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Fortnite
Fortnite vulnerabilities would have allowed attackers to intercept and steal login credentials

Researchers at Check Point today shared details of vulnerabilities that could have affected any player of the hugely popular online battle game, Fortnite. Vulnerability impact …

gamer
The average PC gamer has experienced almost 5 cyberattacks due to poor security habits

McAfee has released results from its survey, Game Over: The Future of Gaming Security, finding that while gamers profess to exhibit good cybersecurity habits there’s still …

Google game teaches kids about online safety

Talking to kids about online safety is a difficult undertaking for many adults, and making the lessons stick is even harder. To that end, Google has launched a new program …

WoW
Phishers offer WoW players free in-game pets

Avid World of Warcraft players are being targeted with phishing emails seemingly coming from Blizzard Entertainment, the video game developer behind the popular multiplayer …

kaspersky Lab KIPS
Cybersecurity gamification: A shortcut to learning

Cybersecurity awareness trainings are usually a boring affair, so imagine my colleagues’ surprise when I exited the room in which I participated in a demonstration of …

online gaming
Trade of online gaming currencies fuels cybercrime

Though the majority of gaming companies prohibit the real-money trading of online gaming currencies, the practice is still widespread, and according to Trend Micro …

rings
Mail.ru, Funcom gaming forums hacked, user databases stolen

Vulnerabilities in older versions of the popular vBulletin Internet forum software are being exploited left and right, and data of millions of forum users is being pilfered …

Epic Games
Epic Games forums hacked again, over 800,000 users affected

Some of the online forums maintained by Epic Games, the video game development company behing the Unreal Engine technology and games based on it, have been hacked and their …

Dota 2
Dota 2 Dev forum breached, nearly 2 million users affected

A hacker has breached the official Dota 2 Dev forum and made off with the entire forum database, which contains email addresses, usernames, IP addresses, and salted password …

WarFrame
Warframe, Clash of Kings players’ info stolen after forum hacks

Two new website hack/ user data theft combos have been revealed last week, and the victims are players of popular mobile real time strategy game Clash of Kings and online …

biohazard
Fake gaming torrents download unwanted apps instead of popular games

If you’re looking for torrents to download pirated copies of popular games, be extra careful not to be tricked into downloading malicious and unwanted software instead. …

Hearthstone
Playing Hearthstone? Want to cheat? You might end up with Bitcoin-stealing malware

It’s widely known that online gamers make great targets for cyber criminals: their dedication and enthusiasm for the game(s) often leads them to disregard warnings both …

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