by Jeff Woleslagle on Jun 01, 2006
A look into the seedy, slimey underworld of WoW hackers...
ITWorldCanada did a nice bit of investigative journalism on the hack attacks made against World of Warcraft players in May.
Win32.WOW entered gamers accounts via e-mail or seemingly innocuous peer-to-peer downloads.
"The key logger virus sits silently in gamers' computers recording key strokes. In this way it acquires users login information," said David Frazer, director of technology services at F-Secure Corp., a Helsinki, Finland-based security software vendor.
Is your WoW account vulnerable? Check out "The Games Hackers Play" at ITWorldCanada to find out!