Online Gaming
As online gaming becomes a multi billion dollar industry worldwide, cyber crooks and online gamers are jumping into the field by hoards and are targeting gamers with deadly viruses written cleverly to steal assets that can be sold to other players internationally.
A security firm, Panda, in its study has noticed that gamers are ready to pay for virtual assets like weapons and power to reach higher levels of the game and increase their reputations.
In the last six months, Panda has noticed that three Trojans are targeting online games. This is a clear indication that malware authors have recognized the eagerness of players, mostly teens and early 20s, to pay for resources that can help them win the game.
Related Stories
Cyber gamers arrive in Singapore for world glory
More than seven hundred computer gamers are gathering in Singapore to take part in the world's biggest competition for computer and video games. It is like an Cyber Game Olympic The games that started in Seoul in 2000 were held in San Francisco last...
Study shows videogames are turning teen gamers verbosely dumb
The drift towards video games is continuously increasing as the new creative video gaming consoles are showing their entries into the gaming world. The Video games are kissing new heights by selling more than expected hardware as well as software. The...
Research: Online Gamers possess tendencies similar to Gamblers and Drug Addicts
After being indicted of so many blames still video games are sprouting as the major economy amongst all other big revenue fetching industries that why the gaming industry is the main focus of all the research institutes and researchers around the world...
One million dollor prize for online gamers on TV special
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is a television game show which offers a maximum cash prize of one million dollars, indeed it is a great news for online gamers who have spent a lot of money on online games, well it is payback time for all You hardcore...
Robocop type weapon scanner to assist policemen
The image atop isn’t what we intended to begin this informative narrative with, but the secrecy maintained by the departments developing the Robocop type arms detector leaves us no choice. The detector would make things easier for the officers who..
