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Cyber-criminals Targeting Online Gaming Websites

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the no-its-all-your-fault dept.

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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  1. Re:The list by Stavr0 · · Score: 5, Informative

    C:\WINDOWS\DRIVERS\ETC\HOSTS
    0.0.0.0 Gamesfactoryinteractive.com
    0.0.0.0 Games-digest.com
    0.0.0.0 Mariogamesplay.com
    0.0.0.0 Anywhere-games.com
    0.0.0.0 Galacticflashgames.com
    0.0.0.0 Towerofdefense.com

  2. Sites powered by Google Ads by Animats · · Score: 4, Informative

    Looking at the list of "evil sites":

    • Gamesfactoryinteractive.com - not in DNS, not in Whois. The article probably has the domain wrong.
    • Games-digest.com - domain registered in Korea.
    • Mariogamesplay.com - has Google ads
    • Anywhere-games.com - has Google ads
    • Galacticflashgames.com - On Google's "This site may harm your computer" list, yet it contains Google ads.
    • Towerofdefense.com - hosted by HostGator

    I ran them all through SiteTruth, which, unsurprisingly, can't find a legit business behind any of them and thus down-rates them as junk sites.