The FBI is investigating a hacker suspected of publishing several video games laced with malware on the favored PC games store Steam, the agency said Friday.
In its announcement in search of victims who could have been infected, the FBI listed the next games suspected of being developed by the identical cybercriminal over the past two years, hosted on the Steam store but embedded with malware: BlockBlasters, Chemia, Dashverse/DashFPS, Lampy, Lunara, PirateFi, and Tokenova.
This will not be the primary time hackers have been in a position to host malware on the Valve-owned games marketplace. Last 12 months, hackers published several games on Steam that contained malware. The games were functional, if a bit rudimentary. In point of fact, the goal of their developer or developers was to act as a type of Trojan horse, tricking gamers to put in malware on their computers. Steam took the games down, but an unknown number of individuals were infected within the meantime.
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Valve and the FBI didn’t reply to requests for comment.