Game Threats
A famous "augmented reality” smartphone game developed for handheld devices was released in July 2016 in a few selected countries. The game became an overnight sensation and cyber criminals started targeting it. In just a few days after the official App hit the market, people had discovered a Trojan (i.e. a malicious} version of the app available in the other markets giving way to cyber criminals to make the best out of the situation.
A famous gaming network hack was one at the largest security breach of its kind to ever hit console gamers back in the year 2011. Personal details of 77 million users were accessed with potential assess to 12,000 encrypted credlt card. The hack was one of the biggest security breaches in the recent history.
What should you do?
1) Make sure you scan external drives for virus before you install any games or other software,
2) Ensure authenticity of the source you are downloading games from.
3) Ensure that you only buy in-game currency from trusted websites.
4) Be cautious what types of links you click on Social Networking websites. Game notifications or invites can be a phishing technique and compromise your system.
5) Protect your privacy and don‘t offer any confidential information to outer players or the gamer
6) Do not give up on security settings to increase your system's speed!
7) Only download games from the phone Operating system vendors application store as these have undergone security checks,
8) Before installing. check the requested permissions.
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