Hearthstone Cheating Apps Packaged with Bitcoin-Grabbing Trojan

Symantec is cautioning Hearthstone players of several cheat-scripts and add-on tools. Whereas, a few of these tools have been crafted for assisting players during the game, a majority do slightly extra over-and-above hijacking the players' computers.

One type of card game, Hearthstone's basis is the Blizzard's WoW (World-of-Warcraft). Anybody can play this game free-of-cost, still majority of players actually expend money to buy more cards. Nevertheless, if someone doesn't wish to spare that cash, he can avail the tools which aid in obtaining card crafting stuff (dust) and gold.

A few cunning developers of HHT (Hearthstone Hack Tool) just leveraged this aspect of the game by making a promise through the app that it'd give any amount of dust and gold. However, the developers haven't only not kept their promise while just deceiving players into paying extra in exchange of owning the tool, they're also minting more money simultaneously by packaging malware to their app.

Symantec researchers state HHT has frequently contaminated the tool's purchasers with Trojan.Coinbitclip, one kind of Trojan which aids cyber-criminals execute Bitcoin fraud. To perform its sinister activity the Trojan first sniffs the infected end-user's clipboard while if it detects one Bitcoin wallet address, it'd hunt its own list comprising 10K wallet addresses after which it places a look-alike address to overwrite the original. In this manner, Trojan.Coinbitclip compromises transactions followed with transferring the Bitcoins into the criminal's add.

Blizzard acts tough against cheaters, yet people continue defrauding computer owners. Currently, players aren't just being endangered with personal account loss; they're encountering monetary loss as well as system damage too. Csoonline posted this, February 9, 2016.

In the Hearthstone game, there maybe players who employ deck-tracking program that's frowned upon while Blizzard has banned it too. For such players, cyber-crooks provide their own malevolent editions which plant backdoors onto an interested player's computer.

Moreover, Hearthstone bots exist that make the game run automatically for players not physically present before it. Although Symantec hasn't spotted any malicious software within a Hearthstone bot, among the many, the security firm recommends players must avoid these cheat-scripts, as they most certainly inject malware into the computers/smart-phones.

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