Korean police nabbed 33 hackers who were using bots, or web robots, to cheat online poker players from November 2009 through May of this year. Online gaming is a popular target for online attacks, but usually it’s the gaming site owner that is targeted, not the players.
These bots are commonly used to launch attacks that swamp Web sites and servers with so much traffic that they can’t keep up with requests and either becomes painfully slow or crash until the attack can be stopped or mitigated. However, one an end point is infected with a bot, that bot can be often used to download other types of attack software, or do other things on the system: which is apparently what these attackers chose to do with their poker cheats.
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