{"id":18299,"date":"2022-02-16T10:10:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T18:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2022\/02\/16\/news-12032\/"},"modified":"2022-02-16T10:10:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T18:10:03","slug":"news-12032","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2022\/02\/16\/news-12032\/","title":{"rendered":"Roblox Beamers steal items from kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 16:51:24 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Roblox gamers are once again being warned to be on their guard against scammers plundering valuable digital items.<\/p>\n<p>Most multiplayer titles are all about customization. You won\u2019t find many popular games where digital items aren\u2019t up for grabs. Some games lock the items, such as outfits, weapons, or valuables, to your account and\/or characters. Other games allow players to trade them. Those trades can be straightforward item swaps, or paid for with in-game fictional currency. They might end up on marketplaces where they\u2019re bought and sold with real world cash. It all depends. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/popular-childrens-web-site-under-attack-by-identity-thieves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">isn\u2019t new<\/a>, but it is awful.<\/p>\n<h2>What\u2019s happening with Roblox?<\/h2>\n<p>Roblox allows you to make your own games, or just take part in challenges created by others. It\u2019s constantly changing, and there\u2019s always something new to do. As a result, it\u2019s hugely popular with young kids and teens. Their accounts and digital items are highly coveted by scammers and account compromisers. In Roblox land, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/88gd4a\/roblox-beaming-hackers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">these people are known as \u201cBeamers\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Beamers use a variety of tricks to compromise accounts, and then head off to various shady marketplaces. There, they try to sell or trade for US dollars or cryptocurrency. This is pretty commonplace for a large number of online titles, but ripping off kids is always going to leave a bad taste in the mouth.<\/p>\n<h2>How do scammers rip off Roblox players?<\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s a mixture of old and new techniques. Below, we\u2019ve listed some from the Beamer article and a few which we\u2019ve looked at ourselves. Forewarned is forearmed, and all that.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Phishing<\/strong>: Beamers use creation kits to whip up bogus sites for their imitation domains. As the article mentions, it often begins with a message sent to another player. While we don\u2019t know the content of those messages, a popular trick is to pretend they\u2019re a game admin or mod. The Beamer might claim the victim is in trouble, or has failed a safety check. Or they might claim to be offering a cool free item.<\/li>\n<li><strong>SIM swap<\/strong>: Another timeless classic. This is where attackers trick mobile networks into redirecting texts to their own device. By doing so, they can bypass SMS based two-factor authentication because the codes end up being sent to them, as opposed to the victim.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Generators<\/strong>: Never discount the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/cybercrime\/2017\/06\/the-roblox-robux-generator-is-too-good-to-be-true\/\">allure of free in-game currency<\/a>. Generators aren\u2019t mentioned in the article, but they are a mainstay of scam tactics. Offer a bogus tool, claim to create as much currency as the victim requires, and have them run it. The executable may contain malware, or it may direct the user to a phish or survey scam.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ransomware<\/strong>: Another one for the \u201cI didn\u2019t expect that\u201d pile. In this particular instance, we\u2019re talking <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/ransomware\/2021\/11\/bogus-js-libraries-become-sustained-ransomware-threat-for-roblox-gamers\/\">bogus versions of real tools<\/a> designed to automate certain functions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Scammer hideouts and information gathering tools<\/h2>\n<p>It appears a lot of the Beamer activity takes place inside services such as Discord. This makes sense; it\u2019s a fast, easy way to keep trades flowing with minimal set-up fuss for the creator to worry about. Tying Discord channels to phishing pages so the owner knows when someone has entered details is part of the trick.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, gaming data often feeds into third-party sites. This can be useful. If you play an MMORPG and need to buy low\/sell high? There\u2019s usually a site for that, and it\u2019s possible you\u2019ll be able to see the item owner\u2019s character details, or the server they play on. Great for trades, but bad for painting a large target on your back. Years ago, scammers would filter Xbox360 gamers by prestigious achievements and high gamer scores and mark targets that way. Now it\u2019s a lot more item\/commodity centric, but despite this the account is still at risk of being hijacked and sold on.<\/p>\n<h2>Time to lock down your Roblox accounts<\/h2>\n<p>A good reminder, then, to keep yourself up to date with the security measures recommended on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.help.roblox.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/203313380-Keep-Your-Account-Safe\">Roblox security page<\/a>. You can bet people are coming up with new and creative ways to relieve you of your account at any given moment. It\u2019s up to you to ensure you\u2019re always one step ahead of the item-stealing crowd.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/privacy-2\/2022\/02\/roblox-beamers-steal-items-from-kids\/\">Roblox Beamers steal items from kids<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\">Malwarebytes Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/privacy-2\/2022\/02\/roblox-beamers-steal-items-from-kids\/\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 16:51:24 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<table cellpadding='10'>\n<tr>\n<td valign='top' align='center'><a href='https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/privacy-2\/2022\/02\/roblox-beamers-steal-items-from-kids\/' title='Roblox Beamers steal items from kids'><img src='https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/online-gamer.jpg' border='0'  width='300px'  \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign='top' align='left'>We take a look at a story regarding so-called &#8220;Beamers&#8221;, who use a number of techniques to compromise and then sell Roblox items.<\/p>\n<p>Categories: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/category\/privacy-2\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Privacy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/compromise\/\" rel=\"tag\">compromise<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/discord\/\" rel=\"tag\">discord<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/gamers\/\" rel=\"tag\">gamers<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/gaming\/\" rel=\"tag\">gaming<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/phish\/\" rel=\"tag\">phish<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/phishing\/\" rel=\"tag\">phishing<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/roblox\/\" rel=\"tag\">roblox<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/robux\/\" rel=\"tag\">Robux<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/sim-swap\/\" rel=\"tag\">SIM swap<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/video-games\/\" rel=\"tag\">video games<\/a><\/p>\n<table width='100%'>\n<tr>\n<td align=right>\n<p><b>(<a href='https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/privacy-2\/2022\/02\/roblox-beamers-steal-items-from-kids\/' title='Roblox Beamers steal items from kids'>Read more&#8230;<\/a>)<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/privacy-2\/2022\/02\/roblox-beamers-steal-items-from-kids\/\">Roblox Beamers steal items from kids<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\">Malwarebytes Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10488,10378],"tags":[18865,13656,11224,1445,10511,3924,5897,12725,12727,18478,4433],"class_list":["post-18299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malwarebytes","category-security","tag-compromise","tag-discord","tag-gamers","tag-gaming","tag-phish","tag-phishing","tag-privacy","tag-roblox","tag-robux","tag-sim-swap","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}