New tricks used by online gaming hackers
- Monday, October 5, 2009, 16:29
- Threat Research
Five years ago a family member bought my kids a game called City of Heroes for Christmas. Within a week, we bought a new computer because the PC we had was unable to run… said the game. (Merry Christmas, right?)
At the time I was very frustrated. I really had no idea why this game was so large and why the kids needed to log on to play. It was the beginning of introducing my family to a MMORPG – Massive Multiplayer Online Role Player Game….and me starting to pay closer attention to how interactive these online games are.
The kids still play that game and the newer version City of Villains today. World of Warcraft is another MMORPG that you may have heard of because it is hugely popular and in the news sometimes.
Imagine my concern when the latest McAfee research paper was released, “Inside the Password Stealing Business: The Who and How of Identity Theft” and they announced that gaming passwords are the most targeted logins on the web!
Below are three ways that apparently the new hacker tricks have moved beyond keyloggers:
1. Now the malware takes screenshots as you enter passwords.
2. Some malware will just go straight into your browser and steal the passwords you have saved so you don’t have to type it in every time you (continue reading...)