We've curated 3 cybersecurity statistics about Gaming to help you understand how emerging threats like account takeovers and in-game scams are evolving in 2025. Discover the latest practices to protect your virtual adventures!
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Attack automation services targeting gaming increased from 15% to 25% of all gaming-related attacks.
The Gaming industry, including online sports betting, had a global suspected fraud attempt rate of 6.8%.
The video gaming industry experienced the highest suspected digital fraud attempt rate globally in H1 2025 at 13.5%.
Suspected digital fraud volume for the video gaming industry increased by 3% from H1 2024 to H1 2025.
For transactions where the consumer was in Kenya, the Gaming sector saw the highest rate of suspected digital fraud at 10.4%
Across all industries, there was a 700% global increase in deepfake fraud between Q1 2024 and Q1 2025.
Synthetic identity document fraud rose by 195% between Q1 2024 and Q1 2025.
Europe saw a 5.1% increase in fraud rates in the iGaming industry, from 1.18% in 2024 to 1.24% in 2025.
iGaming operators cited the top threats as: Identity fraud: 64.8%, Money laundering: 64.8%, Bonus abuse: 63.8%, Payments fraud: 31.4%, Account takeovers: 23.8%.
83% of iGaming operators have experienced fraud in the past year.
Legitimate players typically register around 6 p.m. in the iGaming industry.
Latin America (LATAM) saw the steepest fraud rise in the iGaming industry, with a 31.8% increase, from 0.88% in 2024 to 1.16% in 2025.
Africa recorded the biggest drop in fraud rates in the iGaming industry, with a 14.7% decrease, from 2.99% in 2024 to 2.55% in 2025.
Reusable KYC solutions have helped slash return-user verification time by half in the iGaming industry.
The deposit stage is now the most targeted point in the user journey, with 41.9% of iGaming operators citing it as the primary fraud flashpoint. Other vulnerable stages include withdrawals: 22.9% and in-game activity: 11.4%.
Nearly a third (29.5%) of iGaming operators found keeping up with new regulations "very challenging".
iGaming operators using Non-Doc verification reported a 53% drop in processing time and 35% more clients onboarded successfully.
Average verification time across the iGaming industry decreased from 32 seconds in 2023 to 25 seconds in 2025.
Fraudulent activity in the iGaming industry most frequently occurs between 4-8 a.m..
34.3% of iGaming operators saw a large spike in AI-powered fraud.