Comments on: WoW Expansion Beta Likely to Spawn Phishers, Scams

By: Game Trojans’ Biggest Tricks in 2010 « Webroot Threat Blog

Game Trojans’ Biggest Tricks in 2010 « Webroot Threat Blog — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:22:46 +0000

[...] people who create malware targeting online games show no signs of relenting, nor are they laying down on the job. Innovation is the name of the game, and password-stealers [...]

By: Andy Brown

Andy Brown — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:05:05 +0000

And you have my warmest thanks for the effort you put into helping combat these phisher and making their scams more public. Keep up the good work.

By: Andrew Brandt

Andrew Brandt — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:38:40 +0000

There are a lot of gamers in the Threat Research group, so this is near and dear to our hearts as well. We’re sick of seeing our friends and adversaries in the gaming world getting nailed by this stuff.

By: Andy Brown

Andy Brown — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:06:21 +0000

Thanks for your reply Andrew. This is one area I have taken a very active interest in with the hope that any site or e-mail I identify as a phishing scam will help stop another person becoming a victim. I quickly learnt that there are thousands of these sites which are out to steal gamers data. So many that it is impossible to keep track of them all. Thankfully we have many groups combatting them however users generally do not get to see these sites identified unless they use some sort of browser advisor or visit phish tanks and the like. Due to the increasing amount of scams we are seeing daily, I feel that more could be done by Domains registras, hosting companies, SEOs and ISP’s to remove these parasites more quickly.

By: Andrew Brandt

Andrew Brandt — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:54:03 +0000

As we’ve written before, phishers have been using the Cataclysm beta as a hook for more than a year. Now that Blizzard is actually going ahead with a beta, I agree with your point: it’s likely we’ll see this ongoing activity ramp up.

By: Andy Brown

Andy Brown — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:39:11 +0000

Thanks for this information but this is already happening and phishers have stepped up their activity, as shown on my blog. I get regular phish e-mails trying to steal my account information using any ploy going. The phishers (pretending to be Gamemasters) are also active ingame by whispering players that their account is going to be suspended and to ammend their details on a phish link.

It is amazing that anyone would fall for this but obviously many do Blizzard are aware of the increase in phish/spam activity and do try to make gamers aware but many seem to lack common sense.

By: WoW Expansion Beta Likely to Spawn Phishers, Scams - Donna's SecurityFlash

WoW Expansion Beta Likely to Spawn Phishers, Scams - Donna's SecurityFlash — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:41:37 +0000

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