India 4th Most Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks on Gamers in 2013
New Delhi: India is among the four countries that faced the highest number of cyber attacks aimed at gamers in 2013, security solutions provider Kaspersky Lab said.
India, which faced 2.07 lakh attempts, followed Russia, Vietnam and China in that order.
The number of such attacks could go up as millions are expected to receive games as Christmas presents, especially with the launch of newer versions of popular gaming platforms like PlayStation and the Xbox, Kaspersky experts warned.
The PlayStation 4 will be launched in India on December 18, but announcement on the launch or availability of Xbox One here is not yet known.
The company has identified 4.6 million pieces of gaming focused malware.
The total number of attacks on gamers was 11.7 million globally.
"On an average, users were hit by 34,000 attacks related to gaming malware daily," Kaspersky said in a statement.
Russian gamers were the worst hit, as hackers made over 8.81 lakh attempts on them, while Vietnam saw 5.03 lakh attacks and China saw 3.76 lakh attacks.
Spain saw 1.39 lakh attacks, Poland (1.27 lakh), Turkey (1.21 lakh), Taiwan (97,843), Thailand (92,914) and Italy (75,155).
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