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BBC is reporting that World of Warcraft gamers are being targeted by a group of hackers using the cursor hack that takes advantage of a flaw in the way Windows handles animated cursors.
The story says Warcraft players have become targets because there's so much money tied to the game's millions of accounts.
Research by security firm Symantec suggests that the raw value of a WoW account is now higher than a credit card and its associated verification data.One card can be sold for up to $6 ( 3) suggests Symantec, but a WoW account will be worth at least $10. An account that has several high level characters associated with it could be worth far more as the gold and rare items can be sold for real cash.
In a bid to head off the growing threat from the animated cursor flaw, Microsoft took the unusual step of releasing a patch for the bug on 3 April.
Now get out there and download that patch.
