ScarCruft Hacks Gaming Platform to Deploy BirdCall Malware on Android and Windows

The North Korea-aligned state-sponsored hacking group known as ScarCruft has compromised a video game platform in a supply chain espionage attack, trojanizing its components with a backdoor called BirdCall to likely target ethnic Koreans residing in China. While prior versions of the backdoor hav...

Guntech 2.5 to Launch in Upland’s Gaming Ecosystem

By Uzair Amir Mathilda Studios Partners with Upland to Introduce Guntech 2.5 into Upland’s Web3 Gaming Platform with +10 Locations and… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Guntech 2.5 to Launch in Upland’s Gaming Ecosystem...

Valve Steam Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Valve Steam is a suite of game distribution management platforms from Valve Corporation in the United States. The platform provides digital rights management, multiplayer, streaming, and social networking services. A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Valve Steam version 2021-04-10 and earli...

Penguin Gaming PC client suffers from dll hijacking vulnerability (CNVD-2021-08537)

Penguin Gaming is the largest mobile gaming platform under Tencent. A dll hijacking vulnerability exists in the PC client of Penguin Gaming. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute malicious code...

Do cybercriminals play cyber games during quarantine?

Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, the role of the Internet in our lives has undergone changes, including irreversible ones. Some of these changes are definitely for the better, some are not very good, but almost all of them in some way affect digital security issues. We decided to take a closer...

The ADL Calls Out Steam for Giving Extremists a Pass

The nonprofit has identified hundreds of profiles that espouse hate, with little attempt from the gaming platform to stop them...

DLL Hijacking Vulnerability in Haofang Gaming Platform of Shanghai Haofang Online Information Technology Co.

Haofang Gaming Platform is a competitive gaming platform. Shanghai Haofang Online Information Technology Co. Haofang e-sports platform has a DLL hijacking vulnerability, which can be exploited by an attacker to inject an executable DLL file into the client process to perform arbitrary functions...

Wuhan No. No. Technology Co. 99box Game Manager suffers from dll hijacking vulnerability

99box is a very cool gaming service platform. Wuhan No. 99box Game Manager Co., Ltd. has a dll hijacking vulnerability that can be exploited by an attacker to inject an executable DLL file into the client process to perform arbitrary functions...

EA Games Patches Account-Hijacking Bug

Researchers chained together two vulnerabilities in the Electronic Arts EA gaming platform and developed a proof-of-concept attack that allowed for possible account takeovers. A successful attack could allow a malicious actor to gain access to a user’s account and steal credit card information or...

FBI Seizes 15 DDoS-For-Hire Websites, 3 Operators Charged

The FBI just saved the Christmas. The U.S. Justice Department announced earlier today that the FBI has seized domains of 15 "DDoS-for-hire" websites and charged three individuals running some of these services. DDoS-for-hire, or "Booter" or "Stresser," services rent out access to a network of...

Steam Stealer Malware "Booming Business" for Attackers Targeting Gaming Service

Malware that targets Steam accounts has proliferated the gaming platform and become what researchers are calling a “booming business” for cybercriminals over the last few months. The popular platform, owned by Valve, boasts 140 million users and is so ripe for attacks that according to the compan...

Valve Patches Password Reset Vulnerability in Steam

Valve Software has reportedly patched a vulnerability in the popular online Steam gaming platform that enabled account hijacking through its password reset mechanism. Kotaku, a popular blog among gamers, said that a number of prominent Steam accounts and Twitch streamers were stolen or accessed...

Hackers Compromise The War Z Forum, Game Databases

Hackers compromised the forum and game database of the massively multiplayer online game, The War Z, forcing the game’s producer OP Productions to temporarily take the game and its forum offline. In a security alert issued yesterday, OP Productions informed The War Z players of the breach and...

Flaw Leaves EA Origin Platform Users Open to Attack

Five years ago, a pair of security researchers write a book called Exploiting Online Games in which they described a number of ways in which attackers could take advantage of weaknesses in the protection systems for various gaming platforms. Now, with online gaming having emerged as a massive...

Gaming Platforms as an attack vector against remote systems

Little more than a year ago I wrote about the possibility to attack gaming platform to compromise large audience of gamers in stealthy way, the access to millions of machines represent a dream for every attackers and I hypnotized its repercussion in cyber warfare domains. Gaming platform are...

Trouble for Borderlands 2 Players

Some XBOX Live users have violated the online gaming platform’s code of conduct by using a malicious application that allowed them to permanently kill off the characters of other players in the popular ‘Borderlands 2’ video game. On a forum run by the game’s software developer Gearbox, a communit...

Long a Target, Sony's PS3 Faces Pirate Onslaught

A run on programmable USB boards suggests that an open source version of the recent PSJailbreak could make it tough for Sony to stamp out PS3 piracy. Lawyers working for Sony Corp. spent the waning months of the Australian winter in court trying to stop sales of a new product, PSJailbreak, that...