These days, a 12 or 13-year-old kid can become a professional eSports player, while the youngest of them began his career at the ripe old age of… four! The gaming world has become much younger, but all gamers — both children and adults — face multiple cyberthreats. And scammers tailor each of their schemes with a particular age audience in mind. Although children spend less … [Read more...] about How cybercriminals tailor attacks for different age groups of gamers
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Researchers Warn of Self-Spreading Malware Targeting Gamers via YouTube
Gamers looking for cheats on YouTube are being targeted with links to malicious password-protected archive files designed to install the RedLine Stealer malware and crypto miners on compromised machines. "The videos advertise cheats and cracks and provide instructions on hacking popular games and software," Kaspersky security researcher Oleg Kupreev said in a new report … [Read more...] about Researchers Warn of Self-Spreading Malware Targeting Gamers via YouTube
How gamers get duped: Real-life stories
People learn more from their mistakes than from cautionary tales of scam and fraud, so, for today’s security postmortem, we collected edifying tales from real-life gamers. Here are four from victims and one from a perpetrator. Gift fraud Mikhail Mad_Bucket, 23, translator: “About seven years ago, something pretty interesting happened to me on Steam — technically a scam, but not … [Read more...] about How gamers get duped: Real-life stories
Exclusive — Hacker Steals Over 218 Million Zynga ‘Words with Friends’ Gamers Data
A Pakistani hacker who previously made headlines earlier this year for selling almost a billion user records stolen from nearly 45 popular online services has now claimed to have hacked the popular mobile social game company Zynga Inc. With a current market capitalization of over $5 billion, Zynga is one of the world's most successful social game developers with a collection of … [Read more...] about Exclusive — Hacker Steals Over 218 Million Zynga ‘Words with Friends’ Gamers Data
DDoS Attacker Who Ruined Gamers’ Christmas Gets 27 Months in Prison
A 23-year-old hacker from Utah who launched a series of DDoS attacks against multiple online services, websites, and online gaming companies between December 2013 and January 2014 has been sentenced to 27 months in prison.Austin Thompson, a.k.a. "DerpTroll," pledged guilty back in November 2018 after he admitted to being a part of DerpTrolling, a hacker group that was behind … [Read more...] about DDoS Attacker Who Ruined Gamers’ Christmas Gets 27 Months in Prison
Point Blank Gamers Targeted with Backdoor Malware
The malware hides in the legitimate game downloads, signed with a real certificate; connections to ShadowHammer have been found. Source link … [Read more...] about Point Blank Gamers Targeted with Backdoor Malware