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Reuters reports that Department of Government Efficiency Senior Advisor Christopher Stanley who has been assigned to the Justice Department as part of the Trump administration's efforts to reduce federal spending after working for Elon Musk's X and SpaceX companies was discovered to have been invol...

With COVID-19 shutting down many popular forms of entertainment, millions of consumers stuck at home have increasingly turned to video games to stave off cabin fever, making the gaming industry an even more alluring target than usual for cybercriminals. Indeed, a recent string of high-profile ...

Attribution is difficult and sometimes it seems that cybercriminals are beyond the long arm of the law. But hackers – some even foreign nationals – were increasingly brought to justice on both sides of the Atlantic in 2018 for various cybercrimes. They were indicted, arrested, convicted and, in man...

A set of DDoS attacks plagued a series of gaming publishers including Final Fantasy XIV’s creator Square Enix and Assassin's Creed publisher Ubisoft, respectively on the day of the Assassin’s Creed Odyssey launch on Friday. Ubisoft began experiencing connectivity issues around Oct. 4 when the of...

One of the founders of the notorious hacking group Lizard Squad and PoodleCorp was sentenced to three months in prison after having plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit damage to a protected computer.Zachary Buchta, 20, pleaded guilty in December in the Northern District Court for the D...

A hacking group called CyberTeam has taken responsibility for an attack against Skype that has impacted that service for the last two days and said the gaming site Steam is next on their target list, but whether this assertion is true remains in doubt.As of June 21 CyberTeam's claim has not been sub...

Millions of gamers were spared any downtime over Christmas as pre-holiday threats by Lizard Squad, Phantom Squad and R.I.U. Star Patrol to take down PlayStation Network and Xbox Live proved hollow.Valve's Steam store site was offline for a period on December 23, according to Gamespot, but this may h...

The teenage inventor of a prolific DDoS-for-hire service has been found guilty. On 28 October at the Old Bailey, Adam Mudd, 19, plead guilty to committing unauthorised acts to impair the operation of a computer; making, supplying or offering to supply a DDoS service and concealing criminal property....

Lizard Squad's LizardStresser botnet is being used by a growing number of threat actors as the botnet-du-jour for enslaving Internet of Things (IoT) devices for later use in DDoS attacks.Arbor Networks' ASERT group has found the number of command-and-control servers unique to LizardStresser has incr...

Blizzard CS's Battle.net platform was experiencing 'technical difficulties' that disrupted logins for Overwatch, Hearthstone and World of Warcraft gamers earlier this week. And it didn't take long for a Lizard Squad member to step up and take the Tweeted credit. 'AppleJ4ck' aimed a tweet directly at...