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Apple fined $12M by Russian regulator over App Store monopoly abuse

Russia’s antitrust regulator, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), has fined Apple $12 million over complaints it unfairly cracked down on third-party parental control apps, the regulator has announced. The FAS started its investigation after receiving a complaint from Kaspersky Lab in March 2019, which claimed Apple had forced it to limit the functionality of its… Read more

Crypto-Stealing Malware Starts Targeting Apple’s M1 Macs

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Researchers have discovered that the XCSSET malware has started targeting M1-equipped Macs via Xcode, The Hacker News reported Monday and has been updated to compromise accounts on various cryptocurrency trading platforms. Xcode is the integrated development environment (IDE) used to make apps for the iPhone, iPad, and other Apple hardware…. Read more

Apple just gave Russia a spot on the iPhone to advertise its favorite apps to its citizens

Starting April 1st, users setting up a new iPhone in Russia will see a screen that allows them to automatically install apps that are officially sanctioned by the Russian government, in compliance with Russian law (via Engadget). The law in question was passed back in 2019, and requires smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops, and smart TVs… Read more

Cyberpunk 2077 One-Click Tool Promises Up To 30 FPS Uplift

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Cyberpunk 2077, which has proven to cripple the fastest graphics cards and even punish the fastest CPUs on the market, can give low-end gaming systems a tough time. For exactly this reason, programmer CodeZ1LLa, via his Youtube channel, has released EZ Optimizer for Cyberpunk 2077 that the coder claims can… Read more

The automotive annual review 2020: What moved us

Experienced prophets wait for events, Horace Walpole noted, not without subtle irony. How correct this wise advice is has been shown by the end of the year 2020 downright frighteningly. Because hardly anything has turned out as expected. The corona pandemic has left deep scars on society and overwhelmed almost everything. The consequences are dubious… Read more

Ransomware Disguised as Mobile Version of Cyberpunk 2077

Home News (Image credit: CD Projekt Red) Despite the current state of Cyberpunk 2077, eager fans everywhere are still trying to get as much time with the game as they can. This presented the opportunity for some sneaky person/persons to take advantage of this by creating ransomware and disguising it as a mobile version of… Read more

Kaspersky: Trojans and backdoors increase in 2020

Kaspersky’s latest report detects a decrease in adware and an increase in Trojans, backdoors and worms. Most of these threats are executable for Windows. The number of Android malware detected drops by Alberto Falchi published December 2020 , at 09: 21 in the Security channel Kaspersky How many people experienced at least one malware attack… Read more