News of the Cyber World

[kyonides]

Well, it's Phantasy Star ONLINE 2 so yeah it's a cyber news article after all.
It doesn't matter if it's exclusive for PC or PS4 or 5 or multiplatform.

youtube-dl End Of Life?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/riaa-blitz...be-videos/
Microsoft seemed to have partnered with groups interested in protecting their copyrighted audiovisual works. Thus it no longer offers GitHub repositories for the popular youtube-dl Python project. People that depended on it to download YouTube videos might have no other choice but stay connected to the internet to watch those videos every single time they need them.
It's supposed to be a HUGE loss for GitHub, it was one of its star repositories with over 72,000 stars.

Phishing groups are collecting

user data, email and banking passwords

via fake voter registration forms

https://www.zdnet.com/article/phishing-g...ion-forms/

Spotted by email security firms KnowBe4 and Proofpoint, these campaigns are spoofing the identity of the US Election Assistance Commission (EAC), the US government agency responsible for managing voter registration guidelines.
Subject lines in this campaign are simple and play on the fear of US citizens that their voter registration request might have failed.
Using subject lines like "voter registration application details couldnt be confirmed" and "your county clerk couldnt confirm voter registration," users are lured to web pages posing as government sites and asked to fill a voter registration form again.

Data usually collected via these forms includes:

• Name
  
• Date of birth
  
• Mail address
  
• Email address
  
• Social Security Number (SSN)
  
• Driver's license information
  

The hacking group has now expanded its phishing site to include new fields that also ask for:

• Bank name
  
• Bank account number
  
• Bank account routing number
  
• Banking ID/username
  
• Banking account password
  
• Email account passwords
  
• Vehicle Identification Number (VIN)
  

To allay fears, the spammers claim this extra information is needed so users can claim a "stimulus."