malware steals game credentials
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008According to the statistics from Microsoft’s malicious software removal tool, trojan horses designed to steal online game credentials are now more prevalent than more traditional trojans which simply turn a PC into part of a DDoS zombie network. Frankly this doesn’t surprise me too much. After all the main driver behind botnets these days is purely monetary. Since multiplayer games are now also an economic engine, it makes sense for virus writers to start going after them.
