In the first quarter of 2024, Android users from Russia encountered malware disguised as games twice as often as during the same period last year. These data were disclosed by “Kaspersky Lab” in an interview with the newspaper “Vedomosti”.

Kaspersky Lab has detected more than 4 million attempts by fraudsters to disguise malware as video games in the period from July 1, 2022 to July 1, 2023. The list of the most popular titles includes Minecraft, PUBG and Hogwarts Legacy.

Kaspersky Lab has released a report on cyber attacks against children using video games. The company said that over the past year it recorded more than 7 million such cyber attacks — 57% more than in 2021.

This was reported by experts from StormWall in the comment “TASS”. According to their data, mobile and PC games were most often the target of cyber attacks.

The list was published by Kaspersky Lab, which analyzed cyber attacks in the field of games for the period from July 2021 to June 2022.

How many gamers are there in Russia who want to work in the gaming industry? What areas are they interested in? What do their parents think about it? — Kaspersky Lab decided to answer such questions together with the analytical company Savanta.

Kaspersky Lab wants to invest in gaming technologies. The antivirus corporation announced this on its official website. She is not interested in direct game development. However, it will at least invest in services designed to protect developers and players.