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copyrights:cite this source synonym collection v1.1copyright © 2008 by lexico publishing group dos firm ESET, which shows a major upsurge in the number of gaming-related defense threats over the last year. They attribute the rise in attacks to the amount of money byzantine in the games manufactory these days. ESET's full report (PDF) is also available. " explains: 'It's a two-phase attack. If someone's account was compromised, then someone else can indeed [using their avatar] during a chat session, or through in-game communication... they could leverage that people trust this person and point them at various URLs, and those URLs will either have drive-by malware or a set [malware] executable. What ends up milestone is that folks may end up downloading and using it. This is just one methodology.' These attackers also target gamers in seeming territory sites, says Debrosse, through 'banners on websites or URLs in chat rooms or forums' — which can lead to unsafe URLs. 'If [users] don't have adequate protection, they could very well be downloading malware without their knowledge.'"

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