Symantec – 44 Million Stolen Gaming Credentials Uncovered

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Interestign article and a good reason to keep your anti-virus and anti-spyware/mailware up to date. Beware of phishing emails and fake sites.

A bit from thier blog:

 We recently analyzed a new sample submitted to Symantec and came across a server hosting the credentials of 44 million stolen gaming accounts. What was interesting about this threat wasn’t just the sheer number of stolen accounts, but that the accounts were being validated by a Trojan distributed to compromised computers. Symantec detects this threat as Trojan.Loginck.

You can find the full story here:
http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/44-million-stolen-gaming-credentials-uncovered

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