VB Migration

Tag: gaming

  • VB2017 paper: Exploring the virtual worlds of advergaming

    At VB2016 in Denver, Malwarebytes researchers Jérôme Segura and Chris Boyd presented a paper on malicious advertising, or malvertising. At the end of the paper, as they looked at the future of online ads, they discussed new trends in ‘advergaming’, or in-game ads. This subject was the topic of a follow-up paper , presented by…

  • VB2017 paper: Exploring the virtual worlds of advergaming

    At VB2016 in Denver, Malwarebytes researchers Jérôme Segura and Chris Boyd presented a paper on malicious advertising, or malvertising. At the end of the paper, as they looked at the future of online ads, they discussed new trends in ‘advergaming’, or in-game ads. This subject was the topic of a follow-up paper , presented by…

  • VB2016 paper: Steam stealers: it’s all fun and games until someone’s account gets hijacked

    The online games market is huge, and the Steam platform is a huge player in that market. Users registered on the Steam platform use their credit cards to buy content, and willingly provide personal information to and exchange items with other network participants. Rather unsurprisingly, this has not gone unnoticed by cybercriminals, and a while…

  • VB2016 paper: Steam stealers: it’s all fun and games until someone’s account gets hijacked

    The online games market is huge, and the Steam platform is a huge player in that market. Users registered on the Steam platform use their credit cards to buy content, and willingly provide personal information to and exchange items with other network participants. Rather unsurprisingly, this has not gone unnoticed by cybercriminals, and a while…

  • Sony in more rootkit rows

    Accusations of sneakiness and unsafe practices hit media giants again. Sony has been tangled up in two separate rootkit scares in the past few days, with a brief outcry over hidden software installed by a PC game swiftly followed by more serious allegations about techniques used by a supposedly secure USB key system. The game…

  • Trojans and worms hiding behind games

    Mario latest lure to hook victims on malware. Social engineering techniques used to trick computer users into running malicious code on their systems concentrate around simple pleasures, with sex, gossip and entertainment among the most common lures, and the last few weeks have seen several attacks using the offer of video games to draw in…

  • 1.4 million Chinese infected over holiday week

    May vacations bring trojan avalanche for gamers and filesharers. Chinese computers, in heavy use with many people off work for the Labour Day holiday week, have suffered a major surge in malware infections, as a surge in the number of people browsing the web, shopping online, sharing files and playing online games has led to…