Like taking candy money from babies: Seven mobile apps for Android sneakily charge fans of Minecraft and Roblox hundreds of dollars per month. Fans of the popular Minecraft video game are in the crosshairs of cybercriminals, who have loaded up Google Play with scam apps bent on fleecing players out of cash. According to researchers, the mobile apps for Android fool users into spending hundreds of dollars per month, by offering skins, wallpapers and game mods for Minecraft and other games at super-premium prices. These “fleeceware” offerings start with a “free trial” period but then automatically and quietly start charging up to $30 per week after that. Read more here.
Smile, you are on Candid Camera: A hacker collective claims to have breached over 50,000 home security cameras before going on to steal people’s private footage and post some of it online. While a considerable portion of the videos seems to have come from Singapore, a number of people living in Thailand, South Korea, and Canada also seem to have their privacy invaded. Some of the videos – which range from one to twenty minutes in length and show people of varying ages in compromising positions or various stages of undress – have been uploaded to porn websites. Read more here.
Source Code! Get Your Free Source Code!: Source code allegedly belonging to commercial penetration testing software Cobalt Strike has been published on GitHub, potentially providing a new path for hackers to attack companies. Read more here.
