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If kid’s game gets infected, you may bring that to work: what to do?

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“That cheating software your kid downloaded for his game is probably safe,” said not a single cybersecurity specialist, ever. At best, your kid will ruin the gaming experience for others. At worst, they’ll introduce malware to their device. Due to repeated incidents, Cybernews experts recommend keeping kids’ gaming platforms separate, virtually or physically, or consider sandboxing their games.

Some kids would do a lot to become a mafia boss LVL 50. In this case, parents were left deeply frustrated to discover that their child had become engrossed in a mobile game called Grand Mafia. Unbeknownst to them, the child had made a whopping 62 transactions using their credit card between September 4th and October 8th, 2022.

These transactions amounted to €1,240, and to add to their frustration, Revolut declined to reimburse the unauthorized charges, a report from the regulating authority reveals.

And this isn’t even the most significant risk that parents can face if they leave their kid’s actions online unchecked. Malware, likely, was not a culprit here, so the kid might be able to keep their impressive mafia boss level.

Recent game hacks reveal that crooks could steal not only your kid’s loot and the accounts they spent years grinding, but also remotely control their computer and spread infections to other devices.

For example, if you are logged in with your Google account in Chrome on the same compromised computer, all the malicious extensions and add-ons that hackers put here may automatically sync in your work computer if the same Google account is used.

Minecraft has been declared the most malware-infected game. Recently, cybercriminals used Minecraft Mods to execute code remotely, after a Bleeding Pipe vulnerability was discovered. Mods in the Minecraft community are used extensively, and the game is one of the most popular.

Bad actors used the technique to steal the game’s servers, personal game accounts, Steam, and Discord session info. Still, the possibilities are nearly endless as they could also steal user data for use in identity theft and use computers in botnet attacks while showing the user pop-ads.

Roblox, the other very popular game among kids,…

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Ransomware criminals dumping kids’ files online after school hack

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Nearly fourth months after an attack on Minneapolis Public Schools that dumped sexual assault case files online, administrators have not informed individual victims.

MINNEAPOLIS — The confidential documents stolen from schools and dumped online by ransomware gangs are raw, intimate and graphic. They describe student sexual assaults, psychiatric hospitalizations, abusive parents, truancy — even suicide attempts.

“Please do something,” begged a student in one leaked file, recalling the trauma of continually bumping into an ex-abuser at a school in Minneapolis. Other victims talked about wetting the bed or crying themselves to sleep.

Complete sexual assault case folios containing these details were among more than 300,000 files dumped online in March after the 36,000-student Minneapolis Public Schools refused to pay a $1 million ransom. Other exposed data included medical records and discrimination complaints.

Rich in digitized data, the nation’s schools are prime targets for far-flung criminal hackers, who are assiduously locating and scooping up sensitive files.

Often strapped for cash, districts are grossly ill-equipped not just to defend themselves but to respond diligently and transparently when attacked, especially as they struggle to help kids catch up from the pandemic and grapple with shrinking budgets.

Months after the Minneapolis attack, administrators have not delivered on their promise to inform individual victims. Unlike for hospitals, no federal law exists to require this notification from schools.

The Associated Press reached families of six students whose sexual assault case files were exposed. The message from a reporter was the first time anyone had alerted them.

“Truth is, they didn’t notify us about anything,” said a mother whose son’s case file has 80 documents.

Even when…

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Kids’ intimate files — including suicide attempts — are being put online after ransomware gangs hack schools: report

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The confidential documents stolen from schools and dumped online by ransomware gangs are raw, intimate and graphic.

They describe student sexual assaults, psychiatric hospitalizations, abusive parents, truancy — even suicide attempts.

“Please do something,” begged a student in one leaked file, recalling the trauma of continually bumping into an ex-abuser at a school in Minneapolis.

Other victims talked about wetting the bed or crying themselves to sleep.

Complete sexual assault case folios containing these details were among more than 300,000 files dumped online in March after the 36,000-student Minneapolis Public Schools refused to pay a $1 million ransom.

Other exposed data included medical records, discrimination complaints, Social Security numbers and contact information of district employees.

Rich in digitized data, the nation’s schools are prime targets for far-flung criminal hackers, who are assiduously locating and scooping up sensitive files that not long ago were committed to paper in locked cabinets. “In this case, everybody has a key,” said cybersecurity expert Ian Coldwater, whose son attends a Minneapolis high school.

Often strapped for cash, districts are grossly ill-equipped not just to defend themselves but to respond diligently and transparently when attacked, especially as they struggle to help kids catch up from the pandemic and grapple with shrinking budgets.

Months after the Minneapolis attack, administrators have not delivered on their promise to inform individual victims.


Ransomware gangs dumped 300,000 files, including medical record and Social Security numbers, from Minneapolis Public Schools.
Ransomware gangs dumped 300,000 files, including medical record and Social Security numbers, from Minneapolis Public Schools.
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Unlike for hospitals, no federal law exists to require this notification from schools.

The Associated Press reached families of six students whose sexual assault case files were exposed.

The message from a reporter was the first time anyone had alerted them.

“Truth is, they didn’t notify us about anything,” said a mother whose son’s case file has 80 documents.

Even when schools catch a ransomware attack in progress, the data are typically already gone.

That was what Los…

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Ransomware criminals are dumping kids’ private files online after school hacks

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The confidential documents stolen from schools and dumped online by ransomware gangs are raw, intimate and graphic. They describe student sexual assaults, psychiatric hospitalizations, abusive parents, truancy — even suicide attempts.

“Please do something,” begged a student in one leaked file, recalling the trauma of continually bumping into an ex-abuser at a school in Minneapolis. Other victims talked about wetting the bed or crying themselves to sleep.

Complete sexual assault case folios containing these details were among more than 300,000 files dumped online in March after the 36,000-student Minneapolis Public Schools refused to pay a $1 million ransom. Other exposed data included medical records, discrimination complaints, Social Security numbers and contact information of district employees.

Rich in digitized data, the nation’s schools are prime targets for far-flung criminal hackers, who are assiduously locating and scooping up sensitive files that not long ago were committed to paper in locked cabinets. “In this case, everybody has a key,” said cybersecurity expert Ian Coldwater, whose son attends a Minneapolis high school.

Often strapped for cash, districts are grossly ill-equipped not just to defend themselves but to respond diligently and transparently when attacked, especially as they struggle to help kids catch up from the pandemic and grapple with shrinking budgets.

Months after the Minneapolis attack, administrators have not delivered on their promise to inform individual victims. Unlike for hospitals, no federal law exists to require this notification from schools.

The Associated Press reached families of six students whose sexual assault case files were exposed. The message from a reporter was the first time anyone had alerted them.

“Truth is, they didn’t notify us about anything,” said a mother whose son’s case file has 80 documents.

Even when schools catch a ransomware attack in progress, the data are typically already gone. That was what Los Angeles Unified School District did last Labor Day weekend, only to see the private paperwork of more than 1,900 former students — including psychological evaluations and medical records — leaked online….

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