While this article applies more to World of Warcraft players more than any other game, mostly because there are so many WoW players out there, most of this advice applies to any games, or even web services you use. EVE, Aion, FFXIV,LineageII, Paypal, your Bank Account, Facebook… these days scammers can target pretty much anything and everything. The scary part is how easy it is to run these scams, and how easy it is for you to fall for it if you are not diligent. Read More

We recently analyzed a new sample submitted to Symantec and came across a server hosting the credentials of 44 million stolen gaming accounts.What was interesting about this threat wasn’t just the sheer number of stolen accounts, but that the accounts were being validated by a Trojan distributed to compromised computers. Symantec detects this threat as Trojan.Loginck. Read More