More than 90,000 files were distributed under the guise of the 28 games, which also include titles such as FIFA, The Sims, Far Cry and PUBG. The total number of users who encountered gaming-related malware and unwanted software in the same period was 384,224, Kaspersky said. “Also, we tracked the number of fake cheat programs for the popular games listed above, and an amount of miners that dramatically affect the performance of gamers’ computers.” “We used the titles of the games as keywords and ran these against our KSN telemetry to determine the prevalence of malicious files and unwanted software related to these games, as well as the number of users attacked by these files,” Kaspersky wrote on its Securelist blog. The report found that the top five PC games used as bait for attacks between July 2021 and June this year were Minecraft, Roblox, Need for Speed, Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty. Using the Kaspersky Security Network (KSN), a system for processing anonymised cyberthreat data shared voluntarily by users of the antivirus software, between the period of January 2021 and June 2022, they were able to analyse threats related to these games. Researchers at Moscow-based Kaspersky found that Minecraft and Roblox, both popular with kids, are two of 28 PC and mobile games or series of games identified as attracting considerable threat from cybercriminals with miner attacks, malware files and other unwanted software. Minecraft and Roblox are the two games with the greatest number of malware threats associated with them, according to cybersecurity company Kaspersky. Kaspersky researchers analysed 28 popular games that are being used as lures for distributing malware files and miner attacks.
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