It’s not surprising that financial services like PayPal and other digital wallets are among the top targets for hackers. But hackers can just as easily access your bank account from your shopping and gaming accounts.
Gaming and consumer goods are the top two targets for unique distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks after financial services, according to data shared by Akamai. But overall, most of the attack events were still targetted at the gaming industry.
A DDoS attack is like traffic congestion that causes a jam along the highway — it overwhelms the target with a flood of internet traffic. When suffering a DDoS attack you probably will not be able to connect to your game’s server since the aim is to overwhelm a server’s processing power.
DDoS attacks most often target gaming companies, but attacks against the financial services industry are much more dispersed across multiple targetsAkamai Year in Review report
Here’s why hackers want your gaming accountsCredit abuse is nothing new for the gaming or retail industry. But, it’s not just money that hackers are after. Most of the market demand for hacked gaming accounts comes from users who have been banned and need a new way to gain access to a particular game.
Although gaming organizations are only the target of a small percentage of the attacks Akamai sees, they have still been targeted by more than 35 million attempts in the first nine months of 2019Akamai Year in Review report
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