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Musician charged with $10M streaming royalties fraud using AI and bots
North Carolina musician Michael Smith was indicted for collecting over $10 million in royalty payments from Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube Music using AI-generated songs streamed by thousands of bots in a massive streaming fraud scheme.
- September 05, 2024
- 12:49 PM
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Apple blames Spotify for $1.95 billion fine over "abusive" App store rules
The European Commission has fined Apple €1.8 billion, or approximately $1.95 million, for allegedly abusing its market dominance in music streaming app distribution to prevent developers from promoting cheaper services outside the app.
- March 04, 2024
- 12:58 PM
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Spotify down: music searches, pages, account signups not working
Spotify users are reporting the music streaming service to be down in the last hour. Spotify team is currently investigating the cause.
- August 04, 2023
- 09:16 AM
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Spotify reportedly makes users' private playlists public
In what is shaping up to be a widespread privacy controversy, Spotify has come under scrutiny following allegations by users that the music streaming service made their private playlists public without their consent.
- July 14, 2023
- 12:28 PM
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Researchers release exploit details for Backstage pre-auth RCE bug
Older versions of the Spotify Backstage development portal builder are vulnerable to a critical (CVSS score: 9.8) unauthenticated remote code execution flaw allowing attackers to run commands on publicly exposed systems.
- November 15, 2022
- 11:29 AM
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How to control Spotify while playing a game in Windows 10
While playing a game, you may want to listen to your playlist rather than the in-game music to get the most out of your gaming experience. Unfortunately, it can be a pain to alt-tab out of the game to control your music.
- May 08, 2021
- 09:12 AM
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Fake Microsoft Store, Spotify sites spread info-stealing malware
Attackers are promoting sites impersonating the Microsoft Store, Spotify, and an online document converter that distribute malware to steal credit cards and passwords saved in web browsers.
- April 20, 2021
- 10:37 AM
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Over 300K Spotify accounts hacked in credential stuffing attack
Hackers have been attempting to gain access to Spotify accounts using a database of 380 million records with login credentials and personal information collected from various sources.
- November 23, 2020
- 04:07 PM
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Spotify hit with outage after forgetting to renew a certifficate
Spotify was hit with a brief outage today after they forgot to renew a certificate used as part of their service.
- August 19, 2020
- 05:31 PM
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Microsoft Launches New Spotify Add-In for Skype Insiders
Microsoft today announced a new add-in for Skype that integrates Spotify into a conversation. Microsoft says that the new feature/add-in is currently available for Skype Insiders in the US.
- August 08, 2018
- 01:43 PM
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Tech Support Scammers Invade Spotify Forums to Rank in Search Engines
Over the past few months, Tech Support scammers have been using the Spotify forums to inject their phone numbers into the first page of the Google & Bing search results. They do this by submitting a constant stream of spam posts to the Spotify forums, whose pages tend to rank well in Google.
- December 11, 2017
- 03:01 PM
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