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During the first quarter of the current year, 80 billion cybercrime attempts were registered in Mexico alone.
It is estimated that just over 350 million cybercrime attempts are recorded every day worldwide.
On September 18, the theft of video game information was recorded GTA 6.
In the last few hours, the theft of confidential material from the GTA 6 video game has been confirmed by RockstarGamesso it was found that said filtration is due to a “build early” of the game, which occurred on September 18, a situation that has generated various reactions, since recently Uber and FBI, have joined the investigation, since there is a suspicion that the author or those involved in the theft of information may be the samewho were behind the hack in past months to the private transport service platform.
Within the current context, the issue of cybercrime has grown significantly, This is because it is estimated that on average, on a daily basis, there are just over 350 billion cybercrime attempts worldwide.only in Mexico, during the first months of the current year, just over 80 billion attempted cyberattacks were recorded, a figure that according to FortiGuard Labs for Latin America and the Caribbean, represents more than double of everything registered during the entire previous year.
Uber and FBI join the investigation after the hack of RockstarGames
According to what was disclosed by representatives of RockstarGames, in case of hack was revealed shortly after an anonymous user, will declare, within one of the official forums of GTAwhich he had obtained, the materials filtered through the channel of slack of the company, In addition to disclosing, his alleged participation in the theft of information from the company Uber; however, the latter has not been confirmed.
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— Rockstar Games (@RockstarGames) September 19, 2022
According to the authorities, believes the implicated or those implicated, may be linked to the group lapse$, whose activity has increased in recent months, so in the same way it is suspected that this group is in South America, being suspected of security attacks against Microsoft, Ubisoft, Nvidia, Samsung and Vodafone.
“This group uses similar techniques to attack technology companies. In 2022 they accessed Microsoft, Cisco, Samsung, Nvidia and Okta, among others”, says Uber.
Within the digital conversation, both for companies and for users, the issue of cybercrime has become important, since within an increasingly digital reality, the risk of being a victim of information theft increases dramatically. important, due to the large number of hours that Internet users spend inside the network.