Minecraft, the Sims & Co.: At these games lurking hidden hazards

Games like Sims 4 and Minecraft are known for their colorful and mostly peaceful world. But with these games, the dangers lurk outside the game world. The speech is of harmful malware that you can capture you in the games. An evaluation now shows which games are most of viruses.

Minecraft is a leader - in poor terms

Minecraft has certainly achieved many milestones, after all, the game has been successful for almost ten years. But now comes a slightly less pleasing record to the light. According to a report by Atlasvpn, the Survival Game is the undisputed leader when it comes to the contamination with malware .

The evaluation has been carried out in the period from July 2020 to June 2021 and is based on anonymous user data of antivirus software Kaspersky.

Accordingly, the Sandbox Game has a whole 184,887 players who have been found in total three million malware discoveries . Both PC and mobile players fell victim to the viruses.

Of course, Minecraft is not alone in this listing. Here you can see the other top candidates when it comes to the contamination with malware on PC games :

1. Minecraft with 184.887 players at 310,891 discoveries

2. The SIMS 4 with 43.252 players at 1,266,804 discoveries

3. PUBG with 26.724 players at 484.528 discoveries

4. Fortnite with 14.702 players at 267,598 discoveries

5. GTA 5 with 14.261 players at 187.114 discoveries

6. Counter-Strike: go with 13,625 players at 327.967 discoveries

7. Rocket League with 4,6231 players at 37.751 discoveries

8. League of Legends with 4,166 players at 56.710 discoveries

9. FIFA 21 with 3,109 Player N (There was no indication of the discoveries)

10. Need for Speed ​​Heat with 2.069 players at 27,786 discoveries

What can you do against malware?

The reason why games like Minecraft and SIMS 4 are all overhead, should have two main reasons . On the one hand, these two games of live additional content from the ranks of the community , such as Mods, Texture Packages and Custom Content. There it is for criminals easier to bring harmful software into circulation and to watch out foreign devices.

On the other hand, the target group consists of, for example, Minecraft often out of younger players , which do not always recognize the hidden dangers at first glance. The missing experience makes malicious malware find their way to their PC or mobile phone faster.

How to protect against viruses? A first step is the establishment of a two-factor authentication . So you can put hackers the crafts that want to go to your sensitive (login) data. Unique and strong passwords are of course also helpful.

Worried games and additional contents as possible in the large and well-known shops like Steam, Epic Games Store, Google Play etc.

If you should not find a specific game in the mentioned shops, it buys directly on the official website of the games. Pay attention to the correct spelling of the URL and check the imprint.

Take up phishing actions and alien players in eight. Do not open any links or files in emails or Ingame chats if you do not know the sender.

Viren in games can be horribly - also horribly, but not harmful are the following bugs from the Sims 4:

Who would have thought that in innocent games like Minecraft and the Sims are the biggest dangers outside the game world? Beware of clever phishing attempts and worried mods and other additional content only on reputable and established pages.