Battling the Emotional Toxicity Within Games: How to Digitally Thrive

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Battling the Emotional Toxicity Within Games: How to Digitally Thrive

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Trouble in Da Hood: Malicious Actors Use Infected PyPI Packages to Target Roblox Cheaters

The world of gaming can be a cut-throat place, with many players turning to online help via third-party programs ‘game hacks’ to get ahead. Although some of these programs offer legitimate game boosts, malicious actors frequently leverage these game hackers’ interest in modifications to deliver...

Nvidia Warns Windows Gamers of GeForce NOW Flaw

Nvidia is red-flagging a high-severity flaw in its GeForce NOW application software for Windows. An attacker on a local network can exploit the flaw in order to execute code or gain escalated privileges on affected devices. GeForce NOW is the brand used by Nvidia for its cloud-based gaming servic...

UK Ad Campaign Seeks to Deter Cybercrime

The United Kingdom's anti-cybercrime agency is running online ads aimed at young people who search the Web for services that enable computer crimes, specifically trojan horse programs and DDoS-for-hire services. The ad campaign follows a similar initiative launched in late 2017 that academics say...

'DerpTroll' Faces 10 Years in Prison for DDoSing Gaming Sites as a Teen

After a short but disruptive career knocking popular online gaming sites offline for sport, Austin Thompson, a.k.a. “DerpTroll,” has pleaded guilty to hacking charges. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years prison and a $250,000 fine. Thompson, a 23-year-old Utah resident, made his plea on Tuesda...

DDoS Attacks in the Netherlands Reveal Teen Gamers on Troublesome Path

ARCHIVED STORY DDoS Attacks in the Netherlands Reveal Teen Gamers on Troublesome Path By John Fokker · Febraury 22, 2018 At the end of January, the Netherlands was plagued by distributed denial of service DDoS attacks targeting various financial institutions, tech sites, and the Dutch tax...

Хакеры «украли» Рождество у геймеров Xbox Live и PlayStation

Настоящему геймеру нет ничего приятнее, чем в новогоднюю/рождественскую ночь уединиться с игровой приставкой и оторваться по полной, когда все вокруг радуются смене последнего разряда в номере года. К сожалению, в этом году хакерская группа Lizard Squad подложила геймерам большую свинью, испортил...

Gaming Company Settles on Bitcoin Mining Allegations

The ESEA League, an online competitive gaming community, has decided to settle with the state of New Jersey after the acting attorney general there alleged that the gaming community operator infected user-machines with malware designed to mine Bitcoins. The league is owned and managed by E-Sports...

Gamers Seek Beta Versions, Download Malware Instead

Tracking the increasingly common use of PC games as an infection vector, researchers at the Microsoft Malware Protection Center MMPC discovered a couple of malicious programs making the rounds on torrent and file sharing sites. Social engineers are disguising their malware by labeling it as the...

CodeMasters - Gaming Community Compromised, Back-End Users Data Leaked !

CodeMasters - Gaming Community Compromised, Back-EndUsers Data Leaked ! CodeMasters - Gaming Community has been hacked by "Kon" . He leak the back-end users login Information as shown below : Technical Details : Encryption: DESUnix Method: POST SQLi URL: Not providing Number of member accounts:...

PlayStation Network Down Following 'External Intrusion'

Sony’s online gaming platform, The PlayStation Network PSN, continued a five day outage on Monday after what the company described as an “attack” on its network knocked PSN offline on April 20. And hope is fading for a fast resolution, with Sony saying it is revamping the network to make it more...

webSPELL 4.2.0e - page Blind SQL Injection

webSPELL 4.2.0e - page Blind SQL Injection !/usr/bin/perl use LWP::UserAgent; use HTTP::Cookies; use Getopt::Long; '/ -.- ------------------oOO------OOo----------------- | | | / / / / | | / / / / / / / / / / / | | // // / / / // / // / // | | ///,// /./,/, // | | Security Research Division //...