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Xbox Underground. Xbox Underground was an international hacker group responsible for gaining unauthorized access to the computer network of Microsoft and its development partners, including Activision, Epic Games, and Valve, in order to obtain sensitive information relating to Xbox One and Xbox Live .
March: Computer systems in the city of Atlanta, in the U.S. state of Georgia, are seized by hackers with ransomware. They did not pay the ransom, [119] and two Iranians were indicted by the FBI on cyber crime charges for the breach. [120] The town of Wasaga Beach in Ontario, Canada computer systems are seized by hackers with ransomware. [121]
After gaining access, the scammer attempts to convince the victim that the computer is suffering from problems that must be repaired, most often as the putative result of malicious hacking activity. Scammers use several methods to misrepresent the content and significance of common Windows tools and system directories as evidence of malicious ...
Microsoft ( MSFT) and OpenAI released a report on Wednesday saying that hacking groups from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia are increasingly probing the use of AI large language models (LLMs ...
A hacking group Microsoft calls Storm-558 had gained access to a digital key that allowed it to break into several government inboxes, the tech firm earlier said. The incident strained an already ...
Kristoffer Wilhelm von Hassel (born 2008) is an American boy known for being the world's youngest known hacker [1] and notable for being the youngest "security researcher" listed on Microsoft 's Security Techcenter as having exposed a security vulnerability. [2] At the age of five, Hassel exposed security lapses in the Microsoft Live Xbox ...
Begininng in late November, the hackers used a so-called "password spray attack" to access a "legacy non-production test tenant account and gain a foothold," Microsoft explained in the blog post.
Advanced persistent threat. An advanced persistent threat ( APT) is a stealthy threat actor, typically a state or state-sponsored group, which gains unauthorized access to a computer network and remains undetected for an extended period. [ 1][ 2] In recent times, the term may also refer to non-state-sponsored groups conducting large-scale ...