Cyber-criminals Targeting Online Gaming Websites

adeelarshad82 writes "According to a June 2010 Nielsen NetView survey on Internet usage, online gaming has overtaken e-mail in terms of the total percentage of time Americans spend online. Only social networking scores higher. On average, online gaming now consumes a staggering 407 million hours of U.S. citizens' time per year. Unfortunately, Nielsen's not the only one that noticed this trend; cybercriminals have taken note as well and are taking advantage of this by infecting games sites—from legitimate forums and tutorial sites to shadier download sites—to attack the unwary. Fortunately though, Avast has published a list of worst gaming sites."

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Worst gaming site list in case of slashdotting

[Anonymous Coward]

Worst offenders, as of October 6, 2010:

  Gamesfactoryinteractive.com
  Games-digest.com
  Mariogamesplay.com
  Anywhere-games.com
  Galacticflashgames.com
  Towerofdefense.com
  ea.com

Gambling?

[vlm]

Now, by gambling, do they mean e-trade and td-datek-ameritrade or whatever its called now?

Or checking out zillow zestimates and buying real estate, because real estate only goes up?

I believe second life got rid of all its casinos. Is second life still online?

Then theres the gamble of risking your reputation on online dating sites...

What is the news here?

[houghi]

Criminals try to steal money? Hardly any news. Please come back when Cyber-criminals DON'T try to abuse a specific group of sites.

"Dog bites man" is not news. "Man bites dog" is.

Re:My solution

[Weaselmancer]

Oh that's right - I forgot. Knoppix runs on unicorn farts and zero point energy to make pictures on the screen. Never even touches the CPU. I should have mentioned that.

Thanks for the reminder.