PC Retail Mag reports that Computer Associates recently identified online gaming as a key growth area in cyber crime.

According to a Kaspersky Labs report, World of Warcraft is the second most popular target with 20 % of all known trojans aimed at extracting information from its players, only distanced by Lineage2 with 40 % of the trojans.

Pc Retail mag says that “The report highlights the current risks facing online gamers including what is increasingly becoming known as ’spear-phishing’, trojans that attack vulnerabilities within the games servers and last but not least, keyloggers.”

Be sure to use a good firewall and not only the internal one in your router!