Cyber attacks target video game companies and players

High volumes of attacks have targeted video game companies and players between 2018 and 2020, with an inevitable uptick in attack traffic that correlates with COVID-19-related lockdowns. A new report from Akamai shows that game players themselves are subjected to a steady barrage of criminal activity, largely through credential stuffing and phishing attacks. Akamai observed more than 100 billion credential stuffing attacks from July 2018 to June 2020, with nearly 10 billion of these targeting the gaming sector. It also saw 10.6 billion web application attacks across its customers over the same period, more than 152 million of which were… [Continue Reading]