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Microsoft's president has said its own security analysis teams have discovered that Russian intelligence has been working to share information within video game communities. This should not be surprising, though, as organizations have used gaming communities to discuss plans and share information for years.
In response to the recent news that
"It's not like playing Call of Duty is going to lead to deaths in the real world. These are video games. Around games, you have a community of gamers--they come together. They talk to each other, including when they are playing a game. And for the last several months, our digital threat analysis team has been identifying efforts by the Russians to basically penetrate some of these gaming communities," Smith said (
<p>Microsoft's president has said its own security analysis teams have discovered that Russian intelligence has been working to share information within video game communities. This should not be surprising, though, as organizations have used gaming communities to discuss plans and share information for years.</p><p>In response to the recent news that <a href="
In response to the recent news that
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, Brad Smith spoke at Semafor's World Economy Summit this week about how state-sponsored actors are infiltrating video game communities to disseminate information."It's not like playing Call of Duty is going to lead to deaths in the real world. These are video games. Around games, you have a community of gamers--they come together. They talk to each other, including when they are playing a game. And for the last several months, our digital threat analysis team has been identifying efforts by the Russians to basically penetrate some of these gaming communities," Smith said (
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). "We've been advising governments about this. It's the Wagner Group, it's Russian intelligence. They are, in part, using [gaming] as a place to get information into circulation."
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<p>Microsoft's president has said its own security analysis teams have discovered that Russian intelligence has been working to share information within video game communities. This should not be surprising, though, as organizations have used gaming communities to discuss plans and share information for years.</p><p>In response to the recent news that <a href="
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">sensitive information from the Pentagon was shared on a Minecraft Discord server</a>, Brad Smith spoke at Semafor's World Economy Summit this week about how state-sponsored actors are infiltrating video game communities to disseminate information.</p><p>"It's not like playing Call of Duty is going to lead to deaths in the real world. These are video games. Around games, you have a community of gamers--they come together. They talk to each other, including when they are playing a game. And for the last several months, our digital threat analysis team has been identifying efforts by the Russians to basically penetrate some of these gaming communities," Smith said (<a href="
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">via GI.biz</a>). "We've been advising governments about this. It's the Wagner Group, it's Russian intelligence. They are, in part, using [gaming] as a place to get information into circulation."</p><a href="
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