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Publisher 2K Games has been the victim of a cyber attack in which hackers managed to penetrate the company’s help desk. Subsequently, emails containing malware were allegedly sent to gamers via the helpdesk account.

Microsoft will not mark fake news as such in Bing search results and on LinkedIn posts. The company is afraid that users will see this as censorship and also thinks that labeling makes little sense.

Rockstar Games has confirmed that the GTA VI gameplay footage leaked over the weekend is real. The studio wrote in a statement that it was recently the victim of a hack in which early images of the game were downloaded. The company continues to work on the GTA title.

Security company Avast has acquired browser extension I don’t care about cookies. According to the developer, the extension will remain available for free and the man will also continue to participate in the project.

Uber is dealing with a ‘cybersecurity incident’ in which it has involved the police, the company itself reports. According to sources including The New York Times, a hacker has “penetrated many internal Uber systems” and several systems have been taken offline.

Google Chrome users on Android devices can now hide the incognito part of the browser with a fingerprint or by means of facial recognition. The feature has not been officially released yet, but it is already configurable by users.

Google’s acquisition of cybersecurity company Mandiant has been completed. Earlier this year, the company mentioned an acquisition amount of 5.4 billion dollars for the company that, among other things, conducts security research and offers its services in 22 countries.

A new type of phishing is used by criminals to steal and resell Steam accounts. This is what experts call a browser-in-browser attack, which suggests that a login screen appears as a pop-up.

EA is following on from Activision with its own anti-cheat system at the kernel level. The publisher will release this system during the release of the PC version of FIFA 23. This game will be released at the end of this month and the system will also be used in other games.

VMware and the US SEC settle a fraud case for $8 million. The virtualization software company has also agreed to a cease and desist. With the settlement, VMware ‘neither denies nor admits’ guilt.