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Server security still also in early access.

Cloud Imperium Games (CIG), the development studio behind Star Citizen, says that some of their systems were breached by hackers and that some personal data of users was stolen. This security breach happened in January 2026 and is just now being disclosed to the public.

The disclosure, in addition to coming two months after the security breach, was also tucked away in a small notice on the Cloud Imperium Games' website. CIG...

Manually update to the latest version to avoid issues.

For almost half of 2025, an update server for Notepad++ was compromised by Chinese state-sponsored threat actors. According to an official statement from the Notepad++ team, the attackers were able to intercept and redirect update requests from users. The redirect would point them instead to malicious servers.

According to the app's developer, Don Ho, and "multiple independent security researchers," the...

This exploit may exist across other Call of Duty titles as well.

Update (July 7, 2025): Activision has since pulled the "Xbox PC" version of Call of Duty: WWII. This was the version of the game that was available through PC Game Pass. Call of Duty: WWII is still available on Steam and Battle.net, but I probably wouldn't test either of those out if I were you. There's no saying yet if those versions are also vulnerable.

Original: Call of Duty: WWII was added...

Hacker claims to have had access to the infamous message board's backend for over a year.

The so-called "cesspool of the Internet" message board known as 4chan has been taken offline on Tuesday, April 15 after suffering a massive hack.

This hack reportedly exposed 4chan's source code, user data, and a ton of confidential information about the site's administrators and moderators. Several screenshots reportedly to be from 4chan's backend were circulated online....

It's all just "great game content."

Showrunner of The Game Awards, Geoff Keighley, hosted a special Q&A session over the weekend. This Q&A session was aimed at answering some of those burning viewer questions about the upcoming show. Keighley talked about a variety of topics, including revealing that the "World Premiere" label on trailers is going away, the move to beef up security, and he even shared a few thoughts about Dave the Diver being nominated...

Multiple games were updated with malware.

Valve is now implementing additional security measures for Steam developers after multiple accounts were found to be compromised. Valve is adding a new and mandatory SMS verification step for all developers after several developer accounts were compromised and their games updated with malware.

Valve says that fewer than 100 Steam users were actually impacted by the malware, as fewer than 100 Steam users had the impacted games installed...

You want to be secure, right?

A new update for Windows 11 is in the works from Microsoft that aims to "help protect hybrid work." This new security feature is called Smart App Control and it hopes to prevent you from running malicious software. "Hybrid work" in this case is a combination of work that is done both at home and in-office, something that isn't too uncommon these days.

The new Smart App Control will be built into Windows 11. It will monitor...

The services will remain offline for a little while longer.

Bandai Namco updated Dark Souls fans today on just what is going on with the online and PvP services for the first three Souls titles. In case you are unaware, the online services were disabled for all of these titles after a very dangerous remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability was discovered that could grant an attacker full access to your computer.

Unfortunately, today's news isn't all that great. While...

This comes a day after reports of a severe exploit that could allow full access to victim's PCs were shared online.

Just a day ago, a severe remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the PC multiplayer component for Dark Souls 3 was shared online. The person that discovered the exploit used it against a few different streamers, including The__Grim__Sleeper, in order to raise awareness to the issue. The person that discovered the vulnerability supposedly informed developer FromSoftware...

There may or may not have been a data breach, we aren't sure yet.

This evening, a smattering of reports came in from some Epic Games users that their accounts were one of over 106 million that were compromised as part of an Epicgames.com data breach. The reports came in from a few different threads on Reddit, and a few more reports on Twitter.

In short, the reports says that information such as emails, passwords, and usernames for over 106 million accounts may be out in...

CDPR fixes a major security issue with Cyberpunk.

A few days ago, it was discovered that there was a security issue with using mods for Cyberpunk 2077. This security flaw could allow for people to remotely execute code on machines that download certain nefarious mods or save files.

Today, CD Projekt Red released a hotfix that should fix this major security vulnerability. This update brings the sci-fi RPG up to version 1.12....

A major security flaw could open your PC up to malicious attacks.

When it rains, it pours. So it may seem if you are CD Projekt Red. The team recently released official mod tools for Cyberpunk 2077, but a major security flaw with mods may allow for malicious attacks to impact your PC. CDPR is warning all Cyberpunk 2077 players to avoid using mods until a DLL vulnerability can be fixed. This vulnerability could allow for remote code execution on infected computers.

This...

I just wanted to quickly address why the site was down or inaccessible recently.

Our site was "hacked" at some point overnight...

On Monday, a client update for EA's Origin was released that patched up a rather significant security hole in the game client. According to a proof-of-concept investigated by TechCrunch, an attacker with knowledge of the security hole could have run any app they wanted to on the victim's computer.

This flaw was originally discovered by security researchers Daley Bee and Dominik Penner of Underdog Security. The two found that the flaw allowed them to run any app on a victim's...