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If you or your kids are fans of Minecraft then take care before installing apps that modify the immensely popular game.
Security researchers say that they have discovered over 20 fake ‘modpack’ apps that are actually designed to bombard users with a… Continue reading Fake Minecraft mods installed on over one million Android devices
Part of the appeal of “Minecraft” is that the in-game experience is highly customizable with thousands of bits of third-party software. For mobile versions of the game, those “mods” can be downloaded as separate apps. If you pay attention to app-store security, you can probably guess where this is going, especially if you have kids. More than 20 of the “Minecraft” mods recently available in the Google Play Store didn’t do much for the game at all, and instead displayed ads on smartphones and tablets “in an extremely intrusive manner,” according to researchers at Kaspersky. The cybersecurity company says the store has taken down most of the apps since the researchers reported them, but a handful were still available as of Monday morning. Kaspersky’s findings are the latest reminder that mobile devices remain attractive targets for nuisance adware. And the makers of those sneaky apps aren’t really worried about customer […]
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Animal Jam, just the latest in a string of attacks on gaming apps, has adopted a transparent communications strategy after stolen data turned up on a criminal forum. Continue reading Animal Jam Hacked, 46M Records Roam the Dark Web
By Sudais Asif
Although these apps have been reported to Google, they are yet to be removed from the Play Store putting Minecraft users at risk of further scams.
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Seven mobile apps for Android sneakily charge fans of Minecraft and Roblox hundreds of dollars per month. Continue reading Minecraft Apps on Google Play Fleece Players Out of Big Money
Credential abuse drives illicit market for in-game rare skins, special weapons and unique tools. Continue reading Gamer Credentials Now a Booming, Juicy Target for Hackers
Microsoft announced today that Minecraft: Education Edition is now generally available for users on Chromebook.
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This laser cut and LED illuminated version of the Minecraft logo created by [Geeksmithing] looks good enough to occupy a place of honor on any gamer’s shelf. But it’s not just decoration: it can also notify you about your Minecraft’s server status and tell you when players are online by …read more
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams are deep in the hacks this week. What if making your own display matrix meant a microcontroller board for every pixel? That’s the gist of this incredible neon display. There’s a lot of dark art poured into the slivers of microSD cards and …read more
Minecraft is a game about exploring procedure-generated worlds. Each world is generated from a particular “seed” value, and sharing this seed value allows others to generate the same world in their own game. Recently, the distributed computing project Minecraft@Home set about trying to find the seed value of the world …read more
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