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Games today have become a particularly rich hunting ground for cyber criminals. From November 2017 to March 2019, gaming websites were impacted by over 2 billion credential stuffing attacks, and threats like SQL injection and in-game fraud are rising.
“Money is constantly going in and out of games, and a lot of money being made in general,” says Jonathan Singer, Senior Manager, Global Games Industry, at Akamai Technologies. “It’s not just that gamers are known for being big spenders, but the amount of money that the industry itself makes brings it more and more to the attention of folks outside of the industry.”
A great example of this is last year’s Red Dead Redemption 2 launch, which generated $725 million in the first three days of release, the best opening weekend in entertainment history. That kind of money perks up the…
