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Gaming encompasses electronic games and the services that support them across consoles, PCs, mobile devices, and cloud platforms. Its distinctive assets include player accounts, payment data, virtual goods, game code, progress records, and community communications. Online play depends on client software, authentication systems, matchmaking, content-delivery networks, and backend services, so availability and data integrity affect both access and fair play.
Security concerns include account takeover through phishing or credential reuse, exploitation of vulnerable game clients, servers, or third-party components, and abuse of chat, voice, or marketplace features. Distributed denial-of-service attacks can disrupt online services, while cheating and tampering threaten competitive integrity. Operators typically combine secure update and vulnerability-management processes with multifactor authentication, fraud monitoring, anti-cheat controls, access restrictions, and tested recovery plans. Privacy and age-related obligations may also apply to player profiles, behavioral telemetry, communications, and payment information.
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Cybersecurity researchers have attributed the April 2026 DigiCert security incident to a threat activity cluster dubbed CylindricalCanine
Researchers found a flaw in Opera GX, the gaming-focused version of the Opera browser, that let a malicious website silently install a browser add-on and use it to lift specific data from the pages a victim visits
Malware on approximately 2,000 WordPress sites hid C2 instructions in Steam profile comments using invisible Unicode. GoDaddy researchers spotted a command-and-control infrastructure for a malware campaign abusing Valve’s Steam gaming platform. The experts discovered malware on approximately 1,980 WordPress sites that fetches its instructions by reading Steam Community profile comments, where the actual payload is […]
ESET warns that North Korean hackers compromised a Yanbian gaming site in a supply‑chain attack, trojanizing Windows and Android software to spy on users
Website Popular in Korean Ethnic Enclave in China Hosts Apps Laced With a BackdoorA North Korean hacking group has been spying on a Korean ethnic enclave in China by infiltrating the Android apps of a regional gaming platform that hosts digital card and board games. Researchers attributed the supply-chain attack to a threat actor that Eset tracks as ScarCruft.
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 BirdCallto likely target ethnic Koreans residing in China
The North Korean hacker group APT37 has been delivering an Android version of a backdoor called BirdCall in a supply-chain attack through a video game platform. [...]
The Ukrainian police have arrested three individuals who hacked more than 610,000 Roblox gaming accounts and sold them for a profit of $225,000. [...]
The FBI is asking gamers who installed Steam titles containing malware to provide information as part of an ongoing investigation into eight malicious games uploaded to the gaming platform. [...]
Threat actors are luring unsuspecting users into running trojanized gaming utilities that are distributed via browsers and chat platforms to distribute a remote access trojan (RAT)
New York Attorney General Letitia James sued video game developer and publisher Valve Corporation for using game loot boxes to facilitate illegal gambling activities among children and teenagers. [...]
New research from Microsoft has revealed that legitimate businesses are gaming artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots via the "Summarize with AI" button that's being increasingly placed on websites in ways that mirror classic search engine poisoning (AI)
Roskomnadzor, Russia's telecommunications watchdog, has blocked access to the Roblox online gaming platform for failing to stop the distribution of what it described as LGBT propaganda and extremist materials. [...]
MuddyWater Hides Malware With Game Delay TechniqueIranian nation-state hackers took inspiration from a mobile phone time-killing mainstay, say security researchers who spotted hackers downloading malware masquerading as the Snake video game. A callback to the game isn't nostalgia, say researchers at Eset.
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has launched an investigation into the mobile gaming sector
The International Defence Esports Games (IDEG) will help sharpen cyber and battlefield skills for allied soldiers
Nvidia has confirmed that last month's security updates are causing gaming performance issues on Windows 11 24H2 and Windows 11 25H2 systems. [...]
Europol’s Referral Action Day removed extremist links across gaming and gaming-adjacent platforms, targeting radical content