Gmo Posted May 4, 2006 Report Posted May 4, 2006 Tengan cuidado para q no les pase nada de esto... Trojan Snags World Of Warcraft Passwords To Cash Out Accounts Attackers hope to take over users' accounts, then make money by selling the players' in-game goods, such as weapons. By Gregg Keizer TechWeb.com May 2, 2006 03:48 PM A new password-stealing Trojan targeting players of the popular online game "World of Warcraft" hopes to make money off secondary sales of gamer goods, a security company warned Tuesday. MicroWorld, an Indian-based anti-virus and security software maker with offices in the U.S., Germany, and Malaysia, said that the PWS.Win32.WOW.x Trojan horse was spreading fast, and attacking World of Warcraft players. If the attacker managed to hijack a password, he could transfer in-game goods -- personal items, including weapons -- that the player had accumulated to his own account, then later sell them for real-world cash on "gray market" Web sites. Unlike some rival multiplayer online games, Warcraft's publisher, Blizzard Entertainment, bans the practice of trading virtual items for real cash. "Win32.WOW is a clear indication that malware writers are targeting anything that involves money," said MicroWorld chief executive Govind Rammurthy in a statement. "Bucks may be smaller compared to a Trojan that steals bank accounts or credit card numbers...[but] cyber criminals are not complaining as long as the target is soft and numbers are high." The Trojan spreads via traditional vectors, such as e-mail and peer-to-peer file sharing, added Rammurthy, but it has also been watched while it installs in a drive-by download from gaming sites' pop-up ads. The surreptitious installation is accomplished by exploiting various vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser. Identity thieves have aimed at Warcraft previously. Just over a year ago, players were warned about a campaign that collected passwords from a bogus log-in site. Source: http://www.informationweek.com/news/showAr...2835&subSection=
MalkavX Posted May 11, 2006 Report Posted May 11, 2006 A veces uno cree que eso es paja, pero a un compa mio, por ese metodo, le robaron todo lo que tenía su personaje...
Gmo Posted May 11, 2006 Author Report Posted May 11, 2006 Aunq fuera paja siempre es mejor tener cuidado, y mas con algo q se esta pagando :l
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