Be careful when playing them These are the eight most used games by hackers to hunt victims
Surely more than one of you has faced the unpleasant situation of encountering some kind of attack or malicious code on several occasions. These can arrive through software downloads that we usually do, or simply by visiting some suspicious web pages. We can also find all kinds of malware simply by clicking on a link that comes to us via email.
In the same vein, we want to focus on entertainment software that is widely spread on PC, mobile platforms and video games. Over the years, many campaigns have been discovered that try to trick users through some very popular games.
Specifically, attackers typically focus on a series of popular games used around the world to try to trick the players themselves. Games in particular are very attractive to cybercriminals, as they are used by users of all ages. Hence, they try to take advantage of less experienced people to induce them to perform some kind of trickery to obtain their private data. This basically means that we should be vigilant and cautious even when we are playing our games during our free time with our computer or phone.
It’s clear that malicious actors are looking for widely used games to try to achieve a higher success rate when trying to trick us. To give you a better idea and to keep you on your toes, below we’ll show you the most commonly used games by these attackers to try to trick us and distribute all sorts of malware.
In fact, we will also tell you how many attack attempts were detected for each of the games presented. In total, we will see the eight games with the highest number of attack and fraud attempts by cybercriminals, a list that is topped by Minecraft.
- Minecraft : Total 3,094,000 attack attempts.
- Roblox : Total 1,650,000 attack attempts.
- Among Us : 945,000 total attack attempts.
- Brawl Stars : Total 310,000 attack attempts.
- Five Nights At Freddys : Total 220,000 attack attempts.
- Fortnite : Total 165,000 attack attempts.
-Angry Birds : Total 66,000 attack attempts.
- The Legend of Zelda : Total 34,000 attack attempts.
As we can see, the attacks on various entertainment games refer to both desktop and mobile games. Here, malicious actors have no limits in trying to obtain certain private data of the affected users. To avoid becoming victims, we should never provide any kind 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 that it is not malicious.