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Cybercriminals Make Millions Selling Stolen Fortnite Accounts, New Research Shows Thousands of stolen Fortnite accounts are selling like hotcakes in underground marketplaces, amassing around $1.2 million a year for cybercriminals, a new report shows. The Fortnite Underground Cybercrime Economy report sheds light on a million-dollar business that capitalizes on the popularity of the free-to-play video game that managed to attract over 350 million players within three years of its launch. According to researchers from Night Lion Security,…

Amazon stops accepting new online grocery customers amid surging demand Amazon will begin to put new grocery delivery customers on a wait-list and curtail shopping hours at some Whole Foods stores to prioritize orders from existing customers buying food online during the coronavirus outbreak, the company said on Sunday. Many shoppers recently seeking to purchase groceries from the Seattle-based ​e-commerce company found they could not place orders due to a lack of available delivery slots. Amazon…

Facebook proposes 3D navigation task for training autonomous robots Researchers at Facebook, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Oregon State University describe in a preprint paper published this week a new task for AI — navigating a 3D environment by listening to natural language directions (e.g., “Go down the hall and turn left at the wooden desk”). They say this could lay the groundwork for robot assistants that follow natural language instructions. The researchers’ task, which they…

Rare BadUSB attack detected in the wild against US hospitality provider A US hospitality provider has recently been the target of an incredibly rare BadUSB attack, ZDNet has learned from cyber-security firm Trustwave. The attack happened after the company received an envelope containing a fake BestBuy gift card, along with a USB thumb drive. The receiving company was told to plug the USB thumb drive into a computer to access a list of items the…