The hottest trend now for attackers that use password stealers and key-loggers is to capture and sell logins for to Massive Multi-Player Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG) and others social networking communities in addition to banking sites.

Crooks not only win money by collecting, selling or using usernames and passwords from online banking and e-commerce. There is more and more talk of a virtual economy and electronic cash. Some, like Second Life or Entropia Universe, boast about having brought about success stories or rich virtual account holders who have seen their fortune grow into a million actual dollars. Blizzard recently banned more than 5,000 World of Warcraft accounts that were suspected of participating in gold farming activities. eBay made decision to stop posting virtual object property auctions apart from Second Life.

[Password Stealers targeting games are growing more than ever]

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