Category Archives: PC gaming

Offline gamers aren’t safe from threats. Some malware steals registration codes and other data used to activate offline games.

Starcraft 2 Launch Day Piracy Infects Eager Gamers

July 29, 2010 – 2:46 pm

By Andrew Brandt While some members of our Threat Research group are attending talks at the Black Hat Briefings, the rest of the team is back at our offices, hard at work watching for novel threats.  That’s good news for gamers, and bad news for malware distributors who might try to take advantage of a [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Downloaders, Gaming threats, malware, phishing, social engineering, Threat Research | Comments (8)

WoW Expansion Beta Likely to Spawn Phishers, Scams

June 30, 2010 – 4:04 pm

By Andrew Brandt Blizzard’s announcement today that they will begin a closed beta-test for the latest expansion pack is likely to generate a lot of excitement among that particularly low breed of online criminals who steal the fruits of other people’s entertainment when they commandeer passwords for other players. While it’s hard to believe that [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Firefox, Gaming threats, Passwords, phishing, Phishing Trojans, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (7)

Cover Your Assets on Data Privacy Day

January 28, 2010 – 2:48 pm

By Andrew Brandt Today is Data Privacy Day, which is supposed to remind us all that keeping our digital secrets a secret is important and necessary. To commemorate the event, I’d like to run down some of the most serious privacy threats any of us could face on a daily basis: How a malware infection [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Online shopping threats, social engineering, social networks, Stupid malware tricks | Comments (6)

Gamers: Fight the Phishers

June 17, 2009 – 1:01 pm

By Andrew Brandt Last week, I posted a blog item that explained how gamers face a growing security threat in phishing Trojans — software that can steal the passwords to online games, or the license keys for offline games, and pass them along to far-flung criminal groups. We know why organized Internet criminals engage in [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Keyloggers, Phishing Trojans, Stupid malware tricks | Leave a Comment

5 PC Gaming Threats and How To Beat Them

June 3, 2009 – 10:17 am

By Mike Kronenberg E3, the annual trade show for the computer and video games industry, kicked off in Los Angeles yesterday, not long after the unofficial start of summer on Memorial Day. These events got me thinking about what many students might do with their free time over the next three months. I imagine that [...]

By Mike | Also posted in Gaming threats, Keyloggers | Comments (5)
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