Developers who tried to get a job at Riot Games, Rockstar and Manticore Games have become victims of scammers. Unknown attackers presented themselves as recruiters of companies, and then extorted hundreds of dollars from applicants. The real Riot Games is going to investigate and sue the scammers.

Chinese police conducted a major operation to arrest gaming scammers. In total, 469 people were detained during the day, who operated in 35 cities. On behalf of the girls, they lured men into games and forced them to spend money on various cosmetic items.JX Online 3

Mehmet Aydin (Mehmet Aydin) is the creator of the online farm Farm Bank, with which he drew over a hundred thousand people into a financial pyramid. In total, with the help of this scheme, he received $ 130 million, after which he went on the run. Now he has been extradited to Turkey, where he faces a term of up to 75 thousand years.

On the ArtStation platform, cases of cheating artists have become more frequent. Unknown attackers offer freelancers work on behalf of large gaming companies like Riot Games, Big Fish and 2K, and are tricked into paying for expensive hardware and software worth thousands of dollars. On May 24, Kaspersky Lab drew attention to the problem in its blog.

Advertising-based fraud in mobile games is a global problem. According to Adjust, the number of fraud has increased by more than 170% over the year, and fraudsters are increasingly faking organic traffic.From January to August 2020, Adjust analyzed more than 14.3 billion installations worldwide, including the United States, Europe, Latin America and China.

Employees of the security company Snyk accused the Chinese Mintegral of spying on users and advertising fraud. The suspicious SDK was used in 1,200 applications on Apple devices, which were downloaded up to 300 million times every month.

Now users who purchase questionable products from the Steam Store will receive notifications from the store before the transaction. This is how Valve fights the trade in fake game items.

The Abstractism platformer, which could be purchased on Steam, installed Trojans on players’ computers and used them for mining cryptocurrencies. Perhaps it was all some kind of subtle trolling.

Clash of Clans, as well as Clash Royale and Marvel Contest of Champions are used in a major money laundering scam. Such a study was published by the German company Kromtech Security, specializing in cybersecurity.

Games are one of the most vulnerable segments of the mobile market for fraudsters. Only in January-March of this year, marketers lost $103 million in the promotion of games due to fraud. Only the developers of the “Purchases” category have more losses.

The AppsFlyer marketing platform has offered mobile developers a tool to combat artificial cheating of advertising indicators.

The development of esports around the world is accompanied by an increase in demand for ways to gain an unfair advantage in the virtual arena.