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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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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
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
Europol’s Referral Action Day removed extremist links across gaming and gaming-adjacent platforms, targeting radical content
Boyd Gaming Corporation has disclosed that an unauthorized actor removed data from its systems, including information about employees and other individuals
Gaming community Steam appeared most often in phishing emails and texts detected by Guardio in Q1 2025
Online gambling site, Sky Betting and Gaming, found to have “unlawfully” processed data through advertising cookies
The rise in DDOS attacks against the gaming industry is accompanied by increasing bot activity
The Chartered Institute of Information Security has issued a new guide to help firms recruit more talent
Proofpoint has spotted a new infostealer campaign using malicious links in YouTube video descriptions
Kaspersky also noted smart home device popularity and malicious apps as threats to children in 2024
A report by Sekoia.io shed light on a targeted campaign using Discord and fake download websites
FTC reveals gaming firm's privacy violations and design tricks
Players were sent malicious links disguised as support tickets
The US was the main target of attackers, followed by Switzerland, India, Japan and the UK