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Online Casinos Bettors Targeted by
Very Dangerous Security Scams
The online casinos
industry has spurned a large number of competitors, and a crowded
internet marketplace, and thousands and thousands of customers are
playing at online casinos right this instant, but another big
development due to the online casinos industry is the exclusive niche
practice of security related online casinos matters and the emphasis
placed on security to provide an honest gaming environment at online
casinos.
The law concerning online casinos has been under debate recently, but
many online casinos have other problems besides just regulation and
being competitive with other online casinos: security. Security is
becoming a major issue at online casinos.
The top online casinos need to pay close attention to the security
developments in the online casinos industry, just as they look at
regulation battles with scrutiny, and oversee their mergers and
acquisitions with other online casinos. As online casinos grow, they
will need to deal with security issues much more seriously.
Gamblers playing in online casinos are being warned that they may
increasingly be targeted by criminals looking to steal money by
infecting their machines.
According to a release, a recent flurry of fairly small scale threat
activity has led some to suspect that casinos may be targeted with
increasing frequency as their popularity grows. Certainly with users
processing transaction data, online gamblers will be attractive targets
for criminals.
It was also reported that Finnish antivirus vendor F-Secure detected a
potentially malicious rootkit application, which was being dropped onto
users machines from poker community site CheckRaised.com when they
downloaded a 'raketracker' tool - which allows users to monitor the
house's take on their poker games.
With the malicious tool in place the program's author could access login
details for a number of well know online gambling portals. The hacker
could then effectively make a lot of money by setting up games between
himself and the compromised users, on whose behalf he would lose on
purpose.
A statement on the CheckRaised.com website put the blame on a
third-party developer and said the malicious program has now been
removed. It warned all users to reset their poker passwords.
Last week another online gambling firm issued a statement to users of
its site warning of a social engineering scam which attempted to direct
users to a site that would drop a Trojan onto their computer -
effectively surrendering control of the PC to an unknown third party.
Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, said the level of
malware related to online gambling is very low but he added: "In the
future, if online gambling continues to increase in popularity and as a
small number of companies dominate the online market, it wouldn't be
surprising to see hackers turn their attention in this direction."
He added: "Gamblers need to not only be careful about which websites
they visit, and give their bank details to, but also which add-ons and
helper programs they deploy to help them have a winning streak."
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