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‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’ Players Hit With Worm Malware

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According to TechCrunch it is unclear why the malware is spreading or what exactly the impact is on gamers. Valve, the owner of Steam, did not comment on the issue, according to the news website.

Public companies in the United States will soon have to report data breaches and hacking incidents four days after they deem an incident to have a “material” impact on their business. On Wednesday, the US Securities and Exchange Commission voted to introduce the regulations that require firms to disclose cyberattacks once they have determined it will disrupt its operations or finances. The disclosures must detail the “nature, scope, and timing” of the attack, as well as the potential impact it will have on the firm.

Former SEC rules required companies to disclose cyber incidents but did not impose any strict timeline on doing so. This can lead to firms waiting weeks or months to notify customers and lawmakers about data breaches and cyberattacks. A separate part of the new SEC rules also requires companies to detail their processes for “assessing, identifying, and managing material risks,” heaping extra public accountability on firms to make sure they’re taking security issues seriously. The rules will go into effect by no later than December.

Since Vladimir Putin started his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russia’s internet censorship has become even more expansive. A new report this week from researchers at Citizen Lab, a research facility at the University of Toronto, shows how the country’s censors have clamped down on the social network VK, which is similar to Facebook. Russia’s government has been ordering VK to remove posts, videos, and accounts almost every day since the start of the war, the researchers found after reviewing court orders issued by the government.

There’s been a thirtyfold increase in censorship since the start of the war, Citizen Lab researchers found. In total, 94,942 videos, 1,569 community accounts, and 787 personal accounts are blocked in Russia, which has clamped down on independent media and blocked social media such as Facebook and YouTube as it looks to control the information people read and access within its borders.

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Call of Duty players being infected with self-spreading malware

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San Francisco, July 28: Players of an old Call of Duty game are being infected by hackers with a worm that automatically spreads in online lobbies.

On June 26, a player of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 warned other players on a Steam forum that hackers “attack using hacked lobbies,” and advised using an antivirus, reports TechCrunch.

It looks like the malware mentioned in the thread is on the malware online repository VirusTotal.

Another player claimed to have analysed the malware and said in the same forum thread that the malware seems to be a worm, based on a number of text strings inside the malware.

The presence of those strings in the malware, which suggests a worm, was confirmed by a game industry insider who asked to remain anonymous because they were prohibited from speaking to the press.

Neil Wood, spokesperson of Activision, which released the game in 2009, referenced a tweet posted by the company from the ‘Call of Duty Updates’ account on Thursday that indirectly mentioned the malware.

“Multiplayer for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) on Steam was brought offline while we investigate reports of an issue,” the tweet read.

It is still unclear why the hackers are spreading this malware.

The malware is a worm since it seems to automatically spread from one infected gamer to another through online lobbies.

“This means the hackers must have found and are exploiting one or multiple bugs in the game to execute malicious code on the other players’ computers,” the report said.

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IoT (Internet of Things) Security Market 2023 Share Value by Leading Players – Symantec Corporation, Cisco Systems, Inc., International Business Machines Corporation, RSA Security LLC, Fortinet Inc.

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Computer Security for Consumer Market 2023 Size Industry, Current Trends, Demand and Size Share Estimation by 2028 with Top Players

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