Apple Threatened by a Ransomware Group REvil is a prominent ransomware group targeting high-profile institutions and demanding sky-high ransom amounts. The group has recently hit Acer, demanding $50 million in payment. Working based on the Ransomware-as-a-Service model, REvil leverages its malware to hackers, who breach corporate networks and bring in ransom which is then shared among themselves. As this model proved successful, many other ransomware players have started following the same....

If they’re to be believed, we may see “natural” ads appearing within PlayStation games, which may not be so intrusive. Sony has already started testing this with some partners through special software, to bring in revenue and encourage the free game’s developers. Ads in PlayStation Games Sony is one of the few players in the console gaming industry that’s dominating with its PlayStation series. Though the company sells paid subscriptions, there are some free games enthusiasts can play without any payment....

The Pirate Bay’s Broken Features The Pirate Bay has been and is now the most popular torrent site for millions of people around the world. It has faced all the struggles to make it happen, including the shut down by BREIN, being on the notorious list, blocked by Malwarebytes, and even made its onion site easy to access. Amidst all these, we cannot see a guarantee of the site’s future, as there are some important features broken since the last two years, and is getting harder for users to continue....

In terms of the most downloaded apps of 2021, we see TikTok standing in first place in Google’s PlayStore and Apple’s Appstore. And more surprisingly, TikTok even became the most searched domain this year, beating Google on its own game. TikTok Making History A competitive intelligence platform called Apptopia has released a report ranking the most popular apps that attained the most downloads this year. And we see No.1 in the list wasn’t surprising at all cause it’s TikTok!...

The First Video CarryMinati (a.k.a Ajey Nagar), a popular Indian YouTuber having 17+ million subscribers, made a video last week titled YouTube vs TikTok: The End. That was about roasting Amir Siddiqui, a social media influencer on TikTok. The video has taken India by storm, as it garnered 70+ million views just in 4 days. Mixed Reactions Though many had enjoyed his video, it was deemed inappropriate by the TikTok community, and they’ve reported to YouTube to be pulled down....

O’Connor, going by his hacker name “PlugWalkJoe”, was also reportedly involved in Twitter account hacks that happened last year, of famous personalities leading to a cryptocurrency scam. Using SIM Swapping For Hacking Accounts SIM swapping is a widely used social engineering technique, where threat actors bribe or make telecom operators swap a targeted phone number to their own SIM. Thereby, they receive all the two-factor authentication codes, messages, and other critical communication of their targets....

Globally, Whatsapp has Banned 8 Million Accounts In the first transparency report, the company has banned 20,11,000 accounts. In its report, Whatsapp says, From the 2 million Indian accounts, more than 95% of accounts were banned due to unauthorized use of bulk messaging. Whatsapp has also received 345 queries from Indian users who use the wrong redressal methods. The action was taken for around 63 accounts and asked to restore the access or ban the account....

NSO Group May Soon Reveal Its Clients News about journalists, human rights activists and even politicians being spied through their WhatsApp has startled everyone in 2019. This was made possible through spyware called Pegasus, that’s created by NSO Group, an Israeli company. The maker has since then claimed its spyware is distributed only to governments and law enforcement agencies, to help them in tracking terrorists. But, it was used by adversaries to pin down activists in 2019, which raged the communities and led a deep investigation into the matter....

This was spotted in the WhatsApp iOS client and has not come to the beta channel even. So it’s still a long way from public testing before coming to the general public. To date, users can see only the URL when it’s in status mode and should access it to know it completely. Rich Media Preview of WhatsApp Status URLs In the last couple of months, we see WhatsApp rolling out some essential features to the community – including the increased media sharing limit, group participants, emojis reactions to messages, etc....

Taking this into consideration, Whatsapp has been taking a few steps to prevent the spreading of fake news. Just like that today, Whatsapp has changed some forward limits which will prevent the spreading of fake news. Whatsapp Message Forward Limit Changed To 1 For Preventing Fake Forwards Earlier, the company took some steps such as limited users to post less than 15-seconds stories, the forward limit was set to 5 at a time, and now the company has gone ahead and limited user forwards to 1....

But, what good if these sticker packs aren’t able to be shared with your friends, and have fun together. Thus, WhatsApp launched a quick share button in iOS for sharing native sticker packs with friends on the same platform. Sharing WhatsApp Stickers These days, a chat conversation between two friends on a platform like WhatsApp is never done without the use of stickers in between. They make the chat fun and lighten up the mood....

Latest Windows Update Makes Linux Support in Windows Defunct Microsoft has already been struggling with the Windows 10 cumulative updates every month, which were promised to solve vulnerabilities but coming with more bugs than fixes. While this being the case till now, the latest September update released this Tuesday has a different story. Few users reported in Microsoft’s Feedback Hub and GitHub Bug Report forum that, they’re unable to use the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSFL2) feature after updating to September patch....

Some have reported lowered frame rates in games, slow performance in video editing software, and even BSOD! The issue is noted as the automatic turning of “graphics debugging tools”, which Nvidia is aware of and has been working with Microsoft to solve. A direct is already available at Nvidia’s website, while a suitable driver is yet to come. Performance Issues in Windows 11 22H2 New Windows updates from Microsoft causing issues have now become a norm – even though it’s being tested by thousands of users in beta and dev channels before releasing....

Emojis in Windows are first announced in July this year, where the design team showcased 3D animated emoticons. But, these seem exclusive to Microsoft Teams and Flipgrid, where the rest apps across Windows 11 get a 2D and static version of emojis. Emojis in Windows 11 As per its timeline, Microsoft is pushing the C week update to all Windows machines, bumping their version levels and including fixes for previous bugs....

Yahoo Engineer gets No Jail Time for Account Hacks Reyes Daniel Ruiz, 35, of Tracy, is allowed to leave his home for “verified employment, medical needs, and religious services,” according to the sentencing terms. He has also been ordered to pay nearly $125,000 in fines and restitution. The hacks occurred in 2009 and July 2019 while Ruiz was working as a reliability engineer at Yahoo, and in other roles. Ruiz used his backend access of the Yahoo server to obtain access to hashed passwords and then proceeded to crack the password strings to access Yahoo Mail accounts of younger women, including personal friends and work colleagues....

This has been available for mobile YouTube users for a while and now comes to web users. While this is still in testing, YouTube offers downloading videos in desired resolution upto 1080p, and only for Premium users as of now. Downloading YouTube Videos Offline While you can watch most videos on YouTube for free, you always need an active internet connection to do so. Therefore, most users use various tools to download the videos to local storage and view or share them later to remove this hassle....

Glitches in the platform for $30,000! As Motherboard reported, there’s an active selling activity happening in the dark web of Zoom’s Zero-day vulnerabilities. Zero-day vulnerabilities are those security flaws discovered by a third-party, even before the maker noticed. These can be of high value, as by the time maker or user notices something suspicious, a hacker could’ve exploited already. The issues that were sold in this incident were regarding security flaws in microphone to webcam and others....

I find many websites on Google claiming that they have the best applinked codes list. But, hold on! Be aware of that kind of thing because the codes they mentioned don’t need to be legal to use. Therefore, after researching and trying the codes personally, we make this guide to help you know some genuine codes. Therefore, let start with them. What is AppLinked? The dev has created AppLinked behind creating popular apps like Media Lounge, Strix, etc....

Today we are talking about the best-hidden object finding games; these games will boost your motor and visual skills and, at the same time, will give you immense entertainment. So whats you’re waiting for? Let’s dive deep into the game world! Also Read- Best Free Online Shooting Games List of Best Hidden Object Games You Can Play in 2022 Here are some of the best Hidden Object games which we think are great for you to try....

Although its popularity, the entire ocean of content creators can not rely only on one service. Therefore, many video creators are looking for the best Powtoon alternatives. To help you in this matter, we have a list of apps like Powtoon for smooth video production. Best Powtoon Alternatives for Content Creators Finding the best Powtoon alternatives is not a simple task. You can find some other options that might not meet your need in the first place....