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The latest Security coverage curated for game developers.
GamesIndustry.biz says Activision's Team Ricochet is treating cheating like a major business, citing estimates that the market reaches $8.5 billion. A survey of 250 multiplayer studios found 69% see cheating …
GamesIndustry.biz reports that Gamescom has apologized for its first response to hardware thefts affecting indie exhibitors, saying it failed to show enough empathy. The organizers are now reviewing security for …
A new training-free video watermarking scheme embeds an Ed25519 signature into the chroma phase spectrum, aiming to close the white-box forgery hole in symmetric watermark systems. It verifies offline with …
A massive Steam data leak has exposed roughly 13TB of files after users accessed a publicly reachable endpoint. The cache reportedly includes beta builds, screenshots, and pre-release material tied to …
Thieves hit Gamescom’s Indie Arena and business area, stealing laptops and Steam Decks from smaller exhibitors. The losses landed hardest on indie teams and publishers already juggling demos, build machines, …
Rockstar Games says it is "heartbroken" after a massive Grand Theft Auto 6 leak exposed early development footage and assets. The studio is now dealing with the fallout from one …
GamesIndustry.biz says Rockstar is trying to steady the ship after the GTA 6 leaks, calling the breach heartbreaking and promising the game is nearly finished. The studio also pointed to …
Researchers have proposed a new class of adversarial examples that keep a model’s answer unchanged while making the input look very different from the original. The work adds negative variants …
Take-Two is moving to choke off a widening GTA VI leak tied to an entity calling itself Cyberleek, which may have access to a playable build. The company has subpoenaed …
GTA 6 gameplay clips and assets are circulating again, with a hacker group posting daily leaks that appear to include mechanics, a map, and footage from a playable build. Rockstar …
FBI agents arrested 21-year-old student Zyaire Wilkins over allegations that he used fake Steam games to spread malware and drain victims’ crypto wallets. Prosecutors say the scheme infected thousands of …
HP Anyware is being phased out for new customers, with support for its Trust Center and Trusted Zero Clients ending Oct. 31, 2026. For studios and post teams, that turns …
A cheat-service breach exposed usernames, hashed passwords, and other player data tied to Grand Theft Auto V. For devs, the interesting part is less the cheat scene itself and more …
A new arXiv paper tackles a practical problem for teams using text-to-image diffusion models: proving ownership even when a suspect model has had watermark signals damaged or stripped. Cert-LAS uses …
Rockstar Games has confirmed a data breach involving a third-party service, with claims of financial and player data being accessed. While they assert that the impact is limited, the potential …
Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) offers game developers a robust method for securing communications and data. This interactive introduction dives into the mathematics behind ECC, including point addition and scalar multiplication, …