The FBI said Friday it is investigating a hacker accused of posting several video games containing malicious code to Steam, a popular PC gaming store.
In an announcement seeking victims who may have been infected, the FBI listed the following games suspected to have been developed by the same cybercriminals over the past two years: The game was hosted on the Steam store, but had embedded malware: BlockBlasters, Chemia, Dashverse/DashFPS, Lampy, Lunara, PirateFi, and Tokenova.
This isn’t the first time hackers have been able to host malware in the Valve-owned gaming marketplace. Last year, hackers posted several games on Steam that contained malware. The game was a bit rudimentary but functional. In reality, the developer’s goal was to act as a kind of Trojan horse, tricking gamers into installing malware on their computers. Steam took the game down, but an unknown number of people became infected in the meantime.
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