Trojan program used to see hole cards identified
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A story at TechRadar.com claims that trojan programs are being used to steal — perhaps millions of dollars — via online poker.
Mikko Hyppönen, the chief research officer at the security software company F-Secure said his company recently investigated a case where a player lost hundreds of thousands of Euros in this manner:
“Online poker players are a massive target for hackers,” Hyppönen said “…We were just investigating a case where a professional online poker player was attacked by someone he would play against regularly online. And we’re talking about professional players, and big money. Hundreds of thousands of euros on the table at a time.”
Hyppönen says that the one player lost hundreds of thousands of euros over a short time to some suspicious play, and when they investigated what was happening, they realized that the player’s software had been hacked so that another player could see his hole cards.
“[W]hen we looked into it we realized that one of the other players at the table had sent him a tool. A calculator to help optimize the poker playing or whatever. And we found that the application included a Trojan.”
“Which means that when he was playing online poker against these people who were in another country, the guy could press a button and he would receive a screenshot of the target’s screen. So he sees the hole cards. If you’re playing poker and the other players know your cards, it’s pretty hard to win.”
Whole story on techradar.com here.
