Imagine someone finds that part of game code invades your privacy...

DocStr4ngelove:

It features 4 player coop.

Oh, my bad. Oh well.

Fox2232:

Imagine someone finds that part of game code invades your privacy...

Soon we will have true advertising in games: imagine driving in GTA and spotting and add on a billboard for that product you've been googling for!

Silva:

Soon we will have true advertising in games: imagine driving in GTA and spotting and add on a billboard for that product you've been googling for!

You'll have that soon enough in games like NBA, don't worry.

Silva:

Soon we will have true advertising in games: imagine driving in GTA and spotting and add on a billboard for that product you've been googling for!

I'll start googling for sexy lingerie models more often then. 😛:p:p:p

Beyond just advertising, which might actually be atmospheric, blatant product placement truly annoys me. Like, I was never planning to buy a Monster Energy drink anyways, but Death Stranding sealed the deal.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/capcom-hit-by-ragnar-locker-ransomware-1tb-allegedly-stolen/

We have BREACHED your security perimeter and get access to every server of company's Network in different offices located in Japan, USA, Canada. So we has DOWNLOADED more than 1TB total volume of your PRIVATE SENSITIVE Data, including: -Accounting files, Banking Statements, Budget and Revenue files classified as Confidential, Tax Documents -Intellectual Property, Proprietary Business information, Clients and Employees Personal information (Such as Passports and Visa), Incidents Acts -Corporate Agreements and Contracts, Non-Disclosure Agreements, Confidential Agreements, Sales Summaries -Also we have your Private Corporate Correspondence, Emails and Messanger Conversations, Marketing presentations, Audit reports and a lot of other Sensitive Information If NO Deal made than all your Data will be Published and/or Sold through an auction to any third-parties

Turning into quite a problem it seems, Capcom this time. EDIT:

Pancak3 told BleepingComputer tonight that Ragnar Locker claims to have encrypted 2,000 devices on Capcom's networks and are demanding $11,000,000 in bitcoins for a decryptor. This ransom also includes a promise to delete any stolen data and a network penetration security report. It should be noted that ransomware negotiation service Coveware has seen ransomware operations increasingly not keeping their promise to delete stolen data after a ransom is paid.

JonasBeckman:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/capcom-hit-by-ragnar-locker-ransomware-1tb-allegedly-stolen/ Turning into quite a problem it seems, Capcom this time. EDIT:

Going by the syntax and errors i'd suggest they narrow the search towards young German students

@JonasBeckman : At this point, If I was Capcom, I pay local "services" that has experience with chopping things with long and sharp objects.

Yeah I mean from how it sounds like the best option is to not pay at all and work to try and fix the leak and reprimand whoever ran something they shouldn't on the company network (Usually there are restrictions but it's not always enough.) tracking down something going through VPN and I presume Dark Net routing and semi-anonymous bitcoin payment exchanges would be hard though but the more corporations get hit by this and the more these groups increase in taking the payment and double-dipping and selling the files anyway the more attention is going to be on stopping this. Probably a [beep] of a time trying to force the decryption key too for modern ransomware and in general the malware situation and how sophisticated and profitable this is, no real good solution either you've pretty much lost the data and there's no real guarantees paying would help even if it fixes the data short-term. (Would hope they'd have secure backups but the nature of the data sounds extremely sensitive too so without guarantees it's going to be deleted after payment there's a big problem there still.) If there's no money from doing this that seems like the best long term way to minimize continued problems but that's going to be difficult even if it gets legislated especially when these can stretch world-wide too. Human factor not opening emails or attachments or surfing around on the company network isn't going to be fully effective either. Not sure how easy (Or rather difficult.) it'd be to try and deactivate or destroy this Ragnar Lokker thing, encryption is probably quite solid and timed so not a huge window for recovery and then other groups could utilize it even if they catch one or two of these involved rings or networks or what to call the individuals running this stuff and whoever made the software in the first place.

Who would even want that much crap? When was the last time Ubisoft actually released a polished game on launch?

Oh damn minute i see some decent mods show up on nexus i'll buy this game, i can't wait to see the quality of mods this could perhaps lead to.