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Security researchers have warned of a new pest that steals subscriber information for one of the worlds most popular online games.British security company Sophos said on Tuesday that theLegMir-Y Trojan horse attempts to steTrojan horse rides off with game accounts Mir2al usernames and passwords for Lineage, an online ntasy game with more than 4 million paying subscribers, mostly in Korea and other Asian nations. The pest also attempts to turn off antivirus software on an infected PC.
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It is more and more common for the analysts in our virus lab to discover that, as well as causing disruption, a piece of new malware is designed to steal registration keys, passwords and data from players of computer games, Cluley said in a statement. Its sad to think that people will be so desperate to do better in a virtual world that theyre actually prepared to commit a real crime.
Previous game bugs include a variation of theRandex worm designed to turn infected PCs into zombie machines that would help theworm writers gain points in the online game Outwar. Previous versions of LegMir attempted to steal passwords and other subscriber data for the online gamMir2e Legends of Mir 2.
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Led byLineage, online games have become ahuge business in Asia, where millions of players pay fees of $15 to $20 a month to access large ntasy universes.
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Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos, said LegMir-Y is the latest in a string of pests to specifically target game-related data.
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We expect to see more Internet skirmishes between rival online gamers and malicious code to assist this kind of Internet robbery in the future, he added.
Sophos recommends that Microsoft Windows users ensure their antivirus software is up to date and that they dont open unknown files.
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