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Game Trojans’ Biggest Tricks in 2010

October 22, 2010 – 1:22 pm

By Andrew Brandt and Curtis Fechner It’s appropriate that this year’s Blizzcon, the two-day celebration of all things World of Warcraft, takes place during National Cyber Security Awareness Month. No other game is as heavily targeted by thieves as WoW, so we thought this would be as good a time as any to run down [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Botnet activity, Destructive behavior, Downloaders, Gaming threats, Keyloggers, phishing, Phishing Trojans, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: Activision, blizzard, blizzcon, Game phishers, National Cyber Security Awareness Month, Trojan-PWS-Cashcab, Trojan-PWS-IMEsneak, TRxCF, World of Warcraft, WoW | Comments (1)

WoW Patch Brings Out the Malware Trolls

October 20, 2010 – 10:42 am

By Andrew Brandt Last week, Activision/Blizzard released a long-anticipated patch for its immensely popular game, World of Warcraft. While I don’t play this game, a number of our Threat Researchers do, and they’ve been on the lookout for shenanigans. Curtis Fechner found a doozy. The update comprises a major overhaul of many core systems within [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Gaming threats, phishing, Phishing Trojans, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research, Trojans | Tags: 4.0.1 patch, configuring, DllDog, LUA files, RatingBuster, ratingbuster.org, rbv1.4.9.exe, Trojan-PWS-DllDog, TRxCF, WhiteTooth, World of Warcraft, WoW, Xiamen ChinaSource Internet Service Co. | Comments (2)

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 [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Firefox, Gaming threats, Passwords, PC gaming, phishing, Phishing Trojans, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: blizzard, expansion, game phishing, phishing, TRxCF, World of Warcraft, WoW | Comments (7)

Phisher Puts Antiphishing Tool in the Crosshairs

June 3, 2010 – 8:58 am

By Andrew Brandt A small-time Trojan has decided to butt heads with a big-time anti-phishing tool, and ended up with dirt on its face. The malware looks like a fairly generic clone of Trojan-Phisher-SABanks, with an extra feature that sounds like it might be a good selling point for cheap cybercrooks intent on stealing a [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Keyloggers, phishing, Phishing Trojans, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: antiphishing, phishing, Phishing Trojans, Rancor, SABanks, Trojan-Phisher-Rancor, Trojan-Phisher-SABanks, TRxCF | Comments (1)

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