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Comment Background fetch. Such a "useful" concept (Score 3, Insightful) 52

ah yes. Background fetch. Such a "useful" concept ps1 Nuke New-Item -Path 'HKLM:\Software\Policies\Google' -Name 'Chrome' -Force | Out-Null; New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\Software\Policies\Google\Chrome' -Name 'BackgroundModeEnabled' -PropertyType DWord -Value 0 -Force | Out-Null; New-Item -Path 'HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft' -Name 'Edge' -Force | Out-Null; New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Edge' -Name 'BackgroundModeEnabled' -PropertyType DWord -Value 0 -Force | Out-Null uBlock ||*/service-worker.js$script,important ||*/sw.js$script,important Chrome/Edge Ctrl+Shift+I Network tab any request Override headers. Permissions-Policy: background-fetch=() Chrome chrome://settings/?search=background Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed - toggle to OFF Edge edge://settings/?search=continue

Comment misleading sensationalism article bait headline (Score 1) 132

From https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bil...
Prediction markets; hosting prohibited.
A person is guilty of a felony if the person, for consideration and as part of a business:
(1) creates a prediction market;
(2) operates, manages, or controls a platform or system intending that consumers will use the platform or system to make wagers in a prediction market; (3) intentionally facilitates the operation of a prediction market by:
(i) identifying or listing events knowing the events will be used by consumers to make
(ii) accepting, holding, or directing the disposition of money or other things of value for
(iii) determining, administering, or enforcing the terms, pricing, or settlement of wagers
made by consumers;

So does that imply that some folks recently featured in Forbes 30 under 30 are now felons? Interesting what do the "concerned legalizations" think about the about the so called "meme coins" MELANIA and TRUMP and WLFI.
I guess 3.6B embezzlement from cryptobros is fine, but ONLY if you are the POTUS haha.

Submission + - The risks of "Official" app stores hosting fraudulent cryptocurrency wallet apps (x.com)

An anonymous reader writes: If you still trust the 'rigorous manual reviews' of official app stores with your crypto, it's time to wake up.
Three years after Microsoft's store let a fake Ledger app by a developer literally named 'OFFICIAL DEV' siphon 16.8 BTC (~$588K at that time), Apple's notoriously locked-down ecosystem has suffered a similar catastrophic failure. This month, a user lost 5.9 BTC (~$417K at that time)—their entire retirement fund—to a malicious Ledger app that slipped past Apple's gatekeepers.

The vector? A basic homoglyph attack. Scammers simply swapped the 'e' in 'ledger-live' for a Cyrillic '' (URL-encoded as %D0%B5). While it looks identical to the human eye, it is baffling that a multi-trillion-dollar company's security screening missed such a well-known exploit. The harsh reality is that app store reviews seemingly prioritize protecting their 30% payment cut over catching phishing tactics.
Do not search for high-stakes software like crypto wallets in the app store(s).

Always navigate directly to the vendor's verified website (e.g., ledger . com) and click their official store link.
Don't let corporate automated screening failures cost you your life savings.

2023 Microsoft Store incident
https://x.com/zachxbt/status/1...

2026 Apple Mac store (not iOS)
https://x.com/glove/status/204...

Submission + - Singapore scammers get the canning treatment (mha.gov.sg) 1

D,Petkow writes: Singapore is often hailed as one of the world’s most ultra-modern hubs — a place of gleaming skyscrapers, cutting-edge fintech, and futuristic urban planning. Yet, beneath the polished surface, the city-state still enforces some of the strictest old-school punishments imaginable.

In a move that stunned many outside observers, Parliament recently passed a law mandating at least six strokes of the cane for scammers and money mules. With scams making up nearly 60% of reported crimes and billions lost since 2020, the government argues that harsh deterrence is necessary.

It’s a striking contrast: a nation leading in smart cities and AI governance, while simultaneously wielding rattan canes against fraudsters. This duality — hyper-modern yet deeply traditional — is part of what makes Singapore fascinating, and sometimes bewildering, to the rest of the world.

https://says.com/my/news/singa...
http://metro.co.uk/2025/11/08/...

Comment The person who did it is going down (Score 1) 55

The Finnish IT cyber security community has put a bounty on this threat actor's head. They are going down.

No matter how many crypto "tumbling" or "shape-shifting" services the threat actor is planning to use, in the moment they convert the crypto to FIAT they will get caught, even if they try to use a p2p market.

The internet is not the wild west and this sub-human garbage will soon learn it the hard way.

Comment Cool, what about Ransomware and BEC fraud? (Score 1) 152

Cool, can we see some efforts being made related to Revil (Sodinokibi / Wasted Locker), BEC fraud groups and other "e-criminals", who have made significantly larger amounts of more profit from ransomware and scams compared to those "darkweb gangsters" (supposedly usd $10 million from Garmin alone) there has already been a death in a German hospital due to Ransomware.... k10xbai

Comment reCAPTCHA abuse report triage team ... (Score 1) 20

Each reCAPTCHA user has a bunch of unique site-keys. Google's policies forbid misuse:
https://policies.google.com/?hl=en However if a vigilant user one discovers a bad web site that is protected by reCAPTCHA and wants to report the misuse - there is no place this can be done. Official Google reCAPTCHA page
https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/v3.html Dev oriented Google reCAPTCHA page
https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/faq
None of them have an abuse form or contact.

I found an obscure google - groups channel where they mention a contact email.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/recaptcha

Nobody replies back if you email them about abuse of this particular service - reCAPTCHA

This makes reCAPTCHA a popular choice among cyber criminals, because it can not be effectively reported, as opposed to let's say report to the:
-hosting provider
-tls/ssl cert issuer
-domain registrar
where the bad content is stored.
Seems like Google is too big to care.
They also host a huge chunk of malware and phishing and take weeks to resolve reported issues.
Only Google Safe Browsing works very fast, thanks to AI, and not to human support I'd assume.

Comment the Electroneum app appears to be unaffected (Score 2) 111

the Electroneum app appears to be unaffected, even-though it allows "mobile mining" for ETN coins.
I mined 100 of those ETN for 1 night with a 1080TI, and with my phone I couldn't even mine 1 for a few days, so I don't know if it is even worth it to waste battery and hinder the phone's performance with such an activity as "mobile mining".
Thus the quote marks.

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