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Metaverse companies face 60% more attacks last year, and 5 other online fraud statistics.
By its reckoning, 21% of all online traffic was fraud or cyberattack related, one in four new account registrations were fake, 80% of all login attacks were credential stuffing attempts and the travel industry was hit particularly hard, with a 12.5 time increase in attacks as people return to traveling.
A whopping 45% of all traffic on travel websites consisted of scraping attacks harvesting customer data for use in further fraud attacks.
Arkose Labs said that "Master fraudsters," which it defines as those with the capabilities to build persistent attacks, invest capital and use fraud farms, are far more likely to target metaverse companies.
Metaverse companies are also hot targets: In 2021 they faced 80% more bot attacks and 40% more human attacks than other businesses.
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