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Trojan targets World of Warcraft gamers

By Derek Sooman

On May 8, 2006, 9:00 PM

Players of the popular "World of Warcraft" game should beware - a new piece of malware is doing the rounds that attempts to steal gamers’ passwords. The PWSteal.Wowcraft trojan is capable of emailing the game's passwords back to the trojan's author. The hope is that users will be utilising the same password for "World of Warcraft" as they do for other resources, such as online banking.

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