Collaborate Disseminate
Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, the role of the Internet in our lives has undergone changes, including irreversible ones. We decided to take a closer look at the changes around us through the prism of information security, starting with the video game industry. Continue reading Do cybercriminals play cyber games during quarantine?
It’s charging subpar password security and lousy user notification: Zynga has yet to notify users to warn them of the breach, the suit says. Continue reading Zynga faces class action suit over massive Words With Friends hack
It’s been a long journey since the early days of cheats development, and we can currently encounter them demonstrating malware-like behavior, using anti-detection techniques and evasion features that rival rootkits and implants found in advanced persistent threats. Continue reading The cake is a lie! Uncovering the secret world of malware-like cheats in video games
The serial hacker GnosticPlayers is claiming to have ransacked Zynga’s user data – including names, emails and passwords. Continue reading 218 million Words With Friends players lose data to hackers
Game developers represent some of today’s most passionate artists who toil—sometimes in their basements ’til the wee hours of the morn—to create a complex work of art that infuses story, sound and visuals to both engage and challenge the players… Continue reading Will Streaming Platforms Advance Gaming Security to a New Level?
Yet, the more popular game is, the higher the probability that fraudsters will be looking to make a fortune on that popularity by, for example, organizing phishing attacks on the player base. Those phishing attacks, though always quite similar in their nature, are very competently planned. Continue reading Clash of Greed
Ninja Sega purchases? Gunslinging FarmVille chickens??! If you didn’t say it’s OK, it wasn’t. Continue reading Facebook ordered to refund parents for accidental in-app purchases
Steam experiences steady growth in the number of active users registered on the platform. Security research has tragically ignored gaming malware in the mistaken assumption that nothing of any real value is traded there. This blind spot is being abused by cybercriminals to steal money and affect real damage. Continue reading “All your creds are belong to us”