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Cybersecurity Leaders to Watch in California’s Video Game Industry

| | California, CISOs to Watch, Founders, Analysts & Industry Voices, video games
California’s video game industry runs on always-on platforms, global player communities, digital commerce, live service operations, and increasingly complex security demands. The leaders in this feature reflect that reality. Their backgrounds span ...
CISO Whisperer
Combining Cybersecurity with Gaming: Cheats, Insider Threats, Ransomware and More

Combining Cybersecurity with Gaming: Cheats, Insider Threats, Ransomware and More

| | APT, APTs, cyber threat intelligence, Cybersecurity, ddos, Illicit communities, insider threat, insider threats, Ransomware, social engineering, threat actor, threat actors, Threat Intelligence, video games, Vulnerabilities
The video game industry has grown considerably since its introduction in the early 1970s, with analysts believing the market to be worth $321 billion by 2026. As such, the gaming industry faces ...
Threat Intelligence Blog | Flashpoint
What We Know About The Grand Theft Auto VI Data Breach

What We Know About The Grand Theft Auto VI Data Breach

| | cyber threat intelligence, Data breaches, Illicit communities, Lapsus$, threat actor, threat actors, Threat Intelligence, video games
On September 18, a cyber threat actor named “teapotuberhacker” posted on GTAForums.com claiming to have hacked Rockstar Games, the creator of the popular and controversial Grand Theft Auto (GTA) series. The post ...
Threat Intelligence Blog | Flashpoint
What We Know About the Vulnerabilities Keeping ‘Dark Souls’ Offline

What We Know About the Vulnerabilities Keeping ‘Dark Souls’ Offline

| | cisa, Exploit, Remote Code Execution, video games, Vulnerabilities, Vulnerability Management
A RCE vulnerability has forced FromSoftware to take down 'Dark Souls' servers. However, there are more issues that haven't been publicly addressed. The post What We Know About the Vulnerabilities Keeping ‘Dark ...
Threat Intelligence Blog | Flashpoint

Game over: Apex Legends players locked out by protest message

| | Apex Legends, ddos, Hacking, messages, respawn, titanfall, video games
Players of smash hit title Apex Legends were stopped from playing due to a protest message about... similar shenanigans in a different video game. Categories: Hacking Tags: Apex Legendsddosmessagesrespawntitanfallvideo games (Read more...) ...
Malwarebytes Labs
Privilege Abuse: Don’t Let Employee Access ‘Level Up’

Privilege Abuse: Don’t Let Employee Access ‘Level Up’

| | Access control, least privilege, password protection, Privileged Access Abuse, video games
Cracking the code, beating the “boss,” discovering a lost key or “Easter egg” are all ways that players can level up in video games. The search for the next phase can be ...
Security Boulevard
Game Console Hacking: Part 1 Lab Setup

Game Console Hacking: Part 1 Lab Setup

| | Hacking, Information Security, networking, Penetration Testing, security, video games
This is the first in a series of blog posts on my journey through video game hacking and security. I plan to go through any aspect of this domain that piques my ...
Professionally Evil Insights
HOW TO ALWAYS WIN SLITHER! (Slither.IO)

Malicious gaming extensions: a child’s play to infection

| | adware, cybercrime, extensions, gaming, social engineering, video games
Some gaming portals have been preying on children to get their malicious extensions installed. They use targeted advertizing and offer (already) free games as a reward for installing their adware. Categories: Cybercrime ...
Malwarebytes Labs