Gaming company and executives targeted in smear campaign and cyber security threats
A gaming company operating a browser-based massively multiplayer simulation video game with one million active users worldwide is under attack in a smear campaign that encourages website hacking, bypassing game protections, sharing confidential data, and insulting employees and executives.
What we’ve done
Mapping of all unfavorable, threatening, and illegal elements (blogs, specialized forums, social media posts).
Development of a strategy for sensitive data removal, including the rapid implementation of a removal strategy to secure and stop the dissemination of all proprietary and confidential contents, including cyberattack tips and video game hacking tutorials.
Investigation and identification of the source of data collection and leakage of proprietary information.
Investigation and identification of the individuals responsible for disseminating sensitive information and launching personal attacks against personnel.
Investigation and identification of the platforms responsible for hosting and publishing data, along with an analysis of data protection laws in their respective countries.
Identification of the author of the source blog that aggregates and disseminates proprietary and technical data to circumvent the video game’s technical protections.
Securing and removing all publications and comments that attacked the integrity of personnel and executives.
Securing and removing all proprietary and copyrighted materials.
Our resolute and discreet actions led to the complete removal of the source blog and all threatening contents and definitively put an end to the perpetrator’s defamation campaign.
