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"Marketing agencies are pitching influencers deals such as $5,000 per TikTok video to amplify Build American AI’s messaging about how China’s technological rise should be seen as a threat"
-DigiCert hacked with a malicious screensaver file
-Ransomware negotiators get four years in prison
-Trellix discloses security breach
-Another Russian hacker arrested vacationing in the wrong place
-Secessionist party leaks Albertans personal data
-Fakestortion campaign hits cPanel sites
-Rockstar stock went up after the hack (leaked financials were spectacular)
-Hacker leak exposes Hungarian-Kremlin propaganda coordination
Podcast: https://risky.biz/RBNEWS559/
Newsletter: https://news.risky.biz/risky-bulletin-digicert-hacked-with-a-malicious-screensaver-file/
I saw that there’s now a mobile version of Roller Coaster Tycoon (Roller Coaster Tycoon Touch) and I thought it might be fun (one of the Netflix bundled mobile games). A couple of hours of casual play in, it was clear that the game was carefully designed to make it progressively harder and harder to make progress without in-app purchases.
@EUCommission , if you want to actually make things safer online, how about making that kind of predatory practice illegal? Children are particularly vulnerable, but so are a lot of adults. No need for age verification, just an outright ban.
So sad to see a such a respected game series used for this kind of whale farming.
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Detailed report from DigiCert (thanks!) about "a limited number of code signing certificates, few of which were then used to sign malware".
At the beginning a ZIP file with a .scr executable, and some time later 60 revoked Code Signing certificates. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2033170
Hungary's pro-Kremlin media gets hacked by WorldLeaks
The leaked data exposes coordination with the Kremlin in anti-Ukraine coverage: https://telex.hu/zacc/2026/04/30/mediaworks-hekkertamadas-memo-zelenszkij-lejaratas-telefonos-segitseg-moszkvabol
Mediaworks threatens lawsuits over coverage of the hacked data: https://hirtv.origo.hu/ahirtvhirei/2026/05/a-mediaworks-kozlemenye
It sues one of the sites that covered the Kremlin ties: https://media1.hu/2026/05/01/mediaworks-buntetofeljelentes-media1-telex-lapszemle-toth-tamas-antal/
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