The different malicious actors that stalk our every movement on the Internet use any software or platform to access our data. Even when it comes to playing we are in danger and putting our teams at risk.
Surely more than one of you have experienced the unpleasant situation of facing some type of attack or malicious code on several occasions. These can arrive through the downloads of programs that we usually perform, or by simply visiting some suspicious web pages. We can also find all types of malware just by clicking on the link that comes to us by email.
Even in documents, in principle completely legitimate, from applications such as Microsoft Word, we can find some type of embedded virus. Along these same lines we want to focus on that leisure software that is increasingly widespread on PC and mobile platforms, video games. And over the years, a multitude of campaigns have been detected that try to scam users through some very popular titles.
Specifically, attackers usually focus on a series of games that are widespread and used around the world to try to deceive the players themselves. This type of software in particular is very attractive to cybercriminals, since it is used by users of all age ranges. Hence, they try to take advantage of the less experienced to induce them into some type of deception to obtain their private data.
Basically this means that we must be alert even when we miss our games during leisure moments with the computer or phone.
These are the most used games to try to scam you
Evidently, malicious actors look for massively used titles to try to have a higher rate of success when trying to deceive us. To give you a better idea and stay alert, below we are going to show you the games most used by these attackers to try to scam us and distribute all types of malware.
In fact, we will also tell you about the number of attempted attacks detected for each of the titles shown and that have become victims. In total we will see the 8 titles in the form of games with the highest number of attempted attacks and scams by cybercriminals, a list headed by Minecraft.
- Minecraft: 3,094,000 attack attempts.
- Roblox: 1,650,000 attack attempts.
- Among Us: 945,000 attack attempts.
- Brawl Stars: 310,000 attack attempts.
- Five Nights At Freddys: 220,000 attack attempts.
- Fortnite: 165,000 attack attempts.
- Angry Birds: 66,000 attack attempts.
- The Legend of Zelda: 34,000 attack attempts.
As we can see, the attack attempts suffered by different entertainment titles refer to both desktop and mobile device games. And here malicious actors have no limits in trying to obtain certain private data of affected users. To avoid becoming victims, we should never provide any type of access key to anyone.
Also, before clicking on any link that comes to us while playing, we should check the URL carefully to make sure it is not malicious.
