World of Warcraft - A New Market For Hackers

[Nelson Turner]

What is World Of Warcraft? Why is it having such a craze in the
international arena? Why do the hackers, professional or amateur,
remain attracted to it? The questions all these can be found if we
concentrate on the essence of World Of Warcraft. There is no doubt in
it that World Of Warcraft is one of the most discussed games in the
recent days and has therefore attracted a large number of gamers in
the global spectrum.
It is nothing but a pay-to-play massively multiplayer online role-
playing game (MMORPG) and was introduced to catch the attention of the
common people who remain interested of the warcraft universe.
Nowadays, you may not believe but it is true, that World Of Warcraft
has over 9.3 million subscribers, if not more. To many it is the best
lively, breathtaking saga of online adventure published hitherto. For
this reason it has over 7 million players only. What all you have to
do is to simply log on. Once you log on you will enter into a new
online world of legends, supernaturalism and unbounded adventure.
This game, quite naturally, is able enough to arrest the attention of
youngsters for hours. What is more it changes constantly and on each
week there is a new update. There is no doubt that the World of
Warcraft is a fantasy game populated with elves, dwarves, and other
fantastic characters. The players can select their games according to
their own whims.But World Of Warcraft is no longer safe as the new age
hackers are targeting it. In the recent days this information has
created a storm in the whole globe and it has been found that an
increasing numbers of viruses are entering into the domain of this
game.
Now why is this being done out of the blue remains a strong question.
But without a doubt this perplexed situation has made the users most
vulnerable before the hackers. To the latest findings in the last few
months there has been an astounding increase in the amount of worms
and Trojans and by 145 per cent. These are specially fabricated so
that they can invade and set the ruin. It is competent to encroach
upon a horde of computers and steal passwords of Massively Multiplayer
Online (MMO) games. But why is this all? Is it profitable?
The first and foremost reason behind this new industry of hacking is
that the theft of virtual property and game characters is an efficient
business. This is certainly a recent phenomenon since even at the
commencement of 2007 there were no universal algorithms for stealing
online game passwords. But at the end of the same year there were
plenty. This success has resulted into to the emergence of eight to
nine new worms targeting MMO passwords daily throughout the globe.
Furthermore there is also the appearance of five to six Trojans every
hour.
The basic reason behind the attack of Massively Multiplayer Online
(MMO) games is that it brings before a quick and simple financial
bonus. The hackers, as a result, become able to sell 'virtual gold\'
and items from the game steadily and also can slowly drain accounts,
which go on unnoticed. The accounts being linked with the characters
have good prices in the black market.