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The popular online game World of Warcraft (WoW) is being hit with a new phishing scheme that lets attackers steal players’ accumulated “gold” and other treasure by luring players with offers of free “mounts” used in the online game, say security researchers at F-Secure. The link takes the player to a site that looks exactly like World of Warcraft and offers them free “mounts,” the fantasy horses that humans would ride or trusted wolf mounts that the Orcs prefer, which have powers like helping move the player more quickly through the game or defend them against monsters. If the victim falls for the “free mounts” phishing fraud and enters his online credentials, the attacker can take over his account and steal all the “gold” or other treasures the player accumulated in the game’s progress. The latest phishing scam to hit WoW, which F-Secure describes here , is a new twist on some of the older attacks that made use of malicious banner ads on WoW to try and install trojans on victim’s desktops. The current “mounts” phishing scam allows the successful attacker to steal whatever treasures the victim has associated with the WoW account, and then to go after other victims. read more
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