14 DAY TRIAL // Remember the WoW account hacking? If you're a WoW player, you couldn't have missed any of the articles posting this issue. Well, as it turns out, an article posted by grimwell says that someone might have found the problem behind all the account hacking, stealing and selling even 5 year's worth items. A piece of the BBC news article says:
"Analysis [...] showed that it lay dormant on a victims machine until they ran World of Warcraft (WoW) at which point it captured login data and sent it to the hacking group. The group's enthusiastic use of the cursor flaw suggests it is trying to do the same again. The online fantasy game now has more than eight million active players around the world. Research by security firm Symantec suggests that the raw value of a WoW account is now higher than a credit card and its associated verification data."
Normally, as a WoW player, you'd know about the risks involved when creating an online account, yet some were lazy enough not to check on their accounts every once in a while, thus resulting in their items and WoW currency being stolen. Everyone knows that stuff like that happen, some even managed to hack the Superbowl website and use it to host code for spyware, so monitor the hell out of your computer!
In an article I wrote yesterday about hackers seeing console users as the new target, there is a comment coming from Stefana Muller, director of product management at security software maker CA 1, statement (found in an article on the age.com) who thinks the same thing: "I think it's going to be an 'I did it' kind of target, 'I got to exploit this gaming console'. It's obvious that once a new thing comes out, if it's cool, it will be exploited." So never underestimate their power and don't think that it's not going to happen to you. It will eventually if you don't keep a close eye on your WoW account.