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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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Game Phishing Trojan Uses DirectX to Launch Itself

May 20, 2010 – 1:42 pm

By Andrew Brandt PC gamers have a new threat to contend with, one that has your personal information in its crosshairs and you can’t dispatch with a sniper rifle or BFG9000: A Trojan designed to steal game passwords that uses Microsoft’s own graphics engine, DirectX, against you. The Trojan, which appears to have originated in [...]

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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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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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BlizzCon, Gamers, WoW Trojans, Oh My

August 20, 2009 – 3:28 pm

By Curtis Fechner and Grayson Milbourne Tomorrow morning, Blizzard Entertainment (the publisher of the wildly popular World of Warcraft franchise) will kick off another BlizzCon to show off their latest projects and directly interact with their fanbase. World of Warcraft will likely take center stage at the convention, which has become the venue of choice [...]

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Gamers: Fight the Phishers

June 17, 2009 – 1:01 pm

By Andrew Brandt Last week, I posted a blog item that explained how gamers face a growing security threat in phishing Trojans — software that can steal the passwords to online games, or the license keys for offline games, and pass them along to far-flung criminal groups. We know why organized Internet criminals engage in [...]

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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 [...]

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