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Last week, Valve removed a game from Store Steam online The product has been placed with harmful programs.
After removing the game, which was called Piratefi, security researchers analyzed harmful programs and found that everyone who planted a video game in an attempt to deceive the players to install Information information Vidar called.
Marius Jinheimer, a researcher who analyzed harmful programs and works for the Secuinfra Falcon team, said. “
“It is very likely that it was never a legitimate game that was changed after the first publication,” said Jinheimer.
In other words, Piratefi is designed to spread malware.
Genheimer and his colleagues also found that Piratefi was built by modification An existing game template It is called Easy Survival RPG, which describes itself as an application to make games “gives you everything you need to develop your PlayPlayer game or multi -players.” The game maker costs between $ 399 and $ 1099 to license.
This explains how infiltrators have been able to charge a video game that works with harmful programs with a little effort.
According to Genheimer, Vidar Infostealing programs are able to steal and rid several types of data from their computers, including: passwords of the web browser mill feature, cookies for the session that can be used to log in to someone without the need for the need Traffic word, web browser history, cryptocurrency portfolio details, screen shots, Dual factors from some symbolic generators, as well as other files on a computer.
Vidar was used in many piracy campaigns, including One tries to steal Booking.com Hotel accreditation, and others with a goal RansomAnd another effort To plant harmful ads On Google Search Results. During the year 2024, the Cyber Security Coordination Center in the Health Sector (HC3) I mentioned This Vidar, which was first discovered in 2018, “has grown to be one of the most successful Infostealers.”
Infostealers They are common types of harmful programs designed to steal information and data from the victim’s computer. Infostealers is often sold in the malware model as a service, which means that malware can be purchased and even used by infiltrators who have little skill. This also makes identifying those behind Piratefi “very difficult,” said Genheimer, as Vidar was widely adopted by many Internet criminals. “
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Genheimer said they analyzed several samples of the harmful programs listed in Piratefi, one on the online malware in Virustotal, which was Apparently downloaded by a player in Russia; Another set it through Steamdb, a website that publishes information about the hosting games on Steam. The researchers found another sample in the threat database of intelligence they could reach. All three malware samples have the same functions, according to Genheimer.
Valve did not respond to the Techcrunch request for comment.
SEAWORTALTACTIVE, alleged developers PiratefiIt has no clear presence on the Internet. Until last week, the game was X accountAnd that is now removed. The account guarantees a link to the game on Steam.
Account owners did not respond to the chat request via a message directly before removing it.
