“Piratefi”: Valve removes infected free 2play game

The valve has removed a free 2play game infected with malware from its steam store. Security company Kaspersky informs about it in a current blog entry. The pirate game “Piratiffy” flew out of the store last week, when a user valve informed about finding a malware.

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A screenshot of informal steam tracker steamDB shows an email that the valve then sent to the players of “Piratefi”. Accordingly, some buildings of “Piratefi” were infected with malware. In the mail, the valve writes, “You played ‘Pirati’ on steam, while these builds were active.” “Therefore, it is likely that these deadly files were launched on your computer.”

Access to login information

The valves with affected user antivirus software recommend a system scan. It may also be understood to format the system. Kasparki “Piratefi” recognizes its own antivirus software as trjan.win32.lazzzy.gen. The malware hidden in the “Howard.exe” file and was programmed for Unzip in Tempddata Directory. From there she can steal browser cookies and get access to the accounts of affected users. According to Kasperki, many entries in Steam Forum show cases in which the attackers were actually capable of reaching the accounts of “pirati” players. However, the original platform entries are no longer available.

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How many people played “piratiffy”, it is not clear. “Piratefi” was not a particularly popular game, website Vginigths It is estimated that the game was downloaded about 1500 times. Goltic Estimates the number of downloads at 860. Steamdibi tracker Shows that “Piratefi” was played by a maximum of five people at the same time. In any case, the number of concerned users should be very low. The development studio behind the game is unknown.

The case is more interesting because it shows that the valve has a gap in its own security system. According to Kaspersky, the last known case of a game that was spreading malware on steam, about ten years ago: at that time “Dynostopia” now published on the “Greenlight” platform from steam as betaThe game was capable of downloading malware from external sources to control the system of users.

(Dahe)