On a phishing site the user may get a whole manual on how to install the cheat properly. One of the most common social engineering techniques targeting young players involves offers to download popular cheats and mods for games. They hope children and teenagers have little or no experience or knowledge of cybercriminal traps and will easily fall for even the most primitive scams,” said Vasily Kolesnikov, security expert at Kaspersky, in a statement. “When focusing on young players, cybercriminals don’t even bother to make deception schemes less obvious. In total, over 878,000 phishing pages were created for these four games in 2022. Since half of Roblox’s 60 million users are under the age of 13, the majority of victims of these cybercriminals’ attacks are potentially children who lack knowledge of cybersecurity.Īccording to Kaspersky statistics, phishing pages used by cybercriminals to target young players primarily mimicked Roblox, Minecraft, Fortnite and Apex Legends games. This resulted in a 14 percent increase in the number of victims, compared to 33,000 gamers attacked in 2021. In the same period, nearly 40,000 users tried to download a malicious file, mimicking Roblox, a popular kids’ game platform. Since children of this age often do not have their own computers and play from their parents’ devices, the threats spread by cybercriminals are most likely aimed at obtaining credit card data and credentials of the parents. In 2022, 232,735 gamers encountered almost 40,000 files, including malware and potentially unwanted applications, that were disguised as the most popular children’s games.
In 2021, cybercriminals attempted 4.5 million attacks, resulting in a 57 percent increase in attack attempts in 2022. Kaspersky security solutions detected more than seven million attacks from January 2022 and December 2022. Kaspersky experts analyzed threats related to the most popular online games for three- to 16-year-old kids.
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