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Video game company Capcom details attack

Data breach by ransomware gang

https://www.cyberscoop.com/capcom-ransom...ar-locker/

The Japanese video game company known for the “Resident Evil” and “Street Fighter” series confirmed Monday that a ransomware attack in early November potentially exposed data about thousands of customers and business partners.
Capcom said an investigation of the Nov. 2 breach showed that personal information of a handful of current and former employees definitely had been compromised, as well as company sales reports and other financial information. Another 350,000 records of employees, shareholders, customers and other business partners also may have been exposed.
The company confirmed that the ransomware gang known as Ragnar Locker was responsible for the attack, and said it had referred the matter to law enforcement in Japan and the U.S., as well as data protection agencies in Japan and Europe. Earlier reports had pinned the Capcom attack on the group. Ragnar Locker also was blamed in a recent attack on beverage company Campari.

Here's why Americans and Canadians should care about this incident.

The potential North American victims of the breach include about 14,000 accounts on the Capcom Store website, where names, birthdates and email addresses were exposed.

Let's hope Ragnar Locker doesn't use the Email Appender tool to attach malware to emails.

Zoom's New Tools to Combat Zoombombing

https://www.cyberscoop.com/zoom-zoombombing-tools/

“Suspend Participant Activities,” one of the three tools Zoom detailed in a blog post, allows Zoom hosts to pause meeting functions to report disruptive attendees. Afterward, the host can resume video, audio, screen sharing and other features one-by-one.
A second tool, “Report by Participants,” allows other participants to directly file reports themselves about disruptive attendees, expanding a power hosts already have.
The third tool is one that Zoom has been using internally this fall. “At-Risk Meeting Notifier” scans social media for Zoom meeting links, then once it finds publicly posted meeting information that stands a high chance of being disrupted, notifies account owners.

So please take advantage of these three new tools to get rid of pesky elements that pretend to hurt your eyes with indecent content.
By the way, Americans, the company also recently announced it would lift the 40 minute time limit for free users on Thanksgiving.