Virtual worlds and fraud: Approaching cybersecurity in Massively Multiplayer Online Games

Jeffrey Bardzell; Markus Jakobsson; Shaowen Bardzell; Tyler Pace; Will Odom; Aaron Houssian

Virtual worlds and fraud: Approaching cybersecurity in Massively Multiplayer Online Games

Jeffrey Bardzell, Markus Jakobsson, Shaowen Bardzell, Tyler Pace, Will Odom, Aaron Houssian

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Abstract

We survey known security vulnerabilities in Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs), and describe how these are used to cheat. While such abuse often is aimed at gaining an edge in the game, there is a recent trend of financial fraud in MMOGs. We review common types of online fraud (such as phishing and click-fraud) that we believe increasingly will migrate into the MMOG sphere. We refer to the resulting abuse as virtual fraud. By defining a visual classification of virtual fraud, we lay a foundation to future investigations of the problem. We also use our visual classification to describe some types of virtual fraud that we believe may become particularly threatening.

Original language	English (US)
Pages	742-751
Number of pages	10
State	Published - 2007
Event	3rd Digital Games Research Association International Conference: "Situated Play", DiGRA 2007 - Tokyo, Japan Duration: Sep 24 2007 → Sep 28 2007

Conference

Conference	3rd Digital Games Research Association International Conference: "Situated Play", DiGRA 2007
Country	Japan
City	Tokyo
Period	9/24/07 → 9/28/07

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Human-Computer Interaction
Software

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Virtual worlds and fraud : Approaching cybersecurity in Massively Multiplayer Online Games. / Bardzell, Jeffrey; Jakobsson, Markus; Bardzell, Shaowen; Pace, Tyler; Odom, Will; Houssian, Aaron.

2007. 742-751 Paper presented at 3rd Digital Games Research Association International Conference: "Situated Play", DiGRA 2007, Tokyo, Japan.

Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

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