A team of experts Kaspersky Lab has teamed up, providing tips with developers of the action and adventure game Watch Dogs. It game was released on May 27 worldwide by Ubisoft, a leading producer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment products. Her goal cooperations was to avoid attempts to over-impress or misrepresent cyberspace. Another goal was to ensure the maximum possible realism in the game's theoretical digital scenarios, both in game play and in character and plot development.
Watch Dogs tells the story of Aiden Pearce, an extraordinary hacker whose criminal past led to a violent family tragedy. By chasing those who have harmed his family, players will be able to monitor and "hack" their enemies, controlling anything connected to the City Central Operating System (ctOS). Watch Dogs allows the player to use Chicago as his ultimate weapon and apply his own style of revenge.
The Watch Dogs development team approached Kaspersky Lab experts in early 2013, shortly after the latter released a major investigation into the digital espionage campaign. Red October. Red October was an advanced digital espionage toolkit capable of stealing data from computer systems, collecting information from smartphones, recording audio files if the system had a microphone, and hacking into webcam transmissions. He then "uploaded" everything to a server. By that time, most of the Watch Dogs script had been completed and the developers were putting the finishing touches on it to make it look more realistic. At this point, the collaboration with the Kaspersky Lab team began. The team of experts of the company offered technical advice and suggestions on what they considered accurate and what could be adapted or changed, so that the game and the development of the plot look more authentic in technical terms.
Commenting on the collaboration with Ubisoft on Watch Dogs, Vitaly Kamluk, Principal Security Researcher of Kaspersky Lab's Global Research and Analysis Team, said: "This game really got us interested. Ubisoft was very accurate in predicting impending threats and what cities might look like in five or ten years. Many of the digital attacks that take place in the game have already taken place. The game successfully portrays what can happen if control of the systems falls into the wrong hands. By playing, you can gain control and see how this creates difficulties for the people around you. "You can take the situation to the extreme and cause chaos in the city, while your actions can even hurt or kill people."
For example, most "hacks" in the game are related to automatic systems control. Πρόκειται για μια σχετικά νέα τάση, που ξεκίνησε πριν μερικά χρόνια με την εμφάνιση του worm Stuxnet, το οποίο επιτέθηκε εναντίον βιομηχανικών συστημάτων ελέγχου σε μια Ιρανική μονάδα πυρηνικής ενέργειας. Αυτό αποτέλεσε ένα παράδειγμα για το πώς ένα ηλεκτρονικό πρόγραμμα μπορεί να προκαλέσει ζημιά στον πραγματικό κόσμο, καθώς το Stuxnet κατέστρεψε πραγματικό latest technology equipment. Το ίδιο μπορεί να συμβεί και στο Watch Dogs.
Ο Vitaly Kamluk He added: "Some of the digital attacks are similar to what happens in the real world. Fortunately, however, they remain just a simulation! It is important to understand that Watch dogs do not teach you how to become a hacker. What it can do is show you how powerful a hacking tool can be. We hope that the game will give the world the opportunity to consider the security of future urban operating systems, which must be taken very seriously. "Ultimately, if these systems are 'hacked', the consequences can be catastrophic."
"Working with Kaspersky Lab has helped us ensure the realism of the game in technical terms," he said. Thomas Geffroyd, Brand Content Director of Ubisoft. "We had to work freely to some degree in order for the game to retain its fun character. So, Vitaly and his team gave us the right advice, as part of our effort to integrate this content into a video game. "
