Blizzard's legal and virus-free "StarCraft 2" digital editions are on sale as of this week via Battle.net, but as with any other high-profile game release, illegal pirated editions have found their way to P2P networks as well. Some of those torrents appear to be coming with extra features that their downloaders weren't searching for in the form of malware.
"Here in the [Microsoft Malware Protection Center], we monitored this event as malware writers almost always attempt to take advantage of high-profile news, this being a prime example," Mmpc reps Andrei Saygo and Francis Tan Seng wrote in an "SC2"-related post this week on their TechNet blog. "Sure enough, we found samples that pretend to be 'Starcraft'-related files but are actually malware."
They cited two specific files, "WinUpdate.exe" and "StarCraft.2.Wings.Of.Liberty.Clonedvd-ww Trainer.exe," which can come bearing unwanted code and infect systems with worms meant for tracking keystrokes and plucking private data and passwords.
"Here in the [Microsoft Malware Protection Center], we monitored this event as malware writers almost always attempt to take advantage of high-profile news, this being a prime example," Mmpc reps Andrei Saygo and Francis Tan Seng wrote in an "SC2"-related post this week on their TechNet blog. "Sure enough, we found samples that pretend to be 'Starcraft'-related files but are actually malware."
They cited two specific files, "WinUpdate.exe" and "StarCraft.2.Wings.Of.Liberty.Clonedvd-ww Trainer.exe," which can come bearing unwanted code and infect systems with worms meant for tracking keystrokes and plucking private data and passwords.
- 7/29/2010
- by Brian Warmoth
- MTV Multiplayer
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