WoW Expansion Beta Likely to Spawn Phishers, Scams

June 30, 2010 – 4:04 pm

By Andrew Brandt Blizzard’s announcement today that they will begin a closed beta-test for the latest expansion pack is likely to generate a lot of excitement among that particularly low breed of online criminals who steal the fruits of other people’s entertainment when they commandeer passwords for other players. While it’s hard to believe that [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Steam Users Targeted by Phishers

August 4, 2009 – 10:15 am

By Andrew Brandt A phishing campaign that started around the beginning of the year, targeting gamers who use Valve Software’s Steam network, continues unabated but with a twist: The phishers have registered dozens of domain names, such as trial-steam.tk or steamcommunity###.tk (where the ### can be a two or three digit number), which are used [...]

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