Summary and defense of common methods for online game account theft

In the online gaming world, a player with the best equipment and an advanced account does not know how much money, effort, or sleep is required. The feelings they pour on cannot be measured by money. Therefore, the most worrying thing for players is that their game accounts are stolen and virtual items are missing. Recently, it is often seen that a certain player account has been stolen, and the account has been stolen without any effort. It also loses confidence in the game and it is hard to recover. Friends will also be sad for you. Therefore, it is very important to protect your account!

First, let's take a look at common methods or techniques to steal accounts!

1. Use Trojan and other hacker software

This program is highly concealed by installing trojans on users' computers or automatically embedding Trojans into users' computers when users browse webpages or download things, the key records generated when the user enters the account and password are sent to the hacker. Some software can monitor any actions on the user's computer.

2. peeping

When a player enters the game in public, the hacker will peek at the player's password input and record it.

3. Impersonate official and game managers

(1) use names similar to GM, such as "Event Host", "prize issuer", and "gamemaster", or impersonate official staff and use various excuses such as "Send Prize" to ask players for account and password.

(2) create a false website and impersonate the official website to publish fake news to defraud gamers of related account information.

4. Plug-ins and false client programs

Some programs are disguised as online game clients. When players use this program and enter account information, this information will be sent to hackers.

The plug-in producer can easily obtain the user's account information by adding a program to the plug-in.

Once we know how the account is stolen, we can take corresponding defense measures.

Several methods of stealing can be divided into technical stealing and non-technical stealing!

The second and third stealing methods mentioned above should be non-technical stealing. The prevention measures are relatively simple. Pay attention to the following points:

1. Try to enter the password as concealed and fast as possible in the public, and check whether there are other people nearby

2. The real GM will not ask the player for a password for any reason under any circumstances

3. Do not enter or log on to your online game account on any other unofficial website.

4. if you pretend to be an official website, report it to the official website in a timely manner.

The first and fourth types of stealing methods should be technical, and the preventive measures are complicated. The following is a detailed description:

I. At present, many people publish so-called plug-ins or links to unknown websites in various forums. We advise you not to click. Because it is likely to bind a "keyboard generator ".

1. Set INTERNET Options of IE to restore the default settings.

2. Do not install or download some software with unknown experience, especially some so-called external hanging programs.

3. Do not open attachments with letters of unknown origins.

4. Install the latest anti-virus software and regularly upgrade the virus database.

5. Be careful when the computer in the internet cafe is installed with software that records keyboard operations, or when Trojans are installed. When using an Internet cafe computer, press CTRL, ALT, or DEL to check whether an unknown program is running. If yes, terminate the task immediately.

6. Internet users in Internet cafes should first scan the machine to see if there is a trojan program.

II. for some brute-force password cracking software, this method mainly uses some brute-force password cracking software to try the user's account and password one by one, however, it takes a long time for users to have certain computer knowledge and Crack

1. Avoid exposing game accounts to public forums and other websites.

2. When setting a password, try to make it more complex. It is best to set it to a combination of letters, numbers, and other symbols with an 8-digit length or higher.

3. Do not use the information you can easily obtain as a password. This includes birthday, ID card number, mobile phone number, name of the street in which you live, and so on.

4. Change the password frequently because the combination of letters, numbers, and other symbols with more than 8 digits is not impeccable.

5. Apply for password protection (the password is swallowed up), that is, set the security code. Do not set the security code as the password. If you do not set a security code, you can modify all your passwords and registration materials (except the document number) once someone else cracks your password.