Akamai: Web application attacks are up against gamers by 167%
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It’s dangerous these days to be a careless gamer. The research from the folks over at Akamai all but confirms it. Attacks from cyber criminals against player accounts and gaming companies are on the rise. From May 2021 to April 2022, web application attacks are up a stunning 167%.
Web application attacks, to break it down, are the things you kind of think about when someone talks about getting hacked, like a phishing email. But they can get more complicated than that, like SQL injection attacks. Those are kind of like poking at a website database over and over to force it to respond.
The top three web application attacks this year are LFI attacks (38%), SQLi attacks (34%) and XSS attacks (24%). DDOS attacks rose by 5% this year as well. There were 821,648,208 web application attacks this year, just in the gaming industry.
The question is why is there such an increase? The answer? It’s money. It’s always about the money.
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Cyber criminals use these kinds of attacks to breach game systems and accounts, which can grant them access to player credentials, passwords, account details and more. Gaining access to back-end databases can allow them to create cheats in games, then turn around and sell them. They can quietly manipulate in-game economies for their own ends, usually in the pursuit of real-world money.
It isn’t just quiet manipulation,
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