"Winnti" Attacks On Online Gaming Servers Dissected 24
Nerval's Lobster writes "Kaspersky Lab has completed a detailed analysis of "Winnti," a group of Asian hackers who target servers hosted by gaming companies, copying their source code and surreptitiously stealing money or virtual goods over time. In findings published April 10, the security firm said it had completed the latest phase of its eighteen-month investigation. A more detailed account of an actual attacks was published separately (PDF). Winnti has attacked two gaming companies in North America, two in Germany, two in Russia, and fourteen in South Korea. Although the Winnti group has been around for years, it first came to light in 2011, when Trojans began appearing on the PCs of users playing MMORPGs, online computer games which usually require a monthly subscription. Those Trojans, which included RAT (Remote Administration Tool) functionality, had been "signed" with the digital certificate of KOG, a South Korean gaming company. In the course of its investigation, Kaspersky discovered that the gaming companies (which often share resources, partner, and subcontract out work to one another) had provided an opportunity for the Winnti team to secure access to otherwise legitimate digital certificates, which could be used to sign malware. Malware signed by Japanese gaming company YNK Japan was used to attack the servers of social networks Cyworld and Nate in South Korea in 2011."
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Yeah because reports like Mandiant's APT1 from american companies are much more believable pieces of work.
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Other countries watch everybody and work back when they notice you.
Considering the help hinted by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Lantern_(software) [wikipedia.org] your better with a wide selection of developers from around the world.
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Lol, they make one of the best antivirus software in the market. Go post with your flag waving stupidity somewhere else.
Stealing on-line gold? (Score:5, Insightful)
They should be stealing bitcoins?
Re:Stealing on-line gold? (Score:4, Interesting)
So far, only the mammoth of a game World of Warcraft has shown it can last from generation to generation. In general you don't want a cashcow to also have legal fees where people sue you because they lost real money in the game. But I guess with Diablo 3, they've tried real money auctions, so they have a legal team to handle this.
If I was a World of Warcraft designer, I'd add a coin you can get at high level raid bosses. The coin if consumed would give you some special power that isn't game breaking, but quite desirable(like +magic or gold find for 10 days). The coin drops at a certain % at certain raid bosses. But the trick is that the more coins people have, the less this % drop is eventually reaching zero or near zero. When people use the coin, the % drop increases again. If people delete their character, the coin is used and the % drop increases again. It'd be a function of how many coins found as the drop rate, pretty straightforward. I believe this type of drop would retain its value for a long time.
Re:Stealing on-line gold? (Score:4, Informative)
Watch some of the videos about EVE online's economy. The game designer even has an in house economist to keep track of it all.
The key is to add money sinks as well as money sources. For instance, money used to buy something from an NPC is gone. So, you can adjust the inflation within the game by both tweaking drops/rewards, and item prices.
Of course, most games just have an auction house, while EVE is an entire player based economy.
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Of course, most games just have an auction house, while EVE is an entire player based economy.
More to the point, EVE has a functional economy, whereas literally every other game of which I'm aware has a fake economy. In EVE, the cost of resources is tied to supply and demand. Resources have uses and there are repercussions if they go missing. This is why I stopped playing Vega Strike. The prices for commodities are related to nothing at all and there are no repercussions for anything you do in the game.
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I thought Bitcoin was part of a fantasy world too?
Favoritism (Score:2)
Hey special treatment man! Henceforth you will refer to me as "Caucasian Hacker".
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"Hey special treatment man! Henceforth you will refer to me as "Caucasian Hacker"."
I'd call them 'more aggressive cheaters than usual'.
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Get more than a few Western hackers together and enjoy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/06/us-hackers-fbi-informer [guardian.co.uk]
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One would think, that if they are such a good hackers, they just probably have a few Asian proxy over there, or perhaps even a host of Asian looking shells. Kaspersky has to call Section 9.
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One would think, that if they are such a good hackers, they just probably have a few Asian proxy over there, or perhaps even a host of Asian looking shells. Kaspersky has to call Section 9.
No. You never hear about the really good hackers. Ever. That's how good they are.
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