Angels of security » money http://angelsofsecurity.com/blog Musings of an infosec renegade Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:01:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 malware steals game credentials http://angelsofsecurity.com/blog/2008/06/24/malware-steals-game-credentials/ http://angelsofsecurity.com/blog/2008/06/24/malware-steals-game-credentials/#comments Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:20:00 +0000 admin http://angelsofsecurity.com/blog/2008/06/24/malware-steals-game-credentials/ According 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.

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Oleksandr Dorozhko hacked a system containing information on IMS health that would negatively affect their stock price. (Or, possibly, someone else hacked the system and gave him the information). He invested in puts and netted himself about $300,000 in one day. The SEC noticed and tried to block it, but the court has ruled that a hacker is not an insider, and therefore insider trading does not apply. Mr. Dorozhko gets to keep every cent of his admittedly ill-gotten gains.

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