The number of people trying to rip off your account details never ceases.... this time they are sending out fake emails from the people at Curse claiming that addons have been updated etc. Of course the fake email contains a keylogger! Recently, there has been emails trolling around from people impersonating the Curse support staff with "updated addons" information and links to keyloggers and trojans. These emails contains links to downloads from Rapidshare Servers with executables.
Please be warned that the ONLY urls that are official Curse downloads are those where the download URL is either on curse.com, cursebeta.com, or curse-gaming.com. |
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Here's a story of someone who supposedly got GM access to their guild via some sort of backdoor or hack, and then proceeded to /gdisband it after they were /gkicked for lack of attendance. What's more, it plays out all over the WoW Forums! DRAMA
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Here's a keylogger warning going around the World of Warcraft EU forums... don't click any links that seem dodgy! There is a keylogger going around by a night elf druid called: Khugan
The Message she writes is:
Abb-Mage 4-70 PvP Video Tablet
As early as February on the release of four Abb the trailer, after three months, and finally to see this work published. This gift to 17/0/44, a lot of the battlefield, field and dues, dazzling 1vN. This works in the video, he devoted little to appreciate about this long-awaited master works!
DONNOT CLICK THE LINK UNDERNEATH THE WRITING ABOVE.
( Link not included for reasons stated above )
If you have clicked the link you will get a keylogger and if you do
SCAN A.S.A.P |
Blizzard are sick of being flamed, here's the response to one persons complaints of them not fixing a hacked account quickly enough. Ok, first of all: WE didn't hack the poor guy's account. Most cases like this, someone clicked a link they shouldn't have. Could be a fluke obviously, or something he could nothing about, fair enough.
Then consider that he is not the only one with this problem. Would you prefer us spending time on providing regular updates, showing you what we're doing, or would you prefer we spend those resources actually solving problems?
The bad copy/paste is, of course, not perfect. We're human beings doing this work, sometimes something goes wrong. For that one can only apologise. But why flame that hand that feeds you?
You honestly couldn't think of a better way to show your unhappiness than to come here and non-constructively flame Blizzard?
That was all rhetorical, btw. |
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The IceCrown forums apparently had a key logger somehow running on them today or yesterday - you can find more information on it in the forum thread above.
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Apparently the entire Guild Portal website got hacked so that it used a Microsoft vulnerability to install a keylogger onto peoples computers... Combined with the popular of the guild webpage hosting site and the number of WoW users accessing it and a lot of people have been hacked lately - naked characters.
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As more and more players head online to play games all over the world are we going to see more and more hacking attempts directed specifically at them? The security analyst who wrote this report seems to think so. Anyone who has played WoW and kept up with all the scams probably thinks so too.
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Apparently there is some hack that changes your cursor (yes the cursor) that could then compromise your WoW Account. It's a Windows bug and they've already patched it, so make sure you are up to date. Apparently there is a flaw in the way windows handles animated cursors that could enable people to hack into your WoW account. Now I'm not sure why anyone would want an animated cursor in the first place, but de gustibus non est disputandum. It seems that malicious cursor sites can install arbitrary code on your computer along with the cursor, where it sometimes lies in waiting until you log in to WoW. At this point it pounces, records your login info, and sends it back to the hacking group responsible.
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Please be aware that a recently announced Microsoft Windows vulnerability was identified that if exploited could allow the execution of malicious code to affect a user’s machine by simply clicking on a web link. Players are urged to exercise caution when clicking on web links. It’s also important to note that even with all of the latest security updates, your system could still be vulnerable to this particular exploit until such a time when a patch is released.
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I ain't seen any exploits like this going down in AB (arathi basin), but man they look pretty sweet (screenshots).
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In our continued efforts to combat cheating in World of Warcraft, more than 105,000 accounts were closed and over 12 million gold was removed from the game economies in Europe, Korea, and the US in the month of November. The closed accounts were associated with activities that violate World of Warcraft's Terms of Use, such as using third-party programs that allow cheating, and farming gold and items. These types of activities can severely impact the economy of a realm and the overall game enjoyment for all players.
We will continue to aggressively monitor all World of Warcraft realms in order to protect the service and its players from the harmful effects of cheating. Please note that selling World of Warcraft content, such as gold, items, and characters, can result in a permanent ban of the involved accounts from World of Warcraft.
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This is not the first time we will report on keylogging incidents for goliath MMO, World of Warcraft. Before we proceed though, let us make sure first that we are on the same page, okay?
Keystroke logging or keylogging per se is not inherently bad. Originally, it was developed to detect sources of errors in computer systems. The problem now is that same genius of a program is being used for hacking and spamming. The scam usually begins by telling a user to click on a link. Instead of bringing that user to the intended location, a keylogging software is installed discreetly. This then can be used to pick up usernames and passwords.
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Apparently several individuals on Mannoroth have found a way to dupe millions of gold and handed it out at random to people who in turn managed to buy out everything from the auction house and disenchant it.
I know this is going to get deleted, but maybe more of you can be informed before then.
Mannoroth economy = trash
Anyone know if any other server has been effected?
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After hearing this from a few people, I ****ed around with Netlimiter and here are some interesting results if you limit WoW's download rate to 0.
- All npcs/mobs disappear, you cannot perform any actions apart from move, you cannot zone into instances, you cannot drown.
- Other players will still see you move and be able to kill you but your corpse will keep moving, on your screen you are still alive.
- If you have been killed you will die at the spot where you changed the download rate back to normal, not where they killed you, hence "corpse walking".
- NPCs/Computer mobs cannot harm you.
- You get disconnected after 3-4minutes, but if you reset WoW's download rate back to normal you will not.
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Most of members (like 90%) from Overrated (first and only US Horde to kill Kelthuzad) got banned for using Patch 5 to remove skerams platform, and fall through the earth straight to C'thuns tunnel. According to our sources, Patch 5 was a data file (not blizzard authentic) that you insert into the Data folder in world of warcraft directory. It removed skerams platform, allowing you to drop under the map and walk straight down into the tunnel leading to C'thun. You know what await you |
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