Players are a key target for cybercriminals
Cybercriminals are becoming avid start targeting players to steal their data from their game accounts and those of their virtual objects whose value can reach thousands of dollars for some of them.
gamersglobal growth identified cyber attacks Kaspersky announced targeting. Between January and June 2013, are well over two million attacks against players around the world that have been identified, representing almost 11,500 attacks per day, while the number reached 7,000 in 2012.
Kaspersky Lab has identified 10 European countries that are most affected by the attack attempts in the first half of 2013: Spain comes first with 94,700 annual attacks, followed by Poland (85,000), followed by Italy (52 0). France is fourth with 29,300 targeted attacks. Then comes Germany (18 300 attacks), Ukraine, Greece, Romania, Portugal and Serbia.
Players are indeed lucrative targets for cyber criminals. "The increasing use real money to buy virtual items can increase their yields," says Nicolas Burn, Senior Malware Researcher at Kaspersky Lab. "Phishing is also very present and is suitable for video game codes."
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