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Hearthstone Cheats and Tools Spiked With Malware (csoonline.com)

Posted by timothy on from the honor-among-etc dept.

itwbennett writes: Cheating at the online card game Hearthstone (which is based on Blizzard's World of Warcraft) can get you banned from the game, but now it also puts you at risk of 'financial losses and system ruin,' writes CSO's Steve Ragan. Symantec is warning Hearthstone players about add-on tools and cheat scripts that are spiked with malware. 'In one example, Hearth Buddy, a tool that allows bots to play the game instead of a human player (which is supposed to help with rank earnings and gold earning) compromises the entire system,' says Ragan. 'Another example, are the dust and gold hacking tools (Hearthstone Hack Tool), which install malware that targets Bitcoin wallets.'

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  1. 1998 called by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    1998 called... It wants it's attack vector back. Thanks.

  2. Reminiscent of the con games by rmdingler · · Score: 2

    Many of the cons that seem otherworldly in their magnificence (The Sting) do not work on honest people.

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    Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

    Ernest Hemingway

  3. Malware is everywhere by penguinoid · · Score: 2, Insightful

    These days you can't even count on your operating system to be free from malware.

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    Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
  4. I was a cheater back in the day by Pedestrianwolf · · Score: 2

    First real game I played on the Internet was the first Quake (via 14.4 modem) and I was immediately blown away by exactly *how much* I sucked. My first instinct was to find a way to cheat to win. It hit me then.. the reason I sucked is because I never actually learned to play. I always just cheated. I swore off cheats entirely and stuck with it. Along with getting tons better; I feel like it could have saved me some grief.