WoW Players targeted by Cursor hackers

[Tinie]

Gangs of cursor hackers are exploiting flaws in how Windows handles animated cursors to capture to WoW login data.

This security flaw has been revealed in late March, basically you might get it if you visit any website hosting a specific malicious code which lay dormant on a victims machine until they run World of Warcraft at which point it captures login data and send it to the hacking group.

To explain the reason why those hackers gang are targeting WoW Players, Symantec (well known security company) made a research and suggests that the value of a WoW account is now higher than a credit card and its associated verification data.

BBC - "One card can be sold for up to $6 suggests Symantec, but a WoW account will be worth at least $10. An account that has several high level characters associated with it could be worth far more as the gold and rare items can be sold for real cash."

However Microsoft released hotfixes for all systems to resolve this issue, which one can be obtained via Microsoft automatic updates, or manually downloaded here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS07-017.mspx

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6526851.stm

Teza
WoR reporter

 

[example42]

Hmm. A lot of us ought to be able to take out home mortgages with the equity in our accounts.

 

[Expyker]

Is this for real? It sounds pretty far out to me.

 

[Tinie]

I put the links in so you could read them. One of them is a link to a hotfix that Microsoft has made for this issue. That leads me to believe that this is a real problem, but take it as you will.