A player of popular gaming title Elder Scrolls Online recently took to Reddit to warn users of a phish via Playstation messaging. This particular phishing attempt is notable for ramping up the pressure on recipients—a classic social engineering technique taken to the extreme. A terms of service violation? In MMORPG land, the scammers take a theoretically plausible deadline, crunch it into … [Read more...]
Christopher Boyd December 6, 2019
Jovi Umawing June 21, 2019
Fresh “video games” site welcomes new users with Steam phish
Over the weekend, I received this unsolicited message from an acquaintance on Steam: 1 free game for new users!Take the game you want https://t.co/{redacted} Fortunately, other friends on Steam were quick to publicly warn others about potentially hacked accounts spamming dubious messages to anyone (if not all) in their network. I was reading these warnings hours before receiving a … [Read more...]
