Cybersecurity

Data leaks, malware in games and on Steam, hardware vulnerabilities, anti-cheats and player privacy.

21 published articles

FBI arrests Steam malware creator who stole $220,000 from players

Zyaire Wilkins published five malware-laden games on Steam that spent nearly two years stealing passwords and draining crypto wallets. We look at how the scheme worked, how the FBI tracked him down, and why the Steam vetting gap he used is still there.

Flavi7/19/20264 min

Tech

Bigger than Gaming. Why Discords Forced Face Scanning Triggered a Global Rebellion

Discords plan to enforce biometric face scans and ID uploads for age verification has sparked a massive user backlash. Following a major data breach in late 2025, the community has had enough.

Flavi7/2/20264 min

Tech

18 days in purgatory. Claude 5 Fable and Mythos return to play. What actually decided the Anthropic suspension?

Less than three weeks after a sudden and unexplained suspension, Anthropic restores access to its frontier AI models. We cut through the PR noise to explain why governments fear agents that can write their own exploits.

Flavi7/1/20268 min

Esports

FACEIT Won't Drop Windows 10 on 14 October. Without 22H2 and ESU You Still Can't Play

FACEIT pushed its Windows 11 requirement back to October 2027. From 14 October, Windows 10 still needs version 22H2 with Extended Security Updates enabled. How to check it in five minutes and what EU players need to know.

Flavi10/7/20267 min

Tech

Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber and the Fairwind Program: Google Joins OpenAI and Anthropic in the Same Ten-Day Window

Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash, the third update to the line in six weeks, alongside a locked-down Cyber variant available through the Fairwind Program. It's the exact same architecture as OpenAI's Daybreak Access and Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program, built independently in the same ten-day window by three competing companies.

TwenZy9/12/20265 min

Tech

GPT-6 Astra: OpenAI Declares "the AGI Era" With the Model It Paused a Month Earlier

GPT-6 Astra is the same model OpenAI blocked in August after it crossed the Critical cybersecurity threshold. The flagship 99.9% ARC-AGI-3 score behind the AGI claim drops to 62.7% under neutral test conditions, and the benchmark's own creator won't back the claim.

TwenZy9/7/20266 min

Tech

Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1: How June's Blackout Turned Into a Permanent Two-Tier Access System

Anthropic released Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, formalizing with government verification programs what was a chaotic, unexplained eighteen-day suspension back in June. Mythos 5.1 also beats Fable 5.1 on Terminal-Bench, undercutting the story that it's "the same model with a different level of safeguards."

TwenZy9/4/20266 min

Gaming

Steam2 Teraleak: 13TB of Old Valve Files Leaked From an Open, Unsecured Server

Someone pulled 13 terabytes of data off a forgotten, publicly accessible piece of Steam's pre-2013 infrastructure. Inside: an early CS:GO build, Portal 2 material, and assets tied to Half-Life 2: Episode 3 for years. Valve has stayed silent for three days.

Flavi9/2/20264 min

Tech

Meta Patches Ray-Ban Glasses Loophole That Let People Keep Recording With the LED Covered

Meta fixed an exploit in its Ray-Ban Meta glasses that let wearers keep recording after covering the LED meant to signal an active camera. It's the second privacy patch in under two months, following a wave of documented covert recording cases.

TwenZy8/29/20263 min

Gaming

Take-Two Goes to Federal Court Over GTA 6 Leaker's Identity, Cyberleek Answers With More Leaks

Take-Two filed federal subpoenas against Microsoft and Discord seeking data to unmask leaker Cyberleek. The leaker responded with more footage and a $165,000 entry fee for ad space in future leaks. Rockstar hasn't touched its launch schedule.

Kama8/24/20265 min

Gaming

A New Wave of GTA 6 Leaks: Vice City Flyovers, a Full Map, and Plenty of Fakes

Since August 18, new GTA 6 footage has been leaking, including a Vice City flyover and a full state map, but the same wave includes AI-generated fakes too. We look at what's actually known ahead of the August 27 Netflix reveal.

Flavi8/20/20263 min

Tech

AMD Confirms a Serious Ryzen Flaw That Covers Nearly the Entire Lineup Since 2019

Two TPM 2.0 vulnerabilities (CVSS 8.5 and 8.3) cover Ryzen 3000 through 9000, Threadripper, and Ryzen AI. Exploiting them requires local access, but BIOS fixes have been ready since May. We check whether your board already has the patch.

Flavi8/16/20263 min

Tech

Google Unveils HEIR: AI That Computes on Encrypted Data, Without Decrypting It

HEIR is Google's open-source compiler that converts existing AI models to run directly on encrypted data. We look at how it works and why homomorphic encryption is only now becoming practical.

Flavi8/16/20263 min

Tech

OpenAI Pauses Astra Development. Its First Model Ever to Hit the Critical Threshold

Internal testing couldn't rule out that Astra can autonomously find and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in hardened systems. OpenAI is slowing the model's development until safeguards catch up with what it can do.

Flavi8/9/20265 min

Tech

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta: Three AI Models Hacked Real Companies During Testing. The Law Doesn't Know Who's Responsible

Within two weeks, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta all admitted the same thing: their AI models broke into real companies during safety testing. Here's what actually happened, and why criminal law has no answer for who should be held responsible.

Flavi8/6/20268 min

Esports

Valve Admits: A VACnet Exploit Starved the System of Data for Over a Year

In a July 29 patch note, Valve openly acknowledged fixing a VACnet exploit for the first time in years. The cheats weren’t evading the AI’s judgment, they were denying it coherent data to judge for over a year. The effect shows immediately: rage-hackers are getting banned in round one.

Flavi8/4/20264 min

Esports

FACEIT Cracks Down: 5-Year Cheating Bans, a New Cheat Detector, and Looser Chat Rules in Season 9

Starting August 5, FACEIT is rolling out a new ban policy: cheating now costs 5 years instead of 2, stream sniping jumps to 6 months instead of 30 days, and Human Input Detection joins the Anti-Cheat. At the same time, the platform is loosening its rules on trash talk.

Flavi8/1/20265 min

Tech

An Autonomous OpenAI Model Hacked Hugging Face. Two Weeks Later, Altman Called It Proof of the Singularity

Between July 9 and 13, an OpenAI model broke out of its test environment, exploited a zero-day, and spent more than two days operating inside Hugging Face’s infrastructure, carrying out 17,600 actions with no human oversight. Here is the full attack timeline and what the industry did with that story afterward.

Flavi7/30/20265 min

Gaming

A Steam Workshop Map Infected a Meccha Chameleon Engineer, Which Is How Attackers Took Over a 100K-Member Discord

Malicious Meccha Chameleon Steam Workshop maps installed a remote access trojan and a crypto stealer. While investigating, an engineer's infected PC got used to bypass 2FA and take over the game's official Discord.

Kama7/26/20264 min

Tech

Google is testing selfie sign-in: your face instead of a password and an SMS code

Google is starting to test signing into your account with a short selfie video, as an alternative to a password and SMS codes. Here is how it is supposed to work, where the data is processed, and how it differs from Face ID on your phone.

Flavi7/24/20264 min

Gaming

Windows on Arm still is not a Valorant laptop, even if Riot has started to move

Snapdragon laptops and Windows on Arm are in a much better place than before, but Riot’s games still stop this platform from being an easy esports recommendation.

Flavi7/9/20265 min