Category Archives: Gaming threats

Stealing virtual items from videogame characters in massively-multiplayer games, then reselling the items in a quasilegal grey market to other gamers, makes a lot of criminals a lot of ‘IRL’ money.

Phishers Break WoW’s Magic Spell Over Gamers

January 13, 2010 – 10:04 am

By Curtis Fechner and Andrew Brandt While we’ve touched on the subject of World of Warcraft phishers (and the Trojans they attempt to spread) a handful of times in the past several months, it’s worth mentioning the ongoing problems phishing posts cause both players and Blizzard, the game’s operator. To recap, the official message board [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Keyloggers, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (3)

The WoW Catphishers are Biting

August 26, 2009 – 9:21 am

By Andrew Brandt The body’s barely cold from last week’s BlizzCon, but the script kiddies who write phishing kits have been hard at work putting their best foot forward, crafting account-stealing code that targets gullible WoW players who want an early peek at the just-announced Cataclysm expansion. These Catphish pages, linked off of YouTube video [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Keyloggers, Phishing Trojans, Stupid malware tricks | Comments (5)

How Phishers Target WoW Players

August 21, 2009 – 2:50 pm

By Andrew Brandt, Curtis Fechner, and Grayson Milbourne Yesterday, at the opening of our BlizzCon coverage, we showed you just how commonly phishers target WoW players by posting innocuous-looking links in message board or forums frequented by players. Today, we’ve produced a really short video that shows exactly how someone infects their computer with a [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Phishing Trojans, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (10)

5 PC Gaming Threats and How To Beat Them

June 3, 2009 – 10:17 am

By Mike Kronenberg E3, the annual trade show for the computer and video games industry, kicked off in Los Angeles yesterday, not long after the unofficial start of summer on Memorial Day. These events got me thinking about what many students might do with their free time over the next three months. I imagine that [...]

By Mike | Also posted in Keyloggers, PC gaming | Comments (5)
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