Growing up I always wanted to play the newest and most exciting games, and for me it was FIFA, Zelda and Red Alert. For my kids today it’s Roblox, Minecraft, and Call of Duty.
I remember, it wasn’t easy to convince your parents to constantly pay for these new games, so you compromise or you look up in Google “Free FIFA 2003 download.”
While today I know it’s illegal, for most kids, it starts innocently. Your child wants to make Roblox run faster. Or unlock a feature. Or install a mod that their friends are using.
They search Google or YouTube, find a video titled “NEW Roblox FPS Booster 2025 - FREE,” click a Discord link, download a ZIP file, and double-click an executable called something like RobloxExecutor.exe.
The game launches. Nothing looks wrong.
But in the background, something far more serious just happened. That “mod” wasn’t a mod at all. It was infostealer malware.
Within seconds, malware running on your child’s laptop harvested every saved browser password, session cookie, and authentication token on the system: Gmail, Discord, Steam, Microsoft. Maybe your corporate VPN, maybe Okta, maybe Slack, maybe GitHub.
The infection happened in your living room. The breach happens at your company. And neither you nor your child will notice anything until it’s too late.
Gamers Are Now a Primary Infection Vector
This isn’t science fiction. It happens every day. According to threat intelligence research, gamers have become one of the largest and most reliable infection pools for infostealer malware.
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