Tag: Online Gaming
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Information-Stealing Malware Escalates in Online Gaming
The global online gaming community is facing a rising threat from cyber-criminals exploiting vulnerabilities inherent in gamers’ …
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Why Security Matters Even More in Online Gaming
As the gaming sector booms, game publishers and gaming networks have been heavily targeted with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) …
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Focusing on Online Gaming Security During Development
With the increase in sales, comes along an increase in gaming user base and risk. For developers of PC and console games, revenue will …
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The rise of human-driven fraud attacks
There has been a major spike in human-driven attacks – which rose 90% compared to six months previously, according to Arkose Labs. …
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As the eSports industry grows, it becomes attractive for financially motivated cybercriminals
Though cybercriminals have been targeting the gaming community since 2010, eSports players, gaming companies, sponsors and viewers will be …
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Fortnite World Cup champion and family swatted while live streaming
16-year-old Fortnite player Kyle “Bugha” Giersdorf, recent, $3 million winner of the inaugural World Cup Solo finals, was swatted …
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How To Hack Hackers While Online Gaming?
If you are a gamer and spend hours while playing games, then you are an easy target for hackers. It doesn’t matter if you are a …
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New Year’s eve gaming DDoSer lulz himself into a 27-month sentence
Back in 2014, an entity calling itself @DerpTrolling was one of a bunch of squabbling steamrollers that just about pancaked the gaming …
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The gaming community is a rising target for credential stuffing attacks
Hackers have targeted the gaming industry by carrying out 12 billion credential stuffing attacks against gaming websites within the …
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It Started as an Online Gaming Prank. Then It Turned Deadly
Andrew Finch thought he heard a noise outside the house where he lived with his family in Wichita. He couldn’t tell much by looking out …
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Roblox says hacker injected code that led to avatar’s gang rape
“Roblox has made it almost impossible to rape people anymore,” a gamer complained in a YouTube video posted in September. He apologized …
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