Keylogger Scam
Posted by Stropp on September 27, 2006The other day I wrote about Account Security because a few members of the Ministry of Offence were having problems that seemed to indicate that their accounts had been hacked. This got me thinking about account security in general and how it applies to World of Warcraft in particular.
This evening I was doing a bit of blog surfing and I came across an entry written by Tobold a few days ago. It appears that:
…There has been a recent spate of trojan keylogger activity directed against players of World of Warcraft. Trojans have been hidden in World of Warcraft related files and websites, for examples in the file of a raid addon named KHT Threatmeter on the Curse Gaming addon website. With the help of the trojan keylogger the hackers gained access to WoW account names and passwords. Then they stripped the characters of all valuables, disenchanted the epics into Nexus crystals, sent everything to another account from where the goods were sold and ultimately converted into real dollars, and left the original owner of the account standing naked…
This activity has come up quite strongly on Blizzards radar. They are warning people to be careful. So am I.
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[...] Nathaera from the Blizzard Forums has posted a warning about a new spate of keylogger scams. It seems that there have been a number of posts on the forums including links to a hostile program called tony danza. So, if you are browsing the forums at the moment be very careful of the links that you follow. [...]
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