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HelloKitty: When Cyberpunk met cy-purr-crime

By Jovi Umawing

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On February 9, after discovering a compromise, CD Projekt Red (CDPR) announced to its 1+ million followers on Twitter that it was the victim of a ransomware attack against its systems (and made it clear they would not yield to the demands of the threat actors, nor negotiate).

Cyberpunk 2077, the latest game released by CD Projekt Red and once hailed as the “most anticipated game of the decade”, was released in December 2020 with many calling it an “unplayable mess”.

No surprise then that some people suspected that enraged gamers were hitting back at the company for releasing the game in that state. But infamous ransomware hunter Fabian Wosar (@fwosar), of Emsisoft…

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