If You’ve Got Game, Phishers Want Your Stuff

June 12, 2009 – 10:26 am

By Andrew Brandt Since the beginning of the year, my colleagues in the Threat Research group and I have been researching an absolutely astonishing volume of phishing Trojans designed solely to steal what videogame players value most: the license keys that one would use to install copies of legitimately purchased PC games, and/or the username [...]

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From Pixels to Phishers

March 31, 2009 – 9:10 am

By Andrew Brandt Over the past year, we’ve seen a huge jump in the number of mass downloader spyware. These small executable files have just one job, and they do it very well: They pull down huge numbers of additional installers, which in turn place a large number of password stealing Trojans, ad-clickers, and still [...]

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