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Taterf worm

Win32/Taterf is a password stealing worm that targets online gaming so the virtual property can be sold for real money. While it's been around since April, it surprised Microsoft when they first started detecting it in June.

Password stealing - the good, the bad, and the ugly

The good part is that Microsoft and the AV gang caught a bunch of some malicious little critters. The bad part is the numbers. What's confusing and ugly to me is that people are willing to trade virtual assets for real ones.
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