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Cyber criminals target online gamers

A new report has revealed cyber crooks are now targeting online gamers with harmless looking computer trojans, reports mybroadband.co.za.

According to the PandaLabs report of the most active computer malware for the last month, Lineage.GYE trojan has been hitting gamers of the multiplayer online game Lineage in an attempt to steal passwords.

However the most active malware has been Rebooter.J trojan which "does not spread automatically using its own means" but uses an attacking user's involvement to access the affected computer.

And according to Jeremy Matthews, head of Panda Security's sub-Saharan operations, "the Rebooter.J trojan can be spread using flash drives, CDs, emails with attachments, internet downloads, FTP, IRC channels, and peer-to-peer file-sharing networks".

The report which lists the trojans according to activity and damage also revealed several versions of the SpamtaLoad trojan were in circulation followed by two variants of the same trojan.

Mr Matthews acknowledged the viruses did not pose any great danger but called for more vigilance saying "cyber-crooks often launch attacks like these to distract attention from far more dangerous, targeted attacks".

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