A scam was recently detected that has affected hundreds of online players on popular gambling sites PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker by allowing malware operators to cheat during online games. The scam was uncovered by malware researchers at the San Diego, California headquarters of IT security company ESET.
Disguised as harmless poker-themed apps and software such as online player lists, calculators and databases; the trojan installs and activates on Windows systems in several ways and allows spyware to take screenshots of player’s virtual poker hands that have been infected by Win32/Spy.Odlanor, the malicious software program, and then sends it to the attacker. Hackers then sign into the same game and use their knowledge of the other players hand and drive up the ante by betting…