While Rockstar's hit-game "Grand Theft Auto V" has yet to be revealed for the PC platform it definitely hasn't stopped hackers from praying on all the highly-anticipated fans. IGN reports that online security company Trend Micro says gamers are receiving emails that offer entry into a non-existent "GTA V" PC beta test. The website reports the attached .ZIP file opens an application named "Your promo code in app rockstargames.com," but actually it leads to a backdoor called BKDR_ANDROM.ATG.
Trend Micro offers a pic of the email and from what we can see gamers should have been wary from the appearance. The email far from something Rockstar would create, especially for an upcoming product. Check out the picture of the email below and make sure if you get it don't open it!
IGN asked Trend Micro just how many people have fallen victim to this "GTA V" PC scam and they responded saying, "At this time we don't have an indication of how many people it has caused problems for. Trend Micro is trying to spread awareness of this issue to help contain this problem." This isn't the first time Trend Micro has seen this kind of spam for popular titles the security company notes in its threat encyclopedia.
"In the past, we have reported several spam attacks that banked on the success and popularity of online games in order to proliferate malware. Games like World of Warcraft and Grand Theft Auto IV were also leveraged before by spammers. Clearly, the worldwide success of these games makes it a good social engineering lure to trick users. In this specific case, spammers capitalized on the much-anticipated release date of Grand Theft Auto V on PC, XboxOne, and PS4."
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