Steam game PirateFi exposed as dangerous info-stealing malware A free-to-play video game on Steam named 'PirateFi' has been unmasked as a malicious scheme to distribute the notorious Vidar info ...

4. Steam didn’t detect it— In the case of Sniper: Phantom’s Resolution and PirateFi, it was the users who raised the alarm first and not Steam. Steam’s Response and Security Measures When games were ...

Instead, the company’s moderation has largely been reactive. In both the PirateFi and Sniper: Phantom’s Resolution incidents, action was only taken after malware had already reached users.

The game is no longer available on Steam. The latest malware game removal comes only a month after Steam removed another game suspected to be malware. Valve warned gamers who downloaded and launched ...

After a game called PirateFi was released and then quickly taken down last month after it was found to be distributing malware, a new malicious game demo spreading info-stealing malware has been ...

Games FPS An FPS studio pulled its game from Steam after it got caught linking to malware disguised as a demo, but the dev insists it was actually the victim of a labyrinthine conspiracy ...

How PirateFi evaded Steam’s safeguards remains unclear. But to promote the game, the hacker used a bot on Telegram to advertise a paid position to gamers to act as a chat moderator for PirateFi.

This incident comes only a month after Steam hosted the PirateFi title, which was used to distribute the Vidar infostealing malware. Statistics showed that the game had been dowloaded by up to ...

The fraudulent free-to-play game PirateFi, discovered last month, was possibly the first well-known case of its kind since Steam's debut as the installer for Half-Life 2 in 2004.

Hijacking these cookies will give the attacker a chance to use the stolen session key to impersonate the person they are attacking. A month ago, another Steam game was spotted to be Windows Malware.