New Account Hacking Techniques – Protect thyself mortal!

While World of Warcraft is the big dog in the pack, for accounts that are being most often stolen, this news is for all our readers.  It seems there are 2 vulnerabilities in a couple softwares that everyone should be aware of.  There are also 2 solutions, so keep reading…

NOTE: If you suspect your account has been compromised, call your game company today, and have them lock the account, pending a change in the email. This will allow you to unlock it, with the new email address.  You can also use this time to clean out your system. Click for more Security Information.

The first exploit has to do with Flash.  A critical vulnerability has been discovered in Adobe Flash Player 10.0.45.2 and Adobe Reader/Acrobat 9.x, and could potentially be used to target players and accounts. The newest available version of Adobe Flash 10.1, Release Candidate 7 (available at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/), does not appear to contain this vulnerability, and we recommend that everyone upgrade their Flash player as soon as possible. Earlier versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat, specifically version 8.x, do not appear to contain this vulnerability, either. 

For more information, please visit Adobe.com: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa10-01.html

The second exploit, actually targets Starcraft 2, Warhammer Online, World of Warcraft (ofc), and Runes of Magic players.  If you’re wondering what ties them altogether, it’s Curse.com.  Curse has an addon management tool that can be downloaded for free, and will periodically check to see if there are any updates.  The vulnerability isn’t actually from their site, but rather in one which is being distributed through ad campaigns like with Google Ads. People see a link for the addon manager, and click the link, which instead of taking you to curse.com, will download the trojan tool. To be absolutely safe, you should always only download the client from http://www.curse.com/client.

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