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The US Treasury Department announced on Friday that it’s sanctioning Blender.io, essentially cutting the Bitcoin mixer off from the US financial system (legally speaking, anyway). The department alleges that the service, which lets people obfuscate the record usually kept by the blockchain, was used by North Korea to “support its malicious cyber activities and money-laundering of stolen virtual currency.” According to the Treasury’s press release, Blender.io was used by the Lazarus hacking group to launder $20.5…

Buying the hit puzzle game Wordle was apparently a good bit of business for The New York Times. The company announced its quarterly earnings on Wednesday and credited Wordle for a huge jump in new subscribers. “Wordle brought an unprecedented tens of millions of new users to The Times,” Times CEO Meredith Kopit Levien said in an earnings release, “many of whom stayed to play other games” and drove the company’s best gaming-related quarter ever. The Times acquired Wordle from creator Josh Wardle back in January, and…

The government has fixed a server-side issue within its cloud-based hospital management information system called eHospital that was exposing personally-identifiable data including full name, age, date of birth, gender, and phone number of a large number of patients. The exposed data also included patients' medical history and their last visited hospital details, according to a researcher who informed about the issue to Gadgets 360. The eHospital portal is meant for digitising records of government hospitals and register…

Security flaws in an audio codec have been uncovered by security researchers, putting millions of Android phones and other Android devices powered by chipsets from MediaTek and Qualcomm at risk of being compromised by hackers. Stemming from an codec created by Apple several years ago, the vulnerabilities were left unpatched since the company open-sourced the codec 11 years ago, for inclusion on non-Apple devices. By leveraging the security flaws, an attacker could remotely get access to an Android phone's media and audio…

Reddit has announced a new feature that gives users the ability to search comments, alongside a few other search-related features.According to Tech Crunch, the new feature helps users in searching for comments directly via a new 'comments' tab in the search bar, rather than having to click on several comments to find threads while looking for a particular conversation. As per Reddit's surveys conducted last year, the 'comment search' feature was one of the top requested ones.While testing the new feature, more than 26,000…