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Jacob Blazewicz, 03 March 2024, 23:59

The success of Helldivers 2 and Palworld has been exploited by dishonest developers who have tried to sell their games as these and other well-known productions.

Jacob Blazewicz, 11 December 2023, 14:53

Fntastic has declared bankruptcy, claiming it doesn't have the funds to continue operations because The Day Before is a flop.

Kamil Cuber, 30 July 2023, 17:11

An AI bot called FraudGPT has appeared on the web to assist fraudsters in committing crimes. Interestingly, the bot is quite popular.

Zuzanna Domeradzka, 10 July 2023, 17:03

Many Diablo 4 players are receiving spam with friend invitations that advertise the sale of in-game items. Fans expect Blizzard to respond quickly and decisively.

Kamil Kleszyk, 09 May 2023, 13:13

The developers of Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew have fallen prey to scammers. Cybercriminals are sending fake emails to players promising them participation in non-existent beta tests of the game.

Kamil Kleszyk, 24 May 2022, 13:03

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission plans to tighten regulations on posting fake positive reviews online to sell products or services, including video games.

Dawid Wanat, 14 March 2022, 14:39

Security analysts have detected a password-stealing program in cheats for Valorant. Scammers exploit players willing to cheat in games by placing malware in the file.

Adrian Werner, 27 February 2022, 14:44

Gabe Newell explained why Valve abandoned bitcoin payments. It turns out that more than half of such transactions on Steam were linked to some kind of fraud.

Adrian Werner, 30 January 2022, 13:32

Blockverse, Minecraft's NFT-powered PvP server turned out to be a huge scam. The creators first sold tokens for $1.2 million and then vanished along with the money.

Arkadiusz Strzala, 04 October 2021, 14:56

Cybercriminals seem to see no obstacles to stealing from the likes of themselves. Hackers who buy ransomware complain about the backdoors installed in it.

Michal Ciezadlik, 19 August 2021, 14:51

A pre-order for Frostpunk 2 appeared on one of the websites, but the creators at 11 bit studios strongly denied having anything to do with it and warned against the possibility of fraud.

Arkadiusz Strzala, 12 August 2021, 14:45

Older people active on the Internet are considered to be particularly vulnerable to online scammers. However, it turns out that also teenagers are not very prudent in this matter.

Jacob Blazewicz, 28 July 2021, 16:35

The return of classic Fallout, MDK and many other iconic series is nigh? Such was the happy future heralded by the supposed return of Interplay Entertainment. Unfortunately, the actual future quickly verified these promises.

Arkadiusz Strzala, 02 July 2021, 13:45

A Microsoft employee caused the company a $10 million loss by illegally reselling Xbox gift cards. He was sentenced to nine years in prison.

Przemyslaw Dygas, 15 April 2021, 20:57

Chinese retailers have started scamming customers for AMD Radeon RX 580 GPUs, all due to their desire to make money from crypto mining.

Bart Swiatek, 29 December 2020, 15:39

A video showing a false Christmas message from Queen Elizabeth II appeared online. The material was created by the British television Channel 4 and its purpose is to warn against deepfake content.

Jacob Blazewicz, 31 August 2020, 19:04

Cheat maker and retailer group CXCheats.net has suspended support for their Call of Duty products and apologized for the „pain they caused players”. Reason? A lawsuit from Activision, which apparently decided to get rid of the problem at source.

Agnes Adamus, 17 August 2020, 23:23

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout was a commercial success. Due to the popularity of the game, videos showing people allegedly playing the game on mobile devices have appeared on the web. The developers decided to warn against this kind of scams and emphasize that the game was released only on PC and PS4.

Paul Wozniak, 17 August 2020, 17:35

A few days ago, popular youtuber known as Sparkles released a video, in which a hacker told about how the cheater community in CS:GO protects itself through a so-called Overwatch system. It also enables them to report and ban other players.

Karol Laska, 30 July 2020, 22:09

CD Projekt Red has issued an official message to players to ignore any emails that invite them to test the beta version of the game. These emails are fake.

Bart Swiatek, 16 July 2020, 11:16

Hackers attacked Twitter and took over the accounts of famous people and companies such as Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Apple. Profiles were used to scam money. The criminals managed to get over $117,000 from the victims.

Arkadiusz Strzala, 29 May 2020, 15:32

5G technology is already working in many places, although still a lot of people are afraid of it. We did not have to wait long for inventions „protecting” against 5G.

Bart Swiatek, 05 March 2020, 20:53

Retired professional CS:GO player Shayene „shAy” Victorio has been sentenced to 116 years in prison for fraud committed by her and her ex-husband's company between 2013 and 2017. More than a hundred customers have never seen the goods they have ordered. The woman claims her ex-partner is to blame.

Bart Swiatek, 04 March 2020, 11:48

Amazon has decided to remove more than one million item sale offers from its website. The reason was false advertisement and price gauging. The case is related to the epidemic of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease labeled as COVID-19.

Bart Swiatek, 26 February 2020, 14:47

Facebook has announced that it intends to ban several advertisements of COVID-19 coronavirus medicine, which are said to spread fear and play on user emotions. The company does not want the website to be used for disinformation and making money from the commotion associated with this epidemic.

Bart Swiatek, 23 September 2019, 11:39

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested two cybercriminals from Las Vegas and New York. Suspects tricked around 7,500 people, from whom they cheated more than $10 million in total.

Barth Faryna, 18 September 2019, 15:35

The team responsible for creating one of the AdBlocks has recently published a text that makes it clear that two popular ad-blocking plugins do some other things as well, about which the user is not informed. The worst part, however, is that they were installed by millions of people.

Christian Pieniazek, 03 September 2019, 21:03

Published since August, alleged leaks from Bully 2 stirred the imagination of players waiting for the official announcement of the game. As it turns out, it was a carefully prepared fraud.

Konrad Serafinski, 03 September 2019, 12:05

The Chinese application ZAO, which allows you to superimpose your face in a video or photo, breaks records of popularity. In an instant, it became the most popular downloadable program in the Chinese App Store and... a true deep-fake machine.

Bart Swiatek, 26 August 2019, 11:55

Australian police have arrested six players suspected of fixing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive games. This is the first case of its kind in the history of this country.

Mathias Zulpo, 31 July 2018, 18:08

Abstractism appeared as a fun, relaxing game for half a dollar. There are many of them on Steam, but this one was special – because it was used for mining cryptocurrencies.