Increasingly actors are seeing children as easy marks and with the percentage that play video games it's becoming easier and easier. Researchers found a surge of trojans hidden in cheat codes for the ultra-popular online game Roblox. "we've seen multiple cases in which a BYOD device was compromised via a gaming-related phishing site, which led to the compromise of the connected corporate network," says Jordan LaRose, practice director for infrastructure security at NCC Group. With the proliferation of remote working the perimeter between work and home no longer exists even more so with BYOD. Young children, especially, often play games from their parents' PCs and mobile phones or, if nothing else, their home Wi-Fi. Parents then take their PCs and phones to work or work remotely from their home network giving attackers a foothold to corporate networks.
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