News of the Cyber World

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PlayStation apologizes for PS5 preorder fiasco,

says process 'could have been a lot smoother'

https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/p...t-smoother
Company will release more consoles for preorder over next few days and make more available through year's end

Sony claims retailers launched preorders prematurely. Actually their websites crashed after a while. The PS5 will launch on Nov. 12 in the U.S., Japan, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and South Korea before being unveiled to the rest of the world on Nov. 19. The console sports a custom processor that supports 4K graphics and ray-tracing support and an SSD hard drive that provides "lightning-fast" loading speeds.

In addition to details about the PS5, Sony released pricing for the console's accessories, including the DualSense Wireless Controller for $69.99, PULSE 3D wireless headset for $99.99, an HD Camera with dual 1080p lenses for broadcasting for $59.99, a media remote for movies and streaming services for $29.99 and a DualSense charging station for $29.99.

Of course, MS didn't waste time mocking Sony by claiming they'd share precise information on preorders to prevent such a mess from ever happening to Xbox new generation consoles.

Iran hackers and the Aerospace and Satellite companies

https://www.cyberscoop.com/iran-indictme...aerospace/

U.S. prosecutors accused the three men of “engaging in a coordinated campaign of identity theft and hacking” on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The scheme allegedly spanned more than three years, through February 2019, and a target list of over 1,8000 online accounts comprising aerospace and satellite companies and government organizations, from the U.S. to the United Kingdom to Israel.

Here's the procedure they followed to get access to such data.

Said Pourkarim Arabi, 34, Mohammad Reza Espargham, 25, and Mohammad Bayati, 34, allegedly impersonated Americans working in the aerospace and satellite industries by registering email addresses in their names and then sending other people in those industries spearphishing emails. With access to a target computer, the men allegedly used other hacking tools to gain greater privileges on the computer and hunt for data sought by the IRGC and then exfiltrate it.

By the way, US Treasury announced sanctions against Iranians working for Iranian Ministry of Intelligence, as part of a group known as APT39 by US authorities, who were targeting dissidents and journalists. They infiltrated telecommunications and travel industries to collect data and personal information on their victims. But that wasn't all that happened this week.

The Department of Justice on Wednesday announced charges against two other Iranian citizens for allegedly conducting cyber-espionage operations at the behest of the Iranian government. The two men allegedly targeted American universities and a U.S defense contractor, among other organizations, and stole hundreds of terabytes of data. On Tuesday, U.S. officials accused an Iranian teenager of retaliating for the U.S. killing of a top Iranian general by defacing dozens of websites (he was not accused of acting on behalf of the Iranian government.)

NS8 Cyber Fraud Prevention company was a Cyber Fraud!

https://www.cyberscoop.com/ns8-cyber-fra...s-sec-fbi/
While promoting itself as a cyber fraud prevention startup, this company's co founder was an actual fraudster or so said SEC and FBI. He falsified bank statements by letting investors think they've got enough customers paying their bills when the truth was that they were fake. He kept $17,5 millions in his pockets. NS8 sold fraud prevention and detection software to businesses, claiming it combined behavioral analytics and scoring to warn customers of possible risk. Suddenly its co founder stepped down and the company started laying off workers.