Akamai Research Shows Attacks On Gaming Companies Have More Than Doubled Over Past Year
State of the Internet report shows gaming companies and gamer accounts at risk, following a surge in web application attacks post pandemic
Attacks on web applications in the gaming sector puts player accounts at risk of being compromised by cyber criminals resulting in the selling of gaming accounts and theft of personal information including credit card data. The microtransaction market is reportedly expected to reach
Other key findings of Gaming Respawned include:
- Web application attacks in the gaming sector have grown by 167 percent from Q1 2021 to Q1 2022, impacting millions of video gamer accounts worldwide.
The United States is the main target of attackers, followed bySwitzerland ,India ,Japan , theUnited Kingdom and other nations throughoutEurope andAsia .- Gaming companies are moving operations into the cloud, creating new threat surfaces for hackers.
- Microtransactions - prevalent in the gaming industry - represent a huge draw for criminals who can capitalize on the spending power of gamers without drawing attention to themselves.
"As gaming activity has increased and evolved, so has the value of disrupting it through cyber attacks," said
Akamai experts attending Black Hat will be available to speak about the report and are presenting a Lunch and Learn session at the event titled, "A Deep Dive into Obfuscation Techniques Observed in the Wild and How to Tame Them." The session will be held on
For additional information, the security community can access, engage with, and learn from Akamai's threat researchers by visiting the new Akamai Security Hub and following the team on Twitter at @Akamai_Research.
To meet with Akamai at the 2022 Black Hat conference in
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