Valve recently confirmed that it had removed the game from Steam because it was infected with a malware that the hackers had set specifically for the purpose of stealing passwords and credentials of the users.
The game in question was the PirateFi, which definitely recommend you to delete them if you install them, and stirred up the attention of several researchers who analyzed to uncover things are amazing. It seems that some of the hakerë were modified in a video game and existing, to create a malware named Vidar, which, as mentioned above, it is specialized in the theft of personal information.
One of the researchers, and security, which analyzed the malware, Marius Genheimer, told TechCrunch that “the PirateFi it can also be one of the tactics of many of the most commonly used, to be distributed to the measure of the amount of work and Vidar”. “It is very likely that it had not been ever the game legitimately, in addition to modifikohej after it was published for the first time,” he said Genheimer. According to the study, Vidar will not be able to steal, and to ekfiltrojë different types of data in the infected computer, including passwords, cookies, history and browser, the details of the portfolio of the kriptomonedhave, the pictures on the screen, and if not, when and with two variables.
So, PirateFi can also be created in order to spread a malware program to do so, regardless of the description of it. Developers/hackers, in fact, they would have modified the game to be actually existing, to be called Easy Survival GAME.
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