Cyberattack has frozen operations at the company since the end of August.

The cybercrime group, named after Japanese ghosts but believed to be from Morocco, uses a modified version of the Prince-Ransomware binary that includes a flaw allowing for partial data recovery. However, an extortion threat remains.

Beijing says the deal will include TikTok’s crown jewels.

TikTok might not finalize its deal to sell its US operations for at least another month. Sources tell CNBC’s David Faber that the US and China might close on an agreement within the next 30 to 45 days, while Oracle will remain the app’s cloud partner, allowing it to continue routing US user data on […]

Influencers and content creators are many things beyond their public personas. All but the biggest figures likely do some combination of the following jobs themselves: content moderator, video editor, photographer, social media strategist, script writer, idea generator. What if they could outsource much of that work to AI? And what if it were the social […]

YouTube is introducing some live streaming features that give content creators new ways to grow their audiences and interact with viewers. The updates were announced at the Made on YouTube event today, and include simultaneous horizontal and vertical streams, AI-powered livestream highlights, and the ability to livestream reactions to other live YouTube content on mobile […]

YouTube’s big event for the “next 20” years of its streaming platform includes several monetization changes that will change the videos you watch as creators adjust their businesses around them. They could give viewers new ways to find products online and switch up the ads you see linked out by creators. YouTube also announced upcoming […]

A massive ad fraud and click fraud operation dubbed SlopAds ran a cluster of 224 apps, collectively attracting 38 million downloads across 228 countries and territories.
“These apps deliver their fraud payload using steganography and create hidden WebViews to navigate to threat actor-owned cashout sites, generating fraudulent ad impressions and clicks,” HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligence and