A new Trojan is reportedly attacking the popular MMO World of Warcraft, and the Trojan is so powerful that it is able to escape notice from authenticators and hack into a user's personal data even if they use strict security measures.

Blizzard made the announcement to users through the Blizzard forums, warning players of the serious nature of this new cyber threat.

"We've been receiving reports regarding a dangerous Trojan that is being used to compromise player's accounts even if they are using an authenticator for protection. The Trojan acts in real time to do this by stealing both your account information and the authenticator password at the time you enter them," wrote Blizzard.

The Trojan can be identified by users by creating an MSInfo file and looking into the Startup Program section for a file labeled either Disker or Disker64. Blizzard sent out an updated post about the threat and explained how it can be downloaded and how those affected by the Trojan can remove it from their PC:

"The Trojan is built into a fake [but working] version of the Curse Client that is downloaded from a fake version of the Curse Website. This site was popping up in searches for 'curse client' on major search engines, which is how people were lured into going there...At this point, it seems the easiest method to remove the Trojan is to delete the fake Curse Client and run scans from an updated Malwarebytes. Should you still have issues, there is a more manual method that Ressie posted earlier in the thread."

If you have accidently downloaded this Trojan, Blizzard has a page with helpful instructions for dealing with being hacked and preventing it from happening again.

One of the best ways to prevent user data from being hacked into and stolen on World of Warcraft is to have Blizzard remember the username a person uses for the game. That way, if a keylogger tries to steal a person's username and password, they will only have the password but not the actual username, thus making the password useless. Furthermore, users can take advantage of the new Battle.net Launcher Blizzard recently released to help protect their information further. This will allow users to start playing the game without having to input any of their data, so that hackers cannot steal this information without going through Blizzard's own personal antivirus and firewall programs.