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With more than 2.5 billion gamers around the world, it’s no wonder cheats, hacks, and game modifications have spawned a multimillion dollar industry.

Cheats for multiplayer games are tantamount to malware, and their use in competitions to cybercrime.

Syrk ransomware is out, disguised as a Fortnite cheat pack. Learn what it is and how to recover your files.

Malware disguised as Apex Legends for Android.

The story of a guy who just wanted to download a pirated copy of a game but got malware instead. It’s happening more and more often, and we explain why.

In this episode, Jeff and Dave discuss getting back at telesales, the latest from CES, the Town of Salem breach, and some disturbing data sales by US telcos.

One short message is enough to send a Sony PS4 into an infinite restart loop. Here’s how to deal with it.

Fortnite for Android is not available on Google Play. We explain how to download and install it properly, and what else to do to stay safe.

In this edition of the Kaspersky Lab podcast, we discuss the return of Olympic Destroyer, fake news spreading through WhatsApp, and more.

New Steam scams trick users into giving up money or account access.

On this week’s podcast, Jeff and David discuss Facebook fallout, Amazon’s “voice-sniffing” patent, and a paid version of Google.

People put a lot of time, effort, and money into the online games they love. And yet many of them don’t bother to protect their gaming accounts properly.

A few more tips about gaming accounts safety, or How to protect your Steam, Uplay, Origin, battle.net and so on.

The finest minds of cybersecurity and business from Central Asia will engage in the battle to save the world on the 27th of April.

Where are the most dangerous places to live? How about the biggest fans of e-mail — and of porn? All that and more in our annual cybersurvey.

A phishing scam to try and get you to hand over your battle.net account details is offering a free pet. There’s no free pet.

Gamers wanting to squeeze every bit of performance out of their systems may be tempted to turn off their antivirus. Cybercriminals love that. How to set up security for maximum gaming performance.

Spanish magazine Red Seguridad recently granted an award to the Kaspersky CyberSafety Management Games training program.

Age-based gaming ratings serve as a warning that the contents of the game may be unsuitable to children. We will review different rating systems used to label console and PC games.

A new MaaS malware hits gamers and businesses.

Criminals hijack 77,000 Steam accounts every month.