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• 90% of game hacks and cracks contain malware

  16.04.2013

  Computer and online gaming is big business for companies creating the games, but a considerable drain on the finances of gamers, so it should not come as a surprise that many of the latter decide against buying games and add-ons, choosing instead to download cracked games, keygens, patches and more from torrent or file-sharing sites.

• The War Z taken offline following forum, database hack

  03.04.2013

  Players of The War Z, a first-person zombie survival game, have been notified of a breach of the developer's (Hammerpoint Interactive) forum and game databases and the theft of user data contained in them.

• Children turning into malicious code developers

  08.02.2013

  In a world filled with laptops, tablets and smartphones, today’s children become digitally fluent far earlier than previous generations.

• Fake game apps flood Google Play

  21.01.2013

  Android users are once again in danger of getting their information collected and being hit by an unending stream of spam and unwelcome offers just because they searched for popular games on Google Play and made the mistake of downloading bogus apps.

• Free game offer leads to Steam phishing site

  02.11.2012

  Online gamers are often targeted with phishing schemes set up by crooks who are after users' in-game items and money, and the latest one to be spotted is aimed at Steam users.

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