Players are exploiting Black Ops 4 emotes to peek around corners

Enlarge / In first-person view, you’re staring at a wall. With the third-person emote camera, you can see what’s coming around that corner. (credit: Twitter / GameSkinny) The first-person perspective in shooters usually brings an inherent kind of balance to the constant battle for cover—if you peek your head out to see an opponent, they’ll […]

Hackers exploiting rTorrent to install Unix coin miner have netted $4k so far

Enlarge (credit: Elembis) Attackers have generated $ 3,900 so far in an ongoing campaign that’s exploiting the popular rTorrent application to install currency-mining software on computers running Unix-like operating systems, researchers said Thursday. The misconfiguration vulnerabilities are similar in some respects to ones Google Project Zero researcher Tavis Ormandy reported recently in the uTorrent and […]

Some people are exploiting the latest Apple bug to crash your iPhone via Twitter (AAPL, TWTR)

AP Images / J. Scott Applewhite There’s an Apple software bug currently affecting iPhones, iPads, and Macs — and some pranksters are taking advantage of it. The bug means a keyboard character from the Indian language Telugu can crash applications as soon as it shows up in a text field. As Mashable first reported, a […]

A potent botnet is exploiting a critical router bug that may never be fixed

A Dasan Networks router similar to this one is under active exploit by the potent Satori botnet. (credit: Dasan Networks) A fast-moving botnet that turns routers, cameras, and other types of Internet-connected devices into potent tools for theft and destruction has resurfaced again, this time by exploiting a critical vulnerability that gives attackers control over […]

Holiday Brits ‘ripped off’ by airport currency exchanges exploiting weak pound

Thousands heading off at the start of the school holiday this weekend faced bad deals. Forexchange at Cardiff Airport was handing out just 87 cents for £1 – despite the rate being 1.11 euro to £1. At Moneycorp at Stansted Airport in Essex customers were given 90 cents for £1 after £4.99 commission. At Gatwick, […]

Hack that escapes VM by exploiting Edge browser fetches $105,000 at Pwn2Own

Enlarge (credit: Heather Katsoulis) Contestants at this year’s Pwn2Own hacking competition in Vancouver just pulled off an unusually impressive feat: They compromised Microsoft’s heavily fortified Edge browser in a way that escapes a VMware virtual machine it runs in. The hack fetched a prize of $ 105,000, the highest awarded so far over the past […]

Gold spikes after Trump adviser says Germany is exploiting the EU and US with ‘grossly undervalued’ euro (GLD)

Getty Images/Dario Pignatelli/Bloomberg Gold trades up 0.5% at $ 1,203.31 per ounce on Tuesday following comments from Trump adviser Peter Navarro suggesting Germany is taking advantage of the European Union and the United States by using a “grossly undervalued” euro. The precious metal held onto smalls gains ahead of Navarro’s comments and spiked to its best level […]