Scammers step up attacks on Warcraft players

They are working on it.

Really, this is just the just "exploit the stupid tard" attack.

Trick the user into clicking a booby trapped link, insert spyware, profit.

I was at blizzcon this year, and they were handing out RSA authenticators like they were candy, in an attempt to tighten up the system.

With all the new revamps to Battlenet, they will have to tighen it up more, because once your account is pwned, you loose all your Starcraft, WoW, and other blizz game info.

Central shop for all your account info,

Or...

Jagex's 'RuneScape' game, at one point in danger of being submerged by the macros used by gold farmers, had its trading system radically altered to prevent the unbalanced transfer of large sums of virtual cash, along with the compensatory introduction of a centralised marketplace where buyers and sellers are matched by the game rather than by choice. This cut off the scammers' source of real world income, and reduced the disruption to the game caused by the macros.

To a great extent this rather radical approach has been successful, although the scammers have naturally moved to offering to train accounts for the lazy instead - something which is far easier to spot in the vast majority of cases.

Games that require admin rights

If the lazy game designers didn't design games that require admin rights to run then this would be a lot less of an issue.

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Blizzard's implementation of the Digipass was well broken for over 6 months and didn't offer any real additional protection (probably less, as it gave a false sense of security). Thankfully they've fixed that recently up recently, but it still leaves the question hanging as to who designs and checks their security systems....

Odd that The Reg never covered that story, and will cover your run-of-the-mill phishing story, even though I sent the DIgipass 'breakage' them.

@Nordrick

Blizzard are working on a major expansion/update which is reworking all the old original areas in the game which are now 5 years old and were originally developed for machines of a much lower spec.

The revamped areas are stunning to look at and are a major improvement over the original, so much so that when it comes out I will be reactivating my account!

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/cataclysm/

Havoc meets Chaos for AI New World Order Program of Tempestuous Whether Systems?

"Having seen the graphics in WoW and then seen the graphics in other MMO's I can't help wondering just what Blizzard are doing with the money they rake is becuase it sure as hell ain't being spent on a decent graphics package." .... By Nordrick Framelhammer Posted Monday 24th August 2009 21:41 GMT

Maybe there's a NeuReal and SurReal IntelAIgent Spooky Game in Town which will rake in Buckets of Real Money, Virtually, Nordrick Framelhammer, but which requires Super MegaRich Players for Live Operational Virtual Environment Control Distribution.

Maybe Blizzard are into the Remote Control of Cloud Clusters and Server Pharms ..... Virtual Phormations.

All the Best Virtual Games have an XXXXCellent Real Script which Graphics can Follow, rather than IT being thought that Fluff and Stormy Weather can Lead.

@Nordrick Framelhammer

WoW came out in 2003 or something. For a graphics engine 6 years old, it seems to be doing OK.

I don't think it was updated when either of the two existing expansions were released but I have heard a rumour that it is going to be overhauled when the next expansion is released (in year or more)

/spam trade now

Blizzard know who are spamming users with these messages so why dont they do something about it, i must get at least 20 a night from some level 1 in SW or Org....really annoying.

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@Nordrick Framelhammer

Because it looks nice enough as it is and will run on pretty much anything. For instance the wife's laptop with a crap onboard GPU. Why would they want to alienate a huge chunk of their market by making an expensive PC part of the requirement to play?