Electronic Arts completed its $55 billion sale to a consortium led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund with Silver Lake and Affinity Partners—the largest LBO on record—and what $20 billion of acquisition debt may mean for studios, franchises, and players.

Electronic Arts Is Now a Privately Owned Company

Unit 42’s three local malware attacks on Google Password Manager synced passkeys in Chrome on Windows with a TPM—showing stolen sessions are not the only risk when onboarding, UV flags, and a non-rotatable master secret leak.

Malware Can Turn Synced Passkeys into Persistent Access

Privacy researchers found three WebKit paths—DNS prefetch, WebAuthn related origins, and WebTransport—that can bypass browser proxy settings and iCloud Private Relay, revealing real IPs even when ordinary page loads are relayed.

Notes · August 5, 2026

Notes for August 5, 2026

Electronic Arts Is Now a Privately Owned Company

Malware Can Turn Synced Passkeys into Persistent Access

WebKit Can Leak the IP Address Private Relay Is Supposed to Hide