Cybersecurity Challenges With E-Sports Or Online Gaming

E-sports have taken the world by storm and growing rapidly, it's inevitable that attackers will look to capitalize on vulnerabilities at every stage of the workflow. Online gaming leaves players and online games vulnerable to attacks. Cybercriminals are undoubtedly paying attention to the esports market and they're looking to make a quick buck by modding games, stealing valuable intellectual property and ripping tournament streams

- Anuradha Choudhary

The gaming industry has exploded rapidly in the recent years and it is not only limited to a specific aged-group audience and users, but individuals belonging to every age group. Such a rapid growth has been noticed since the pandemic times when boredom let every person indulge themselves in something new, particularly in gaming and technology sector.

However, too much of anything is dangerous and this includes the gaming industry. Current statistics predict that e-sports has the viability to generate as close as $200 billion in revenue by the end of this year. Going by the ThreatMetrix Gaming and Gambling Cybercrime Report, approximately 5% of accounts created at gaming sites are linked to fraudster.

The unprecedented growth is also somewhat in relation to cybersecurity threats which most gamers intend to ignore. Let’s go back down the memory lane when in 2021, the maker of the popular video game cyberpunk 2077 was hacked in a Ransome attack. To all the quests, it later turned out that certain information was leaked which was discovered and saved via data miners.