<<< NEWS FROM THE LAB - Monday, February 8, 2010 >>> ARCHIVES | SEARCH worldrofwarcraft.com Posted by Mikko @ 13:21 GMT



The World of Warcraft online game has over 10 million players around the world.



World of Warcraft also has hundreds of phishing websites targeting it, trying to steal end-user login credentials.



Like these:







The domain names for most of these phishing sites are easy to spot (wor1dcfwarcraft.com? give me a break), but others are a bit trickier (worldrofwarcraft.com – yes, there's an extra "R").



So, why are these accounts being stolen? For fun? No, they are stolen for the virtual gold and weapons. A stolen account gets emptied quickly and the goods are put for sale for real money online.



But who would buy virtual goods for a game with real cash? Well, based on the amount of sellers, quite a few.

























