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Bitdefender Labs found fake Battlefield 6 pirated copies and trainers spreading aggressive malware, C2 agents, and infostealers, designed to steal player data and crypto-wallets. Continue reading Fake Battlefield 6 Downloads Are Spreading Malware, Stealing Player Data
EA is being acquired by a consortium of investors led by Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners, in an all-cash $55 billion transaction.
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A couple of months back, Electronic Arts did something uncharacteristically benevolent and released several of the old Command and Conquer games under the GPLv3. Logically, we knew that opened the …read more Continue reading Command and Conquer Ported to the Pi Pico 2
Continuing the series on floppy copy protection, [GloriousCow] examines Electronic Arts’ Interlock system. This was used from 1984 to 1987 for at least fourteen titles released on both 5.25″ and …read more Continue reading PC Floppy Copy Protection: Electronic Arts Interlock
Electronic Arts (EA) reported that it earned a net income of $399 million on revenues of $1.9 billion in the quarter ending September 30.
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Video game giant EA reported that it earned a net income of $402 million on revenues of $1.9 billion in the quarter ending June 30.
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KrebsOnSecurity recently reviewed a copy of the private chat messages between members of the LAPSUS$ cybercrime group in the week leading up to the arrest of its most active members last month. The logs show LAPSUS$ breached T-Mobile multiple times in March, stealing source code for a range of company projects. T-Mobile says no customer or government information was stolen in the intrusion.
LAPSUS$ is known for stealing data and then demanding a ransom not to publish or sell it. But the leaked chats indicate this mercenary activity was of little interest to the tyrannical teenage leader of LAPSUS$, whose obsession with stealing and leaking proprietary computer source code from the world’s largest tech companies ultimately led to the group’s undoing. Continue reading Leaked Chats Show LAPSUS$ Stole T-Mobile Source Code
Video gaming giant Electronic Arts suffers a hack following slack security, the Japanese Olympics are proving unpopular with everyone apart from cybercriminals, and le coq est mort.
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Hackers who reportedly stole valuable source code from games company Electronic Arts did so by first infiltrating the company’s Slack, a representative for a group claiming credit for the attack told Motherboard. For just $10, the hackers purchased a cookie that allowed them to infiltrate the $5 billion company’s Slack. They then posed as an employee to convince at IT administrator to grant them authentification to get into the company’s corporate network. The EA hack, first reported by Motherboard, included some game source code and related tools. No player data was accessed in the breach and the company does not expect the hack to impact its games, EA said in a statement. EA did not immediately respond to an email asking for verification of the hackers’ claims that they leveraged Slack to carry out the operation. The attack highlights the vulnerabilities created by workplace communication technologies, which have skyrocketed in […]
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Electronic Arts got hacked, and its source code stolen. Hackers took hundreds of gigabytes of game source code and tools.
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