World of Warcraft Hackers and Account Thieves Have Now Embraced MITM Attacks
Recently, World of Warcraft hackers, account thieves, and other miscreants have now embraced man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks to further their evil ways. World of Warcraft hackers are able to infect your Personal Computer. The purpose of these hackers is to intercept your World of Warcraft login name, password, and authenticator number so that they can log into your account.
These hackers can do whatever they would be able to do once online inside the game world: sell items, mail WoW gold to other players, etc. It is still potentially devastating, selling all your epics for fast gold, then turning around and selling that cheap wow gold for real money to someone else. In fact, there’s plenty of programs out there can initiate MITM attack rather easily, letting people intercept passwords, instant messages, you name it.
Blizzard says, "it’s not a widespread issue, and it’s rather difficult to pull off, but it’s something all WoW players should be aware of."
If you are playing World of Warcraft, instead of your username and password and authenticator number going directly to Blizzard’s servers, they first go to the hacker’s rogue server, which then passes the info onto your intended server, capturing the information in the process. However, it’s essentially invisible to you, the end-user, which is why the attacks are so dangerous.
As for me, I think the worst thing with this kind of attack would be for someone to sell off your character’s items and gold, then, for good measure, delete your character. So the best way for WoW players to keep off this MITM attack is to keep their anti-virus software up to date and stay away from the shady parts of the Internet.
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