The US is the number one target for cyber-attacks on the gaming sector, with incidents up 167% in the past year and DDoS and ransomware attacks among the main problems facing the industry…
A new report by cybersecurity firm Akamai, titled Gaming Respawned, reveals that the US leads the field in such attacks, followed by Switzerland, India, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
Akamai’s latest State of the Internet (SOTI) report states that, “Cyber-criminals know there is value in gaming, and they will continue to invent ways of getting it or exploiting the flow of virtual funds.”
They add: “ Cyberattacks on player accounts and gaming companies increased dramatically in the past year,” with the 167% increase focused mainly on web application and API attacks.
The top three web application attacks were: LFI, Local File Inclusion attacks, where attackers trick a web application into running or exposing files on a web server, accounting for 38% of attacks,
SQLi, a code “injection” which gains unauthorized access to a web application database by adding a string of malicious code to a database query, responsible for 34% of all attacks, and
XSS, Cross-Site Scripting, another type of injection attack, in which malicious scripts are injected into otherwise benign and trusted websites, at 24%.
“As gaming activity has increased and evolved, so has the value of disrupting it through cyber-attacks,” states Jonathan Singer, Akamai’s senior strategist for the media and entertainment industries.
He adds: “Cyber-criminals typically disrupt live services and co-opt credentials to steal gaming assets. Also, with the industry’s expansion into cloud gaming, new threat surfaces have opened up for attackers by bringing in new players who are prime targets for bad actors.”DDoS attacks, or Distributed Denial-of-Service, are one of the main threats against the gaming industry, up 5% year-on-year and accounting for 37% of all attacks worldwide.A DDoS attack is described by CloudFlare as “a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, service or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of Internet traffic.”GGPoker suffered a major DDoS attack on the opening day of their […]
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