Yes, people do get hacked, rather than phished.

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https://www.pcmag.com/news/did-you-download-this-steam-game-sorry-its-windows-malware

- February 12, 2025

Did You Download This Steam Game? Sorry, It's Windows Malware

The free-to-play game, PirateFi, infects users with malware that steals browser cookies, enabling the malware’s creator to hijack access to various online accounts.

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Boblin the Goblin の投稿を引用：

D. Flame の投稿を引用：

Not exactly rocket surgery to connect the dots, buddy.

Then it should be easy to explain.

I literally just did...

[Boblin the Goblin]

D. Flame の投稿を引用：

Boblin the Goblin の投稿を引用：

Then it should be easy to explain.

I literally just did...

That's not what I quoted says.

Weird huh?

[RedLightning]

How are people not 'EnRageD' by this.. I would be livid if this happened to me.

The pure absolute support for crap like this just about proves that this forum is nothing but a bunch of bots that have Valves utmost defense biased right in (in 'all costs mode'), in my opinion.

Pathetic ..

Valve is terrible these days, in my humble opinion.

[Boblin the Goblin]

RedLightning の投稿を引用：

How are people not 'EnRageD' by this.. I would be livid if this happened to me.

The pure absolute support for crap like this just about proves that this forum is nothing but a bunch of bots that have Valves utmost defense biased right in (in 'all costs mode'), in my opinion.

Pathetic ..

Valve is terrible these days, in my humble opinion.

Who in this topic is supporting that the accounts got compromised?

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SpeedFreak1972 の投稿を引用：

Pierce Dalton の投稿を引用：

There's not much to research when it's a brand new game.

Well do you need that game immediately on release? just wait a bit

Exactly, waiting a few days can be a good thing, if the game is bad you have dodged a bullet.

I've seen a really bad advice from time to time, and that is "You should exclude Steam from your antivirus" It's a really bad advice no one should follow if you ask me.

[Brian9824]

D. Flame の投稿を引用：

https://www.pcmag.com/news/did-you-download-this-steam-game-sorry-its-windows-malware

- February 12, 2025

Did You Download This Steam Game? Sorry, It's Windows Malware

The free-to-play game, PirateFi, infects users with malware that steals browser cookies, enabling the malware’s creator to hijack access to various online accounts.

Read that article and don't see a single user having their steam account compromised as a result.

RedLightning の投稿を引用：

How are people not 'EnRageD' by this.. I would be livid if this happened to me.

The pure absolute support for crap like this just about proves that this forum is nothing but a bunch of bots that have Valves utmost defense biased right in (in 'all costs mode'), in my opinion.

Pathetic ..

Valve is terrible these days, in my humble opinion.

I mean yeah it sucks, but its hard to blame Valve for this, they dealt with it so fast and were very proactive. Its not like there is a magic wand you can wave over code and know it contains malware. It's why Virus software is constantly updated as new malware is discovered and the software gets updated so its able to detect it. Often its undetected at first

[KarmaKrazi]

Another example of less than a thousand out of 132 million unique monthly users on Steam affected by something along these lines. The last example you were able to give was from 6 years ago I believe? Thankfully Valve is as responsive as they are to these situations, regardless of how few and far between they happen.

[porkchop]

Brian9824 の投稿を引用：

D. Flame の投稿を引用：

https://www.pcmag.com/news/did-you-download-this-steam-game-sorry-its-windows-malware

- February 12, 2025

Read that article and don't see a single user having their steam account compromised as a result.

RedLightning の投稿を引用：

How are people not 'EnRageD' by this.. I would be livid if this happened to me.

The pure absolute support for crap like this just about proves that this forum is nothing but a bunch of bots that have Valves utmost defense biased right in (in 'all costs mode'), in my opinion.

Pathetic ..

Valve is terrible these days, in my humble opinion.

I mean yeah it sucks, but its hard to blame Valve for this, they dealt with it so fast and were very proactive. Its not like there is a magic wand you can wave over code and know it contains malware. It's why Virus software is constantly updated as new malware is discovered and the software gets updated so its able to detect it. Often its undetected at first

There were forum posts of people talking about this being a virus on February 8th/9th and we got the e-mail on the 11th. They could have and should have dealt with the issue faster.

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Brian9824 の投稿を引用：

D. Flame の投稿を引用：

https://www.pcmag.com/news/did-you-download-this-steam-game-sorry-its-windows-malware

- February 12, 2025

Read that article and don't see a single user having their steam account compromised as a result.

Even were that true, security by luck is no security at all. Had the game been more popular, the results would have been massive. Considering Steam already allegedly vetted the game, and how many false positives people already get, a lot of people would bypass the warning and get infected.

Additionally, many of the people may have already been compromised and just not know it yet. They were infected via Steam, but the consequences reach far beyond just Steam. The hackers would have access to basically every site that their victims were currently logged into, and they could have done a lot of damage from there, or just stolen information.

[Brian9824]

D. Flame の投稿を引用：

Brian9824 の投稿を引用：

Read that article and don't see a single user having their steam account compromised as a result.

Even were that true, security by luck is no security at all. Had the game been more popular, the results would have been massive. Considering Steam already allegedly vetted the game, and how many false positives people already get, a lot of people would bypass the warning and get infected.

Additionally, many of the people may have already been compromised and just not know it yet. They were infected via Steam, but the consequences reach far beyond just Steam. The hackers would have access to basically every site that their victims were currently logged into, and they could have done a lot of damage from there, or just stolen information.

Yep, but that can happen with any site, i mean heck, there have been cases of people buying hardware that was pre-loaded with viruses. 100% security is impossible, hence why its important people secure their own PC's. Steam did a near perfect job of catching it, confirming, it and dealing with it as fast as humanely possible.

Again, there has yet to be a case anyone can show of someone having their steam account compromised that wasn't thru their own fault, as even that example hasn't shown anyone having their steam account compromised.

Really nothing further to say on it, so i'm unsubbing as you already confirmed no one had their steam account compromised as a result.

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Brian9824 の投稿を引用：

you already confirmed no one had their steam account compromised as a result.

You need to work on your reading comprehension, because I said no such thing.

[Walach]

It can probably happen outside of what was the focus of the article, i.e., hacking Steam directly, but as many countries have very harsh laws on hacking, I believe hacking a gaming platform is below hacking the bank so there will probably take a very long time before Steam gets hacked. But as I'm not one I wouldn't be able to say either way. :P

But when it comes to using the term, don't think too much about it, people will probably know which one it is you meant from the context. :D

[RedLightning]

Brian9824 の投稿を引用：

D. Flame の投稿を引用：

https://www.pcmag.com/news/did-you-download-this-steam-game-sorry-its-windows-malware

- February 12, 2025

Read that article and don't see a single user having their steam account compromised as a result.

RedLightning の投稿を引用：

How are people not 'EnRageD' by this.. I would be livid if this happened to me.

The pure absolute support for crap like this just about proves that this forum is nothing but a bunch of bots that have Valves utmost defense biased right in (in 'all costs mode'), in my opinion.

Pathetic ..

Valve is terrible these days, in my humble opinion.

I mean yeah it sucks, but its hard to blame Valve for this, they dealt with it so fast and were very proactive. Its not like there is a magic wand you can wave over code and know it contains malware. It's why Virus software is constantly updated as new malware is discovered and the software gets updated so its able to detect it. Often its undetected at first

Yea, now I wonder about all those other times 'games' from steam has caused a virus alert, and for them to be told to whitelist it and not worry cause they would never get an infection from Steam ..

How many times have I heard that one.

Now that is all out the windows, and how anyone can come to the defense of Valve on this is very very odd.

Yea always the users fault. In this case Valve should have never released this in its state. Really... the 'users' here have stated for years that Valve checks it all and there is 'nothing to worry about'

Yea right.. now there is.

[Craig]

Don't Starve Together's modding scene used to have Windows exploits through scripts ran when you started the game server. The internet is crazy.

Walach の投稿を引用：

It can probably happen outside of what was the focus of the article, i.e., hacking Steam directly, but as many countries have very harsh laws on hacking, I believe hacking a gaming platform is below hacking the bank so there will probably take a very long time before Steam gets hacked. But as I'm not one I wouldn't be able to say either way. :P

But when it comes to using the term, don't think too much about it, people will probably know which one it is you meant from the context. :D

You really think people are trying to hack or data leak a service that hinges on 2FA? What a waste of time when you can just upload malware as a mod or game if exploits exist.

RedLightning の投稿を引用：

Yea, now I wonder about all those other times 'games' from steam has caused a virus alert, and for them to be told to whitelist it and not worry cause they would never get an infection from Steam ..

This is more likely the issue. To assume people are just directly hacking Steam servers and we're getting no communication from Valve is just nonsense in my opinion. I say this as an ex-PSN user. Hacking was so regular they stopped giving free games for it. I remember getting two free PSP games and a couple of PS3 games back in the day. Now it's just an announcement or email to users with no reparations.

It got so bad that someone in Brazil owns my Playstation account now.

Pretty sure Valve would communicate data leaks.

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Craig の投稿を引用：

Don't Starve Together's modding scene used to have Windows exploits through scripts ran when you started the game server. The internet is crazy.

Mods being an infection vector is less egregious since they are third party modification, are user beware, and not being actively vetted by anyone. This hack was activated just by downloading a game from Steam. That is what makes it so much worse.