The $138 billion video game market has become a lightning rod for cybercriminals looking to make a quick buck. Game-related crime such as piracy is as old as the industry itself, but the rising prevalence of online connectivity has opened up a plethora of new...
Bitcoin (as of the time this article was written) was valued at more than $16,000 per unit, so perhaps there is no value going out of this bubble anytime soon. But the team at game distribution platform Steam has decided that bitcoin is a bit...
Valve, the entertainment software and technology company that specializes in online and mobile gaming, is finally getting tough with the “gambling ecosystem” that has sprung up around many of its games, according to a report from The Next Web. The gaming company is threatening to ban...
Pretty much anyone who interacts online is a potential target of fraud — and that includes gamers. Kaspersky Lab Daily has taken a look at how cybercriminals operate on the online gaming platform Steam (while noting that players on others, such as Origin and Battle.net, are...
August 18, 2021
Video game developer Valve plugged a security bug that could have been used by gamers to fill their Steam wallets with unlimited funds, ThreatPost and other media outlets reported. A Hackerone security researcher submitted the exploit and was awarded a $7,500 bug bounty for discovering and reporting the critical flaw, according to PVPLive and others […]
December 07, 2017
Bitcoin (as of the time this article was written) was valued at more than $16,000 per unit, so perhaps there is no value going out of this bubble anytime soon....
July 15, 2016
Valve, the entertainment software and technology company that specializes in online and mobile gaming, is finally getting tough with the “gambling ecosystem” that has sprung up around many of its...
February 17, 2016
Pretty much anyone who interacts online is a potential target of fraud — and that includes gamers. Kaspersky Lab Daily has taken a look at how cybercriminals operate on the online...
