conspirators on charges of aggravated identity theft and computer intrusion.

  9. Insomniac Games hackers leak 1.3 million files after Sony ...

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    On December 12, Rhysida, a ransomware group, announced it had taken 1.67 terabytes of data — over 1.3 million files — from Sony's Insomniac Games and requested $2 million. Now, the one-week ...