Microsoft’s chairman said the company’s security analysis teams have found that Russian intelligence is sharing information in video game communities. This shouldn’t be surprising, as organizations have used gaming communities to discuss plans and share information for years.
In response to recent news that sensitive Pentagon information was shared on a Minecraft Discord server, Brad Smith spoke at Semafor’s World Economy Summit this week about how state-sponsored actors are infiltrating video game communities to spread information.
The Wagner Group is a private military company working on behalf of Russia.
“It’s not like playing Call of Duty leads to deaths in the real world. These are video games. Around games, you have a community of players – they come together. They talk to each other, including when they are playing a game. And over the last few months, our Digital Threat Analysis team has been seeing efforts by the Russians to basically penetrate some of these gaming communities. We have been advising governments on this. It’s the Wagner Group, it’s Russian intelligence. They are, in part, using [jogos] as a place to put information into circulation.”
According to reports, leaked documents containing information about Russian casualties and weapons systems available to Ukraine were posted on a Minecraft Discord server, which is also owned by Microsoft. One expert said that Russia was probably not behind this leak, but Smith believes that Russia is involved in other disclosures of information through gaming communities.
In 2015, the Belgian Minister of the Interior said that terrorists were using the PlayStation Network to communicate. Prior to that, Edward Snowden leaks revealed that the United States government was monitoring conversations on Xbox Live and World of Warcraft. It also came to light that a British spy agency considered carrying out surveillance through the Xbox Kinect camera.
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This article used as a source the writing by Eddie Makuch to the website GameSpot.
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