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One of the suspected masterminds behind the widespread Snowflake breach has been arrested in Canada – but the saga isn't over, eh.. Snowflake provides data storage and analytics to enterprises around the world, and it's believed the miscreants were able to steal mountains of data from victims because of a lack of two-factor authentication on accounts.
"Moucka has proven to be one of the most consequential threat actors of 2024," Mandiant declared."The operation, which left organizations reeling from significant data loss and extortion attempts, highlighted the alarming scale of harm an individual can cause using off-the-shelf tools." One thing's for sure: If you go big on a hack, expect people to notice and be on the hunt for the culprit.
The exploit Vizor claimed to have used against CoD players playing fairly involved a discovery in Ricochet – an anti-cheat application that runs when CoD players are in multiplayer mode. Ricochet allegedly uses a list of hard-coded strings to detect known cheats, Vizor claimed, and by sending an in-game"whisper" direct message to a target containing one of those strings, Ricochet would act immediately to ban them.
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