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World of Warcraft: one simple line of code can cost you dearly

A few days ago, a new type of gold/item scam made the rounds. Usually scamming in MMORPGs is done using social engineering techniques, e.g. an attacker sells a fake item code for alleged in-game items like mounts to a potential victim for in-game currency. But this most recent kind of attack does not only involve…
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Jul 25, 2016World of Warcraft: one simple line of code can cost you dearly by minimaxir15176

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