Dead by Daylight has always had a contentious relationship with its community of players, from visual and performance bugs to pushed content taking priority over perceived errors. Rather, these gripes in Dead by Daylight have been relatively harmless to players' experiences with the game with respect to recent ordeals.

Players should be excited to experience Dead by Daylight's newest chapter, but the excitement has been tainted lately for individuals who livestream Dead by Daylight. Recently, an incredibly serious breach of security has extrapolated outward from the regular concerns that Dead by Daylight's community typically concentrates upon.

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Many Dead by Daylight streamers are currently being DDoSed, doxxed, and swatted. DDoS, abbreviated from 'distributed denial-of-service,' is a malicious malware flood of bots that effectively halts the ordinary function of the network system it attacks—in this case, the DDoS attacks abruptly cripple the victims' livestreams. These attacks can lead, and have led, to leaks of victims' IP addresses and other doxxed information, putting streamers' privacy at risk and rendering their personal information vulnerable.

Elix, a streamer and drag queen, recently shared an account of when they had been doxxed and subsequently swatted while live. This confirms that these malicious attacks concern larger safety issues and have explicitly impacted Dead by Daylight players. It was previously believed that the attacks were conducted through Dead by Daylight's latest PTB, though that has been confirmed false as DDoS attacks have perpetuated in regular servers as well.

Tech-savvy individuals who may have dealt with such cyberware vulnerabilities before suggest a VPN, which allows for encrypted, private networking, as a default line of defense. It is currently unclear why Dead by Daylight streamers are being targeted specifically, though it has ensued rampantly in the past week across a seemingly indiscriminate number of streamers, so perhaps it is a security breach that has been left vulnerable through the game itself.

Behaviour Interactive has not acknowledged this substantial security error on its public socials as it would with other community-related news. However, Behaviour provided Eurogamer with a statement that states the community is "of the highest importance," stating that the issue is something that the developer does "deplore and take extremely seriously." Rather, no explanation or reprieve is afforded other than stating that the community can report these issues when they arise.

It is heartwarming to see other streamers come to the aid of those who have suffered cyberattacks recently, though they also deserve an official statement addressed to them directly about Dead by Daylight's legitimate safety concerns as they continue to occur.

Dead by Daylight is available for Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Stadia, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

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Source: Eurogamer