Poker Pro finds his laptop infected

According to security firm F-Secure, a laptop owned by a top-flight poker pro was infected with malware that could remotely view screenshots and log activity on the PC. The laptop belonged to ace player Jens Kyllönen.

Kyllönen stated that during a poker tournament at a resort in Barcelona, he came back to his room and noticed his laptop was missing. Later, he found it "returned."

F-Secure did an analysis and found it to be infected with a remote monitoring tool that activated upon system startup.

"This is not the first time professional poker players have been targeted with tailor-made trojans," F-Secure said in its report.

"We have investigated several cases that have been used to steal hundreds of thousands of euros. What makes these cases noteworthy is that they were not online attacks. The attacker went through the trouble of targeting the victims' systems on site."

F-Secure suggests that anyone who may be vulnerable to an attack take appropriate measures to secure their laptops when traveling.