Hackers looking to grab game passwords

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Hackers looking to grab game passwords

March 13, 2008 (IDG News Service) Hackers looking to steal passwords used in popular online games have infected more than 10,000 Web pages in recent days.

The Web attack, which appears to be a coordinated effort run out of servers in China, was first noticed by McAfee Inc. researchers on Wednesday morning. Within hours, the security company had tracked more than 10,000 Web pages infected on hundreds of Web sites.

McAfee isn't sure how so many sites have been hacked, but "given how quickly some of these attacks have come on, it does seem like some automation has gone on," said Craig Schmugar, a researcher at McAfee's Avert Labs unit. In the past, attackers have used search engines to scour the Internet for vulnerable Web sites and then written automated tools to flood them with attacks, which ultimately let criminals use legitimate sites to serve up their malicious code.

 

[Gwydion]

Wowhead, thottbot, and allakhazam recievied adverisements that, when scrolled over, (insert lots of technical words that summarizes to Keylogs).

I didn't understand any of it, but yep...be careful of where you go.

 

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Wowhead, thottbot, and allakhazam recievied adverisements that, when scrolled over, (insert lots of technical words that summarizes to Keylogs).

I didn't understand any of it, but yep...be careful of where you go.

Yeah it makes sense those are major Warcraft sites .......

 

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Beware of Web Paging Demanding New Codec Install

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Likely relying on an automated tool to do the dirty work, the hackers add IFrame code to the saved search results on the sites, Greenbaum said. The next visitor that uses the search tool is then redirected to another Web site by the IFrame code. The second site in turn puts up a message telling the user that a new codec (coder/decoder) needs to be installed. Accepting the codec takes the user to still another site, which actually hosts the malware -- a new variant of the Zlob Trojan horse -- and installs it on the victim's PC.