Security experts are reporting that a new worm called Hagbard.A is posing as a pirated version of the popular and now scandal-plagued game, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

Riding the wave of publicity which Rockstar Game’s Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has received in the past weeks due to the release of a hack (”mod”) known as the “Hot Coffee” mod, which allows access to x-rated scenes in the game (and over which Rockstar Games has now been sued), Hagbard.A has insinuated itself into peer-to-peer networks, where it lays disguised as a pirated copy of GTA:SA. It also disguises itself as other popular games, including “Need for Speed Underground 2″.

What’s even more insidious about the Hagbard.A worm is that it doesn’t just do the normal wormly things like scraping your addresses and sending itself out to more people via instant messenger (although it does do that, using primarily Windows…

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